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namby pamby comics | magazines
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pet project
2010, 4"x5", b/w, 36 pp, gocco cover, crazy
japanese stab binding
$5.00 (US) + postage.
A zine filled with drawings of cats, dog, hamsters,
seamonkeys, and other monsters done by Trevor Alixopulos,
Andrice Arp, Rina Ayuyang, Nate Beaty, Gabrielle Bell, Mark
Burrier, Martin Cendreda, Warren Craghead, Vanessa Davis,
Josh Frankel, Renee French, Mike Getsiv, John Hankiewicz,
Tim Hensley, Jakob Klemencic, David Lasky, MariNaomi, Mats?!,
Sacha Mardou, Ted May, Ken McCarty, Derek Miracle, Fred
Noland, Misun Oh, Onsmith, Lark Pien, John Porcellino, Jesse
Reklaw, Joey Sayers, Steve Weissman, Dalton Webb, Calvin
Wong, and Dan Zettwoch.
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Temporarily out of print
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Whirlwind Wonderland
2009, 128 pp, b/w interior with color sketchbook section
$15.00 (US)
This is my first graphic novel which collects favorite
stories from the Namby Pamby minicomic series and various
anthology contributions as well as new stories that center
around family, cultural history, football fanaticism, and
thoughts on a crazy but lovable father. Also includes a 10
page color section of doodle diary strips. Thanks to the great
Sparkplug Comic Books and Tugboat Press for publishing this
Ignatz-nominated book.
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Info/Buy It at Sparkplug Comic Books >
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Emberley Galaxy
2009, 60pp, b/w with some color interiors
$12.00 (US)
This lovely collection of comics was inspired by the work
and world of Ed Emberley, and drawn by cartoonists such as
Jeffrey Brown, Dan Zettwoch, Alex Holden, David Kiersh and
more more more. I clearly remember the Emberly thumbprint
books from my youth, and I knew I had to do a story that incorporated
the thumbprint hat and bow-tied people I had created as a
child. I had fun making my story for this book. It talked
about how our perception of life changes as we grow up. This
was beautifully printed and edited by Joe Kuth.
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Info/Buy It at Red Panda Comics>
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Stuff That's Outta Print
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Overwhelming
WOT-NOT
$3.00, (US)
2008, 54pp, b/w,
I made this mini for the 2008 SF Zine Fest! I read some of it
aloud at a comics reading at the Cartoon Art Museum. That was
fun. Overwhelming WOT-NOT asks the important question "What
happens when your world is suddenly set on FIRE!?!?" You
get caught up in ridiculously melodramatic hijinx, of course,
in which 5 tales of bizarre hilarity guide your way through
the treacherous flames of writer's block, fire alarms, challenged
soccer players, and sushi luncheons. Sparkplug
Comic Books' distro might still have some at a convention
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Doodle
Daze
$3.00, (US)
2008, 56pp, b/w
I think this is the first real minicomic that I made which didn't
make me cringe when I glanced at it! I made this really out
of whim, not taking it too seriously which is why I guess it
turned out better than previous minis for me. It included 56
pages of selected doodles and comic strips that I posted on
my blog
and this here website during the year 2007, as well as sketches
never seen before (for better or for worse.) Definitely my favorite,
perhaps because of the string-binding? I wish I could reprint
this, but that binding got the best of me.
I think Sparkplug
Comic Books' distro has some still.
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HAUSES
$3.00, (US) - out of print
2008, b/w on white and cream stock, hand-stamped vellum cover
One time, Renee
French and I, during one of our chatting sessions, decided
to make an impromptu pocket book of drawings for the upcoming
APE show. We both came up with 12 drawings in about two weeks,
each depicting designs for off-the-wall homes of the future.
We planned the production and layout all on IM, and emailed
pictures of our drawings to each other. We managed to pull
it off. She made the covers and I printed the innards. We
met at the show and combined all the pieces, collated and
stapled them behind Lark Pien's table.
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Namby Pamby #4
$3.00, (US) - out of print
2006, 42pp, b/w, snazzy Gocco printed cover
This time I decided to go back to the grayscale but instead
used Photoshop to lay in the grays for better reproduction.
It turned out okay but seemed a little too clean and too flat,
I think. This one debuted at APE 2006 and inside, I explore
cat mania, analyze the guilty pleasures of a favorite 80's
TV crime drama, and visit Stanley Donen and Cary Grant on
the set. It came with a snazzy gocco cover of tube-socked
children.
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k.i.t.
$2.00 - out of print
2006, b/w, quarter size, gocco cover.
My sister and I used to be apartment mates and then after 10
years we moved, she to the Sunset, and I to the East Bay. During
that time, we hardly got to talk as much as we used to when
we lived together. So we decided to send each other drawings
through the mail to show what we were up to. k.i.t is a collection
of those drawings. I wish I could do a second one of these.
