SPOOKY SLEEPOVER For the last few months I’ve been working on Spooky Sleepover, a new book project with the writer Dave Scheidt.ย Dave and I first worked together on Aw Yeah Comics #8 and had such a good time that we decided to makeย an entire book together! SCARY STORIES Spooky Sleepover follows a group of…
Great news! We have the chance to show our appreciation for the Provo River Trail murals I painted last fall: http://beedfack.com/do/survey/623 Vote #20 Graffiti/Public Art: Provo River Trail Murals by Jess Smart Smiley
THE WAIT IS OVER! Check out our newly added $50 Trick Or Treat reward and & get it before it’s gone! http://bit.ly/1AO7xnTย
A few days ago I launched my newest book on Kickstarter and now things are about to get even spookier! Becauseย Spooky Sleepover features three spooky-silly stories, Dave Scheidt (writer) and I thought it would be fun to offerย a very special Trick-Or-Treat reward tier for backers that want a little more from us and our project.…
NEW SPOOKY/SILLY COMICS A haunted toilet! Vengeful ghosts! A garbage-eating werewolf! Spooky Sleepover is my newest book, packed with hilarious horror comics for all ages, written by Dave Scheidt and illustrated by Jess Smart Smiley. Stories include:ย “The Terror of the Toilet”, “The Horribly Haunted Bike” and “Dinner and a Werewolf”. The book includes an illustration…
To celebrate the very first Batman Day (and the character’sย 75th anniversary) yesterday, I hosted a special comics jam at Dragons Keep in Provo, Utah. 40 comics-lovers showed up to make their own Dark Knight pass-along comics and the results were amazing. Rules of the jam: 1) Cut out a panel from an existing Batman comic…
THANK YOU to all of you that have sent me your photos!ย It’s really amazing to see so many people enjoying the things I’ve had so much fun making. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Send in Your Photos Today! If you don’t know what I’m talking about…I’m working on a new project and I want…
Check it out! My illustration “Food Mama” is now available as a print, shirt, skin (and more) with FREE SHIPPING through July 13. http://bit.ly/VWcBa8
THE GEEKEND IS HERE! Get Your Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fix at WesterCon This Weekend Westercon 67 is a general interest science fiction/fantasy convention covering literature, art, science, gaming, movies, comics and more…and it starts today! Guests include Brandon Sanderson, Cory Doctorow and Dan Wells (among others), and I’ve been invited to participate in a couple of panels…
I love what comics can do and I love teaching this comics workshop. Yesterday we were talking about panels and when to use larger or smaller panels. We found this page from Craig Thompson’sย Blankets, where we see a narrowย panel of Craig’s mom waving goodbye, and then a large vignette of Craig driving away, leaving his…