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Stumptown + Oodles of Doodles Show + SFBC Comic Strip = Busy!

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:09:00 +0000

Wow, its been a busy couple of weeks for me, art-wise! There's a couple of things that I wanted to mention:

First off, I'll be at the Stumptown Comics Fest up in Portland next weekend. Family Style will be sharing some space at the Global Hobo table, so look for me there... I have a new issue of my bird-watching zine Bird Brain coming out for the show, it has lots of pretty great new bird illos and writing in it, including a color spread of a Varied Thrush we found late last year (above)!

Secondly, if anyone is down in LA this month, the original of that color Varied Thrush illo from BB 4 will be on display as part of the Oodles of Doodles group show at Tinlark Gallery in Hollywood! The opening is on Saturday, April 24 (obviously, I can't be in two places at once, so I won't be there), lots of amazing artists, should be rad!

Finally, Jonas Madden-Connor and I collaborated on a five-part comic strip for the San Francisco Bike Coalition. There will be a new strip every week, so check back in for more!

Bird Brain 4 out for Stumptown + BB Painting at Tinlark Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:46:00 +0000

Wow, its a busy week for Bird Brain! First off, BB 4 will be coming out next weekend for the Stumptown Comics Fest up in Portland! I actually have a ton of illos and writing left to do this week, but I have faith that it can all get done! This issue will have lots of great sightings in it due to my three great field trips since the last issue (Las Gallinas, Point Reyes, and Año Nuevo), including Northern Harriers, a Peregrine Falcon, Turkey Vultures, Western Bluebirds, and a color spread of a Varied Thrush we found late last year (above)! Plus some bonus non-avian encounters, including a bobcat and Elephant Seals! Family Style will be sharing some space at the Global Hobo table, so look for me there!

Secondly, if anyone is down in LA this month, the original of that color Varied Thrush illo from BB 4 will be on display as part of the Oodles of Doodles group show at Tinlark Gallery in Hollywood! The opening is on Saturday, April 24 (obviously, I can't be in two places at once, so I won't be there), lots of amazing artists, should be rad!

Shorebirds of Las Galinas

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:20:00 +0000

My birder-extraordinaire pal Jeanne Marie and her husband Jim (no slouch himself) took me out for a nice morning of birding at the Las Galinas wastewater treatment facility, which is much nicer than its name implies. With thier help I saw tons of birds that I either hadn't seen before or wouldn't have been able to identify, esp. lots of lovely shorebirds and ducks. I'll be posting more sketches of the birds we saw in the coming weeks (expect the next Bird Brain to be full of stuff from this one trip alone). Here are two of the shorebird species we saw, the Black-necked Stilt and the American Avocet.

Bird Brain 3 out for Indy Euphoria this Sunday

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:06:00 +0000

I am putting the finishing touches on the latest issue of Bird Brain (you can see the Gocco-printed covers above). This issue is all about local birds, spotted within the confines of San Francisco; but there are quite a few new sightings for me in there, from the elusive Brown Creeper to some sketches of two species of egrets, a Great and a Snowy, which I spotted within ten feet of each other on Crissy Field. Below is a photo I snapped of them by using my binoculars to do some very rough digiscoping with the camera on my iPhone! Pretty rough, I know, but I sort of like the effect:

Snowy Egret

Great Egret

This issue also features a first for BB, a full-color centerfold! I was so happy with my painting of a starling that I decided to do some more sketches and create a two-page spread about these garrulous, ubiquitous birds. Look for more color plates in future issues...

I'll be at the Indy Euphoria in Sacramento on Sunday 1/10 ONLY. I'll have all three issues of Bird Brain along with tons of other Family Style stuff, including a new (and very funny) comic from my pal Nick St. John.

European Starling - In Color!

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:29:00 +0000

I did this little ink and gouache illo for a friend's holiday gift... but I might also have some interesting ideas for incorporating a bit of color into future issues of Bird Brain, including the soon to be released third issue (coming out for Indy Euphoria in Sacramento, Jan. 9+ 10)!

