fareldal

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:

radical cartoonist tim hamilton just informed me that my stoopid face and a video of me working is on the deep six blog.
fun times in brooklyn. it's short. check it.
and this is this something silly i did recently.

three weeks in new york was an effing whirlwind. that place is way too intense for me but i had the best time seeing all the amazing, talented, and fun people i know there. i had a lot of super good hang out sessions with friends. it was an ass kicking, but left me inspired and challenged to work harder.
the thing at rocketship was totally packed and an all around spectacular experience. thanks to alex and mary for having such a good store and making me feel so at home there in brooklyn. and thanks to everyone for coming out for that. i think a couple of my original covers for omega might still be up there.
this is a picture from pub weekly of the omega crew at the event.

thanks tojim campbell for letting me use his computer and the deep six crew for letting me use their studio. also while i was visiting, jim's band, paper fleet played a great show atcake shop. i heard there is some article on them in time out new york this week.
i also had fantastic time up in vermont visiting the center for cartoon studies. everyone was really nice, and the town was very pleasant. i liked all the stuff i saw coming out of that school.
right after i got back to portland i hit thestumptown show
and got to see even more excellent comic book people. i only had my one advance copy of the new meathaus for the show. a bunch of people looked at it and the response was good. i haven't read all the stories yet but it really is an exceptional looking book.
i was so pooped on sunday i passed out at ten and missed the closing party for the magic show at pony club.
here is the piece i had in the show.
now i need to crawl back in my cave and get back to work on the wrenchies.
dino pointed out that i should try using the lj cut. so okay then, there is another drawing i did recently ( behind the cut. )

so meathaus-sos is done and will be out on may 1st. you can preorder it from nerdcore here.
the book will be previewing and fully available at the new york city comic con, april 18th thru 20th.
i will be in new york for that show as well as for the omega the unknown party at one of the best comic shops around, rocketship in brooklyn
the event will be on Wednesday April 2, from 7-9.
it should be a blast and possibly have free beer.
the whole creative on the book will be there. please come and bring lots of friends. i have been working on this book for a long time now and am finally on the last issue. it has been such a fun project. i think i am going to miss those characters a bit. snif.
the next day, April 3 i will be heading up to the cartoon studies school in vermont with paul and jonathan to talk about the book. check it out.
Thursday April 3, 4:30pm
Haldeman Conference Center
Kreindler Auditorium Room 041
Dartmouth College
i don't really look at reviews so much but i think the omega book is being well received. i was sent this review recently.
i meant to post this a while ago but i am a flake. so in case anyone cares i was on my buddy conch's local comic book radio show, words and pictures.. you can download the audio file if you are so inclined. you can actually hear my real voice pretending to sound like i know what i am talking about. speaking of shooting my mouth off., while i am in nyc i will be on Comic Book Club - Live Comic Book Talk Show in NYC Tuesday, April 8 @ 8:00pm at the Peoples Improv Theater. Tickets are just $5!
there is also free podcast of the show available too on your eye toonez.
i have a piece in a show here in town with james jean, jeff soto and some other awesome dudes at grass hut news. if you are in town head over and check it out. i didn't get a chance to scan the painting. i will post it when the show is over.
speaking of shows, the stumptown comics thing is coming up at the end of april. tables are sold out for the show so i don't know if i will have my own spot but i will be back in portland and at that show somewhere. i might sit at someone else's table. now here is a bunch of random little things inlcuding a cd cover i did for my little siter's band, efft.