Apologies, internet, for being a bit out of touch.
I’ve had a lot of things going on!
One of those things is this gallery show that I’ve been working on for Sequential Art Gallery in Portland.

I’ve been here in Portland all week installing the show, with the help of the gallery owners, Kaebel and Merrick!
Also helping is the adorable gallery cat, Manju.

For this show, I decided to do something totally different and eschew digital prints entirely.
Instead, I opted to do a bunch of installation, as well as a ton of mixed media pieces.
Some of these are fairly traditional pastel and acrylic on wood, but others are laser cut wood and plastic.

Today, Merrick and I hung over 100 feet of ribbon around the gallery.

Here’s the press release from the gallery’s blog:

In an art show that can’t be contained by mere picture frames, San Fransisco-based multimedia maven Star St. Germain presents: “Date Lines”. Please join us for the opening reception on May 3, 2012, 6-10pm! RSVP on Facebook, if you like.

Date Lines is 13 mixed media pieces (plus site-specific installation elements) exploring Star St.Germain’s failed adventures in the San Francisco dating scene. Star’s various suitors are represented as silhouettes, faceless testaments to all manner of sexy mistakes. The show is about finding hope amongst the most dismal of interactions–with hilarious results. 

Portland!

Please come out?
Here is The facebook event.

The opening is tomorrow:

May 3, 2012, 6-10pm
Sequential Art Gallery + Studio
328 NW Broadway #113
Portland, OR 97209

The show will be up for a month, so if you don’t make the opening, by all means come by during gallery hours:

Thursdays 3pm-7pm
Saturdays 11am-5pm
or by appointment

Hope to see you there!

In a lovely turn of events, my illustration of HP Lovecraft is on the BBC website today!

Why don’t you go Read the article!

The lovely folks at the Isotope comic book lounge asked me to go to the Noisepop festival, interview Laura Veirs, and draw up a little comic about it! 

Please go look at the other comics that folks made about other awesome bands!

Super duper thanks to James for asking me to participate, and Laura for answering my questions and just generally being awesome.

To those of you asking what happened to my February cover– much like Bill OReilly, I did it live!

I premiered it to a packed house at my Lost Church show on Saturday…and I’m pretty sure somebody got some video. I’ll be sure to post it if I can track it down.

I’ll be posting the studio version in the next couple days, as soon as I can get the thing mastered.

To those of you wondering, I did February Stars, by the Foo Fighters.

I realize, internet, that this is a disappointment.
So, please accept this illustration instead — which was supposed to be the cover for January’s installment. It’s a redone version of this illustration from 2004 or so. I’m not sure that this is the final coloring that I’m going to go with. If anybody has opinions on this, please send them my way.
I’m trying to experiment with more minimal coloring methods.

Soon, you all will have a February track, and the March one won’t be too far behind it!

Dear friends– won’t you please come see my band play?

Corpus Callosum will also kindly melt your face with delicious melodies.

Be there!

<3