an illustration i did a bit ago for this children’s poetry book, chocolate chips & rocket ships. it was fun to try to draw shel silverstein, dr. seuss and roald dahl in their own styles (well, dahl in quentin blake’s style), and try to get them to look good together.
Grand Comics Festival, June 8th & 9th, 11-7 pm. Open & Free to the public. Visit grandcomicsfestival.com for more information.
the next festival i’m doing is right in my hood! all independent comics creators exhibiting their stuff. check it!
I will be exhibiting at TCAF in the Wowee Zonk room tomorrow and Sunday. I will have much with me (from left):
-3-color screenprints of art from A Walk in the Park
-12x16” 2-color glow-in-the-dark “T.Rex with Toupée” prints
-The Shaman of Beers- 2-color hardbound silkscreen accordion book
-A Walk in the Park- crazay 44-page comics story
-Dioramas- set of 10 prints of location drawings I did at The American Museum of Natural History
-How Are Things? - collection of this webcomic I started recently
-Straight People Sexy Time - NSFW! DO NOT TRY AT HOME!
-Feeeeeelings #1 & #2 - zines of sketchbook work / peeks into the workings of my brain
Not pictured: I will also have a couple beautiful “You Belong to the Woods” giclée prints.
Come by and say hi! I will be selling everything for reasonably cheap.
YEAH!
The first meeting of the Brooklyn Draw Jam was April 22, 2013 at Launchpad. Participants included Chi Birmingham, Lena Chandhok, Tom Cryan, Jason Das, Greg Hedderman, Tom Motley, Drew Needham, Rosie Pringle, Jess Worby, and more (email jess.worby at gmail.com for additional info).
The Brooklyn DrawJam is here and it is real and I made it a website. Come draw with us next time at Launchpad.
TCAF Presents: Wowwee Zonk Small Press Room 2013
Local artists and TCAF collaborators Ginette Lapalme, Patrick Kyle and Chris Kuzma have once again pulled together an exciting group of artists from across North America for The Wowee Zonk Small Press Room 2013. The Toronto Reference Library’s Browsery will be transformed and filled to the brim with comics, zines, prints and much, much more!
This year’s Wowee Zonk Small Press Room guestlist includes:
- Chris Kuzma
- Ginette Lapalme
- Patrick Kyle
- Adam Buttrick
- Eunice Luk
- Shannon Gerard
- Closed Caption Comics
- Collective Stench
- Alabaster
- Marc Bell
- Ines Estrada
- Lala Albert
- Ryan Dodgson
- Phil Woollam
- Keith Jones
- Michael Comeau
- Nate Doyle
- Andy Burkholder
- Lale Westvind
- Zach Worton
- Jim Mezei
- Adrian Forrow
- Kellen Hatanaka
- Jason Bradshaw
- Mark Laliberte
- Davis Weir
- Derek Ballard
- Alicia Nauta
- Peter Kalyniuk
- Paul Windle
- Rand Renfrow
- Selena Wong
- Seo Kim
- Sam Hiti
- Jess Worby
- Roman Muradov
- Sophia Foster-Dimino
- Morgan Criger
- Sab Maynert
Be sure not to miss this always fresh, always exciting space at TCAF!
Our TCAF space for 2013. Don’t miss all these exciting people in Toronto.
GAWRSH I’m so excited to be in this room, this room of cartoon madness.
I started making these weird little comics. I decided to cordon them off and put them on their own blog.
(Source: hihowarethings)
A comic about a good drawing model.
More comics to come.
Sketches & notes for The Rumpus piece.
Taken & drawn during James & Crosby Romberger’s presentation.
Jam page from the last Brooklyn Draw Jam, hosted by the wonderful Brooklyn Launchpad. I’m responsible for the family portrait at the bottom. I had...
too lazy to scan
UPDATE: too lazy to keep drawing, so i scanned instead
Drawing soldiers in bed….
the descent
Website Redesign - Dasha Tolstikova
Updated my website. See what I’ve been up to this year:http://www.dashatolstikova.com
This weird little comic book is complete! Look for it in the shop or pick up a copy at CAKE on June 15 &16!
INTO THE FRAY...