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Souvenir
$3.00 - out of print
2005, b/w, extremely ambitious gocco
cover.
I was extreme homesick after a trip back to my hometown, The
Burgh. So I wanted to remember everything that happened, no
matter how trivial it was, and translated these memories into
a travel diary/memoir comic for my mom and sister as a memento.
I decided to go crazy and make an 8 screen gocco cover which
sort of came out semi-alright.
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Haiku
Summer
$2.00 - out of print
2005, quarter size, gocco cover.
I collaborated with writer, Ken McCarty, to make a collection
of his haiku poems accompanied with strange drawings by me,
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Monkeywrench
$1.00 (US) - out of print
2005, 24pp, b/w, gocco cover, micro-mini
This comic was first going to be printed for an indy art/punk
rock culture magazine, but the publication never went to press.
So I published the story as a little zine with a cute gocco
cover. It was a wordless comic about a man starting his day
on the wrong foot, but he has a very sympathetic cat.
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Namby Pamby #3
$3.00, (US) - out of print
2004, 32pp, b/w, 4-color cover with acrylic on cardstock
Okay in this one, I was really into the ink and brush, as
well as PRO-WHITE!! It includes a collection of stories to
sights unseen, Tita Babysitters, bumper sticker politics,
and an ode to my hair.
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Elevator Stories
$1.00 (US) - out of print
2004, 16pp, b&w, quarter-page size
I was totally inspired by my daily trip up and down the elevator
at work. You know all about it, you've found yourself stuck
in one of them before. This comic was made especially for
the 2004 SF Zine Festival.
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The Weather
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The Vellum Laser Printer Experiment
2004, 8pp, b&w, quarter-page size
These two were made for Pond Gallery's Zine Library
Mobile Project. Inspired by the concept of the Library Mobile,
they drove a truck around town, making zine accessible to
the masses. For some reason I decided to do an art book
printed on vellum paper. Why?
For what reason? No reason, just because.
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Namby Pamby #2
$3.00, (US) - out of print
2003, 32pp, b/w, Cover in assorted colors
More experimenting with gray wash and more short stories
this time though about two different families with identical
houses, high school friends chatting about nothing, bunny
ears, and a tribute to Dave's Coffee Shop in Oakland. "This
is the kind of comic that eerily reminds you of your own
life. A great read." -
Punk Planet magazine, Sept 2003
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Namby Pamby #1
$2.00 (US) - out of print
2002, 8pp, b/w, digest size,
3rd Printing.
My first mini-comic, sigh. Things seemed
so simple then... This actually had no autobio stories in
it, instead it include short stories about the layout of suburban
housing, K-mart shopping, a honey bear of truth, and a House
of Horrors. Okay, actually the last story listed was
autobio. I used a lot of graywash in this which may have,
okay, it DID muddle the images a bit, but I loved it.
Interview: "Rina
Ayuyang Faces the Music"
By Darren Schroeder, Silver Bullet Comic Books, August
20, 2002
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Anthologies, Magazines, Webzines
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"Lola", comic, The Black Forest:
A Collection of Art, Comics and Folk Tales from Western Pennsylvania,
2011.
"Don't Let It Get You Down", comic, Stripburger,
Issue 49, 2009.
"The Miracle Season", comic, Girls'
Guide to Guys Stuff, Friends of Lulu anthology, ed.
MK Reed.
2006 Year In Review comics section, East Bay Express,
art director.
"Lapog", comic, Stripburger, Issue 43, 2006.
"Harold...", 1-panel gag, Desert Island Paradise anthology,
ed. Josh Frankel and Joey Allison Sayers, 2006.
"Acacia", comic, SPX 2005 anthology, ed. Brian Ralph,
2005.
"Hobba-Jay-ba-Joowa", illustration, Do You Like
TV? anthology, ed. Levon Jihanian, 2005.
"Oh! Sweet Mystery of Life!", comic, True
Porn 2, ed. by Robyn Chapman and Kelli Nelson, 2005
"Cafe Clatch", illustration, Kitchen
Sink magazine, Issue #9, 2004.
"On A Winter's Evening", comic, Snow
Stories anthology, 2004.
"A New Kind of Worship", comic, Other
magazine, Issue #4, 2004.
"Niagara Falls", comic, Creativeskin,
Issue 1, 2004.
"Once Upon a Time on the Hill", word & image
collaboration with writer, Peter Byrne, Kitchen
Sink magazine, Issue #7, 2004.
"Lucha", illustration, Kitchen
Sink magazine, Issue #6, 2004.
How to be a Good/Bad Library Patron, illustrations,
edited by Jerianne of Zine
World magazine, 2004.
Zine
World: A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press,
illustrations, Issue #19, 2003
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