Page 11, plus sketchbook

New Page, plus poem

And heres a poem by Gottfried Benn that I think is beautiful

Man and Woman Go Through the Cancer Ward

The man:
Here in this row are wombs that have decayed,
and in this row are breasts that have decayed.
Bed beside stinking bed. Hourly the sisters change.

Come, quietly lift up this coverlet.
Look, this great mass of fat and ugly humors
was precious to a man once, and
meant ecstasy and home.

Come, now look at the scars upon this breast.
Do you feel the rosary of small soft knots?
Feel it, no fear. The flesh yields and is numb.

Here's one who bleeds as though from thirty bodies.
No one has so much blood.

They had to cut
a child from this one, from her cancerous womb.

They let them sleep. All day, all night. -They tell
the newcomers here sleep will make you well. -But Sundays
one rouses them a bit for visitors.-

They take a little nourishment. Their backs
are sore. You see the flies. Sometimes
the sisters wash them. As one washes benches.-

Here the grave rises up about each bed,
And flesh is leveled down the earth. The fire
burns out. And sap prepares to flow. Earth calls.-

Gottfried Benn
translated from the German by Babette Deutsch

Dolls, new page, sketchbook

These dolls are for sale. 30 dollars paypal to austin.robertson.english@gmail.com Just describe which one you want and give me your mailing address. 7 dollars for shipping. Or reserve one and Ill have it with me at MOCCA in New York. More to come, dolls wise.

Page with watercolor, acrylic, etc.

Still need to erase pencils and re-letter a bit.

Page with lots of zipatone plus more sketchbook

Sketchbook

They meet two people

New Work

Hey! Im in Europe and working on a big long comic book that Im very excited about. Here are 3 pages from it (no particular order)...

...followed by some pages from Devototional, which is basically done but Im putting some final touches on.

1883/Crooked Teeth #5 party and fund raiser!

Hey, here is some info about a fund raiser I'm setting up...the first step in a long time dream of publishing comics. Read on:

Please join us for a fund raiser benefiting cartoonists Mollie Goldstrom and Nate Doyle! Both cartoonists have major new comics in the works---Goldstrom with "1883" and Doyle with "Crooked Teeth #5."

This is a fund raiser for upstart publisher Sweetheart books to gather some start up funds to put out Mollie's work in the format and volume it deserves....and for Nate to self-publish the latest issue of his beloved comic.

And it'll also be a really fun party! Live music! Cheap drinks! Original art for sale! Supporting the local arts community! How could you miss something like this? Isn't this the reason you live in New York in the first place?? OK we will see you there right? OK cool!

Starts at 9pm on December 4th (that's right...the night before Desert Island/Picturebox's Brooklyn Comix Fest)! $5-10 suggested donation. Yeah, you can come for free but c'moonnnnnn....

take the L train to the jefferson stop. The party will be at:
538 Johnson Ave, Apt. #210

write to
austin.robertson.english@gmail.com
for more info/if you wanna help out

See you there!

Original Art for Sale

Looks like I'm moving outta town for a little bit and I'm trying to raise some money. Pretty much everything from the first three windy corner I still have and I'll sell for pretty cheap. I have Christina and Charles stuff too but it would take me slightly longer to get to you.

Lemme know what you're interested in and we'll figure out a price. E-mail me:

austin.robertson.english@gmail.com

Thanks!

Windy Corner #3 is out in the real world. Go to www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com to buy a copy.

Here is a bit of my sketchbook and the cover for the new comic I'm working on, called "Devotional":

More Windy Corner #3

Some more Windy Corner previews. First, an amazing page from Sakura Makus comic...








And some more pages by me...

Windy Corner #3 Preview

Hey everyone-

I'm getting Windy Corner ready to go here...should be out in June. Anywhere, here are some preview images...I'll post more soon!

Oh, and here is the lineup for Windy Corner #3: opening pages by Lilli Carre, table of contents by Molly O'Connell, a comic by Sakura Maku, an essay on Gipi by Frank Santoro, a comic by Janelle Hessig, letters page designed by Jason T. Miles, back cover by Joseph hart and an interview with Carol Tyler by Vanessa Davis! Annnndd...some comics by me. Here are some of those, below:

My page for the Julia Rothman edited "Exquisite Book," out next year (I think) from Chronicle Books.

From a story in an upcoming Jason T. Miles edited anthlogy.

Drawing from upcoming collaborative book with:
jeremi onsmith
John Hankiewicz
Juliacks
Siobhan

Book by Its Cover posted a nice feature on my sketchbooks. Check it out over here:

www.book-by-its-cover.com

I have been blogging over at my publishers blog: http://www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com/sparkplugblog.html

Hey everyone. The friday before Mocca, June 6th, there will be a book release party at Desert Island comics for:

Inkweed By Chris Wright
Neverland by Dave K
Wormdye by Eamon Espey
Fatal Faux-Pas by Sam Gaskin
and
Windy Corner #2 edited by me

It should be a lot of fun! Desert Island is the best comic store in New York!

A page from my sketchbook. Usually when I draw in my sketchbook, I cut things out and paste them into my comics...so all my best drawings aren't in my book. But this is a good page, still intact.

Here is a un-lettered/un-colored page by me...and below a print by Arthur Dove.




When i look at this Arthur Dove print, I always wonder what he thought of it. it seems like something that was important to him---but how could he be sure anyone else would love it? It's so strange and almost unfinished. But he knew it was good.

I am nowhere near Arthur Dove of course---but that's how I feel about my drawings sometimes. I get so much out of them but you can enver be sure anyone will see what you see in them---even when you know there's something to see.