New digs!!!

It has been a long time in coming, but I've finally made it "back home"...I left the bay area almost 15 years ago (long story) and have been trying to get back ever since....and now I AM!!!! Next step is to get enough work under my belt and find a new studio space to start printing again!

Goin' to the BONEYARD!

New serigraph ... get yer bones movin' with

"BONEYARD"...3 bright colors for only 30 Bones!

go to: FLATWURKS

HOT off the press! Literally!!...

Just ran the first in the new series...this one is "Creatures". It's a 2 color, edition of 25, for only $30.00 (includes s/h in u.s.) go here to BUY ONE!

New Serigraphs!!!

All these new serigraphs are signed and numbered with

low edition runs, just starting at $30.00 w/ free us shipping.

go to flatwurks and see how to get yours!!!

Donahue Project: update

We have hurdled past a lot of legalities, and are starting our first phase of solicitations!

The luminary keeps growing! Charles Plymell, Bill Griffith, Patrick Rosenkranz, Byron Coley, Krystine Kryttre, Roger May, Kika Kane, R.L. Crabb, Steve Lafler, Larry Welz, Dexter Cockburn, Bruce Simon, Caryn Louise Leschen, Jacaeber Kastor, George Parsons, ... just to name a few! All brought to you by Bruce Hilvitz, Natasha Shawver, Ana Vasconcellos and the fine folks at LAST GASP Publishing, San Francisco!!!!

Beatnik run

The j.d. King shirts for Water Row Books are done! Want

to look in on the run? Checking out vimeo to upload

crap to FB...check it out:

http://www.vimeo.com/user6378669/videos

... and now ... merchandise

wrapping up the serigraph ... now onto the T-shirts!

Two down... one to go

???

I can't tell if J.D. liked the proof...at least not from this email he sent...

Proof day

Ran proofs today for J.D. King...3 down 97+ to go!

burnin' the ....

Screens and Ghanja!!!! Like strawberries and chocolate!!

... gettin' closer

Burning the screens and setting up ... proofs soon.

HaPpy NeW YeAr

Exciting start to a new year ... 'cutting paper', much like watching paint dry.

Burn screens, and run proofs next week!

HaPpY nEw YeAr to the 2 people

who visit here.

The "KING" ... J.D. that is...

Getting separations ready for a 3 color gig for J.D. King and Water Row Books! This is the first (real) serigraph in ages! Looking forward to getting dirty again! Tracked down an old drying rack that I built over 10 years ago in Denver, while I produced Meanies, also for Water Row Books...it traveled south many years ago, now stacked up in a basement for me to pick up Friday, you can't beat(nik) that!!!...

weird world!

UPDATE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2010: 9:47 pm

Inks and paper are now in. Laying out positives, prepping screens .... yea.

Charles Burns in Seattle

Charles Burns had a signing for his new book in Seattle on October 30th, bringing along some rare offerings ... one of which was the Elvis in Hell print (Mats!?) and myself printed years ago!

Want to buy one?

See some of the photos

In memory of Don Donahue's passing, I'm extending the APEX PRINTS serigraph series sale!

Get them while they last!

Passing of a good friend!

10/27/10 : 3 a.m.

I found out tonight that my friend and co-publisher of the Apex Novelties serigraph series passed away this week. Don Donahue, the first publisher of Robert Crumb's ZAP Comix, and the founder of Apex Novelties, the oldest publisher of underground comix, passed from prostate cancer in Oakland California. Don was and will always be remembered as a brilliant, humorous, hard working heart of the underground comix movement! Without him and Robert Crumb, there may not have been a cultural revolution of the late 1960's!

