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ZINES FOR SALE

2010-12-15T16:56:00.000-05:00

ZINES FOR SALE !

here are some zines, both silkscreens and re-prints, hand bound, some original drawings on covers. only a few left!

as some of you may know, i have been recently laid-off, and am selling some things, including the only few remaining copies of the silkscreen zines and posters (below)!

help me pay my loans!

if you have any questions, or would like to purchase something from me directly (as opposed to pay-pay) just send me an email!

also, i will take requests for $5 gouache paintings on subjects of your choice.

thank you! xo

"Fur Train" Comic (Second Print Run)

Xerox with some hand drawing, 16 pg

"Play It Your Way"

Facebook transcripts between artists David Riley & ZM

Silkscreen, 2 color, 16 pages on cardstock

"Finger Lakes"

Family-centered Mythos with Google images & text

Silkscreen, 2 color, 16 pages on cardstock

Fur Train (First Printing)

" comics "

Silkscreen, 2 color, 16 pages on cardstock

these are the only two remaining copies for sale!

$10

Letter Press Prints !

(hand-drawn then made into polymer plates)

HIGH PROFILE LADIES

lavender ink on arches cover paper

approximately 5x7 inches

"Jane" $5

"Emma" $5

"Rihanna" $5

"Barbara" $5

"Collect-Em-All" Set $18

"Space Cats"

3 Color Silkscreen Poster

9x12" on brown paper

$10

THANKS FOR LOOKING

"official video for my art show"

2010-07-06T18:43:00.000-04:00

+ night window +

2010-07-06T18:18:00.000-04:00

dirt palace window

2010-06-09T16:00:00.001-04:00

i am doing an impromptu window installation for the dirt palace in providence, ri. here are preview photos of the altar so far. it is called "so madly forever (i want to believe)". the installation will be up for all of june 2010.

green porno

2010-05-07T18:24:00.000-04:00

" chain letter to a friend (part one) "

2010-05-03T21:59:00.000-04:00

taffy hips #07 reality / magic

2010-04-22T16:36:00.000-04:00

i just wanted to post yet another THANK YOU

to everyone who helped make this real

it was a lot of work to fund raise + edit + draw something for this issue

& i am very happy with how it all turned out

also, everyone who bought an ad seems pretty jazzed about it

which is a fulfilling side note to the issue itself

thank you thank you thank you !

also, glad to keep publishing your art, everyone

friends & internet ghosts a like

it is always a pleasure

there were a few people who did rad work

that i simply could not fit in this time

but, there will be more issues in the future,

so if you were not included, submit again !

cheers

the phoenix interviews me about "taffy hips"

2010-02-05T12:41:00.000-05:00

At the most recent release party for Taffy Hips Magazine Issue #6 , I was interviewed about the magazine's history/origins and potential future by a reporter from the Providence Phoenix , a weekly media/etc newspaper around town. the interview, quite brief, was published yesterday.

Below is the full article, and link, topped off with a snapshot of me in Ada Books at the release.

" Last week, friends of the zine Taffy Hips gathered at Ada Books on Westminster Street to celebrate the sixth issue: robot comics, prints of giant tsunami waves, and an interview with Chicago-based cartoonist Anya Davidson.

Providence's lively underground arts scene may not be what it once was. But here was a sign that the DIY aesthetic still lives.

"It draws a large crowd," said Brent Legault, owner of Ada Books, of Taffy Hips.

Editors Zara Messano and Gil Gentile launched the zine in September 2008 while undergraduates at New York's Sarah Lawrence College.

Messano, a Providence native, says the publication was inspired in part by Paper Rodeo, a now out-of-print comic book associated with the old Fort Thunder art collective. And the name, Taffy Hips, was meant to capture its oddball spirit.

"It's silly in a curious way," says Messano. "You think, 'What is it?' "

The zine, with a circulation of about 700, has national ambitions. There are copies scattered around New York and Chicago and Messano and Gentile have built a small online following.

