1999

Portraiture

Bridget, Fuzzy Pants and Thomas/ 2009/ Ink and colored pencil. Would you like me to draw your portrait? joshuahallsimmons@yahoo.com

Copy

One of the things they tell you in art school is to copy from accomplished artists in order to improve. Here are a bunch of copied drawings I did while living in northern Sweden in the winter of 1999. Hmm, let's see-- There's Kirby, Clowes, Segar, Joachim Pirinen, Crumb, Ware, Tenniel, Warren Craghead, Herriman, Gould, and a few Swedish cartoonists and others I don't recognize....

Dewy Doin' It

Special Nice Cosmic Hyperdeath

So I have an art show up in April, but the opening is this Friday, April 3rd, 2009, from 8-10 p.m., at Secret Headquarters in Los Angeles. Several new and newish paintings and drawings. Also, I'm printing up very limited quantities of a trio of recent stories as minicomics- "In a Land of Magic," "Cockbone," and (thanks to Secret Headquarters), "Batman." Yes, come.

"Cockbone"

New 26-page story in Robin Bougie's new new Sleazy Slice 3. Only available from Robin himself.

Funnies

Newspaper-style funnies one-pager in Mome 14, Tom and Michael above being one of the four strips...

Wendy's teaching me how to use a computer.

"JESUS CHRIST"

12 page story in the new Mome

"Night of the Jibblers"

Here is a stand alone drawing I did in 2007 of the monsters from my story, "Night of the Jibblers." NOTJ is in the new Kramers Ergot, available now from Buenaventura Press.
The above drawing could be called "Jibblers' Night Out." Yes, I know, they're horrible creatures. That's just what Jibblers do.

"Christmas Eve"

This is a very dense, 2-page story I did for Jason Leivian's Diamond Comics #3. If you live in Portland, Oregon, I believe you can pick up copies of this for free around town. Otherwise, ordering information is here.

Anthologizin'

I love a sexy comic anthology. I'm going to have stories in a slew of publications in the late 2008/early 2009. I'll post a couple panels from my strips as well as ordering information as each book becomes available.
And the formats on these titles are going to be all over the map-- From newsprint staple-free tabloid-style, to good ol' fashioned standard comic book size, to book store-friendly "graphic novels", to hyper deluxe skim board-sized art books-- Speaking of which, above are a few panels from my story, "Night of the Jibblers", for Kramers Ergot 7. This book is gonna blow the pants off everything. It won't be out until November, but for now you can pre-order the sucker. And here is an interview with the editor.

Cinefamily

Here is the illustration of Grey Gardens I did for the Silent Movie Theatre's May-June Cinefamily program. Oddly enough, I'd seen the movie for the first time just a couple nights before being asked to do it.

Dolly Parton

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