I've told this story before...I'll tell it again ... I first ran across Don's work when I was too young to legally buy his wonderful publications...It was an issue of R. Crumb's Mr. Natural. I tried to buy the thing from a head shop where I grew up. The clerk wouldn't sell it to me, so I convinced my mother to buy it for me, which she did. It wasn't until later she looked at it and totally freaked out! I don't blame her...how many comics showed Big Baby blowing Mr. Natural? not many! ...I was hooked from that day on...little did I know that I would work side by side with Don in the early nineties publishing and printing a series of extraordinary serigraphs! (check out an older posting) ... and that those serigraphs would be APEX Novelties LAST imprint. Before all that, Don was very supportive of my work. I started publishing a little black and white mag entitled (kär-tön') new comic arts journal...he really enjoyed it and encouraged me in many ways. When I published the 3rd issue he was instrumental in helping with a tribute issue dedicated to Dori Seda, to the point of offering me Dori's old loft space in the Scooby's Toys warehouse. The warehouse was like going to college for me... for a young aspiring cartoonist it was heaven. Don was always a pleasure to be around. He wrote a brilliant forward and helped quite a bit with the making of my next project HECK! Comic art of the late 1980's, as well as RIP OFF Comix issue #26, that I guest edited. We used to sit around the large table in the communal dining room and talk and bullshit... that is where we started a conversation about the french printmakers... after a few drinks and a joint or two we decided we should give it a try. We took over a large room in the ground level of the warehouse and set everything up. Don called Crumb up and we decided on the HUP #3 cover image as our first serigraph. Don was a master at the off-set, but not really experienced with silk-screening, I had some, but the two of us combined did a great job! It was mostly fun, a lot of hard work and once in awhile a flare up, but we got through 6 in the series. I'm sorry I didn't stay in touch as I should have him and with a lot of people. The last time I spoke to him I was living in NY and he had just finished his self published book... Bridled Enthusiasm a collection of illustrations and song lyrics... one of which was entitled ...

"When Your Life Gets So Pathetic and Dumb"

When your life gets so pathetic and dumb

That the thought of it makes you puke,

Be like Jiminy Cricket and strum

a little tune on your uke.

It costs no more to be a bore

Than it did in nineteen thirty-four.

So pick yourself up, and hose yourself down

And strum a tune on your uke.

I'll dearly miss you Don. I can't thank you enough for all you did for me, and all you taught me.

Love and Peace my friend!

emails sent:

you must know this by now that Don passed away early morning at 3:oo am.

my energy is in slow motion at the moment and i just want to convey to you

that he was in the best of hands because i know he was so important a soul

in your hearts. talk to you soon, be well.

-Natasha Shawver

A decision amongst Don's friends was made to take away the feeding tube.

Almost immediately he stopped trying his despirate attempts to move his

arms from the restraints. He had been trying to rip these things out and now

was at peace to complete his journey. His final day was serene, a panorama of

the bay area he loved so well filled his full bay window and he had

visitors from all stations of his life to wish him well. At 3 am this morning, Don

transitioned. Please send us any comments you would like to make for

others to hear at his life celebration ( the location and time yet to be

determined) Don had no family except for you. best,

-Ron Turner

A nice write up about Don

yet...another

another little trinket

a RARE treat ... for me

I've never really got any credit for the work I have done for the past 30 years, but i've come close ... kinda ... I know what I've done, that's all that matters ... so coming across this today, was a nice surprise, even though no credit was given ... what else is new? Scroll down the page at Fantagraphics Books Blog

Charles can afford to sell these at that price, but i can't ... there are one or two of these still available, then "they be gone!"

Get them here!

Ignorance is bliss ..

... You don't see many "Jesus freaks" taking a crowbar to the Pope for allowing the molestation of hundreds of children, or sponsoring and protecting Nazi's for the genocide of 6 million humans ... or for just plain evil that has plagued this planet for thousands of years in the "name of Jesus" ... I guess it's easier to take your ignorant mindset bullshit to a piece of paper! No guts no glory?

Following is a small example of the stupid pricks lacking fucking brain cells ...

"posted by: Justin8110 - Oct. 08, 2010 4:18 PM ET USA

"We ought to start a fund to help get her out of jail. She did the right thing. Blasphemy is worse than murder."

Good for you Justin8110!! ... I'm sure Jesus would agree with you!

"My work is about the corruption of the spiritual by the institutions behind it, not about the beliefs of anyone. I respect people's opinions and I hope they respect mine, ..All I do is use my art to express my anxieties, with some sense of humor. Lets agree to disagree, and long live our First Amendment."

-Enrique Chagoya

read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/enrique-chagoya-work-wont_n_755199.html

... still ON SALE!

Highly collectable APEX NOVELTIES serigraphs still on sale!

Spiegelman, Kaz, S. Clay Wilson and Mark Beyer!

Don't be chicken!

Flatwurks.com

APEX SALE!

The APEX print series is on sale! Get them at the original 1991 prices!

Series prints still available:
KAZ, BEYER, SPIEGELMAN, and S.CLAY WILSON.

All signed and numbered edition of 100.
Get 'em from the printmaker/co-publisher directly!!