Hotdog!

I've got a band new book to debut at Stumptown this weekend, 

come snag a copy of Hotdog for $5.

April 27 and 28, 2013 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Sat 10-6, Sun 12-6

Issues in Oakland

I dropped off copies of my new comics at Issues in Oakland, CA over the weekend, so 

go get some! If you've never been, you need to go check out this shop, they've got an incredible collection of magazine titles - magazines that your wildest dreams haven't even thought of yet. Seriously, check them out. 

20 Glen Ave., Oakland, CA

(510) 652-5700

Guacamole 2 Electric Blue Goo

I whipped up a new batch of Guacamole for the fiestaval in Olympia this weekend, I'll also have some leftover Guac from Stumptown there too (that means Issue #1). Olympia Comics Fest, come check it oot!

Guacamole Costs Extra

I'll be offering Guacamole for an extra dollar with your comic book order this weekend at Stumptown. It's a small book of squishy monsters for the discerning consumer.

9th Annual Stumptown Comics Fest
April 28th and 29th (Sat 10-6, Sun 12-6)
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon

Los Angeles Book Shops

I uploaded an updated list of bookstores that carry my comic books, the new additions to the list are Skylight Books and the Secret Headquarters, both in Los Angeles, California. Both of these shops have tons (metric tons) of amazing comics and art books to pore over. So, if you live in the area go check 'em out!

Zine Fest in L.A. Today

Come awn down to the Last Book Store, 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA for the L.A. Zine Fest. There are going to be so many different piles of comics to thumb through! I'll have my own small pile at the Gnartoons table, but look at this extensive list of exhibitors!


Simon Sotelo designed this awesome logo/poster for the zine fest

L.A. Zine Fest

Yep, it's true, I'll be at the L.A. Zine Fest, selling art prints and comic books. Here's an interview that I did for their Zine Fest.


This is a small pile of my comic books featuring covers that I designed and printed using the linocut method. They're all available for sale over here.

Monsters, All Day

Remember that New Year's Resolution that I made about 25 days ago? It's cool, I was't expecting you to, don't worry about it. Well, it had to do with monsters, and so here's a monster for you to gaze upon.



You can find a few more specimens from this recent batch of monsters in the upcoming issue of "Gag Me with A...", which is a zine that some polite creatures from LA are putting together. The LA Zine Fest is also putting together a zine for their event, which will feature another one of these little monsters, collect 'em all!

East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair 2011

The East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair 2011
Berkeley City College, 2050 Center St.
Saturday December 10th, 10am - 4pm
Free * Free * Free * Free * Free

Come by the Gnartoons table and get yourself some hand-printed comic books and hand-painted plastic dinosaurs for seasonal gift-giving.


Poster Art by Brooke Appler

EAZTBAY ZINEFEST TOMORROW!

East Bay Zinefest 2011
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
At 924 Gilman, Berkeley, CA
Sliding Scale of Donations to Get in the Door
Music, Food, and Comic Books

I'll have all these books on sale for $5...

Takilma

New Book!

This book is very different from everything else that I've worked on, I drew it in a realism style so I hope nobody minds a break from the cartoons for a few pages. It tells the story of a strange and spooky dream that a friend of mine had. I spent a lot of time working on these pages last Winter, hope you like it... Now back to the toonz!







This book is currently available online at the Gnartoons Online Store and also in real-life at the following shops where you can use paper sacks full of pennies to buy them:

Blue Stockings
172 Allen St.
New York City, NY

Comicopolis
829 Front St.
Santa Cruz, CA

Isotope Comics
326 Fell St.
San Francisco, CA

Logos Books
1117 Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA

Mission: Comics and Art
3520 20th St.
San Francisco, CA

Needles and Pens
3253 16th St.
San Francisco, CA

If you would like to have it at your local shop, have them laser-breath me an email -> James(at)gnartoons(dot)comfortable

East Bay Zinefest at 924 Gilman

The RPS Collective out of Oakland is putting on the East Bay Zine Festival at the legendary punk club 924 Gilman!

You'll find me at the Gnartoons table.

East Bay Zine Fest
Sunday, November 27th
924 Gilman, Berkeley, CA
Festivities begin at High Noon

This is event is on a sliding scale of dollars, and the event is just for you and your friends.



Punk Rock and Comic Books, you have 2-weeks to prepare, put some patches on those dungarees and come thumb through unknown miracles of the small press sector with me, friends (when I said that this event is for you and your friends, I was really just trying to weasel my way into your group of friends).

PS - This is not to be confused with the other East Bay Book Faire that's happening in Downtown Berkeley on December 10th, where I will also be tabling - more details on that when you need 'em.

Where to Find the Gnar

I updated the list of bookstores that carry Gnartoons Brand Comic Books!

SF Zine Fest!

This weekend is the San Francisco Zine Fest in Golden Park! It’s free to attend the event and I will be sitting at the Gnartoons table all day Saturday and Sunday, so come offer up some high-fives (save me some good ones).


I’ve been working my little liver off trying to prepare for the festival, and guess what? It payed off, I’ll be debuting a brand new comic book at the festival tomorrow! So come to the park this weekend and be one of the first to pick up a copy of my new book, ‘Gnarlton Livingston’.

Beastie Preview Pages

Preview pages are up for the new book. Also, I wanted to add that you can find this booklet of important information regarding the breeding habits of sea serpents at the Rock Paper Scissors Collective in Oakland, CA (2278 Telegraph Ave.) in addition to most of the lovely stores on this list.

Beast Begat Beast

There's a new Gnartoons zine out on the market: Beast Begat Beast. It's a comic book all about lustful leviathans and the re-zoning of sea serpent maps. It's already on the shelves in stores in Chicago, Baltimore, Portland, Olympia, Seattle and Oakland, click here for the list of shops (I'll deliver copies to San Francisco, Berkeley, and Detroit as soon as I get this next batch folded up). You can also order a copy with seemingly-fake internet money through paypal here.

Baltimore, Berkeley, Chicago, Oakland, Olympia, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle

These are all of the cities where citizens can walk to their local book shop and buy Gnartoons Brand Comics right off of the shelves.

Robot Smut!

The new book is up for sale online for $5! CLICK HERE

The Royal Squid Press

Hear Thee, Hear Thee!

The Royal Squid Press, the newly formed printing branch of Gnartoons, is officially off the ground! I have completely converted my studio apartment into a DIY (ahem, excuse me, I mean *professional*) printing press. I've been busy carving linoleum/wood/rubber by hand in order to print book covers uniquely and authentically. After being pressed, the cover of each book is signed and numbered and then hangs to dry from a tangled web of strings that stretches from wall to wall across my apartment. The result of using strings that stretch across my ceiling rather than using a drying rack is a floating canopy of fluorescent comic-cover-clouds that hang above my bed and drawing table, which I aesthetically enjoy with great immensity.

The first release from Royal Squid Press will be available for purchase in June at independent book shops throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and online at Gnartoons.com. Further information will be posted right here on this very blog and also on the Gnartoons facebook page.

Business as Usual

In 2008 I drew a series of zines/mini-comics about a band of Rastafarian Dinosaurs called "The Herbivores". Yes, it exists. I never finished the series, I got 4 issues in and just sort of lost interest - as is to be expected in any instance where someone is writing/drawing a comic book series about pot-smoking dinosaurs. I still have plentiful copies of issues #1 and #2 if anybody's interested. Here are the first 5 pages of the first issue, which were published on glossy paper by The Fanatic Press in Slambang Vol. III Issue #4 before I ran the Gnartoons book series.