But while the editors have landed interviews with far-flung figures like graphic artist Gary Panter, who made his name as the set designer for the madcap Pee-wee's Playhouse television show, Messano says much of the work that appears in Taffy Hips comes from Rhode Islanders who might not otherwise find a place to publish.

Providence artist Meg Powers says her work is too dark to be featured in large-scale art magazines. But her aesthetic, which often features "girls being gross," was a sensible addition to Taffy Hips. For the most recent issue, Messano asked Powers to sketch a female transforming into a bat. Powers took the concept a bit further.

"I wanted to draw conjoined girls puking up bats," says Powers. "It's violent in a goofy way." "

read the article online (the providence phoenix)

I'm glad this article was published, and it was great to be interviewed and see some press/outside interest in the magazine. Yet, it definitely doesn't really give a complete picture of everything--reasons or inspirations or intentions of Taffy Hips. So, here are some answers to questions I was asked through email for this article, perhaps it will help give a fuller view of what the magazine is all about.

Would you say Taffy Hips is a throwback to the Providence zines of the 1980's? Continuing a trend after Paper Rodeo left the scene? Or is it altogether another type of media animal? (And what happened to Paper Rodeo?) Where do you think art magazines/zines like yours are going?

I don't know that much about Providence in '80s, but as for Paper Rodeo (which my impression of is 90s/early 2000s)--- I don't know if it's a "throwback" so much as it was definitely inspirational for me in wanting to make a zine/magazine in newsprint. When I was in high school (early 2000s), I would pick up copies of Paper Rodeo sometimes around Providence and have no idea what it was (often, none of the artists were cited, etc etc) and I would cut out a page I liked an hang it on my wall. Now, those zines are pretty coveted and not many copies are around--the relationship of the reader now would be very different than me picking it up off the street.

So I hope that Taffy Hips is more like something you just find, say in a weirdo bookstore or at your friend's apartment, and read it without it being too precious. I think that's what I really loved about Paper Rodeo.

But, I think that because we cite all the artists, and call ourselves editors, and have interviews, it's definitely a different media beast. I know that PR inspired me a lot, and I like that we're able to print Taffy Hips on newsprint -- that was always our original dream, partly because of Paper Rodeo, partly because that's where comics started out, partly because it's huge, and partly because it's so cheap.

I think that Paper Rodeo ended in 2005/6, post- Fort Thunder? See here maybe: http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/resources/longbox/4745/

I think that art magazines/comics zines like Taffy Hips are cropping up lots of places and I'm glad of it--there are anthologies of just comics like Smoke Signals, or interview magazines likes Comics Youth, or the more editorialized Comics Comics, also newsprint. All these little publications have a place in the art/comics community, and in my opinion only work to compliment each other. I think that more and more artists/etc are finding ways to showcase their friends, interview artists they admire and by creating a publication contribute not only their own art but also something that presents an collected idea of art/comics, maybe to try and shape the genre/scene or maybe just because they know can contribute something people will enjoy. As for Taffy Hips, we started it because we wanted a chance to talk to artists we admired and to put our own work out there, and I would say we're definitely continuing for those reasons, but equally for the opportunity to showcase the work of younger artists and friends, work which has continued to grow and change over the year and a half since we started the magazine.

silkscreen comics + zines now available !

2010-02-03T16:09:00.011-05:00

finally finished binding some comics and books i made last spring (2009) over the winter.

they include "fur train"comic, "finger lakes" - a fake real family story zine, and "play it your way", a dedication to friend and artist david riley, including all the facebook wall posts and profile pictures before he deleted his account- this documents our public friendship approximately 2006 - 2009.

these are all for sale, available in very small editions. all are silkscreen printed on card stock, handbound.

fur train, two-color silkscreen, 24 pages, 2009

"taffy hips" in the phoenix

2010-02-03T14:38:00.000-05:00

at the taffy hips release party last week, i was interviewed about the magazine by a reporter from the providence phoenix, a free weekly paper with announcements about the goings-on, etc.

the new issue comes out tomorrow, possibly/very likely to include an article on taffy hips , plus my various ramblings on comics, zines, life. oh dear!

