I illustrated author and teacher Adam Bessie's graphic memoir. This graphic novel explores the effects of the pandemic on public education, while Adam deals with a brain tumor. Originally done as a 15 paged graphic essay for non-profit news organization Truthout, Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey is published by Censored Press and 7 Stories Press.
This was a commission with which I was very pleased. The original idea was to do the whole octopus in ink wash, but I decided that it would be better to have just the ink cloud in wash so it would be easier to see the octopus.
"Negroni Week" is an event in which bartenders create variations on their favorite Negroni, a Campari based cocktail. For this auspicious occaision, San Francisco design firm Forthright Design had me illustrate iconic Italian images to accompany a refreshing bottle of Campari.
This piece for The Bold Italic explores the origins of some of the stranger statues and sculptures in San Francisco's financial district.
These are excerpts from an illustrated guide to hidden hikes in the San Francisco Bay Area that I did for The Bold Italic, a fantastic Bay Area lifestyle blog.
Comic done for Birdy magazine about snails eating people
A pictorial guide to the Kaiju in Godzilla's orbit. Done for Birdy Magazine.
A short, poetry comic done for Mutha Magazine.
Jezuba is a non-profit based in Northern California that promotes positive impact through social entrepreneurship. This particular piece was done for their "Fund A Lunch" initiative.
The orb from 70s horror movie, Phantasm.
The Bay Area lifestyle blog The Bold Italic hired me to do this illustration for a satirical piece on escape rooms.
Robot diagram done for birdy.
It's no secret that I am a fan of prehistory. Also not a secret; I am an animal lover. These two non-secret combined with my fascination with anatomy and taxonomy make my series of prehistoric skeletons an inevitability.
Under the umbrella of Delicate Adventures, Eggferno  follows the lighthearted adventures of Dante and Virgil in the underworld.
I stumbled across a photo of the model builders on the 'Metropolis' set and I was instantly enchanted (Metropolis holds a special place in my heart, and I am an amature miniature builder). I wanted to juxtapose the futurist "architecture" with an atmosphere of antiquity. And thus a photoshop layer was applied to an ink wash, which was applied to a line drawing.
The folks at Forthright called on me to illustrate this editorial drawing for a wine and spirits magazine. The article addresses the perils of starting your own wine business.
This classic "Sword and Sandal" movie with its stop motion effects by Ray Harryhausen has played a strong role in my development as an artist and storyteller, so much so that I feel the need to make this here illustration of Jason heroically beating back a bunch of reanimated corpses. ​
A robot braves harsh waves and ocean froth to find shore, no doubt to destroy humanity. But why?
BoardSock Empire is a series of live action sock puppet shorts that I am making as a tie-in to my webcomic Tomorrow Jerks. In addition to these shorts, I am working on an interactive "sock town". The premise is that a viewer can scroll through SockTown (pronounced "sock-tin") and can click on the many attractions that Socktown has to offer. These are some ofthe GIFs that I am working on.
Cynar released a high proof version of their herbal liqueur, for which I designed an artichoke. Forthright design and I collaborated on many designs before they arrived at this combination of our styles.
I had the pleasure of working with San Francisco artist Eric Staller on a design for a tampoline shaped like a phrenology head.
