Still writing over here. Filling sketchbooks faster than ever. Mostly things that will never see the light of a scanner, but I have an idea for drawing mist that I got from reading "From Hell" by Eddie Campbell (which was way to dense for me to read in one library holding, so I had to buy the brick of a book).

Autumn is coming. It's Srom's favorite season! It just makes Mona sleepy.

Concept for Mona's place, very quickly colored in PhoSho. There's going to be so much mist and fog in this book it's not even funny.

I should stop putting just sketches on here and make some REAL work!

New pens, new toys, old habits. I love drawing dudes in suits and ties. What I SHOULD be doing is getting out the mixing gesso and deciding on the look of my book. But for now, please enjoy the little update.

The main cast line-up for my as-of-yet untitled graphic novel. This is my first time writing a script, and while the tedium kills me, I feel pretty inspired about the whole thing. It's been so much fun making up entire town-fulls of names and characters. At the same time, I have been sitting on the name "Srom" for years and I'm finally doing something with it!

This is from way back in February. Dan and Wendi make a nice-looking exhibit, don't they? I don't know who that guy is, but I'm glad he's taking passing interest in Queequeg-a-day. Photo by Cara Brostrom.

Last Stand. Ink and acrylic on paper.

This isn't a great photo, I know. The thing's much too big for my scanner (the height's over four feet!), and the ink's too shiny for me to easily photograph it. I'll take a better one later, if I remember to. Really it deserves a better photo. The image started haunting me before Thanksgiving last year, and I finally got it out of my system yesterday.

I want/need to work larger, but it's hard to share the finished work. Luckily the existance of matte black ink has come to my attention. A new toy to acquire and play with! Hooray!

Soon this will be a beautiful 18x24 poster print, and you can buy it! My friend HeatherRose got together with The Rabbit Hole in Fitchburg, MA, again to organize a poster show, and she asked me to contribute something. The theme was music, with a sort of gigposter influence (lettering!). I've wanted to revisit dead tree branch wings–a personal symbol for uselessness–for a while, and of course I have to throw in a ukulele too.

I made some detail shots into desktop wallpapers, and threw them on my deviantArt account. Download, engage, and enjoy from here.

I was looking through a sketchbook from two years ago and found this script. I think I'd just watched American Splendor, and was feeling sardonic, as well as inspired to write. So I thought, "well hey, I have this full script here. Why not bring it to finish?" So... I did. I'm pleased with it. It's packed with visual and symbolic motif-iness.

Here is something I made…

Did you even know that Moleskinne books came in red? They don't have these around where I live, so when I saw this online I bought it right away.

This is the reason I bought it. I got a brand new oh so pretty iPod touch with my tax return (it took ten years, but I finaly have an ipod), but couldn't find a case for it that wasn't made without abusing people or the environment. So I borrowed some mod podge from the office and made my own. I pretty much stole the idea from here.

The Kindle app makes seem like a book of the future! You can read public doman books of the past for free with it!



And the back pocket still works.

Lately I just hate scanning, so you'll have to wait for any graphic art stuff. Hope you like my book-making/modding skills in its place!

This is six months old or so. Since illustrating this news story, I've second-guessed my hack-job German. I'm pretty sure it should be Keine mehr Pillen.

You can read the original headline here.