^ ^

2010-01-31T12:10:00.001-05:00

taffy hips issue #6 release tonight

2010-01-27T14:03:00.001-05:00

tonight is the release party for the new issue of
TAFFY HIPS MAGAZINE

ada books (717 westminster st, providence, ri) from 7-10pm
release of 32 page issue #6 !! plus back issues, new zines, snacks & friends !

all the money from tonight will go towards the Taffy Hips journey to MoCCA in april !

"damn good coffee"

2010-01-27T13:50:00.000-05:00

2009-12-25T14:10:00.000-05:00

2008-2009

2009-12-18T21:31:00.000-05:00

things i've made fairly recently

nectar guts

2009-12-17T17:48:00.002-05:00

l.w. at. c.e.

2009-12-14T21:06:00.001-05:00

"i've buried the boredom!"

2009-12-14T21:01:00.000-05:00

: (

2009-12-09T00:28:00.000-05:00

high school goths

2009-12-08T13:12:00.002-05:00

here's a rough of the first page of the comic i did for taffy hips #6. it's about '90s high school goths. it needs to be cleaned up a bit, and so will look a little different when printed. i think i am going to make it into a larger zine...

2009-12-08T12:44:00.000-05:00

ZETA MAGNETO

fakebook

2009-12-07T13:48:00.004-05:00

!!! tonight at 7 i am performing at brown university's mccormick theatre in pvd with other artists/writers from the writing digital media / e-writing program.

here is a glimpse at my project.

only 70% as good as before

2009-12-07T13:42:00.000-05:00

FLIKR

2009-10-29T14:15:00.003-04:00

I HAVE FLIKRRR

lots of these photographs are already on this blog

but, now they are organized and tagged, etc.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/calicospectre/

there are photos of my printmaking / performance / taffy hips work

more soon !!

photodocumenta

2009-10-22T12:40:00.002-04:00

see some photographs my friend zoe has been working on photo-documenting providence:

-- on the taffy hips logcabin --

featuring photos of the taffy hips #5 release party at ada books last week.

all images (c) zoe kraus, 2009.

these people are crazy !

2009-10-21T17:14:00.002-04:00

taken from an article from the phoenix zoo website, original below:

http://www.phoenixzoo.org/visit/animal_news.aspx?ARTICLE_ID=100104

PADFOOT THE PAINTING OCELOT

Our very own Padfoot will have his artwork featured in an upcoming auction by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums.

Padfoot is a 7-year-old ocelot born right here at the Phoenix Zoo. His painting career began in 2004 when keepers thought it would be fun to engage him in some behavioral enrichment - providing him with mental and physical stimulation to increase natural and healthy behavior.

They brought out a blank canvass and began painting blotches for Padfoot's inspiration. He was quickly intrigued and began using his head, neck and the larger part of his body to achieve his desired masterpiece – a rare notion considering most cats who paint use their paws. The most unique element Padfoot adds to complete each piece is to sign his famous autograph with a signature spray of urine.

His latest work "Safari Night" will be auctioned off via Internet for the Art by Animals auction Sat. March 28, 2009 from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.. All proceeds will benefit the Conservation Endowment Fund. For more information or to bid on Padfoot's painting, visit www.aza.org.

POST-GRAD

2009-10-16T12:22:00.005-04:00

crazy fire (downtown providence, this wk)

2009-09-18T14:18:00.003-04:00

" where's my havalina ? "

2009-09-10T17:12:00.005-04:00

this is one of my favorite songs and seems well suited for this time of year. this will be important soon, stay tuned. havalina.

Taffy Hips Pandemonium

2009-09-10T17:06:00.003-04:00

Have you already forgotten?

It's TAFFY HIPS MAGAZINE.

Now you can read our first issue online, plus our most recent all-color digital issue! Snag it now. I did a comic about an creep-o AVON LADY who uses her products to assassinate people. Glitter watercolor looks better in person, but, oh well.

TAFFYHIPS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Submit by September 25 for the next issue, to be printed on newsprint.

Cover will be by Margaret Helena Powers! LOOK OUT.

