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Studio Q+A: Jesse Reklaw

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist Jesse Reklaw.

Where do you live? I live in Portland Oregon right now, but that is getting harder to do lately.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? I draw and write half at home and half at cafes or wherever. I do most of my painting at home because it is messy. (I am messy.)

What are your favorite tools of the trade? Lately I have been enjoying different markers, and mixing markers with different types of paint -- kind of playing with hard lines versus areas of color and shade. Some of my favorite pens are The Uniball Signo white, Microns and Zig Milleniums of all colors, and Promarkers (from either Letraset or W&N). For paint, I use Liquitex acrylics and Windsor + Newton watercolors. I also like to use good old nibs and India ink.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artwork in your creative space for inspiration? Yes, I usually have photos of friends, artwork, and postcards that inspire me around me workspace. I have been kind of living on the run lately, so I don't have a space set up right now, but attached is an old photo of the aesthetic I'm going for.

What are you working on for this year's Linework NW? I am debuting a travel diary / sketchbook / graphic novel called LOVF, published by Fantagraphics. This book evolved from a notebook I had with me during a manic phase, and it got covered with intricate, intense, and confusing drawings. After I got better (?), I added a narrative so it kind of tells the story of my "vision quest" as a homeless crazy man. I’m excited and terrified to go on tour to promote this book.

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here i am looking not so ugly holding my artwork which is also looking not so ugly!!!

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Just some of cool things I'll be bringing this Sunday to the LineworkNW Festival!

I'm really excited to be participating in a festival in my home town! I've already seen a Timber game (they lost. Boo) gone hiking up Oneonta Gorge (Not freezing in May, if you need proof of global warming that is it) BBQ'd on the Sandy river! (Thanks Rocky!) It's been pretty sweet except my brother insists that we ride bikes everywhere. So my visit will be wrapping up with this Festival- It's free admission and chock full of amazing artists whom I'm lucky to exhibit with! So come by this Sunday and check out some cool comics and illustrations!

Linework NW will take place on Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22, 2016, at the Norse Hall in Portland, Oregon. Hours of operation are 1pm-8pm both days. Attendance is free and open to the public.

NORSE HALL

111 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97232

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Studio Q+A: Thomas Fernandez

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist Thomas Fernandez (Live Rad Studios).

Where do you live? I live part time in Portland, and part time in San Diego, CA

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? I rent a room in Portland, which i primarily use as my studio, and that is where the majority of my artworks is made. I am a professional tattoo artist, and i am originally from San Diego, so i try to be in California every other month to tattoo. I enjoy the ritual of spending a month tattooing, then spending a month working on paintings, illustrations, sculptures and other projects.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? My favorite "tools of the trade" are as follows, Hiro nibs, Kafka and Windsor & Newton brushes, Pentel pocket brush pen, my old thriftstore light table, and my Vac-U-Form.

 Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? My work space is covered in crap. I love being surrounded by the things that inspire me, so they unconsciously permeate what ever i am working on. there are tons of toys around and on my desk. Primarily they are vintage monster toys, or very kitschy cute mid century toys. I like the combination of gross oozing monsters, and smiling kewpies paired together. toys aside there are alot of old Halloween masks, and black light posters hanging up around my work space.

What are you working on for this year's Linework NW? Currently for linework i have a few new projects in the works. I have a new run of fluorescent silk screen prints that were a collaboration, and printed by Nightwatch Studios. I have also been sculpting, vacumforming, and airbrushing monster masks. Similar to the 1960's hard plastic ones you find at thrift stores. this has been a project ive always wanted to do, and am stoked to be releasing the first run at linework! I will have some new shirts, stickers, zines, toys, enamel pins, and other junk!

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Studio Q+A: Shirley Jackson

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios.

Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist Shirely Jackson.

Where do you live? I live in Utah!

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? The majority of my creative practice takes place in my sketchbooks and my little studio space in my room.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? I’m super particular and picky about paper and textures so I use Leuchtturm blank page sketchbooks. Plus, their sketchbooks lie down flat without an obnoxious spiral ring harassing your hand. I’ve also begun sketching solely with Copic markers and these journaling pens I found at Target. It’s done wonders to help me learn three important lessons:

How to create meaningful and swift marks

Trust in the marks I make

And the very opposite of the first two: Let go and have fun! Not everything has to look super well done in a sketchbook, but you can find something amazing within the dumb messes you make.

My phone is another one of my favorite tools as I use it for capturing inspiration. I’ve found that I prefer to just take photos of inspiration and references and sketch them out later vs trying to hastily draw a bird before it flies away.

And last, but not least, is my planner that I purchased from Marion Smith Designs. It’s a 6-ring binder which allows me to customize it to be EXACTLY how I need it. It helps with my organization, time management, and I’ve also created my own inspiration/ideas logbook inside of it. I used to just keep ideas inside sketchbooks, but they’d often go forgotten when all of the pages are filled and I’m working in a new sketchbook.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? Yes! Absolutely!! In fact I have to consolidate and rotate who gets to hang out on the desk! Motivational T-Rex always has a spot of course (he’s been with me since college!) I’m super fond of Zoids and have been building and collecting them since my elementary school days. Ligers are my absolute favorite! So they’ve got their own shelves (I need more display space for all of the others I have!)

