Injuns

Sometimes I hear Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" in my head. Sometimes I hear that song "Cowboys are Square" by that Billy Childish. I'm not sure if the "Injuns Died Here" label is a warning, or a mere statement of fact. Perhaps both.

The Power of Gobbedlygook

Secret societies aren't very secret anymore. Actually, I was meditating about artist Rick Griffin's propensity for lapsing into lettering that's either indecipherable or near-indecipherable. I figure if he could lapse, I can lapse. Let's lapse.

Evolution & Revolution

This is not a call-to-arms, nor is it a biological treatise. I was reading Howard Bloom's The Lucifer Principle, and I seemed (and that might yet be still present tense) to get lost in this claustrophobic crosshatched sketchbook landscape. Lost, or would that be trapped?

Expanse

Ah, but to be expansive in the claustrophobic void...

Dualities, Naturally

Them dualities pop up everywhere. Reality is in fact an endless multitude of dualities. But it's not always about doubles. Triples figure largely, too. Belch. What was I saying?

Back in the Saddle

Drawn during Good Folk Fest.

Drawn during SPX.

After all the hub-bub of my book release, followed by SPX, and then followed in November by hob-nobbing with Daniel Johnston at the Good Folk Fest, I laid low on the front of updating thee olde sketchbook blog, preferring to let the images related to the In Tongues book linger for a while. But I speak to you today as a man with an almost finished sketchbook that hasn't even been scanned from yet (outside of the two above examples), and I'm ready again to rumble.

So there you have it, images drawn while in attendance at SPX/Good Folk Fest. Deep space, old jokes, the song remains the same...

In Tongues Illustrated: 1/250, A/J

In Tongues Illustrated is a signed, numbered limited edition book of 250 copies, in case you didn't know. The first ten copies also are lettered A-J and feature original drawings on the last page of the book. Those copies are priced 100 dollars more than the other copies, so if you buy the book from me one of these special editions is 130, 140 if you're mail ordering it, 150 if I'm mailing it to you overseas. I used the drawings as a way to revisit characters and situations from the book. Above, with the first one, we have Jack's nemesis, after a fashion, born of smoke and pollution, from the "Early Adventures of Jack Lustmord" strip.