SNAG !

2009-09-10T17:05:00.001-04:00

snags in the money system

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

check back SOON for the real thing

to buy comics/art/zines/friends

THX,

zara

shopping thyme ?

2009-09-09T13:50:00.006-04:00

DEAR PALS

soon you can buy my art / comics / zines / dog paintings

RIGHT HERE ------>

for now, only this one

nectar guts, comic, 2 color silkscreen on cardstock

hand-sewn binding, 5.5x4", 12 p, made 2008

only like two left uh huh

MISSED YOU !

2009-09-08T12:00:00.003-04:00

last semester! (get it?)

smoke signal // rawhide kid

2009-06-01T12:39:00.002-04:00

here's a comic i made for gabe (of desert island comics in brooklyn) 's new comics paper, SMOKE SIGNAL, forthcoming.

unfortunately this won't be in the first issue, but look for gil's comics there and mine in the future. <3

this is a sort of tribute to marvel's 1970s western comic "rawhide kid".

Le Petit Versaille

2009-04-24T10:25:00.003-04:00

///springtime\\\

i'm performing my projection art/ performance/interactive storytime at LE PETIT VERSAILLE, a garden on the lower east side. this performance will take place MAY 16 2009! so look out for it. more details on time, direction and other participating artists soon to come!

thanks all who've enjoyed my past two performances, at the end of semester sculpture show last year (2008) and at the C.A.T.S. FRIENDGE FEST (2009). i hope you all attend!!

taffy hips issue # 3

2009-04-24T10:20:00.002-04:00

the third issue is eminent by the end of this month
(ie, in the next week!!)
please check out the taffy blog for specfics & future updates:
taffy hips.blogspot.com
<3 <3 <3

it's very exciting to be creating this third issue within a year, and the magazine will definitely be continuing even after i leave sarah lawrence college. gil will be heading the pack with it next year, while i will stay on as a contributing editor and participating artist/etc from afar.

another excitement is that (shhh) this issue is going to be even bigger than the last one! with 3 interviews, an article on gabby shaw and joe ahern, plus all the submissions we've recieved, it should be a mammoth even more so this time around. excellent!!

TAFFY HIPS {shameless plug}

2009-03-13T11:00:00.004-04:00

all this year i've been co-editing / making a comics magazine founded with gil called TAFFY HIPS COMICS MAGAZINE. so far there are two issues:

((( first issue )))

{comics by}
Gil Gentile, Zara Messano {cover also}
Naomi Kaye, Emma McHugh & Thomas Trudgeon

{interview with}
James McShane & Allison Cole

((( second issue )))

{new works by}
HANNAH DEUSTCH, JAIME KANSLER
GIL GENTILE, MAGGIE WONG
MARGARET POWERS, MORGAN STREET
JACK ROHMAN, ZAC SINGER & LIZ LAKE

{cover art by} HARRISON SHERROD

{talks with}
MARC BELL, MATTHEW THURBER & JOE CLOWER
the first issue is 8 pages, the second is 16 { though the spot color is acutally green}.
<3 MORE PHOTOS FROM THE RELEASE PARTIES SOON <3

fb group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22981939246
blog: http://taffyhips.blogspot.com/

THIS HAS BEEN AMAZING THANKS ::: issue #3 out this april/may!

LAVENDER LAKE

2009-02-28T14:15:00.004-05:00

here are some photographs of a performance i did at FRIENDGE FEST at sarah lawrence college last weekend (feb 21-22, 2009). the fest was comprised of preformances, music and videoworks by students and friends; it was fantastic! i'm glad i participated, and performed LAVENDER LAKE for the second time.

nectar guts ::::::: pink & gold

2009-01-21T11:22:00.002-05:00

NECTAR GUTS

new comic: 2 color silkscreen, 16 pages

(shown here are the uncut pages, thus not in order yet)

jeanine oleson's sculpture class end of year glory !

2009-01-08T17:32:00.001-05:00

SHOWPAPER SHOW THYME

2009-01-08T17:09:00.005-05:00

boys and flowers

2009-01-08T16:46:00.002-05:00

new series, 6x6''

happy new year !

