Sending this off to be screen printed by the great Simon Bossé right now.

I designed this little limited edition author’s bookplate for the release of Jinchalo next week.

We’re having book launch parties in Montreal and Toronto to celebrate. So if you’re in one of those towns, I would love to see you there.

Feb 16 Montreal 8pm – Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (Facebook event)

Feb 19 Toronto (4pm) – Kids’ Event at Little Island Comics on Bathurst. (Facebook Event for Toronto)
Feb 19 Toronto (Evening) – Event for larger people at The Central (next to The Beguiling) the same night.

The book asks scientists and artists to answer common questions about the world. My question was, If humans and chimps have nearly identical DNA, how can we be so different?

Art director: Julia Rothman

Fresh back from a month traveling around India. Two weeks in the north and two in the south. Sunrise on the Ganges in the middle of a langur migration (sketches above; we inspected each other from a respectful distance), a Royal Enfield motorbike trip through the mountains (check that off the bucket list), endless meals of the best vegetarian food I’ve ever eaten, penance in the bathroom, swimming in the Arabian sea and all sorts of wonderful clichés involving Yoga and spirituality that mean a lot to me but I wouldn’t dare foist on anyone else.

I have a book full of sketches and notes which I’ll post soon in one form or another.

In the meantime, my new comic book, Jinchalo, has been printed. I haven’t held it yet, but Drawn and Quarterly – and especially Tracy Hurren (who did production on this book and put up with my persistent and ignorant inquiries and requests) – have posted some preview photos.

The book will be released in February 2012 but you can pre-order it now on Amazon.

I’ll be at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival this Saturday sitting with Koyama Press. I’ll be there with my new comic, Comics Class.

You can read some of the strips online here.

Last week the kids book I illustrated – My Name is Elizabeth - was named one of the New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2011. This was a wonderful surprise!

So I finished this book this week and sent it off to the publisher! It’s about 120 pages of wordless comics – and a companion to my first book, Ojingogo. The “story” is stand-alone though and is a sort of very loose retelling of the Jack and the beanstalk fairy tale with elements of Korean folk tales and comics with a lot of my own dreams and other nonsense thrown in.

Drawn & Quarterly posted a little preview here.

The book should be out in February, 2012.

Here is what the finished page checklist looks like. I had one of these for ojingogo too. It becomes worn and tattered and filling in a square or two at the end of each day is a great feeling.

Hey Montrealers – I’ll be at Expozine this weekend along with John Martz and Aaron Costain. It’s Expozine’s tenth anniversary – so let’s celebrate ten years of handmade comics, vegan muffins and church basements.

The new Nobrow anthology is out and it looks gorgeous and it’s all about doppelgangers. I am honoured to have a comic in there with them. My comic is called ‘How did you meet’?