"Friends IV" print available online from GRSF

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:06:00 +0000

My whale v. squid print, "Friends IV", is available now online from the Giant Robot gallery!

This is a large print made up of eight 12 7/8" square panels that connect together to make an image that's over 2' x 4'. Each panel was hand-printed by me on a letterpress proofing press from hand carved linoleum blocks, and is one of a signed and numbered edition of 20. If you'd like more info on how this monstrosity came into existence, check out my progress reports that I wrote as I was working on it: #1 (Design), #2 (Carving), and #3 (Printing).

The print is available from the wonderful folks at Giant Robot SF, click here to go straight to my piece, but don't forget to check out the rest of the fantastic Printed Matter show online, too! The bargain basement price for "Friends IV" is $100!

Progress Report #3 - Printing

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:41:00 +0000

So, here in our third and final post about my linoleum printing process, I wanted to give you an idea of how I printed the thing, and what the final art will look alike at the Giant Robot Printed Matter show, opening tonight (12/5)!

So, after carving all my linoleum, I had to mount them all on plywood blocks (generously cut for me by the wonderful Paul Stepahin). There were 15 blocks in all, eight for the black and seven for the red (there is just one panel, with the whale's flukes, that doesn't have any red in it). Here you can see the black blocks at a mid-point of the printing process (I've already printed the two blocks in the lower right hand side, as you can see).

Each of the blocks was set into the Vandercook press (at my work, Hello! Lucky: thank you, bosses!), which is a flatbed cylinder proof press. I had pulled prints on one before (the covers for Friends #3, for instance), but this was definitely by far the biggest project I had ever worked on, and I had a lot to learn, from registering the prints to cleaning the press at the end of the day! My mentor in all this was the incomparable Aaron Cohick, the head printer at Hello! Lucky and the proprietor of the fantastic New Lights Press. I learned so much durning the two weekends I spent printing, and I owe Aaron a considerable debt (maybe you can help me out by buying some of his amazing artists books, or his crazy new broadsides).

The red image (the squid + the whale's mean eye!) was printed first, since the red is a lighter intensity than the black print. The images below are from my second day of printing (I spent two 11-hour days on it!), so you will see the squid already printed and the whale being printed on top of that.

Because the blocks were so huge, and there were some irregularities with the linoleum, I would double ink the block, both by hand with a brayer (seen below), and as I pulled the prints, with the Vandercook's ink rollers. This added a ot of time to the process, but I got into a pretty good rhythm after awhile.

Below you can see one of the panels directly after printing the second color. For a final edition of 20 prints, I pulled about 34 of each panel (several were inevitably damaged, under-inked, or otherwise unusable), if you multiply that by the 15 blocks that's about 510 passes that this print took altogether! Yikes! I was definitely exhausted at the end of each day, but both the learning process and the end result were definitely worth it.

When I was done printing, I finally got to see the whole thing! I was really pleased... the print really is huge (you can see the pallet behind it for a sense of scale), and reflected the subject matter to a tee. I even like the irregularities of the print, I think there is a real beauty to it... some sections even look like they have a dappled, aquatic light on them that I couldn't have imagined would be there when I set out on the process. And of course, even though I knew it would happen, it's sort of shocking to see the whole thing flipped over!

Finally, I trimmed all of the sections down to 12 7/8" square. Below is a quickie montage of the eight sections together, I'll of course have a better photo up before long, that more accurately shows the piece in its entirety.

Thanks for your interest in this project, if you've been following along! Again, the print will be available as part of Giant Robot SF's annual Printed Matter show. The show opens tonight, Saturday, 12/5 (I'll be there early, around 6:00 - 7:30), and continues until 1/6/10. The prints, a numbered edition of 20, will be available for $100, both in the gallery, and online about a week later. After the show comes down I'll begin selling remaining prints on on the Family Style website and at comic/zine shows, I'll put up an announcement then! Again, thanks to Luke of GRSF, Paul, and Aaron for their encouragement and assistance!

