fareldal

a bunch of new stuff going on this month.
the new meathaus sketchbook is out now, featuring art by:
Andy Ristaino, Arik Roper, Benjamin Marra, Bob Flynn, Dash Shaw, Dave Kiersh, Esao Andrews, Farel Dalrymple, Jason Sacher, Josh Latta, HARVEYJAMES™, Inés Estrada, Jesse Moynihan, Katie Rice, Kevin Fagan, Michaela Zacchilli, Mu Pan, Nathan Fox, Nicholas Gazin, Nick Bertozzi, Peter Chung, Rebecca Sugar, Ron Wimberly, Sam Kim, Thomas Herpich, Victor Cayro, Vincent Giard, Vincent Stall, Zachary Baldus, Tomer Hanuka, James Jean, Brandon Graham, Robertryan Cory, Al Columbia, and Chris McD.

one of the contributors to the book, nick gazin
did a nice interview for the vide magazine. read the interview here.
i also did an original comic for the occasion on vice's website. check it out here.
thanks nick.
some of the same characters from that strip are in the new
MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 4 TPB that is just out this month.

if you're in the portland, oregon area stop by floating world comics. this month to see the show:
December Rain - FAKE ROCK BAND POSTER EXHIBIT
a group show where over a dozen artists have designed flyers, posters and album covers for bands that don't actually exist.
The show is co-curated by T. Edward Bak (Service Industry, Mome, D&Q Showcase).
WHERE: Floating World Comics
20 NW 5th Ave #101
Portland, OR 97209
(503)241-0227
here is a small version of my piece:


and here are a few other things i did sort of recently
a pin up for conan. i will post later when i find out which issue it will be running in.

when i was teaching at PNCA i did this portrait of one of my favorite movie directors

i did this as a t-shirt design for a hip hop crew in minneapolis called doom tree.
i am not sure when the street date is but once that tee becomes available i'll let you all know. thanks.

Hello guys,
Jason over at floating world comics. let me know sort of recently that the next installment of pop gun war: chain letter is up on Arthur magazine’s site. Check it out and enjoy. In between working on wrenchies pages I will be coloring some of the pop gun war pages and putting up the next chapter real soon. the plan is to do another limited edition of part two. keep your eyes peeled for news about that.
this is another fun sandman commission I did recently for my pal rob. Thanks rob.

these ladies are called Zelda and Chantal, and they like spiders, like David Sedaris apparently does.
And here’s another one I did for a smashing chap named David (not Sedaris) in his sketchbook. Thanks David.

It was fun seeing all the other Calvin sketches in the sketchbook. I especially enjoyed the two by jimrugg. That guy is one of my favorites.
This weekend I will be in a group show in LA at exhibit a gallery.
If you are in the Los Angeles area this weekend please go check out the show.
The gallery is at
1086 SOUTH FAIRFAX AVE.
LOS ANGELES CA. 90019
And I think you are supposed to rsvp at the website or something but the opening is on Saturday, August 29th at 7pm
Here is the invitation:

Sadly I won’t be able to attend. But please let me know how it went if you go. I sent them three pieces, a triptych that I did for the gaming company, white wolf.
Here is a small version of one of them.

I am pretty excited to be part of the show. The gallery is co-owned by dogtown skateboard legend Tony Alva.
The theme of the show, “bipolar” has something to do with doing work people might not recognize as your own. I thought the sort of heavy metal vibe i tried to get in the white wolf pieces that bill.

I am still available for commissions please email me at fareldalrymple@yahoo.com for rates.
Thanks.
-farel

Hey everybody, i just did this weird little acrylic painting on the back of my new sketchbook.
I like it.
San diego comic con is coming up soon and the excellent comic shop in Canada, the beguiling
will be there selling some of my original comic art. I just sent them some of my newer stuff including the magic spell story and pages from my Meathaus s.o.s. photogoloctica story.
I’d like to go to san diego but can’t really swing a plane ticket.
Does anyone know of anyone driving down from Portland that has an extra seat in their car? I could pitch in for gas of course.
Looking around the internets a couple of days ago I saw this post on tom neely’s blog. Apparently my book, pop gun war made wizard magazines "Top 25 Indie Books of All Time" list a few months back. It's Wizard Magazine #211 Platinum Edition.

