Junkyard Empire cover

This is Citypages ad, week 2. The printing for this one was not top notch, so here it is all clean-like.

I've been deep in designing the cover for JE's ep cover. The difficulties has been wrangling opinion from 5 bandmates, plus their management. Don't get me wrong, they've been extremely helpful, and the project's been fun. But making sure all of them get the progress samples, on top of day jobs (and my part-time at J's) has been like olympic gymnastics.


(wrangling the typography)

So far, the process is almost done for the cover itself. As soon as that's done, I can go about designing the inside, cause by that point, the element style and colour are locked in.

Thursday is Mini-Comic-Con at MCAD. It'll be nice to see what the current crop is up to, and catch up with some alumni, professors, etc. I'm thinking of making a batch of Grover's Mom in book form to sell there.


(currently on my website: www.comicartiststeve.com!)

Friday I'm going to be at Macy's in downtown Minneapolis, for Macy's World Food and Artist Marketplace. I'll be giving demonstrations on mini-comics and comics in general. Should be pretty fun! On April 10 & 17, 11:30am - 1pm.

City Pages

If you live in the Twin Cites and surrounding metro, you're probably aware of City Pages, a free weekly arts/news/ad newpaper, found virtually every where. I bought some ad space for a year, and minis, like the one above, are going to be printed on the back-page bulletin board. Keep in mind, this is advertising, and I'm not going to try to claim a published credit out of it. I'm hoping that if you see it, you've seen my website, and by extension, this blog.



Grover's Mom is coming soon- I need to compress the files to reasonable web-safe sizes, and do some advertising on the usual social network sites. But soon!

I've been dying to show off somethings I've been working on for Junkyard Empire. Pretty soon I can, or at least some of the creative process that's been leading toward the project.



This is an exciting project. Go here to whet your appetite.

TTYL!