After a most gratifying trip to the copy shop yesterday, I can say that I’ve officially completed my newest mini. It’s a short illustrated story about social weirdness surrounding my gym and its pool area. When I showed my cartooning group yesterday, it inspired a spirited and lengthy discussion of ball-related behaviors in the men’s locker room, so I think I hit some vein of truth there. It’s called Sausage Stew, and it’ll be part of an anthology box we’re releasing early next month. I’ll let you know when single copies are available too.

Here are two illustrations I made for this that didn’t make it into the book.

Self Portrait with Goggles

I originally planned on using this for the back cover in some capacity, but I came up with a better idea.

Sausage Stew, a small study

This was originally going to be the front cover, small and dwarfed by the blank space around it, with the title. This kind of thing is what caused this project to begin with – I became fascinated with drawing the eye contact-avoiding inhabitants of the hot tub. I’ll post some of my many pencil sketches later.

So: Sausage Stew. Coming soon, in large and small portions.