i drew these kittens for  a nice family who let me stay with them in nebraska.  im afraid that they’re accidentally scary looking…  does that mean i’m going crazy!??!

remember when we had a little preview of the new daves killer bread project?  well now i am going to tell you all about it!

dave calls me up and says they’re making a sprouted wheat cookie and he wants to call them sprookies.  i told him maybe he could come up with a better name and hes like “its my company!”  i really need the money so i keep my lid zipped and doodle out  some lettering and cookie guys.

dave tells me he likes the little cookie man so i redraw him in pencil for the logo.  

dave runs this by his peeps.  they all know how dave loves to work out in front of the mirror and think maybe the cookie guy should be flexing big muscles…  adjustments are made:

this goes over pretty well except dave wonders if he could be more gigantic, just like how he pictures himself when he works out in front of the mirror.  adjustments are made:

then dave is like, “just make him ridiculously muscular.”  adjustments are made:

finally dave is happy.  then i ink it!

 then i pencil the letters:

they seem to be fine so i ink ‘em up!  boy do i like inking!

then daves people meet with my people and there is lots of contracts and signing and i sure hope that money comes soon because im very hungry!

Au Revoir to OhYesVeryNice’s Laboratory

As an intern you have to learn to make these experiences your own. I am walking away with project ideas for the 8^th grade class I will mentor this summer: comic storytelling and great perspectives on teaching

The Checklist I Made Myself for OhYesVeryNice

Ö  Watch You Tube videos

Ö  Spill coffee on important stuff

Ö  Listen to rad Hip Hop and Psychedelic beats

Ö  Draw panel lines very straight but sometimes kind of crooked

Ö  Erase Ryan’s pencil marks

Ö  Eat large potato burrito

Ö  Do bizarre research for Ryan’s detail work

(Where I learned that internet research on ANY topic will lead to pictures of Barack Obama)

Ö  Get my portrait done as I write a blog

Ö  (Twice)

    Meet Bill

Uh oh. One left.

Party on,

Sabrina

 oh, sabrina!  would that we could take you with us on our upcoming relocation to new york city.  you will be missed.

while our web genius, jimmy thomas, was vacationing in japan the ohyesverynice blog went haywire.  rest assured the problem has been fixed and many blogs will be happening in the immediate future.  stay tuned!

seamus e-mailed me this picture of his hip new flask and i thought i ought to draw it because i’ve been on the same sketchbook for over a year and it makes me feel awful. it’s been a productive year except sketchbook-wise.

i said i wasn’t gonna ink anything until the pencils were all done~well, i’m almost done with the pencils and how are you supposed to wait to ink everything? it’s impossible!

hello everybody. here are some drawings i made.

first a bit of mail art for my beloved editor, meg lemke.

and then the very very beginnings of a dave’s killer bread idea that we’re kicking around.

and finally, i just unearthed this portrait of abraham lincoln while i was scanning. i’m not sure exactly when or why i drew this, but i thought the whole world ought to see it.

it finally came out! about ten million years ago, i drew some back cover and about-the-author illustrations for the comic book adaptation of studs terkel’s working and the book arrived in my mailbox just the other day.

i did the lettering for the quotes but the rest is typeset.

working has been an important recurring text throughout my education so it was a real honor for me to be a part of this adaptation. if you are compelled to buy it, you can do so here.