The Figure Illuminated

Rick Strawbridge's exhibit The Figure Illuminated which runs January 12 - February 3, 2009 features Rick Strawbridge's photographic nudes. Three of my figure drawing pieces, two in charcoal and one in colored pencil, will be featured side by side.

Opening reception is January 12th, 5-7 PM at the New Hampshire Institute of Art on Amherst Street in Manchester NH.

More information available here.

The Dark Heart

Available in 7.5"x7.5" soft cover: LuLu.com

Available in 5"x8" soft cover: WordClay.com

A prequel to A Way to the Stars and Tod Und Zerstorung (Still in progress), it's description is simply this:

A man on the verge of breaking.

Harbingers of Innocence

The latest from Torn Reality Studios, this is the second poetry book by Sheri Nicole Karstok outlining life, death, insanity, and love. It is a 40 page book with a cover designed by myself, an interior page by myself, and other interior artwork.

Foolish men seek what knowledge lies behind the door of fate. They venture forth and perish fast. Hearts of blackened love can never access such purity, For they harbor such wicked hate.

LuLu.com - Click here!

$12.99

Lukewarm

Available: YouTube.com

Lukewarm is a short digital movie formatted for viewing through the computer. It is an internet webcomic to the song "Exit Music (For A Film)" by Brad Mehldau (Radiohead Cover). It is a teaser trailer for an upcoming comic/short story.

Now available!

A Way to the Stars

He travels from city to city. He lives a different life in each place, takes a different face, a different job, a different name. He belongs nowhere, and there is not one place he can call home. But there is a city, a city called Dayno, that seems to be the melting pot of all of his troubles, seems to hold the answers to all of his questions just beneath the thick, rotted asphalt streets. What question is it he wants answered? What is it, exactly, he is looking for, with each city that ends up behind him? Where ever he goes, what ever he does, Dayno calls him back by name. He must know why. It speaks to him, every night he stays awake, smoking a cigarette on the roof top of a rented motel, staring at the stars, so distant, yet, close enough he feels he can reach out and grab them. It speaks in vowels and uttered phrases by a million different mouths. The buildings clamor together and the power cables vibrate in an intonation that strikes him straight in his heart. If only he could just understand it.

A Way to the Stars takes place between the short story "The Dark Heart" and the novel-in-progress "Tod Und Zerstorung" (And its counterpart "Nitroglycerin").

The trade paperback features 144 full color pages including the original story, two variant covers, two guest covers (Kate Bresnahan of Heat Wave and Jeff Lane of The Plan Comics), draft pages, two related mini comics, and a mini comic by Matt Smigiel.

Now Available!

LuLu.com - Click here! $34.99 IndyPlanet.com - Click here! $29.99

Friends, Foes, & Lovers

This comic is not of my making, but it's of my friend Matt Smigiel's making... I've been coloring promotional materials for him for a while and making tons of great posters and fliers... I've read the script and seen the final inked pages (what few there are so far) and I've decided I want to put it up here!

There's not much information available for it yet other than it is a very well illustrated black and white graphic novel about LOVE, but you can always check out what Matt Smigiel is up to and how Codename: Iris (Not the official title!) is going. I'll be sure to announce when the book is completed and slated to be released!