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Fresh back from a month traveling around India. Two weeks in the north and two in the south. Sunrise on the Ganges in the middle of a langur migration (sketches above; we inspected each other from a respectful distance), a Royal Enfield motorbike trip through the mountains (check that off the bucket list), endless meals of the best vegetarian food I’ve ever eaten, penance in the bathroom, swimming in the Arabian sea and all sorts of wonderful clichés involving Yoga and spirituality that mean a lot to me but I wouldn’t dare foist on anyone else.

I have a book full of sketches and notes which I’ll post soon in one form or another.

In the meantime, my new comic book, Jinchalo, has been printed. I haven’t held it yet, but Drawn and Quarterly – and especially Tracy Hurren (who did production on this book and put up with my persistent and ignorant inquiries and requests) – have posted some preview photos.

The book will be released in February 2012 but you can pre-order it now on Amazon.

I’ll be at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival this Saturday sitting with Koyama Press. I’ll be there with my new comic, Comics Class.

You can read some of the strips online here.

Last week the kids book I illustrated – My Name is Elizabeth - was named one of the New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2011. This was a wonderful surprise!

So I finished this book this week and sent it off to the publisher! It’s about 120 pages of wordless comics – and a companion to my first book, Ojingogo. The “story” is stand-alone though and is a sort of very loose retelling of the Jack and the beanstalk fairy tale with elements of Korean folk tales and comics with a lot of my own dreams and other nonsense thrown in.

Drawn & Quarterly posted a little preview here.

The book should be out in February, 2012.

Here is what the finished page checklist looks like. I had one of these for ojingogo too. It becomes worn and tattered and filling in a square or two at the end of each day is a great feeling.

Hey Montrealers – I’ll be at Expozine this weekend along with John Martz and Aaron Costain. It’s Expozine’s tenth anniversary – so let’s celebrate ten years of handmade comics, vegan muffins and church basements.

The new Nobrow anthology is out and it looks gorgeous and it’s all about doppelgangers. I am honoured to have a comic in there with them. My comic is called ‘How did you meet’?

(Here’s a larger version). This my piece for year’s 48 hour comic. The theme was revolution. I had to do it in one day though due to the book deadline – but it was great to get out of the studio and see all the inspiring artists working on this project. Read more about the 48 hour comic here. The full newsprint broadsheet is launching at Expozine this year.