Hey all, wow look… it’s only been about a month since my last update! I’m going to stay on top of it from here on… (looks around shiftily) Well, in all honesty it will be my ongoing struggle to stay on top and in touch.

Thanks to the Ho-Chunk Nation (and a couple trips to Wisconsin) I now count myself among the fully vaccinated and am eagerly awaiting the rest of the world to join me. Was able to visit with family while up there and actually had some outside no-mask time with loved ones. It was nice.

In other news, COME HOME, INDIO was nominated by the LA TIMES for its Book Prize in the graphic novel category, which is… amazing. The ceremony took place via zoom last Friday night and the award went to my fellow STREET NOISE BOOKS alum Bishakh Som for APSARA ENGINE, and I’m not being false when I say I’m glad to hear it. There was definitely a thrill to seeing INDIO up there among all those heavy hitters and I’m still coming down from it a little.

I’ll admit I’ve felt a little adrift of late. I’ve got a project coming up that should be steady and fun, as well as doing art for art’s sake but it’ll be nice to charge my battery with human interaction again soon. During the lockdown I managed to unearth the old movies I made in my college years and edited them with modern(ish) software and put them on disc for those who’d been involved… there were over seventy of them, and at least three were over sixty minutes long. Wow. From that experience was a renewal of love for that medium and a desire to get back into it, but once again I find myself butting against the fact that it is the most collaborative of the mediums I engage in and there is not much I can do right now.

So it’s time to gather a fellowship of nerds who want to be creative for creativity’s sake. In the meanwhile, I’ll always be working on art and putting it up on my Big Cartel site and sharing it on my social medias and I’ll also do my best to be better about updating here.

Take care, be safe!