City Pages, Week 3, + some other news

Here's last week's Citypages update.

I've been dealing with some personal issues, so work on the Hudson Book and Junkyard Empire cover has gone slowly. But I'm hoping to get some more Hud book done this week, and the JE cover is getting closer and closer every time I talk to them.

Working at J's has been toughening my skin, and introducing me to some of the more tragic parts of humanity. All the lies, deception, alcoholism, light racism, dealing with my own prejudices on agism, and some really confusing management choices.

But on a different note, I've got another job working at Linders (Larpenteur Avenue between Rice and Dale, Saint Paul). I'll be working as a cashier, and being in a place with sunshine, fresh scents, and the educational opportunities to learn more about horticulture, other than going to the MN State Fair.



Nikki's cousin turned 6 recently, so I made her this card to go along with some teeshirts Nikki bought her at the Como Zoo.

TTYL!

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.

Sketches at the Black Dog

I've done some posters for a jazz/hip-hop group, Junkyard Empire (I'll post those posters tomorrow), who play at the Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar, located at the Lowertown Commune on Broadway and Prince in Saint Paul, Minnesota, every Wednesday. So I being the industrious fellow I am, I've been sketching while listening. Here's a few from this week and from two weeks ago.









I apologize for the images being cut off on the right side. You're not missing anything, and I didn't want to set the images sizes at 400 pixels wide. I'll gab a little more about Junkyard Empire soon.

TTYL!