2011, A Year in Review!

2011 is on it's last gasp! That means it's that time of year again where I look back on the year in comics and tell you all about some of my favs! Hopefully this will shine some light on some deserving souls, there is always more comics to be sold! I peer pressure you to go out and buy all these books! NOW! GO!

Old City Blues by Giannis Milonogiannis This is an awesome cyber punk whodunnit book starring awesome mechs and beautiful cars set in a near future Greece. Giannis is a crazy talented guy and he is also super young..so that is scary.

Pope Hats #2 by Ethan Riley PopeHats 2 guys! Man, Ethan Riley can sure draw. This book is such a pleasure to look at and then you read it and realize he is just as strong at writing as well. Great book.

King City by Brandon Graham Brandon Graham has a real inspiring individuality to his work. Every page is jammed full of puns, pretty ladies and funny dialogue. Under all that though is a really good story about growing up and making your own decisions.

Orc Stain by James Stokoe Orc Stain is awesome. So unique looking and the story and genre have never been done this way either. This is a long epic story that is being set up, hopefully it gets back to a good release sched in the new year. I miss my gronches!

Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol This is Vera Brosgol's premiere book. I have been a fan of her since she put her Grad film Snow-bo online seven or eight years ago..since then she has had her work in the Flight Anthologies and posted a long stream of awesome work online. Anya's Ghost is a spooky story of a russian girl in an american highschool with her unfriendly ghost. As with a lot of her work it takes a pretty twisted turn towards the end. Great book and apparently YA friendly!

Remake 2 by Lamar Abrams Lamar Abrams followup to the original remake continues to please. Funny, well drawn and irreverent, Remake is a love letter to fart jokes and Megaman

Even the Giants by Jesse Jacobs Jesse's work is very unique looking he uses two tones and leans on isometric perspective. The stories are down right weird too. The book has two main narratives, one about two giants living in the Arctic and another about two really creepy looking brothers jumping around a surreal anti reality. Fun book, check it out!

The Thickness #2 by various. This book boasts work from some of indie comics elite taking a crack at porn, including two others already on this list, Graham and Deforge. Not for the pure of heart, but definitely worth checking out!

20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa Urasawa was on my list last year. I am a big fan, 20th Century boys I believe wraps in 2012, this will be sad. A hell of a series with beautiful art and excellent characterization.

Wolves by Becky Cloonan Becky Cloonan is one of my favs, her inks are so black and smooth and her artistic sensibilites are really close in line to what I wish I could produce. Wolves takes all those things that I already love about her work and then jumps into my fav genre fantasy/horror. She couldn't do wrong.

Lose #3 by Michael Deforge Deforge is indie comics belle of the ball for a reason. Lose is awesome, twisted, unique and funny. Track down these books. They rad.

So that's it for this year. There are a bunch of other comics I love out there but the list was already getting long.. So go out there read these books and read thier favorites to find even more good stuff! Comics rule and so can you!

Also, Fight Song! My webcomic continues, check it out dogz!

Ye Olde Beech and Moaner

So this is the big screen I've been working on for the last while. The screening process was fairly painless on this one, the work on getting the strip ready for the printing took the lions share of the work. These are pretty big..I think they 15x22 inches..I got about ten good ones out of this run so I will prolly sell these and the Converted Protest print at future cons.

Guys, Fight Song is now up on the ol website! Be sure to go check it out. It's Dino Mite!

Dating.

This is another one of my little strips for the old style newspaper comics page silk screening thing I just finished! The final product is pretty awesome I think..I look forward to unleashing it on you some time in the futures!

Guys! Don River just finished up on my ol website. Be sure to keep coming back because on Monday the action packed Fight Song starts uploading!!

A Converted Protest

This is a 3 layer silkscreen. This is a photo so it looks a little off...the colors are quite a bit nicer than they look here. It's hard to get em just right w my crappy camera. Hope you guys like it.

Remember to read Don River! We are into the last week of pages now!

Jerky Kid.

This is one of nine strips that will all be printed together in a Newspaper comics page style. It will be silkscreened..three layers I'm thinking right now. The uniting theme of all these is going to be technology.

Hope you guys are still reading Don River. I have it on good authority that it is bad ass.

Here are a couple doodles for you guys. The warrior guy, I was thinking of this character, Scale, from Joe Abercrombie's books. His biggest role is in "The Heroes". I love his stuff, if you have a dark and gritty Fantasy fan in your life Joe Abercrombies books are some good ones!
The riot police officer is for a silk screening piece I recently did. I will be putting up that image soon as well. It's pretty cool I think.
So other than that, Don River is still updating. We're getting close to the end of that one. Hope you're all reading!

Don River Silk Screen Cover!

Jeez guys, just realized I didn't post showing what the new covers to Don River look like..Check it out! Silk Screen DUDES! 2 Layers of badassness!

Remember read Don River now! Over at http://brianevinou.com

TinTin

Well looks like I did a TinTin!

There is a big show coming up put on by The Beguiling. It's called Toronto Draws TinTin. It's illustrators and comic artists coming together and..well you know. The opening reception is Nov 2nd and then there is a blind auction later on...Nov 27th? Anyways, the show runs the whole month of November at the Steam Whistle Gallery so come and check it out!

As for my piece. I've recently gotten into screen printing. It is awesome. THis one in particular is six layers. It's printed on a very expensive paper from Arches and it's 100% B.A! As for theme, you might be able to guess who the New York Sewer creatures are if you look closely.

Brother's Keeper

Hey guys! Remember I said I would post inks to that Western Horror book when I finished it then never did?! Well, here it is. Forgot to post it for you guys. SOOOOORRRRY!

So, this was written by AG Pasquella, drawn by Moi. It's for an Anthology being put together by Friendly Phil McClorey.

What else, last week was Canzine! I had a good time. I was a little ill...so I kind of bailed two hours early. Sorry if I missed you! I still have a few Silk Screened covers of Don RIver available..so don't fret if you didn't get one.

Also you can read Don River online now, check it out! It's awesome!

Esther!

Guys! Psychic Drama is wrapped up! Hope you enjoyed it! As it was wrapping down I drew a few pics of the characters that may turn up somewhere sometime. I thought I would share one of em with you. It's Esther! She was always my fave to draw. Hope you guys like it!

Now that Psychic Drama is done, Don River is now updating on the ol website. So if you haven't had a chance to read it head on over and check it out. It is definitely B.A!

So I've been very busy. We got Canzine coming up next weekend. Come on down and say hello! I believe the second volume of Grawlix will be released there. I got a new 4 pager in there. It's pretty rad. Also I've beeen doing some silk screens..so I should have some new versions of Don River there with a sexy new silk screened cover!

Be sure to stop on by! See you then!