The Bureau of Drawers Quarterly Volume B and the Cafe Racer Tragedy

Before I left Seattle to attend SCAD for graduate school, I hung around some of the funniest, geekiest, and most talented people I've ever met. At that time, we were called the Friends of the Nib, but since then the group has been modified a bit and they now go by The Bureau of Drawers.

The idea is the same, they still get together weekly and joke and drink and draw. Recently they published a second volume of their comics, which is available for digital download here:
http://thebureauofdrawers.blogspot.com/2012/06/bureau-of-drawers-quarterly-volume-b.html
I haven't looked through the whole book yet, but I am excited and I know I will find amazing work inside.

Also recently, our meeting spot, Cafe Racer, was struck by tragedy when a shooter entered last Wednesday morning and shot five people, all of whom were good friends to the Racer family.

Many of my friends are still very upset by this unexpected event, and I am still stunned. Of all of the places I've lived and visited, I never expected violence of this kind would occur in the town that I miss and love so dearly.  But what I could have predicted was the overwhelming flood of support and love towards the Racer and the victims' families that occurred immediately after the incident.

There are ongoing benefits, memorials, and events happening, and here is a link to some of them:
http://blog.kexp.org/2012/06/01/live-around-town-cafe-racer-benefit-shows/

The last time I visited Seattle was almost two years ago, and I was happy to catch up with the FOTN at the Racer during my visit. I plan to visit again this summer or fall, and I hope that the Racer has reopened (they are temporarily closed) so I can pay my respects and have a drink with old friends while we sketch.

Post SCAD fashion show/Rapture night at Hangfire

I went out last night to try to shmooze with some fashionistas that were in town for the annual SCAD fashion show.  I sat near the editor from Elle magazine at Circa.  Then we went to Hangfire and I drew this quick sketch.  Not only were lots of kids out after the fashion show, but many were celebrating the fact that the end of the world did not happen :)  Not that I was worried that it would.

Illustration in Motion panel tonight

Tonight at SCAD: featured illustrator/animators Richard Borge, David Cowles, and Ed Binkley, as well as SCAD's new Motion Media chair John Colette (seated from left) gave a talk about the role of illustration in animation

Great Weekend

I had a really fun weekend, and I just came across this lino cut print I made last year.  I thought it would be nice to share because it represents the great nights I've had with my fellow SCAD graduate friends, and shows that I am usually sketching them when we're hanging out together.  Pictured here are Mike and Dan playing some Wii video game.

Jacqueline Mair Presentation

This morning, British fine artist, illustrator, and professor Jacqueline Mair spoke to some of us SCAD illustration students during her presentation/interview as a candidate for a professorial position next year.  (I made her look older in the face than she really is :(  But she had a really cool scarf on that was nice to draw.
Professors Mohamed Danawi and Daniel Powers look on as she presents.

Attend the Drift show!

I have just moved away from Seattle and will be back in my hometown of Brighton, Mi and working in the great Ann Arbor for the summer until I move to Savannah, GA in the Fall to start a graduate program at SCAD.
I am sorry to have just missed this informal art show of my (former) artist collective, the Friends of the Nib. Here is the announcement for the show.