Finally Moonfleet!

I've been given the official okay to post my work for the Folio Society's "Moonfleet" by J. Meade Falkner. For me this was a huge project and my biggest job to date.

Thank you to Sheri Gee and everyone at the Folio society for this amazing opportunity it was truly a pleasure working with you!

(Please forgive the quality blogger does some weird things to imagines sometimes.)

Six Word Tales and other news

Hello, it's been awhile but I have not been idle. My project with the Folio Society has come to a close and now I'm just waiting for permission to show the work here, so check back for that!

I have another Six word tale up at sixwordtales.com.



I also have a piece in the upcoming issue of Hyphen magazine that I will post up here shortly!

Six Word Tales

A little while ago I was contacted by Stiles White to contribute to his six word tales project. I've had a lot of fun playing with this and believe that Stiles has created a really great opportunity for images and words to play off each other in a manner not often seen. Anyways here is my contribution, this won't be the last!

Still Alive!

The post A.P.E silence around here hasn't been because I've been idle thankfully.

Recently I was contacted by the Folio Society to potentiality work on a book project with them, after much toil on my part I got the job! I will be creating ten illustrations and the cover for J. Meade Falkner's Moonfleet, a tale of smugglers and adventure set in the mid 1800s.

This really is a dream project for me and I can't really express how excited I am for this opportunity! Unfortunately I won't be able to show the work I'm doing until much closer to publishing time so you all will have to wait and see.

In other news I will also be contributing to the Six word tales project created by Stiles White so look forward to that soon!

A.P.E Aftermath

I'm the asian one

So its done! Thank you all so much for making this a really amazing experience! This was my first time putting myself out there like that and I really didn't know what to expect. Thank you to those who made purchases, I really really appreciate it. If you were looking for a print that I ran out of I'm working on getting an online store of some kind set up, until then you can always email me and we can work something out.

So whats next? I'm not sure yet but I definitely need to take a break from divers and draw some faces!

Again thanks to all who dropped by for your kind words and support, more to come!

-Mike M

Thats it! The whole shebang

Hey guys,

It's all done! This time next week (thats the 17th and 18th) the Alternative Press Expo will be happening, hundreds from the independent and small press community will be exhibiting their wares and yours truly is amongst them.

Its been a long road but I'm glad to say its been worth it. Here is the final spread of the items I will be selling at APE.

The book's cover is vellum and watercolor paper.

The printing of the interiors came out really nice, couldn't ask for better.

Art prints are printed on 8.5 by 11 Fabiano water color paper, I gotta say these really came out nice! They look just like the originals.

Hand printed T shirt available in small, medium, large and extra large.

Hope you guys liked it!

Me, my friends Tim Wilkins and Jose Moreno will be at table 237A (thats on the left side of the convention hall)

So please if your in San Francisco October 17th and 18th drop by and support your local artists.

Alternative Press Expo (APE)

Concourse Exhibition Center (620 7th st)

Oct 17-18

For more info on APE head over to http://comic-con.org/

Last piece for real!

I lied last time. NEW last piece!

While I was putting together the book I realized that I didn't have enough pieces to format the pages the way I wanted.

I have to admit I'm a very lazy person and I was ready to settle and just deal with the book not being quite how I wanted it. But I kicked my butt into gear and I'm happy for it, I think this is one of my favorites.

Last one

Thats it! Last piece is done. I have learned so much making these pictures, its pretty hard looking back at the first few.

These pieces have been really important to me just on a personal level. I had been feeling extremely frustrated and depressed with myself during the year and a half after college but I think now I have a much better idea of who I am as an artist.

So now I have to produce the book, get everything printed and just hope I get a decent turn out at APE, will keep you guys posted on how things are coming together.