 I’m a sentimentalist and the majority of my walls are covered in mementos and random things I’ve collected since jr high. But I do have a corkboard behind my computer that has even more inspiration and sentimental things. I rotate work and inspiration on that as well. And I have sooooo many pieces of artwork and posters that are resting in boxes right now until, again, I get more wall/display space! 

What are you working on for this year’s LineworkNW? Along with my limited edition screen prints, I’ve also started painting animal portraits on wood with gouache! The ones I have pictured have already sold, but I’ll definitely be bringing more with me up to Portland!

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Studio Q+A: Sabrina Elliott

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist Sabrina Elliott.

Where do you live? I live in the NE neighborhood of Portland, OR.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? Home? Studio? Café? Other? It all takes place pretty much at my studio. From time to time, I'll get together and draw with friends or draw at a weekly Drawing Night, but, for the most part, I do it in the privacy of my studio at home.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? Pentel Brush Pen, Twist-Erase pencil from Pentel, Dust-Free Faber-Castell eraser, Holbein Acryla Gouache, Winsor & Newton acrylic paint, Frisket paper, and Winsor & Newton Series 7 Sable brushes.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? Oh man, I have a TON! I have a ton of vintage and kaiju toys decorating the space as well as artwork, paintings, prints, and post cards from some of my favorite artists (such as Hikari Shimoda, Syd Bee, Ryan Heshka, Mewnette Lapalmew, Hellen Jo, Natali Koromoto, etc). I am a highly visual person and I get a lot of creative charge when I can daydream and gaze at the work of some of my favorite artists everyday. It helps when I'm surrounded by people's work who inspire me as well as favorite color schemes and weird knick knacks.

What are you working on for this year's LineworkNW? I am producing my first batch of enamel pins all on my own, which I am super, excited about! I also created and finished a personal zine titled "Internal Struggle" which will be published by Valley Cruise Press. I'm excited to debut some new prints, stickers, and hand made needle felt/shrinky dink pins as well!

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(that’s me on the left with my cartoonist friend fred noland.) 

LINEWORK NW 2016 (may 22nd, sunday) fantastic comics show in portland, oregon!!! 

thanks to all of you who stopped by to buy my comics!!!!

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Studio Q+A: Tom Van Deusen

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist Tom Van Deusen.

Where do you live? Seattle, WA. Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? Home? Studio? Café? Other? I work pretty much exclusively in my studio in my house. It's a furnished basement. I have one window, but I can't see anything out of it.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? I pencil with a pencil on paper, then use a lightbox to ink onto bristol board using Copic Multiliners and a Pentel Pocket Brush. I use Signo white gel pens for white out.

These inked drawings are then scanned in on a scanner, edited on a Macintosh computer, and sent to a printer. With these files the printer prints them as books, or as we like to call them, "comic books". These books are then traded for money for people who want them. I assume they read them. Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? Toys are for children. As you can see in the photo I provided, I drank a yellow Rockstar energy drink that day, a beverage intended for adults.

What are you working on for this year's LineworkNW? I am going to have a new collection of strips I did for anthologies called "NOW: THAT'S WHAT I CALL COMICS VOLUME ONE". I also wrote the first part of an epilogue for Scorched Earth in Intruder 19.

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Studio Q+A: Kinoko Evans

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today Q+A highlights creator Kinoko Evans.

Where do you live? These days, it’s Portland, Oregon.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? Magnetic North Studios in SE Portland is my main workspace where I can make a mess and tinker. My desk at home is where all of my design, scanning & correspondence happens. Radius Studios PDX is where I throw clay, fire and glaze ceramics.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? The Pilot Pocket is my absolute Go-To favorite, and I have a mix of other brush pens that I use for texture and play. My Rapidograph .60mm is another favorite, and I like drawing with under glaze pencils on ceramics.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artwork, etc. in your creative space for inspiration? YES!!!! Sometimes so much that I have to trim that stuff back like hedges, just so I can get some work done.

What are you working on for this year’s LineworkNW? This year I will be at my table on Sunday with my comics and prints, as usual. I have also been making a ton of character narrative ceramics. I also have some brand new stickers and tote bags too! Oh yeah, and a zine and a VERY limited edition mug design I created with CoffeeBeer.me just for LineworkNW. There are only 70 of them. I’m pretty excited to share all this new work.

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#LWNW2016 DAY TWO PHOTOS UP HERE

What a beautiful weekend, thank you all for coming! More announcements to come shortly. 

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Poster art by Matt Furie

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lillie and asher craw!!! here they are at LINEWORK NW 2016 with their amazing comics.

asher is a transgender cartoonist who makes comics that resonate deeply with me (i’m a non-binary cartoonist).

so many wonderful cartoonists here tonight!!! 

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Studio Q+A: Alden Viguilla

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist Alden Viguilla.