2009-01-02T22:20:00.002-05:00

NEW YEAR

NEW YOU

soon there will be pictures from the SHOWPAPER show with some gil and zara art

vice

2008-12-16T13:09:00.001-05:00

just got blogged by vice magazine:

http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2008/12/new-york---show.html

haha

showpaper's show paper

2008-12-12T11:20:00.000-05:00

NEW COMIC

2008-12-11T12:01:00.001-05:00

new book
limited edition of 12
2 color silkscreen / 2 color paper
NECTAR GUTS

more soon

UPDATE ON SHOWPAPER SHOW

2008-12-11T11:54:00.001-05:00

UPDATE::: from the showpaper site::::

Showpaper Open Submissions Art Show
@ Secret Project Robot

210 Kent Ave. corner of Metropolitan and Kent, Brooklyn

L -> Bedford

Tues, Dec 16 @ 6PM

Korakrit Arunanondchai
Jim Avignon
Moira Connelly
Jesse Gelaznik
Nathan Gelgud
Lizz Hickey
Zara Messano & Gil Gentile <-- this is us
Leif Parsons
Kathleen Vaccaro
Jason Yates

We are very lucky to have received over 6o submissions for our first ever open call. Thus, we felt an art show and opening was in order. And, there will be wine served!

Ps- stick around for a benefit show in the basement of Monster Island after the opening with bands after the opening (9:30)

Vulture Realty
Eula
Zona Mexicana
TurboSleaze
Dead Virgins

WONDERFUL FRIENDTIME PLEASE COME

show paper; it's show time

2008-12-01T11:32:00.002-05:00

the group show gil and i have been invited to participate in !!
it should be fantastic.

SHOWPAPER SHOW

PAPA B STUDIOS (near the market hotel at 907 broadway in brooklyn)

opens on monday the 22nd with a holiday party for the artists, showpaper people, and friends

closes the weekend of the 2nd with a bigger closing party and an after party at the market hotel on january 3rd

YES

last week

2008-12-01T11:28:00.000-05:00

walter

2008-11-25T13:48:00.002-05:00

rip

taffy hips

2008-11-21T12:12:00.002-05:00

TAFFY HIPS
ISSUE # 1
RELEASE PARTY

nov 22 from 9-12 in a^space
sarah lawrence college

see blog for more details on who's in it!
http://taffyhips.blogspot.com

THANKS TO ALL !
PLEASE COME !

party will feature:
copies of the mag
group ink drawing time
original art by the artists
projection comics panel interactive performance situation
shnacks n a good time to dance

cat cat cat cats meow

2008-11-21T11:50:00.007-05:00

new comics & silkscreen, from this semester

^^ comic i made, recently featured in the FLUX feminist zine at SLC (the b&w version); here in color, experiments in photoshop

^^ a two-sided accordian fold zine i did about endangered cats; gold/silver silkscreen

^^ "space cats" silkscreen from drawing/comic i did, i like this one a lot, but the registration is not quite perfect, alas; my obsession with lavender continues

^^ poster for taffy hips, also a mask, one is a rainbow-shine-pull

^^ two posters i draw for taffy hips

(a true story)

watercolors

2008-11-17T19:39:00.002-05:00

latest big one:

the one above was made for a student art auction by gil and i; it will probably be one of the pieces in the SHOWPAPER GROUPSHOW coming soon... the two below were made by me as gifts: the first for gil and the second for emily.

more oldies

2008-10-22T22:12:00.004-04:00

special edition?
one is a funny weird version

old comics

2008-10-22T22:08:00.003-04:00

some comics from last yr
were included in the PONY COP show
old old old !!!

a*space

2008-10-21T18:12:00.003-04:00

here's a flyer i made for a*space,
the slc student art space on campus, which i'm co-managing.

Taffy Hips!