Progress Report #2 - Carving

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:36:00 +0000

So, having designed the image, and having already carved the first part (the whale), I set about carving the red squid portion of the design. I drew the image on a grid, and each square of 7/8" got blown up to 3 1/2" on the linoleum (each section is 13" x 13", to fit in the window panes of the door which inspired the project in the first place... which presented some problems in that linoleum really only comes in pieces of 12" x 12", so that in a few of the panels seams show where I had to add an extra inch to the blocks to fit... you can see such an extra piece in the middle of the photo below. I still like the way it looks, however).

It was a fairly simple process to take the smaller image and draw it on the larger grid, I would just look at an individual square and think "Okay, so this tentacle passes just under the upper right corner, and continues on the the middle of the left side", etc. Old school! You can't get a perfectly exact reproduction of your initial image this way, but that was part of the fun for me, to let the idiosyncrasies of the carving process take the image in somewhat new directions. I was especially taken with how well the process of carving worked with the subject matter of these undersea creatures in mortal combat... the details of a Sperm Whale's hide really are a tracery of gouges and scratches in a huge field of color (I was lucky enough to see Sperm Whales in New Zealand, and they really barely look alive, they are too big to take in). When I was carving in the small details, like the wrinkles around the eyes, for instance, I would use a sharpie to make the lines pop out more and be easier to visualize. Overall, the final design was very close to my original drawing.

The tricky part was trying my best to make sure that the squid blocks lined up correctly with the whale blocks. Using the grid, I would line us the blocks up, one on top of the other, and use an awl to make little punch marks at the edges of where I would have to carve away the black block to show the red image (for instance, where a tentacle lay over the whales body). I tried to be very meticulous, but I won't really know how well I did until I print the black over the red and see! Yikes!

Okay, that's it for now... I'll be back next week with a post about the actual printing of the thing, with the extraordinary assistance of Aaron Cohick of New Lights Press. Until then, have a happy Thanksgiving!

Downy Woodpecker at SFSU

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:36:00 +0000

I spotted this little guy a couple weeks back while I was checking out some Pygmy Nuthatches in the trees on campus at SF State. They are actually cutting down a lot of the trees lately... I don't know why, I'm sure the groundskeepers have their reasons, but it is still sad and I hope that these birds which rely on the Monterrey Pines on campus for their food and habitat won't be displaced!

Today, Hannah and I took a morning walk through Alamo Square, Buena Vista, and the Panhandle, and saw the following:

Scrub Jays
Anna's Hummingbirds
Black Pheobe
??? Warbler
Red Tail Hawks
Chestnut Backed Chickadee (?)
Crows
Giant fungus fruiting from a tree

I'll be back later this week with a pic of something we found yesterday which is really exciting and will be the source of a Bird Brain-related project in the coming month!

Print Project - Progress Report #1

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:30:00 +0000

I have been slowly chugging along on a large-scale linoblock print for a month or so now... as always with me, the process was in fits and starts, I'd do a lot of drawing one weekend, carve the linoleum another, but there would be huge gaps in between where the whole project got shelved.

So, I was delighted when I ran into Luke, the manager of Giant Robot SF, at APE, and he asked me if I had anything I'd like to include in the upcoming Printed Matter art show (Dec 5). I'm really honored to be included in such a terrific show (I haven't seen the line up yet, but the print show I worked a few years back was excellent, and I'm sure that Eric and Luke are doing a bang-up job curating this one), and it has lit a fire under my ass to get this project finished.

I'm going to be updating this blog with progress reports for the remainder of the month, as I finish my design, carve everything, and finally pull the prints. This is certainly the biggest and most chalenging printing project I've yet to embark on, so I'm sure that it will be a learning experience for me, and perhaps interesting for you, too!

Part 1 - Design

The impetus for this work comes from the realm of interior decorating, as it happens! About a year ago my girlfriend Hannah and I came across a construction site... they were refurbishing a house and there was a very nice window frame sitting outside. We asked the contractor if we could take it. "Sure thing", he replied, "but what about these, too?" Inside the gate there were dozens of frames in varying states... We picked out a few especially cool ones: a very large (35" x 48") picture window and a eight-pane door. The picture window I used as a frame for a beautiful but battered canvas I had found in an abandoned house in Oklahoma, but we weren't sure what to do with the door. We ended up putting panels of decorative paper in each of the panes for our holiday party last year, which was fine, but we both really felt that it wasn't engaging enough.

