Cameos
I love making a cameo, being an Easter egg, appearing as an NPC, or in general making a guest appearance in someone else's artwork. Even though this isn't really "my" work, and it feels corny to point these things out, this is a great joy for me, to be present at these occasions. Thank you to all the artists!!!
- 2018/10/31 - I guest starred in a painting by Tom Bubul, in a show of paintings that opened at the White Pages gallery in Minneapolis MN. The official page for the show is here: [link] and the more verbose version on Tom's own website is here: [link]. My painting is not, as one might think, the painting of Dracula, though my painting and the Dracula painting share a chandelier, which I appreciate. The painting is called "Rolling Egg (Cedar Ave edit)" and it's 36"x48".
in re: this bit from Rolling Egg #1:
- 2018/09/28 - Not sure if this counts but Mickey Zacchilli's book "Space Academy 123" came out on Koyama Press, collecting almost every installment of her celebrated webscomic. One time I was hanging out with Mickey at the coffee shop while she was drawing this and she went to the bathroom, and I wrote my name in the background of one of the pages. I was a little worried it would get erased in the book making process but God bless the entire chain of command, it's in there!
- 2017/02 - There's a weird picture of me on the cover of the new Funeral Cone record, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN. It's on 100% Breakfast Records, which is run by Doug from Fat Day!!!!!!
- 2016/12 - I made a guest appearance in the form of a Mothers News mug in the new Rav collection (#2) by Mickey Zacchilli, published by Youth In Decline press.
- 2016/01 - Incredible but true, I'm in Archie comics!!!! A dream come true!!!! If you need proof this is me see Veronica Fish's blog. Thank you Veronica!!!!
- 2015/11 - Guest appearance in Brian Chippendale's new book "Puke Force", as "Strangers Knows" (riffing on Mothers News, my newspaper which published Brian's other comic "A Trophy Life"). Out now on Drawn & Quarterly.
- 2014/06/07 - I made a guest appearance as a character in V Manuscript's "ARGOT OF INSCRIPTION - The Madness of the Canary II. Second House", the second of five self-published books that together will comprise a full novel. Cool format!!! Astute readers may recognize "Mother", a blathering NPC with interns trailing and note-taking, ensconsed in the publication of an insane newspaper. I LOVE IT!! :)
- 2012/11/25 - Simon Hanselman wrote an episode of his comics criticism comic "Truth Zone" about Mothers News, you can read it here: [link]
- 2011/11/11 - Mothers News makes a guest appearance (on the desk) in Kartina Richardson's segment on "Ebert Presents: At The Movies". Well actually it's Monsters News, which was the Halloween edition of Mothers News. Thanks Kartina! Here's the video: [link].
- 2008 - There's a blurry picture of me, holding up a photo of a clown, on the label of the record "Erect Nation" by Flaws. Oddly, there's no cover art, it's just in a white sleeve with this blurry label. Great record. This band is a supergroup consisting of Mike Taylor, Ryan Seaton, and Gus Martin.
- 2007/10 - My bedroom in Worcester is featured in the book "Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy" by Abby Banks. And not only in the book but on the back cover and the SPINE! arguably the most prestigious part of the book.
- 2006/??/?? - I appear as an easter egg in the book "Ruby Cookbook" by Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson, published by O'Reilly press. I'm in one of the examples as (I think) a class, and a member of that class. Thank you to Leonard for including me in this!!!!