Ode to Oin

November 11, 2008

I’m sad to say I’ve finally given up hope that Oin was possibly on some sort of epic personal journey and that he’d return home as he has nightly for the last nine years, often injured from battles yet still ready to deliver a...

Confused as a Proud American

November 06, 2008

When I stopped by my local overstocked California liquormart to take home my six-pack and Silver Patrón, the man at the counter said “HAHA! GREAT NIGHT TO BREATHE EASY! THE FUCKING NAZIS ARE FINALLY GONE!” He had just given away his last newspaper...

Oh-bah-ma!

October 27, 2008

Just a quick, tiny note. Please, please get your ass out there and drop your puny little inconsequential, non-electoral, non-Fox-counted vote for: Pretty please? No more monkey presidents! Thanks. And with that out of the way, a quote from...

Leaving Orcatraz

October 15, 2008

Another longwinded, heavy-handed Video8 quickie edit with accompanying dorky poster from the box o’ tapes I’ve been hauling around for TEN YEARS. This was the night before, day of, and week after leaving Orcas Island, 2001? (Right before...

Killing Mr. Griffin

October 13, 2008

From found tape: This footage is from a thriftshop box find full of Video8 tapes, most of them computer backups — except this gem. I’ve been carrying this around and meaning to edit it for ages (aka 10 years). I finally found some time...

The Sinking Ship

September 28, 2008

For those not in the know, I’ve been living single for the last week and Soon Bok made the brave move to New York. This has resulted in me eating copious amounts of pizza for every meal, drinking cheaper and cheaper beer, thinking about drawing...

Crappy Jam Comics Du Jour

September 21, 2008

Andrice Arp and Jesse Reklaw were in town for an art show opening last night down the street at Secret Headquarters — which embarrassingly I completely forgot about. I swear if things are not thrust in front of me AS THEY ARE HAPPENING they may as...

Any Ranch That You Can See on Foot Just Isn’t Worth Looking At

August 21, 2008

I recently had a drunken spree of watching old westerns, starting with the classic The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. While “camping” last weekend, I watched it again with my 12-year-old nephew Aaron who initially scoffed at the obviously-overdubbed...

Our Goofy Ass Kid Website

August 08, 2008

If I’ve not blathered to you in person about it, we recently at my dayjob relaunched holamun2.com. This was the culmination of an 8++ month operation pulling out the wildly (manmade) cancerous and expanding Wordpress innards and replacing them...

Self Portrait Post Horror Manga Marathon

July 26, 2008

Microcosm asked for a photo for promotion of BFF and I was inspired to draw something since I don’t really have any decent photos of myself. Or maybe I just wanted to draw myself without eyeballs, I don’t know. Scrufftastic. Hair cut and a...

Portrait by Michel Gondry

July 21, 2008

One of the perks of this year’s MoCCA was the odd appearance of Michel Gondry and an hilarious comic “32 PAGES, ALL IN COLORS” called “We Lost The War But Not The Battle – a revengeful story by Michel Gondry.” I guess there’s extra drama to be found...

Pays to Have a Geek-Artist Boyfriend

July 17, 2008

I’ve been getting a kick out of helping Soon Bok’s Etsy shop Pretty Monsters by designing some labels and her banner image. I guess it’s a relief to design for something you don’t have to worry about 5,000 people using — that is, a sticker instead...

BFF scraps

July 10, 2008

As I sat down to write this, I heard some unearthly-sounding squawking and growling from outside. I looked out just in time to catch a raccoon being forced off the edge of a garage by two other huge, screaming raccoons. It was very much like a scene...

Nate at MoCCA 2008!

June 09, 2008

I’m in the midst of a NY visit for the MoCCA arts fest. I’ll write something here very soon, and completely change the site up, I swear. (Got that partially done..) I’m REALLY retiring brainfag.com to just a showcase for the 10-issue run and BFF...

Silent in LA

July 12, 2007

Not too much to report, been working on holamun2.com fulltime+ since I moved to LA. I do have a book cover in the works for Willy Vlautin’s new book, Northline, with Faber & Faber. I’ll put that up soon, I’m not sure where it stands at this...

Failing god’s weird tests

April 16, 2007

Just put up the recent Papercutter art, put out by Greg at tugboat press. In the last month, I’ve bought a car, a mobile phone, become an NBC/GE employee, and now I“m moving to LA in a week. Wtf?! Is this god testing me? Am I failing? Or winning?...

Special News Morsel

February 10, 2007

The Wurstminster dog show is now up on their site. Added a few illustrations for the Mercury, as well as the new Papercutter inside covers. Willy Vlautin dropped off the new Richmond Fontaine album I did cover art for, Thirteen Cities, which...

new site live!

December 18, 2006

After an exceptional bout of procrastination, I have finally forced myself to find time to piece together a quick Django site (with a little help from mootools) to pimp my illustration self. There will be much more exciting things to come in the...