Gingers do it Better

Hey all. Been a hell of a year. Let me see if I can kinda catch folks up. I’m walking (ish), I now have a lawyer, I broke up with my partner (which has been hard), I designed the T-shirt for this years Twin Cities Dyke March (Second year in a row) and it sold obscenely well. I lost my job. I’m on my way back to school this fall, and there is just a great deal of change in my life.
I’ve done a whole lot of new art and I’m getting it all scanned in now. In the mean time here’s something that I just finally finished. My very first submission for Threadless. It’s called “Waxing & Waning” and I hope it gets in. Voting should start on it in the next couple days so make sure you rank it high (like a 5). You can vote for it here.

Feel the Magic

Holy crap, I’m almost getting to doing monthly posts. That’s pretty astonishing. I have been producing a lot of work actually (some even on The Odds) but the lack of a scanner prevents me from showing a lot of it to you. Hopefully that’ll get fixed soon.
So here’s what’s going on. Still recovering from surgery, actually just had a follow up today with a new x-ray and it looks like everything’s healing nicely. Ill be able to start putting weight on it at the end of June. The drivers insurance has been not too nice, almost to the point of saying they wont be giving me a dime. The idea of suing them has come up more than a few times.
In the mean time everyone should attend Glamboree Vol. 2, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood TC Avengers. This Wednesday (Jun. 1st.) at the Exchange (see poster for info, also I designed it). There will be more info on Dyke March as it approaches but this year’s theme is “Every Issue is a Queer Issue.”

CONSENT IS SEXY!

I think it’s high time I took responsibility for this image. I made it about a year ago as a promotion for the 2010 Twin Cities Dyke March. Before I was nervous that it was going to pigeonhole me into being a “Sex Artist” but now I don’t know what the fuck was I so afraid of. I drew the fucking consenticorn! It’s actually gotten to the point where other people have been using this image so I feel I need to leave my mark on it now if that’s gonna be the case.
In other news. I HAD SURGERY! Yup. Turns out the docs at the ER can’t read a damn x-ray and when I finally got into the orthopedics office for a follow up I found out the bone in my leg had descended and need emergency surgery. I now have pins and a plate and my leg and a hole that will soon be a big ass scar. Can’t wait to show that one off. But, hey, I am still alive. I have to get a lawyer, which is rough but I will get through this and all the family and friends who’ve given support. FUCK YEAH! You all are awesome!

But at least I'm alive

Hey folks. So here’s what’s been going on with me. Back in September I got a job at Hot Comics and Collectibles. In November I started dating my current partner Jamie and things have been going great with that. At the beginning of February I lost virtually all my hours at the comic shop. Got depressed. Found a new job and now I work in the warehouse at Art Materials in Uptown. Last Thursday (March 24^th.) I was hit by a car while biking, and now I can’t work for the foreseeable future. I’m not in a lot of pain but I can barely leave my apartment (by the way thanks to everyone who come by, you’ve been amazing). But I can’t look at this as a bad thing. I’m going to take this forced leave of absence as an opportunity to reinvest myself into my artwork. Specifically by the time I’m recovered I hope to have a solid script for the remainder of THE ODDS. and have a solid tattoo portfolio to shop around town. Someone kick me if that doesn’t happen.

Stay tuned

Cirque Du SoGay

So that’s almost 2 weeks right? So here is a poster I illustrated a couple weeks back for the Cirque Du SoGay bike race. You can get the info here. Type design by Elliot Jobe.

AAAAAAND WE'RE BACK!!!

Hip Hop Against Homophobia
Originally uploaded by destructogasm

Alright, I don’t really have any good excuse for not updating my blog here. I suppose the fact that I’ve been buried in my own life is about the best I can come up with. It’s been a long long summer. I broke up with my girlfriend. I started payments on my student loans. I moved and I finally found a job after my seemingly endless search. Hopefully getting over the hump of most of this massive life changes I can finally get back to some kind of regularity. I’m hoping that might include semi regular posts (about every 2 weeks) but generally I don’t like to put up posts without some new work to show with it.
Well this is sort of new (as in from July). It’s a poster I designed for Camp Trans benefit Hip-Hop Against Homophobia. Today I’m working on another poster for the queer Minneapolis bike race, Cirque du SoGay. I should be posting that one soon as well.