UPDATE: The auction will be extended another week until April 27th.

Read this post to participate in the online silent auction to benefit the Washington School for the Deaf!

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Happy VD! To celebrate, I wanted to share all the love I got when I did my workshop at the Washington School for the Deaf last Friday. Everyone was really great and I hope they had as much fun as I did.

More pictures behind the cut!

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So I’m going to be speaking at the Washington School for the Deaf next Friday about comics & storytelling! I’m also going to be running an online auction for them in April to help raise some money for the school to buy some graphic novels.

If you’re wondering why this school, and why graphic novels in particular, here’s a quick answer: Between TV, the internet &  million other distractions, it is hard to get kids interested in reading. Turns out because of the language barrier, it’s even harder to get deaf children interested in reading.  As someone working at the school pointed out, comics really help create that interest for them because there is a visual element alongside the text.

If you’re an artist, designer, photographer or other creative type and would like to donate some artwork, it would be really appreciated. I won’t be having the auction until April, but I figured that I should get a head start on the soliciting artwork. You can donate original art, prints, posters – anything really. Even if you had old graphic novels that you wanted to donate to their library that would be great.

Even if you can’t donate art, it would really go a long way if you helped me spread the word. If you could pass the link to this post or the image that I’ve created above to all the artist friends you have, that would be awesome.

If you have an questions, please e-mail me at: jonathan [at] oneofthejohns.com

You can mail donations to me at:

1717 Southwest Market St.
Portland, OR 97201-6013

Donations need to be received by March 28, 2011.  I’ll have more information about the auction as it gets closer to the date.

I know – it’s not even Christmas yet – but things are going to speed by the next couple of weeks, so I thought I’d go ahead and write this now.

So it’s the end of another year, and what a great one it has been! I wrote a post last December on the brownpaperbag blog looking back on 2009 and setting some goals for 2010. I thought that it would be nice to use it as a frame of reference when doing my year-in-review post this year.

If you’re interested, keep reading! [Warning: It’s looooooong.]

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My good friend, BPB pal, hetero-lifemate & all-around great cartoonist Jason Rainey & the equally awesome Jeremy Massie launched the website for their new comic, the Amateurs, today. They plan on serializing new pages every Tuesday and Thursday.

Check it out at AmateurstheComic.com.

Hey-oh! Hope you all survived Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

Just wanted to make a quick post to mention that the esteemed Mr. Richard Thompson, cartoonist of the best comic strip in print*, Cul de Sac, mentions me and the illustration for Powell’s store map I did for Fan Art Friday over at his blog. The map got published in October, so it’s a bit of old news if you’ve kept up with me at bpb-art.com or the internet or whatever. Hidden in the illustration among many other fine literary figures are Petey and Alice from Cul de Sac. Still, I’m so honored to have him like the piece and tell me that I did right by his characters.

Check it out!

*Actually, Cul de Sac is my favorite comic strip of all time. Below is my favorite Cul de Sac, which I guess makes this strip my absolute favorite comic strip of all time.

Have a good weekend!

Hey-oh! oneofthejohns.com 2.0 is up and running! Thanks for stopping by.

The biggest difference is that I’ve finally stepped into the 21st Century & have based 2.0 in WordPress, so that I can have my own blog and be posting & updating the site regularly with relative ease. I’ve also made small changes to the way the website is structured, breaking my portfolio up into different section. I’ve also included little blurbs by most of the art for some context if that interests anyone.  I’ve also updated some new illustrations and some older comics that you might not have seen [including the beginning of the quickly derailed One of the Johns graphic novel].

And as always, thanks to Jason for all the websmithing help.

Things are at about 95% [the Misc Artstuff & Projects are unfinished], but if you see anything you notice that isn’t working or have any suggestions, please let me know. And keep checking back! I’ll be posting here regularly.

So I got the itch to redo the website and have it WordPress based to make it a bit easier to update and what not [Ideally. We’ll see how that goes…]. Anyhow, things are still getting cleaned up and set up [mainly the galleries], so pardon the lack of content at the moment. Should have it up and running by the end of the week.

UPDATE [Nov 17th]: The Illustration section is finished, and the Comics section is being worked on.