Foxy

My newest comics for BC musician. I'm thinking I need a name for these things. I draw a couple of them every month, and due to my artistically schizophrenic and uncommitted nature, they always look different. So yeah, a name, in a recognizable font, that shows up every time. Any ideas? Help!

Spring Breakup, live and cartooned (with special guests, Gruff birds and Jenny-Jack of all trades)

Song Writing is a Complicated Process

Black bears

These are a couple of pictures that i did for Corbin Murdoch's project, "A Year in Song". The February track is "Black Bear", a song that has a lot of meaning for me, and I also sing on this recording.
http://corbinmurdoch.wordpress.com/

I seem to hate everyone...?

Do all these comics seem a little... bitter to anyone else?

comics for bc musician magazine

BC Musician magazine has asked me to do one or two comics for them every month! Money! They're paying me REAL money to do this! haha. I'm so flattered, and happy that people will get to read them.

This is a Reminder

Sometimes we all need a reminder. If talking animals or Hank Williams are needed to get the message home, well, so be it.

self portraits. sortof.

I'm living on my own right now. Housesitting. It's real nice, but the only person around for me to draw is... me! So here I am, thinking about the concept of home, and shaking a limp fish. I've been reading a huge collection of Ray Bradbury short stories, and loving his dated obsession with Martians and rockets. So here's me as an alien. Yes, I know, I'm a total classic sci-fi nerd.

Just some stuff

Heaven is a Folk Festival

To Be Continued...

Titillating Tour Tales

The Wild Turkeys are our new band friends, a wonderful group of brothers from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. I just realized not one of them is a turkey, though I covered a lot of other animal bases... check them out at

http://www.myspace.com/thewildturkeys

their tunes are awesome and hilarious, and they're the perfect pairing for The Gruff. Like spaghetti and red wine... or maybe crawdads and whiskey...

I also just realized that I drew the guitarist in this comic playing left handed... oops. I guess it was just more aesthetically pleasing that way. Artstic license, dammit.

Kamloops Motel

This is the motel we lived in while planting out of Kamloops

Grumpy Bear

I may be a little cranky, but I'm doing art again, after OH-SO-LONG, so stay tuned for more.

Amazing musicians you meet on the road

Silos - Nanton, Alberta

Leaving Nova Scotia, I finally felt inspired

tuesday!

good news hangover

the night before this drawing came in to being, the gruff won "artist of the year" at the vancouver island music awards. what this means is, yes, we can flounce around like the common drunks that we are, and everyone just thinks we're real cute. but it also means that folks were buying us copious amounts of expensive liquor all night long at the awards ceremony at the queen's hotel in nanaimo. the cointreaux and banana liquers were flowing like a river... a scary river.



thus the happy hangover.

based on a true story

musicians

i attended/played in some concerts the last few weeks. i love sketching musicians, especially people i know.

cowboys and poetry are fun

lovefest 2007

these are some drawings for my friends jaime and drew's 10th wedding anniversary invitations.

art at the cafe

glenna goodness and adam sleepyhead

go to glenna's concert! she's amazing! this poster was fun to make.

stove dragon!

this is an old drawing that i did of the wicked old cast iron woodstove at the lasqueti island community hall. man can that thing put out heat!

aliens can answer all your questions

les voyageurs super-cool

st patrick's day poster

unbelievable

a letter to my friend

ducky!

christmas country death

baby jesus in the manger! the holidays completely killed my artistic momentum. first a wicked cold virus, then i lost my fancy pen. (depressed). THEN the gruff had gigs five nights in a row, and christmas came and holiday mayhem enused. still gigging twice a week, and working as well, (not to mention a newfound addiction to "LOST") i'm guiltily neglecting art. but my comic did indeed get accepted to the new book "the make" and there's an opening on the 20th, for which i am supposed to "make" something. so i gotta buckle down! it's time to get creative! and you people! come to the art opening... it's rumored that buck 65 will be playing the party! check out the website for details. http://www.themake.ca/
here's some sketches i did of my folks on the ferry last weekend, a couple of comics from vancouver, and my lino-cut country-christmas-death card. i'll try to write more comics soon, so if you read them, please comment on them, so i know they are seen. oh! and happy 2007, friends!

bleargh

meh. so sick. don't care about comics anymore... tomorrow, maybe...

until then, here is a picture of a lemming. isn't he cute ?

solstce cafe winter fair

hey! you! if you live in victoria, i expect you to all come out to the craft fair at my cafe. if you don't, may you be smitten with christmas elves, and forced to listen to kenny rogers and dolly parton's christmas special for the rest of your life...

snow days!

comic tour journal

hi there, honkies!
so i finished up my tour journal, and everything is posted (somewhat in order) on this site. if you already read them, well, you'll have to scroll down for the new ones. thanks for reading. please leave me comments. constructive criticism is welcome. but don't mention that i can't spell worth shit.

nova scotia, ontario, and more

i'm home from a month long tour of nova scotia, ontario and quebec, and i am SO glad to be here! i missed my bed like an old friend, though our adventures were really fun, and we made some good contacts out of it all. already booked for 2 festivals next summer, and expecting more! this is my little comic journal of our trip. i wish i could've included everything and everyone, but travelling like that, i just couldn't keep up. i'm going to add them in sections, as i haven't even finished inking them yet.

nova scotia

last 2 gigs in nova scotia

the men of nova scotia