The article is "TITANIC TOMES: The 25 Indie Gems Even the Most Ghoulish Marvel Zombie or Dedicated DC Devotee Must Read Before They Die!"
Here’s the list in alphabetical order:
1. Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware
2. American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
3. Black Hole by Charles Burns
4. Blankets by Craig Thompson
5. The Blot by Tom Neely
6. Bone by Jeff Smith
7. Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
8. Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
9. Curses by Kevin Huizenga
10. Eightball by Dan Clowes
11. Epileptic by David B.
12. The Essex County Trilogy by Jeff Lemire
13. Frank by Jim Woodring
14. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
15. Grickle by Graham Annable
16. It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken by Seth
17. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Velasquez
18. Love and Rockets by The Hernandez Bros.
19. Maus by Art Spiegelman
20. Optic Nerve by Adrian Tomine
21. Palestine by Joe Sacco
22. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
23. Pop Gun War by Farel Dalrymple
24. Pistolwhip by Jason Hall and Matt Kindt
25. The Sketchbook Diaries by James Kochalka
I just did a drawing in brett warnock’s (mr. Top shelf) twin peak’s theme sketchbook.

I also recently did a commission for john q adams’ silverfish collection

I am still available for commissions please email me at fareldalrymple@yahoo.com for rates. okay, now i'll get back to coloring the wrenchies.
ttfn.

so i am all sold out of the pop gun war preview. i got the last order this morning. thanks eric! thanks everybody! now here is part one of a silly Supermundane comic i just made.
supermundane:
fairy, part one

this is one of the main dudes in the wrenchies, bance. he is my favorite character in the story so far.

thanks to everyone who bought a copy of the pop gun war: chain letter preview.
i only have about 5 copies left.

thanks to doug, jason, and everyone who bid on the kitty pryde pieces on ebay. i believe the show did really well. i will put a picture up on here of my piece once i get a scan of the thing.


i did this commission recently for my pal, rob. it is merv pumpkinhead from the sandman series. rob has commissioned several sandman characters from me. they are some of my favorite things to draw. i am available for more commissions. email me at fareldalrymple@yahoo.com for rates if you are interested. thanks everybody.

the idea was to post about the cool 22 page preview of pop gun war: chain letter before i did the stumptown show, (it was a great time by the way. thanks y'all.) but my computer crashed right before the show. bummer. so i finally got my computer working again and i have a few things to announce.
i did get the covers done in time and the books sold pretty well at the show.
they have one page of spot color inside on the last page. the covers are silk screened on both sides. the front is a two-color silk screen. the insides are the first chapter in what is going to be, once i am done working on the wrenchies that is, a 150 book.


if you don't want to pay to read what's in the book you can read the first fifty pages for free (eventually). they will still be presented on-line 5 at a time for a few more weeks at the arthur magazine site. jason levian, their comics editor and comic book store Impresario encouraged and helped me to put a paypal button on here for people who are interested in getting the book. as you can see fromt he above pictures there are two different versions of the back cover. an emily and a sinclair. if there is one you would rather have please specify for me. thanks.

if you are a local to the pdx area floating world comics and cosmic monkey both have copies on hand here to sell. i also sent a few over to my pal joey beldon at atomik pop in oklahoma if you are in that neighborhood. for everyone else that wants one of these limited edition series of 100 silk screened covered comic zine thing just press the button and i will send you one. until supplies last that is. i think i have about 40 left to sell. thanks.
speaking of floating world comics. this month i am participating in a group show over there called "full of pryde". the theme is kitty pryde from the x-men comics, and all the proceeds are going to the oregon hemophilia treatment center. douglas sherwood from oni press did a smashing job curating the show. the opening on first thursday went great. i was there for only a little bit but i had a good time and saw a lot of excellent people. there were some great pieces in the show too.including this really neat one by zachary baldus.

