Just in time for today’s 24 Hour Comics session at TFAW, an interview with Henry Chamberlain (with a nice shout-out to my latest, ARE YOU BEING WATCHED?) on Comics Grinder:

http://comicsgrinder.com/2013/05/18/24-hour-comics-interview-david-chelsea/

David Chelsea is listening to:
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris

Come see me draw my SIXTEENTH 24 Hour Comic (a World Record until someone tells me different) this weekend. After jaunts to Eugene and New York, I’m back on home ground. The 24 Hour Comics – Portland Edition is taking place from 10:00am on Sat., May 18th to 10:00am on Sun., May 19th at Things From Another World (2916 NE Broadway St.).Things From Another World is easy to find if you know Portland- it’s just at the spot where you turn on Broadway to go to Fred Meyer’s.

David Chelsea is reading:
Life After Life: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson

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So here’s what I did at last weekend’s Stumptown Comics Fest. I sold some comics:

David Chelsea is listening to:
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson

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The Many Moods Of David Chelsea At Stumptowns Past

This year at Stumptown Comics Fest I’ll be presenting something new. Rather than the tried-and-true perspective drawing grid slideshow and demonstration that I have presented two years running, I am doing a slide show version of my irregular blog feature Perspective Police! in which I analyze published drawings by artists like Joost Swarte, Ivan Brunetti, and Alison Bechdel, and propose revisions to better bring them in line with perspective. Not that I am free from error myself; one of the images I police is an early illustration by a promising young artist named David Celsi.

David Chelsea is watching:
Sealab 2021 – Season 1

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The long wait is over- today, Wednesday April 3rd, you can march into your friendly local comics shop and purchase your copy of my very first 32-page comic book, SNOW ANGEL!

David Chelsea is reading:
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail —But Some Don’t
by Nate Silver

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Happily timed to coincide with the publication of SNOW ANGEL, I am having my first ever one-man show, opening this Thursday at Fotoeffect Gallery at NW 6th and Everett in Portland.

David Chelsea is reading:
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century
by Margaret Talbot

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I drew my fifteenth 24 Hour comic at the Theater for The New City in New York City on Saturday March 2nd and Sunday March 3rd. Here are some photos from the event:

David Chelsea is listening to:
Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age
by Steven Johnson

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Mark your calendar! One week from today I’ll be taking part in a 24 Hour Comic event at Theater for The New City in New York, following this year’s Webvisions Conference. Believe it or not, this will be my 15th 24 Hour Comic (a world record until someone tells me different) and my first visit to New York City in nine years! Other participants will include comics scholar and illustrator Arlen Schumer, Cartoonist Jim Ryan (author of some hilarious cartoon books including THE JERSEY SIDE) and graphic novelist Rachel Nabors. Read all about it here.

David Chelsea is listening to:
Bring Up The Bodies
by Hilary Mantel

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Last weekend, for the second year running, I accepted an invitation to spend 24 Hour Comics Day as a guest at the Imagination International event in Eugene, organized by Ken O’Connell of The University Of Oregon. This year’s event was bigger than last year’s, with about twenty participants, and it attracted the attention of local TV outlet KVAL.

Here’s a story from the KVAL website- there was also a report on the 6 O’Clock News, but they don’t seem to have posted the video.

David Chelsea is listening to:
True Believers: A Novel
by Kurt Andersen

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Announcement: Here’s where I’ll be all day this coming Saturday- drawing my FOURTEENTH 24 Hour Comic at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Here’s the press release:

David Chelsea is listening to:
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood
by Teri Garr

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