The stickers I designed & illustrated for Gmail are now for the gettin’. All you gotta do is send in a self-addressed stamped envelope. Details on the Official Gmail Blog.

The Alternative Press Expo last month was a hoot! Germart represented with the debut of Dyl & Nate’s Planet Booty album and Consumer Comics Vol. 1, which I put together with a cameo by Miki Amano.

It was also heartening to see the hilarious new mini-comic “Ramble On” from Calvin Wong, the purty, smack talkin’ “Jin & Jam” fancy comic by Hellen Jo, and the worth-waiting-for and very pink Electric Ant Zine.

Defaced photo by Marcin Wichary.

Dylan and Nathan have finally finished their genre-defying space funk epic, Planet Booty. We’ve got big plans for deluxe packaging, videos, and lots o’ performances in 2009.  In the meantime, you can check out the album, download a low-fi copy, or buy the high-fi version here.

On Route 5, heading north of San Francisco towards Mount Shasta.

The cover photo shoot for Dylan and Nathan’s soon-to-be-finished “Planet Booty” album spontaneously added a crew of lady folk who just happened to be dolled-up and ready to strut in the Berkeley Hills too.

Thanks to good sports and new friends Kandace, Rachael, Ashely, and Cavan.

Photos by Ryan

I taught a ten-week comics class to five rad sixth graders this spring.

But, you say, I thought you were too busy to do anything outside your job? Well, Citizen Schools actually bussed the students to the Googleplex.

The result is 32 pages of comics awesomery covering topics as diverse as sausage with utters, bacon with hands, samurai pigs, the non-knowing bear, and global warming. On second thought, all these topics seem pretty closely related.

The Ultra Super Google Comic Collection (pdf 2.7mb)

In honor of its four-year anniversary, here’s “My Boyfriend is a Freak!”, a classic photo comic starring Chris Dapkins (of Elk Creek Cinema), Miki Amano, and Nathan G.

Conceived, shot, and mucked together by your’s truly.

See me in another commercial for Google, watch this Bill Hicks video (NSF advertising WORK), and then marvel at my existential dilemma.

SPOILER ALERT! Tragedy has befallen our tiny frog hero. These little guys are fragile and it actually is quite a bummer.

To help along the mourning process, I’ve posted this classic photo of Dylan and our little sister Desiree in the St. John Evangelist gym with an uncharacteristically smiley frog archangel of death. I’m gonna guesstimate this was taken around the time the very first Batman Movie came out.

While it’s too late for our amphibious friend, let’s not forget frog’s missing around the world.

Tiny Frog, we’ll miss you!

Once the tadpole had sprouted arms, we moved him from his jar to a shallow bowl so that he could exercise his newly formed appendages. It was shocking to see how vigorously and quickly he began to clamber around. Less than 24 hours later,  in the middle of telling Robyn that I was worried that he would soon be able to hop out of the bowl, we discovered that he already had made his escape. I put on my headlamp and searched around the windowsill where we had been keeping him. Luckily, he hadn’t gotten very far and I found him hiding behind one of the potted plants. His tail has pretty much vanished at this point. The transition from getting arms to being fully mobile on land has happened amazingly fast. Now what the heck are we gonna do with a tiny frog. More pix here.