Preview more of the artwork here: http://fullofpryde.blogspot.com/
because i turned mine in at the last minute i haven't able to scan mine yet, but here is a rather fuzzy picture of it.

there is another not great pic up on the ebay site for the show. go there and bid on mine or whatever one you like best.

and thanks to Henry Chamberlain for the nice interview over at newsarama.

if you didn't pick up a copy of bird hurdler on free comic book day you should grab one if you can still. i think the book came out great.
they were available at the stumptown show and i gave a bunch of them out at my table.
i was also at cosmic monkey for free comic day and had a great time along with zac soto, tod bak, scoitt mills, caroline main and a bunch of other excellent cartoonist types. thanks adam and andy for hosting that.
bird hurdler was made possible by 3 awesome Portland small presses: Sparkplug Comics, Tugboat press, and Teenage Dinosaur.
contributors include Andrice Arp, Theo Ellsworth, Farel Dalrymple, Zack Soto, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg and Julia Gfrörer.and the book was printed at Brown Printing (also in Portland).
it is free. but if you can't find a copy anywhere you can pay one cent plus shipping for it here.
thanks guys.
here is a weird drawing i did the other day.

hey gang, after you have the read "magic spell" on the dhp myspace thing, then go here and read
what Thaddeus D. Brook, the raven has to say about it.

hey everybody. big news today. the dark horse myspace thing i did, "magic spell" is now online! please go read it.
it is only 8 pages. my pal, angry jim campbell did the color art too. sweet. if you like, be sure to pick a copy of bird hurdler at the stumptown comics fest. or on free comic book day for part two of the story! thanks. there is also a thing i did for the myspace blog. well, it is actually thaddeus, the crow from the story that says it all. i just helped transcribe it. he helps explain, in a way, what the hell is going on and what might happen in the future with these characters.
i think that goes up tomorrow. i will post a link to it then.

also the second 5-page installment of pop gun war: chain letter is now up on arthur magazine. read it. then tell your friends. it is helpful for everyone. thanks again to jason leivian from floating world comics for hooking that up. he is the comics editor for that fine magazine and has a great comics shop.
jason is helping me put together a limited edition 22 page preview of pgw:chain letter specifically for the stumptown comics fest.

don't forget i have art up at the the pony club and the Portland Center for the Performing Arts for the whole month. swing by those places if you are in the downtown portland area. thanks.

oh yeah, and this is pretty swell news. omega the unknown got nominated for an eisner award! for best limited series and i got a nomination for best letterer for the series.
read some more about the eisners here.
vote for us. or whatever. do people vote on those?

and a canadian street pimp sent me this pic of yet another radical tattoo. thanks expatfantasy



here is some fairly recent sketchbook stuff

ok here are some new goods things, folks.
first off i am pleased to announce that aurthur magazine is showing off 50 pages of my as yet unpublished pages of the next pop gun war. jason leivian from floating world comics hooked it up. we are putting 5 pages up a week. please go here to check out the first 5 page installment. thanks.
the book is eventually going to be called pop gun war: chain letter not just "letters" like it says on the first page. that was my fault.

this first thursday, which is only a day away, i will have 5 pieces at the pony club
please come and check out some art. here is one of the pieces i will have up.

speaking of first thursday, my pal, paul horschemier has his own solo show at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art.


make the rounds and check our stuff out.

and my old school chum earl hollowaysent me a link to some of his excellent drawings on display in new york
check it out if you are in the area.

stumptown comics fest is getting really close and there are bunch of stuff going on that weekend to celebrate. including:COMICS TO THE PEOPLE!

"PORTLAND CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, STUMPTOWN COMICS FOUNDATION, and SEQUENTIAL ART GALLERY present...
COMICS TO THE PEOPLE! An Exhibition of Comic Book & Cartoon Art, Featuring Stumptown Comics Fest artists
APRIL-MAY 2009; Opens APRIL 2nd, 6-9pm
Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway"

i will have a couple of pages from the wrenchies up there.

also a french website www.digibidi.com. sent me an email recently saying they put a preview of the french edition of pop gun war on their fine website.
thanks for reading!

hey everybody, i didn't make that cardinal.
my good pal, mu is in a group show at Scion Gallery L.A,
he made all these paper figures you can see here
see here
here is the information:
Papershapers at Scion Space
April 11 - May 2
Reception: Saturday, April 11, 6:30 -10:00

Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Avenue (at National)
Culver City, CA. 90232
310-815-8840



so i am pretty busy getting prepared for stumptown comics fest
i will have some prints for sale along with a new comic to show the world (hopefully). there is also a bunch of stuff going on that weekend that i will be a part of. more to come on all that later.
here is a page from the book i am working on.

an italian fan emailed me recently with this picture.