After ruminating on it for a bit, I realized the long format of the door would perfectly frame the image of a whale. I love nature illustrations and nautical imagery (Moby Dick has long been at the top of my "favorite books" list), and I liked the idea of the design, a huge whale, being chopped into smaller panels, a bit like a comic, or the painting Nila byWalton Ford, one of my all time favorite artists. With that in mind, I drew out the design:

Then I spent a Saturday afternoon carving it from linoleum, expanding it by grid from a 14" x 7" drawing to eight 13" x 13" pieces (so the whole thing will be big, over 2' x 4'!):

But I decided that the design wasn't quite "there" yet. The compliment to the piece was more inspired by color than anything else: I had been slightly obsessed with black-and-red print designs (I'm planning on using that palette on the next issue of Friends), and the black bulk of the whale conjured in my mind a red counterpoint, as if the colors themselves were having a battle of dominance. So I added in a Giant Squid to battle my Sperm Whale, drawing it in with red gouache. I'm really pleased with the result.

So now I've got to do some more carving, jigsaw piecing the squid in with my completed whale and mounting all the pieces onto plywood. I'll have another post up this week with pics of the carving process.

Journal Entries from Russian River Trip

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:28:00 +0000

My wonderful friend Kate celebrated her birthday by going on a canoeing day-trip on the Russian river up in Marin County, and I was lucky enough to go along... In between rope swings and a delcious picnic lunch, I got lots of chances to "show off" my bird-nerd status by identifying these guys for my canoeing companions. A great day in the outdoors, with three (!) new sightings for me, all below.

Expect the new issue of Bird Brain out for APE this weekend, if all goes well. I have a lot of drawings and birding to do to meet my deadline, but I think I can doit... if I absolutely need to I'll include some older illos from older journals.

New Stuff: Bird Brain + Pen Pals

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:49:00 +0000

I've got a couple of new things coming out for the upcoming SF Zine Fest:

The first is the premiere issue of my ongoing nature journal series, Bird Brain. BB will be a series of slim little zines, with fairly high production values (full-bleed, book-trim, rounded corners, Gocco covers), and a bunch of my journal entries and illustrations from my bird-watching. Expect another issue out for APE in the Fall.
Also, in the spirit of maintaining some regularity with releases of Bird Brain, I'm going to be updating this blog on a semi-frequent basis, with my sketches, thoughts, and journal entries regarding birds and nature. Bird Brain is currently available on my Etsy page, look for it in the Family Style catalog soon. Coming shortly: A few of my notes from a canoeing trip on the Russian River in June!

The second new product is a rather fun one: "Pen Pals" Stationery Grab Bags! I've gone through my overly expansive collection of I Japanese stationery, goofy postcards, and a couple of hand-printed pieces, too, like my "Quail Mail" and "Snail Mail" designs... I had a lot of fun drawing up the little packaging, inspired by (of course) Japanese designs, and also this guy Aaron Meshon, who's little products have very fun and cute packaging! You can get your Pen Pals grab bacg on my Etsy page, too!

Bird Brain #1 coming out for SF Zine Fest

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:39:00 +0000

The first issue of my ongoing nature journal series, Bird Brain, will be released for the upcoming San Francisco Zine Fest! I'm really excited, I've had these illustrations and journal entries sitting around for nearly a year, and I'm really happy to have them out.

Also, in the spirit of maintaining some regularity with releases of Bird Brain, I'm going to be updating this blog on a semi-frequent basis, with my sketches, thoughts, and journal entries regarding birds and nature. Coming shortly: A few of my notes from a canoeing trip on the Russian River in June!

Thanks for your interest!

François

Some Pages from BB#1

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +0000

I hope that as Bird Brain develops it might become an outlet for all sorts of nature writing and illustration from me, but for now I'm happy with just getting to spend some time observing and drawing the world around me.

