Trends in Cell Bio

Check it out! I illustrated the August issue cover for Trends in Cell Biology. You can click on the thumbnail on the webpage and see a larger version.

Giant protein structures riding on horses

Above: part of a cover I made for the Trends in Cell Biology September issue.

Those are alpha helices and beta sheet proteins (sort of) riding horses.

The September issue may be appearing at Exciting Biologies, a scientific conference in Japan this fall, hosted by Cell Press and RIKEN. More news as I find out!

Cat and drawings

Kitten sleeping next to drawings of itself. (Drawings by me, not by cat)

Shows, shows, shows and a skull

The engimatic drawing above is courtesy of a figure drawing session where I ran out of time. It's a long story.


And now --

Show, shows, show!


Going on right now! Holly Fair! I'm not there, but some stuff I worked on is there.

Where: First Parish Unitarian Church - corner of Church Street and Mass Ave, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Website: www.harvardsquareholidayfair.com



Dec 3 and 4th: Catch me at MIT selling comics! In an Authorized Manner!

Thursday and Friday, I will be at the Stata Center, selling minicomics and anthologies!

When: December 3-4, 9am-5pm
Where: MIT’s E25 Atrium and Stata Center (see MIT campus map for directions)
Website: web.mit.edu/abd/2008-2009calendar_sp.html



Dec 5th: "Inbound 4" Opening Reception this Saturday 4-6pm at Atomic Bean Cafe!

The Book about Boston History, drawn in comics! Original artwork will be gracing the wall of the cafe, and the book will be sold there as well. I'll be there, and so will the cow comics pages I keep mentioning on this blog. (Here, here, here and here.)

Atomic Bean Cafe location
Events Link


Dec 6th: Boston Bazaar Bizarre!

I will be there selling comics!

When: December 6, 12-7pm
Where: BCA Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA
Website: www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston.html

Dec 12th: Comikazi Bazaar! I won't be there, but again, books I worked on will be there!

When: Saturday, December 12, 10am-4pm
Where: George Dilboy VFW, 371 Summer St, Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Website: www.comicazi.com

Jan 21 (?) Inbound 4 even at Porter Square Books in Cambridge. Signing and reading, I think.

Fighting Boston heat and humidity

Why, this is the 70th post. I guess I should have noticed when it was 50th, and celebrated?

Anyway, Wild Ink party was success. I'll get photos up pretty soon. Meanwhile, I'm still working on my comic for Inbound no. 4. Specifically, I'm hanging around the nearby public library and Starbucks and drawing the comic. Because those places have air conditioning.

Take Friday -- I don't know what the temperature was, though I imagine it was in the 80's. Still, I've spent summers with 100+ Fahrenheit days, and it's not the heat that gets to one. Rather, it's the addition of the 80% humidity outside, if what I overheard at the library was correct. (I also overheard a lot of comments like, "Oh, I didn't know this library is so nice inside!" "I've never been here before!" This makes me think I was not the only person to seek refuge at the library that day.)

But it's kind of fun when I work on comics in libraries and cafe's, and people ask what I'm drawing.