2008-10-21T18:05:00.002-04:00

we've finally gotten our budget for taffy hips!

new comics mag to be on newsprint.

first issue out this fall, a month from now maybe less!

again on fb, or, the blog: taffyhips.blogspot.com

also! SPX was rad. met a lot of artists that i really like and gave out some posters for TAFFY HIPS that i'd screenprinted.

new silkscreen zine soon, watch out!

more oldies

2008-09-09T22:33:00.004-04:00

old things

2008-09-09T22:22:00.004-04:00

taffy hips

2008-09-09T22:20:00.001-04:00

gil and i are starting a magazine
check out the fb group or taffyhips.blogspot.com
email taffyhips at gmail dot com with yr submissions
now now now fall 2008

fan mail

2008-08-28T21:18:00.001-04:00

marjane satrapi !!

2008-07-01T16:08:00.005-04:00

chain smoking and rad, marjane satrapi kept correcting her interviewer to say "comics" not graphic novel" because "that is what people say to get embaressed bourgeois people to buy comics"!

not pop: figuration narrative

2008-06-14T18:42:00.009-04:00

today i saw an incredible expo on FIGURATION NARRATIVE at the grand palais. this isn't pop , though sometimes it seems close. this art was made in the '60s and '70s in paris, in a kind of revolt against pop and surrealist and realist art. really fantastic!

erro

this is the best part of my today

eduardo arroy

the exhibit featured art by -
Rancillac, Télémaque, Monory, Saul, Klasen, Arroyo, Erro, Fahlstrom, Cueco, and collectives

tour eiffle et palais du tokyo

2008-06-12T13:24:00.005-04:00

some more documentation

palais du tokyo / modern art museum of paris

tour eiffle

zine- party of one

2008-06-11T17:11:00.008-04:00

new!

made a zine tonight, after i found some amazing wrapping paper someone had thrown out in the cité u kitchen- crazy! this inspired me and a wierd creation got vomited out, here are sample photos

alas- i am in love with the fotomaton here!

there's one for 2 euro by palais du tokyo, a contemporary art museum/space, which i will document in my next post

jan fabre at the louvre

2008-06-07T07:47:00.007-04:00

a mighty tourist

the followin exhibition blew my mind- it was fantastical and very interesting- jan fabre was commissioned to produce these works to be placed in the louvre amoung pre-existing paintings, mostly depicting jesus, rotting food, animals and ladies- he created sculptures using beatles, bones, gold and feathers-this is an abbrv showcase

chouette shit

2008-06-03T15:55:00.003-04:00

Put it in a Nutshell By Kyle Field

dig this dude's stuff. used to think he was cf, but, ah no. he's kyle field i guess. also, don't google him, cause it's also a field in texas.

*

Forever XV - the zine place

this is going to reopen at 5Traverse gallery, soon i hear.
check: http://5traverse.com/
i don't know what's up with it all; i just hope it'll be good.

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Greg Cook interviews Brian Chippendale
http://gregcookland.com/journal/2008/05/brian-chippendale-interview-part-1.html
yeah provy <3

paris! comics by st michel - notre dame

2008-06-02T19:11:00.005-04:00

le regard modern! this shop, by st michel near notre dame, was really clostrophic but rad. they have tons of american comics and porno books, but also lots of le dernier cri (french art collective) zines, independent comics, anthologies i'd never heard of, et al. really expensive and the seller was totally disgruntled at my existence, but, très cool.

typical paris street by st michel; notre dame's two towers, plus detail
i dig the guy holding his own head!

PONY COP !

2008-05-09T15:24:00.000-04:00

gil and my art show from a couple of weeks ago !

poster i made for the show, gil's is the pink one

we asked our friends and guests to color on our photocopied drawings! a contributor

baaaadddaaasssss poster made for french project that printed on a too high ink setting

one of gil's charcoal creations, below is the MOSES

recent & future happenings

2008-05-08T21:39:00.001-04:00

my KOBE zine at St Mark's bookstore

future gil & zara art extravaganzas
(belated thanks to all who came to PONY COP)

<3 end of the year sketchbook zines

TAFFY HIPS

more japan

2008-05-08T21:35:00.000-04:00

japan

2008-05-08T21:26:00.000-04:00

here are some photographs i took in japan.
they were at one point going to make it into the zine about KOBE.

