Just in time for Valentine’s Day, my pals over at Vahalla Studios have launched a series of 18 prints called Show the Love. You can buy the entire set for just $50, or get each individual print (like mine!) for $10 apiece.

It’s a fantastic lineup of artists who have put together a lot of fun work! And if you’re in Kansas City, go by tonight, Feb 5th, from 6-10pm, to pick up a set in-person. Vahalla’s new digs are at 2111 Washington, Kansas City, MO.

I just have two short announcements that combine Haiti relief efforts with the art you love:

The first is that over at the Cloudy Collection, we’ve and redirected our fundraising to the Red Cross’s Haiti relief efforts. Now until the end of January, for each print set purchased (Ed. 3/Ed. 4) we will send $5 to the Red Cross’s Haiti fund. Also, for each subscription purchased, we will send $25 to the Haiti fund.

And second, the Robots & Monsters project has opened its doors early for its next round in order to raise funds for Doctors Without Borders and their efforts in Haiti. For $50, you get a robot or a monster drawn by people like John Martz, Adam “Ape Lad” Koford, Joe Alterio, me, and a few other great artists. The project has raised almost $20,000 for various causes over the past three years.

Whether you want to buy some new art or not, I encourage everyone to do whatever they can to help in Haiti. You can give directly to the Red Cross here, Doctors Without Borders here, and there are a lot of other great NGOs doing good work.

First things first: Volume I, Edition 4 of the Cloudy Collection is now available! “Repeat/Repeat” is a set of seven letterpress prints on the theme of variations on repeating patterns with art by Will Bryant, Dustin “UPSO” Hostetler, Mike Perry, Heather Ross, Julia Rothman, Bob Staake, and me, David Huyck. As usual, these prints are just $35 USD for all seven prints, with free shipping to the US and Canada! These are some seriously great prints!

Next up: never miss another print set! Cloudy Collection subscriptions start with Volume II! In addition to all the great prints you’ve come to know, you’ll also get an exclusive, subscriber-only t-shirt collaboratively designed by Volume I artist Elio and me, plus a variety of other bonuses and surprises. Get all the details here.

And finally, don’t miss the Edition 3 prints, now $5 off until New Year’s.

More Cloudy Collection announcements will come in the new year, but for now, isn’t this enough? What more do you want from me?

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A limited edition letterpress print for the fourth edition of my quarterly project, the Cloudy Collection.

Every spring, the UNC Kidney Center organizes a walk/run fundraiser for their research. I’ve had the opportunity to work with them every year since their inception, though I’ve never gotten off my lazy butt to actually run it.

The 2010 KKR add a 1/2 mile run for kids aged 5-11, appropriately called “Kids Kare”:

The Design Inspiration blog has just posted an interview I did with them. Check it out for some more thoughts about the way I work, how I got started, and get a peek at a few things I’m working on…

The image above is one of my contributions to the fantastic fundraiser Robots and Monsters. A donor pays a small fee, and then tells the artist if he wants a robot or a monster and gives three words to describe that robot or monster. I pick up the assignment and send back my drawing to the organizer, Joe Alterio. The drawing here happened to be “Robot: clumsy, elephant, lightbulb.”

thanks to Dan Wyke for the cell phone photo!

Well I’m probably one of the last people to write up his SPX experience, but WOW I had an amazing weekend in Bethesda, MD! Rather than rehash a lot of what has already been said about the weekend, I’ll tell my favorite parts and link to the rest. (Plus I didn’t bring a camera, so I only have borrowed photos.)

First of all, many thanks to my fabulous hosts Kristin and Corey Enck! Kristin is a grad school friend, and Corey is her freshly-minted husband (they got married in August!), though I’ve known Corey almost as long as I’ve known Kristin. I barely spent any time in their home in DC, but the bed was comfy and the kitchen had fresh apple pie in it – what more could I need?

Second, another thank-you to Kristin, and also to Megan Halsband and Lou Joseph, two more friendly faces from my days at Carolina, who showed up at my table at SPX. Lou deserves a double thank-you (or quadruple, or even more) for inviting me to participate in the Infinite Folio two years ago. It was for that project that I first drew the cloud-full-of-eyes that I am so obsessed with these days.

thank you to Scott Edelman for the purchase and write-up

And yet more thank yous to give out: to all of you who came by my table and talked or asked for doodles, and especially those of you who paid good money for some of my work, THANK YOU for doing your part to help make this a viable career for me! It is always great to make and meet new friends and fans, especially face-to-face. (some kind words by Scott Edelman are posted here)

Kate Beaton, Scott Campbell, Dustin Harbin, and little old me...

Finally, to my peers and heroes who adopted me into their circle of bro-ship and made my weekend super-extra-fantastically fun, thank you to Dustin Harbin, Kate Beaton, and Cloudy Collection artist (and so much more!) Scott Campbell. I hesitate to list all the other names, because I will surely miss some of you, but it was fantastic to meet you, Phil McAndrew, Steve Wolfhard, Pen Ward, Eleanor Davis, Richard Stevens, Meredith Gran, Jah Furry, Brian Heater, Joe Lambert and his wife Rebecca, Will Dinski (who I first met in Minneapolis), and of course my table buddy, Dan Wyke.

Okay, so rather than try to retell stories that have been told by better storytellers than me, here are some great posts about the weekend by people I spent a lot of time with:
• Dustin Harbin’s tale in three parts, plus a comic: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and the comic
• Dan Wyke’s write-up

a crazy doodle request fulfilled! - thanks, Beth Isaacson!

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A limited edition letterpress print for the third edition of my quarterly project, the Cloudy Collection. The text is adapted from a piece of folk art by Ed Larson that we had over our fireplace the entire time I was growing up. That wood carving said “Wood Is Good”.