Vampire Club

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:48:00 +0000

While I was up in PDX for the Stumptown Comics Fest I did a couple of doodles in my sketchbook that I am now giving some extra love and attention... Here is the illo that led Jesse Reklaw to call it my "facials sketchbook." Um, I better color this red soon. Gross.

Interview with Sari

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:34:00 +0000

Interview with Sari
Originally uploaded by François Vigneault

Being in school now, I occasionally have the sorts of assignments which lend themselves to a bit of creative license. I recently had to conduct an interview with someone outside of my cultural/ethnic/national group... I had originally wanted to interview my friend Massoud, a filmmaker who was a student in Iran during the revolution 30 years ago, but he wasn't available, unfortunately (I'm still hoping to get an interview out of him!). But I had a great back-up candidate, the owner of my neighborhood liquor store, Tim's (there is no Tim, I found out). Sari was very obliging with his time and in addition to my presentation in class, I drafted this very quick (less then 1 1/2 hours) comic with some of his interesting reflections on his life in the U.S. versus his life in Palestine... It was fun to draw up something so quickly; I might do some more of these "talking head" style interview comics.

The Garden, redrawn before its time

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:13:00 +0000

One of the tricky things about my comics "career" is that I am still trying to figure out how I want to draw... Case in point: I have had the basic outlines of my first longish (90-100 pages) comic, "the Garden," in mind for years now, but I had been putting off getting started until I had more of the narrative particulars down... but about a year ago I was like "Fuck it" and dove right into the thing, figuring that i would be able to piece together those story details as i went forward (I'm still working on those, no surprise).

I liked my pacing, and the sort of more cartoony character design I had come up with for the story. But, when I started drawing the Prologue, I was illustrating it in this somewhat scritchy-scratchy cross-hatchy style which I was playing with then... I guess the main reason was that I wanted it to look a bit old-timey, and to contrast with my other project which I was also drawing at the time, "Territorial Pissings" (which has also landed in comics purgatory in the last year... sigh). However, after completing about eight pages in that cross-hatched style, I began to look at the pages with utter dread... I didn't want to finish out the remaining pages of the Prologue in this style, much less the entire book.

And so, with great trepedation, I began experimenting with redrawing the first couple of pages in a modified style... drawing the blacks with a brush (which I feel much more comfortable and expressive with), and filling in the mid-tones with a grey Pitt brush pen, which I had also done with "Schooled," a recent comic I did for John Issacson's transit anthology... For most of the marks, I found the brush pen was a neat and simple way to insert that second tone, easier than doing an ink wash. However, it was nearly impossible to achieve a nice solid block for the word balloons, etc.

Here is the page after I have played around in Photoshop for awhile... I was able to separate the tones (thank God for the threshold tool), and to clarify the grey layer into a solid block of color, eliminating the various grades in the original drawing (I also cleaned up the first four panels with the Hoepoe bird alighting on the branch, where an inadvertent "figure/ground" problem had arisen when i introduced the grey). Tho' I wouldn't want to do this for everything I draw (I like my little mistakes and sloppiness, truth be told), I like the effect here... it feels modern and old, but still hand-crafted. It feel professional to me.

I'm feeling a bit silly for revisiting these pages, which will certainly delay the publication of the first few chapters of "The Garden" in the next issue of Friends, number four. But, I really do think that I like these newer drawings. This being my longest work to date, and with over two years since my last issue, I'm feeling a need to bring my most professional A-game to the process. Hopefully I'll be able to resist any temptation to further revise the newer pages before the story is all finished!

Mini Comp

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:18:00 +0000

Mini Comp
Originally uploaded by François Vigneault

I made these little journal/sketchbooks a while back... the covers are reused envelope box tops! I just loved the retro, composition book, marbled pattern... I am finally selling them on my Etsy shop! So go get one! Or not!

