Hitting three major cities—Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka—in eight days was pretty exhausting, but it was an AMAZING time! We’re already planning things to do when we go back.

As is my custom, I took a ton of photos. As is also my custom, I have been slowly uploading them, carefully reviewing each one and cropping/adjusting levels/painting out power lines, keeping it real profesh.

Below are some of the first batch of photos from the days we spent in Tokyo.

We saw a few things around Tokyo, visited the Ghibli Museum and walked alllll over the Meiji Shrine grounds.

The rest of the set is up over on my Flickr page »

Greg also took an abundant amount of photos as well as a bunch of videos. I don’t really do videos. Sorry.

So, if you’re in the area, come say hello!

Currently I am enjoying in-flight wi-fi on a plane up to Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con.

I will be at Artist Alley table Q-18 pretty much all weekend. If you want sketches, I’ll be making them!

$5 gets you a sketch card
$10 gets you a 5″ x 8″

Also important…

Hooray! New comic! Stop by the table this weekend and get yourself a promo code to download it for free.

I think it turned out well and I hope people enjoy it. I’ve been trying out some different inking tools, still trying to find what works best. Maybe the next one will be done digitally? Maybe I’ll try nib pens again? Who can say?

First one is Felicia Day as Codex from The Guild (which I knew nothing about before looking up reference).

Next is Evangeline Lilly as Kate from Lost and I think this one turned out nicely. Coloring fun!

[ You can also check out the Halloween Avatars set on Flickr ]

The good news is that I have been drawing quite a bit, catching up on my back log of commissions, the bad news is I can’t share them (yet)! There will be some new stuff to look at soon.

I’ve also been wrangling with the Conjoined Comics site and working on some secret, fun things that will be going up on that site in the near future. I’m learning all sorts of new (to me) tricks, like media queries and whipping the built-in WordPress gallery function into an attractive-yet-functional shape, which is an attempt to reduce the roughly million plugins I currently use.

Did you know I also like to take photos? It’s true, I do. Here’s one that I recently added to my Flickr account, it’s from the trip to Santa Barbara, CA last winter for my birthday.

If you’d like to see the rest, there’s a whole set here.

Greg and I just got back from a little vacation to Washington D.C., so I may share some of my photos full of AMERICA and FREEDOM and JEFFERSON.

If you are a person and are going to Comicon this weekend, make sure to stop by Small Press table M-03.

It hasn’t completely been all work and then more work. There was moving, then a trip to both Michigan and Florida for some family times and then a really lovely wedding on Catalina Island.

Recent artwork has mostly been of the To The Power Against variety, some of which you can see right here.

This next volume is a lot of fun, I’m super looking forward to having it all finished and in the hands of the people.

Recently, I went on an X-Men TPB-buying spree, trying to catch up on the last 6–7 years of storylines. I also picked up Casanova and some Doctor Who trades. I’ve read through some, but I’m waiting til the move is done to really get into them. Maybe I’ll talk about the books here? Sure, that sounds fun.

Carrie and I have started work on the next volume of To The Power Against, which is super ridiculous and great, so far. I don’t want to give anything away, but: sharks, the ISS and bindles.

Along those lines, convention season officially kicks off (for us) in March, with Wonder Con. Although I will miss visiting San Francisco and seeing our NorCal buddies this year, I am absolutely excited about heading over to Disneyland after the show each night.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have more books to pack.

I have been busy paying the billz and having a birthday, but you may be happy to know that comic drawing will be happening again THIS VERY WEEK. I also have a couple lingering commission requests (Mike! Doyle!) to work on during my holiday break time. I am not the fastest, but I do get things done. Eventually.

I did manage one small art project in the months since the last update, though I couldn’t safely talk about it til now. My good buddy David recently proposed to his girlfriend Jen via a comic book that he wrote and asked his friends to illustrate. Here is a video of the proposal:

AUGH. Isn’t that just the best?

Here is the page that I drew, if you want to see it closer.