matrix magazine cover

Hey look I drew the cover of the latest matrix magazine!

Issue 88: Zen Poetry.

SPACE! DAD!

The unkindness web empire expands with the launch of SPACE! DAD! a comic by written by Melissa Bull and myself. How was space indeed, Dad? How was space?

montreal zen poetry festival on indie gogo

The Montreal Zen Poetry Festival is coming up again in March 2011 with a remarkable line-up of performers, including Jane Hirshfield and Kaz Tanahashi. This year, to support the printing of the collection of the Festival poetry collection, we're reaching out the online world for support through Indie gogo. The collection will bring together in a beautiful edition the works of the excellent writer Shin Yu Pai, Chase Twichell, Seido Ray Ronci, and more.

Please take a look at our Inidie gogo page for more information on this project. Any and all support will be greatly appreciated and we hope to see you at the festival!

broken pencil number 48

Issue number 48 of Broken Pencil is now on newsstands and it's the first issue of designed by me!

This issue features some amazing artwork by Carly Moran, a special DIY section with instructions on building robots and political parties, and a new project from Artist-in Residence, Rafi Ganagounian, the State of Fame.

Take a look at some of the content online here.

a theory of darkness

Just finished a long day of cutting and folding, and the new book, A Theory of Darkness, is ready for the small press fair tomorrow. These poems are a part of a larger cross-genre mystery novel, also called A Theory of Darkness, by Catherine Paquette. It's also really really good. You can read poems Midnight and A Theory in Pieces on Catherine's website.

don't let the lights go out

The newest project from the unkindness is a go!

don't let the lights go out is a library of art projects that have never existed. A collection of the unlimited number of ideas for novels, comics, performances, installations, and whatever else that has never had the chance to be realized.

Every artist has thousands more ideas than they can make in one lifetime, and don't let the lights go out is a place to put those ideas so that they can still reach an audience.

Please take a look at the site, and feel welcome to make any contributions of your own unused ideas. Just write them up or sketch them up and email unkindness.press@gmail.com. Please include a short bio and any information or links to other projects you might actually be working on so that I can promote them on the site.

owl

this is the last print I made in class. it's nothing special, but I was surprised with it in a happy way.

more prints from class

i'm still far from mastery of etching and screen printing, but here are two more recent productions.

catherinepaquette.com

I just designed a new website for my friend, the amazingly talented poet, novelist, and teacher, Catherine Paquette.

Please have a look at catherinepaquette.com

conundrum press interviewed in the torontoist

Dave Howard of the Torontist just published this excellent interview with my publisher and personal hero, Andy Brown, of Conundrum Press.

please read and take a look at the new Conundrum titles coming down the pipes.

I've been taking some printmaking classes recently to learn etching and screen printing. So far I've only produced a few underwhelming examples, but here they are

the unkindness of ravens press has a new website

The last few years have been a sisyphean struggle up the mountain of the internet, but the unkindness of ravens press finally has a real website up and running. If you've seen the site before please take another look.

www.unkindnesspress.ca