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Whoops! I've been so busy making tiny toys and tabling at fests that I haven't had a chance to post any zine scans. But here is my most recent small foldy zine and I hope you enjoy taking a peek at it :->  

  Here's a special toy I made for my wife to give away at the SpongeBob Crew White Elephant gift exchange. Putting it together and painting it was fairly painless, but then came the varnish... And for some reason this thing decided to wreck my shit. I almost pulled an all nighter trying to get it done in time!! But the end result was really cute so, oh well? Take a gander at these lovely pictures my wife took for me (plus one that I took of the drawing I did before making the toy).

  Take a gander at the post-its I made for Giant Robot's Post It Show 21. These were an attempt to blend my toy art and comic art together. And I think the attempt was pretty successful, but what do I know? Well, one thing I do know is that my wife, Lauren, came up with the caption for the star post-it.

  My group exhibition pieces keep getting smaller and smaller because I have less time to make them in between all of the other tiny toys I gotta put together. So for this piece I chose Chibi Totoro since they are just a little guy anyway, you know? The Giant Robot Totoro Show opens on Saturday, November 29th if you'd like to see this piece in person :->

  I grew up in the 80s and 90s so a love of dinosaurs was pretty much baked into my DNA. My favorite dino is the Brontosaurus who like Pluto (the planet) was demoted and might not actually be a dinosaur anymore? But here's a tiny diorama featuring a Brontosaurus that I made for Giant Robot's Dino Show which opens on Saturday, November 8th. I hope you get a chance to see this piece in person because it is cute :-> I forgot to take a bunch of WIP snaps of this thing but here are before and after pictures of it painted.

Here are some process pictures of this piece I made for an Italian Horror themed group art show. It was originally gonna be a full shark body with a zombie riding it, but I didn't have enough time to do all of that so I adjusted as I went! I also gave up on the shark holding the severed arm in its mouth because it crowded out the lil zombie head too much. I like where it all landed though. What do you think?

"Please stop fighting, cuties!" is the name of my piece for Q Pop's Crimson Shadows Italian Horror Cinema art exhibition. I chose a scene from Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 (aka  Zombie here in the states) in which a zombie fights a shark?? Umm have I mentioned how much I love Italian horror movies before? This diorama turned out exactly as I had hoped it would. Small and good! This exhibition opens on Saturday, October 25th with a reception from 7-9pm. Head over to Q Pop to take a peek at the nifty art!