Here’s part of the presentation I gave last Saturday at Stumptown Comics Fest:

My fellow cartoonist John Linton Roberson brought this one to my attention. It comes from a comic called Flashpoint: Legion of Doom #1, published by DC in 2011. (Superhero comics, like animated cartoons, are a group effort. The credited artists for this panel are Rodney Buchemi, José Marzan, Jr. and Artur Fujita.)

David Chelsea is reading:
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach

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Cross your eyes to see the stereo effect.

Trying out the new copier, 1995

David Chelsea is reading:
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir
by Ellen Forney

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The many moods of David Chelsea on the streets of New York with Anny Celsi and J. Todd Harris

The main purpose of my first trip to New York in nine years was drawing my 15th 24 Hour Comic at an event at the Theater for The New City, but I also found time to show my work to some possible illustration clients, meet with a lot of old friends, and eat some fine meals. Among the people I saw in New York were a couple of folks from Los Angeles; my sister Anny happened to be in Philadelphia that week for an AFTRA event and took the bus up to meet me, and I unexpectedly encountered film producer J. Todd Harris on 34th street, near the Empire State Building.

David Chelsea is reading:
Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
by Jeffrey Frank

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Barack Obama by Shepard Fairey

“America’s Most Wanted Painting” by Komar and Melamid. George Washington in there somewhere.

Self-portrait by George W. Bush

Rebecca’s newest stop motion animation stars Bingo, the family cat previously featured in his own 24 Hour Comic and numerous illustrations. Once again, music by Ben.

David Chelsea is reading:
Building Stories
by Chris Ware

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This new book by Polina Olsen is pretty self-descriptive; it’s about Portland (Oregon, not Maine) in the 1960s. I grew up in Portland, and my memories of that decade are fairly sharp, since I was drinking my Kool-aid without acid in it, but they are mostly of stuff like Saturday morning cartoons and those weird old exhibits at OMSI (Oregon Museum Of Science And Industry) rather than the student protests and psychedelic concerts that this book covers (I knew many of the prominent figures in the book, like Psychedelic Supermarket proprietor Emery Ingham, the artist Henk Pander, Outsider-In founder Dr. Charles Spray, and Storefront Theater co-founders Tom Hill and Anne Gerety, because their kids went to the same school I did, the Metropolitan Learning Center; Portland’s counterculture was a pretty small scene compared to Haight-Ashbury or the East Village).

David Chelsea is reading:
More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time
by Nick Hornby

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It’s a big week for blog posts, what with my latest 24 Hour Comic, and a couple of new books coming in, but first up, here is a new stop motion animation from Rebecca, Kelso’s Choices. Like Frog Chase from a few months ago, this also features a frog protagonist and was animated on the iPad. One big difference is that this one comes with a soundtrack (created in Garage Band). Big brother Ben Celsi contributed the music and Rebecca’s school friends Samuel Redding and Krystyna Klucznik did the voices.

David Chelsea is reading:
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
by Lawrence N. Powell

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Mamie Bangs. Most unflattering hairstyle ever?

David Chelsea is reading:
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
by Ned Sublette

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