Ilyana in the Afterworld

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:24:00 +0000

Ilyana
Originally uploaded by François Vigneault

Ilyana - color
Originally uploaded by François Vigneault

I have a bit of a problem, in that I basically never draw on a regular basis. The only time I sit down at the table is when I am trying to get an actual comic done... I have almost totally lost touch with sketching, or doing a drawing for its own sake. I'm a little worried about this trend, I am sure that my "skills" are suffering a bit for it. Plus, my illustration portfolio over on tourdefrancois.com is looking a bit spare, populated with a lot of older pieces... and that's not gonna help me get any of that filthy freelance illustration lucre. Anyways, I am trying to get into drawing for drawing's sake again... so hopefully there will be more little drawing postings soon.

This is a character and scene from my submission for Elfworld Vol. 2, but more tightly drawn than I would for the comic... I'm quite happy with it; I am working on some colors for it, too... just to get more practice doing that. I've been trying to get "good hair" in my drawings for awhile, and think I've got something good here. It just takes a lot of patience, more than I can usually muster! I love drawing this swords and sorcery stuff.

I Sewed a Pillow!

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:02:00 +0000

I sewed a Pillow!
Originally uploaded by François Vigneault

Very rarely I do a sewing project... I made this pillow tonight from fabric I got at Whiz Bang Fabrics, an amazing and adorable micro-sized fabric shop in the Mission... everyone should go there, it is a very cool place with the best cute and graphical fabrics. Hannah, of course, helped me out with this! But i made it myself... and now I know how to set a basic zipper! Next up: A birding bag.

Paper Cut

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:42:00 +0000

Paper Cut
Originally uploaded by François Vigneault

A quick little sample for someone's Bat Mitzvah... the actual finished product will be created by another artist, and laser cut; this was just an example I was asked to make for the client. It was fun, it is supposed to look vaguely like Jeruselem. The paper is this very fancy cork paper! Maybe I will do some more of these, even tho' it is ver "fashionable" right now...

Halloween Owl

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:50:00 +0000

I went over to my pals Mara and Chuck's place for some pumpkin carving action the other night! I had always wanted to make one of these jack-o-lanterns with the relief cuts... I'm quite happy with my mean little owl! If you want to check out everyone else's delightful handiwork, go to Mara and Chuck's daughter Dottie's blog!

Handmade Hellos - New Book From Chronicle!

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:31:00 +0000

I created a project in Handmade Hellos, a really great book with tons of how-to articles created by an amazing "who's who" of creative stationery creators: Foxy & Winston, Egg Press, The Small Object, and many others, including yours truly!

My project is a "road trip postcard set"... inspired by these amazing multi-postcard scenes I've seen before (which I can't find an example of online now... ugh!), with each postcard showing a different portion of a scene of image. I thought that a map could be a great image to chop up to make a fun series out of... for a road trip, or what have you! Of course you could use almost any big image... Just send them in series to the recipient over the course of a couple weeks.

It was a real treat to work with the folks at Chronicle and my wonderful bosses at Hello Lucky (where I now work part-time, too!). You can buy the book, like, everywhere! It comes with templates and lots and lots of great crafting ideas!

Bird Brain

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:11:00 +0000

Earlier this year I started trying to keep a sketchbook of my experiences as an amateur bird watcher, with the intention of starting a new zine, called Bird Brain... It will be a very modest little series, maybe 16 pages an issue, perhaps 2-4 issues a year. Hopefully it will help me to both keep up a semi-regular self-publishing schedule (since my comics work can develop rather slowly), and also encourage me in going out birding, which has become a very special hobby for me in the last few years...

I hope that as Bird Brain develops it might become an outlet for all sorts of nature writing and illustration from me, but for now I'm happy with just getting to spend some time observing and drawing the world around me.

Bird Brain No. 1 should be out in time for APE, November 1 + 2.

SFZF X Treasure Island

noreply@blogger.com (François Vigneault) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:05:00 +0000

If you want to see me rambling in my position as de facto SF Zine Fest spokesperson, check out this video from the Treasure Island Music Festival on Rhapsody Blog... I make a couple of appearances, pontificating on zines, the Fleet Foxes, and garlic fries.