Cinders Opening

2008-05-08T21:24:00.000-04:00

If you live in the NYC area, check this out!

Move 16: Don't Paint With Your Teeth
A Group Show of ballpoint pen, pencil and sharpie drawings

Curated by Rich Jacobs
May 9th - June 8th 2008
Opening Reception Friday May 9th 2008 7 - 10pm

Mark Gonzales, Matt Leines, Chris Shary, Caroline Hwang, Rachel Sumpter,
Rich Jacobs, Chris Mendoza, Neckface, Eric White, Suzanne Sattler,
Erika Borboa, Brian Chippendale, Diane Barcelowsky, Maya Hayuk, David
Ellis, Jeff Ladouceur, Theo Ellsworth, Hisham Bharoocha, Travis
Millard, Mel Kadel, Allyson Mellberg, Justin Williams, Garry Davis,
Irene Cho, Davd Aron, James Kirkpatrick, Jojo Li, Jordin Isip, Melinda
Beck,Tim Kerr, Taylor Mckimens, Daniel Higgs, Jim ,Ryan and Casey
Gallagher, John Orth, Sto, Daniel Davidson, Pam Morris-Gallagher, Phil
Franklin, Christine Shields, Andrew Scott, Pat Delaney, Mike Boul,
Moses, Dennis and Loreto Remsing, Kelie Bowman, Kate Hurowitz, Carl
Dunn, Oliver Rosenberg, Oliver Harkness, Rodger Bridges, Tod Swank,
Cassie Ramone, Olivia Shoa, Bill and Christopher Sprague, Kostas
Seremetis, Megan Hanrahan, Misaki Kawai and TONS more!

Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer st.
Btwn Hope and Grand St.
Williamsburg Brooklyn
718-388-2311
http://www.cindersgallery.com

super costumes

2008-05-08T21:20:00.000-04:00

super hero costumes as high fashion at the MET!
an interesting development for a this major museum.

read the NY times article on it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09cost.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

links

2008-05-05T18:07:00.000-04:00

*some good things i like!

foriengers:

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY - http://drawnandquarterly.com - Montreal!
Blub Comix - www.bulbfactory.ch/comix - Swiss art comics
ISLANDS FOLD -www.islandsfold.com - Vancouver!
Glomp - www.boingbeing.com - a Finnish comics anthology that i cannot afford
Kuti Kuti - www.kutikuti.com - some more Finnish things, amazing
Dadaad Books - www.daadabooks.com - even more of Finland, very small press

americans:

Family - www.familylosangeles.com - a great store in LA, vis-a-vis Sammy Harkham
PICTUREBOX INC - www.pictureboxinc.com
BUENAVENTURA PRESS - www.buenaventurapress.com
FANTAGRAPHICS - www.fantagraphics.com

* some more links are on tom&gil's blog as well.
thanks you two!

taffy hips !

2008-05-05T17:59:00.001-04:00

updates: there will be a magazine. it will be called taffy hips.
taffyhips.blogspot.com -- soon to be. join!

also: tomandgil.blogspot.com
could this be cuter? (no!)

lastly: a new slew of things will be born here soon!
like everything that's happened since march.

ps: my FILMS on YOUTUBE.
this means if you're my friend and i forced to act.
you are now on the internet! for free!

youtube.com/user/zaramessano

CHECK IT.

more sketchbook

2008-03-06T14:51:00.001-05:00

i'm trying to do daily comics now

adam ant, sort of; something i heard on the street

i broke this vintage glass i really loved, this is comic about that

japanese "fruits" / cowboys

2008-03-03T15:17:00.001-05:00

from sketchbook, circa winter break

one of many

2008-02-07T17:55:00.000-05:00

rad collaboration with gil. possibly upside down.

newer things, via 2007

2008-02-07T17:44:00.000-05:00

the watercolors didn't scan well, but some of them i like.

some older stuff

2008-02-07T17:31:00.001-05:00