Where do you live? I currently live in New Jersey. A little over an hour to NYC.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? At home mostly, where my “studio” is. I do most of my illustrations and prepare my separations for silkscreen on my workspace. Then, I go to the School of Visual Arts Print Shop to print my projects. But anytime an idea hits me, I’ll take down notes or do a non-sensical sketch.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? For most Illustrations/ Freelance work, Photoshop and Cintiq are my 2 favorite tools.

For silkscreening, I go to the SVA Printshop, everything is basically provided for as long as you're signed up for a Continuing Ed class. I just bring my own screen, which can be stored there, and good paper. For inking, I enjoy using my Pentel pocket brushpen and Pilot Petit3.  It’s just so easy to use, specially with the ink refills. Pen Nibs and ink wells are also great but I haven’t work with in awhile.

I also like using Pentel Aquash waterbrushes with gouache and watercolors.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? I have cork board of some of my favorite images, prints, and postcards from artists that I admire.

A little bit of random toys and a LOT of artbooks. I have a pretty good collection “Art of” books from movies. And of course, zines I get from the shows I’ve gone too.

What are you working on for this year's LineworkNW? Planning on a new riso zine about a Spellcaster and one on Tokusatsu/ Kaiju.

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Studio Q+A: Rough House

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting Brendan Kiefer with collective and publisher Rough House.

Where do you live? Rough House is a collective and publisher that was formed in Austin in 2012. What began as an anthology showcasing the Austin comic scene has since expanded to include artists from around the world.  Recently, we have split our operations between Austin and Seattle. We have released 3 anthologies so far and are planning our fourth. 

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? Home? Studio? Café? Other? I can only speak for our core collective (as opposed to the various other artists we've published), but most of use make our comics at home and run our printing operations out of a house. Our Austin members do meet up weekly at various bars/restaurants to draw 4 panel gag strips that are usually in bad taste. 

What are your favorite tools of the trade? Being that there are several of us, we each have our own preferences for tools. Some of us use brushes and technical pens while others work digitally.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? Sometimes. Personally, I flip through particular books I'm interested in absorbing prior to starting a project. Not sure about the rest of us.

What are you working on for this year's LineworkNW? We'll be selling Rough House 3 - an anthology that came out this past fall featuring artists such as Lea Heinrich, Jonny Negron, Noah Van Sciver, & Tom Van Deusen  among many others. We'll have various other mini-comics available as well. 

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Studio Q+A: BT Livermore

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist BT Livermore.

Where do you live? NE Portland , OR

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? Home? Studio? Café? Other? I do all my preliminary work like brainstorming and sketchbook work in coffee shops. I just seem to have a better flow of ideas when I'm out in public. My finished work all gets made at my studio, Magnetic North. I find that I don't work well from home any more.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? I've been really getting back into using just a plain, old pencil again for all my sketchbook doodling. For finished pieces, my Pentel Pocket Brush still does the trick.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? Yes, absolutely. My studio space has separate, themed inspiration walls: one is outer space themed, and the other is all nautical stuff. I also keep a mishmash of hand painted signage, some mine and some not, on the wall above my painting easel. I like having a densely packed wall of visuals to surround myself with while working.

What are you working on for this year's LineworkNW? I'll be coming out with some new screen prints, and hopefully a bandana design, and I'll also be releasing the third volume of my illustrated zine series, "Whoa, Dang!"

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Studio Q+A: Sean Ford

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist Sean Ford.

Where do you live? I just recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Louisville, KY.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? Home? Studio? Café? Other? I split my time working in my home studio and drawing in coffee shops. Sometimes I go to a friend's house to draw. Having just moved to Louisville, I'm trying to rebuild the social aspect to my drawing times. There've been some really friendly and helpful cartoonists in Louisville so far - guys like Steve Gatrost, Jesse Lucas, Ben Sears have all been super welcoming and helpful. I think the community part is really important. But sometimes I definitely just like to listen to music and draw by myself.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? Because I spend about half my time drawing in coffee shops I started using more portable inking tools - I use the Tombow Fudenosuke Hard Brush Pen and Microns for almost all my inking now. I will always love the Mars Lumograph Staedtler 2H pencil more than any other pencil, sometimes I use the Palomino Blackwing 602s, too. I have started using the Tombow gray markers to add gray tones to my pages. It was pretty freeing to let go of the idea that I had to use traditional nibs and brushes to be a "real" cartoonist. I don't know, maybe everything I just said means I'm not a real cartoonist. 

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? I'm still just getting set up in my new space and haven't had the chance to even figure out where my posters and prints are yet. But one of the first things I did was set up my bookshelves for my most inspiring and favorite books. Moreso than prints and posters, I need the books I love to be in my workspace. Akira, Tin-tin, Love and Rockets, Uncanny X-Men, Lilli Carre, Liz Suburbia, Bolano, O'Connor, Jackson, Melville, Link, etc. 

What are you working on for this year's LineworkNW? I just finished the eighth issue of Shadow Hills. I'll be bringing that issue and the previous 7 along to Linework. I've been trying to release this book in quarterly 20pp installments, but it has wound up being more like three issues a year. It's the story of a fracking town that is overcome by a plague and two sisters who are trying to figure out what's happening and maybe how to stop it. I'll also have my first book, Only Skin, and some prints with me at the show.