i feel quite honored. thanks for the love.
the italian edition of pop gun war is a beautiful thing. hardcover with a silver foil sinclair on the cover. there are even some color pages inside. if you see me at a show i will most likely have a copy on hand to show if you'd like to see. or you can get one from these fine people.


there is some silly sketchbook stuff ( here, behind the cut. check it. )

i did that doggy painting for a friend of mine that is making a movie named peacock.

today is my birthday. i am 37 just like Dennis in that monty python movie.
i have been pretty busy plugging away on the wrenchies, but a bunch of stuff has gone on since i last put something up here.
Some exciting news is that i will be at the stumptown comics fest. Stumptown is the indie friendly comics show here in porltand, oregon. This year it will be held on april 18th and 19th. It is a really nice show. please come by and say hi if you are in town.
Jeff Smith is the featured guest. The coordinators of the show asked me to do the poster. I am quite a fan of Mr. Smith so i decided to use his Characters (mostly) for the image. I haven't seen the finished poster with text and everything but here is the image i did :


A couple months back I did a funny 8 page comic with zack whedon for Dark Horse Comics Presents/MY space thing.
you have to scroll along the bottom and look for my story which is called, "moist: humidity rising."


there is thing about it on mtv.com.

I just finished doing another story for DHP that i wrote myself and angry jim campbell
colored. I will let you guys know when that goes live. It is sort of a two-part story. part one appears in the dark horse presents thing and part two will appear in the new FREE issue of nerd burglar called, "bird hurdler." the book is a collaborative publishing project between 3 Portland small presses: Sparkplug Comics
, Tugboat press
, and Teenage Dinosaur
. that will be out for stumptown comics fest and free comic book day. Their are some stellar contributors in that issue too. more to come on that soon.

Here are some other random things i did sort of recently
( behind the cut )

here is an interview i did with the The Daily Cross Hatch

and here a bunch of nice omega the unknown reviews:
new york times:
Village Voice:
NPR:
LA Times
Publisher's Weekly reader's choice:

thanks.

this was a nice review of omega. i know it is old. i meant to post it months ago

this was also really cool. omega in the onion's av club!

speaking of omega, a friend sent me this ad with my omega art in it for diamond comics in publishers weekly.


i picked up some neat books recently that i am pretty jazzed on. check them out.

capacity by theo ellsworth



swallow me whole by nate powell


and the second issue of poison the cure by jad ziade and alex cahill

even though i promised myself i wouldn't sit behind any more convention tables until i got the wrenchies done i am doing two local suckers next weekend. saturday, november 8th from 3pm to 5 i will be signing with my buddy jesse reklaw at the dark horse booth for the wordstock festival.

on sunday, november 9th i will be sitting with my pal rob g at the portland comic show.
maybe i will see some of you at one of those things.

here is a wrenchies page i did recently. click on it twice to see it big.

this is a small gouache painting i did last week.

this is the painting i did for the grass hut, balls out show.

that kid's name is Sherwood Presley Breadcoat. sherwood and his brother Orson and are in my story in the new Meathaus: s.o.s. book. sherwood will be a main character in my new book for First Second, the Wrenchies.

if you want to read my Meathaus: s.o.s. story, it is currently up on new york magazine's website. read the whole thing for free!


the last issue of omega is coming out soon.
i was sent this link to a nice review of the series from comic book resources.
( there are some sketchbook pages after the cut. )

i just saw this nice piece about meathaus sos
on the drawn website.


and i believe the june issue of print magazine has a piece by the spectacularannie nocenti
about omega the unknown. sweet.


here is a picture of my mug that is up on the dartmouth website.
it accompanies an article about our excellent omega visit to dartmouth and ccs.
i'm wearing my favorite sweater. the trees are made from some sort of puffy plastic. believe me, it is rad.

as long as i am being vain i saw my face in this picture on paul may's lj

from the look i'm sporting i think i was fairly wasted at this point. i even knocked a beer over while i was there. AGAIN!
classy.

free comic day. i swung by cosmic monkey comics today, and hung out with the awesome dudes there. i picked up some good stuff too.
look at this:

the guy who painted that, esao andrews, is having a show at roq larue gallery in seattle. the opening is this friday night, may 9th, 6-9pm i am definitely going to be there. if you are in the area come over.
i was over at the electrocomics excellent website today and saw
this gem by Amanda Vähämäki.
now here's my bajillionth sketchbook drawing: