February 20th, 2025
I’ll be exhibiting at a few festivals coming up: JAB in Jersey City, February 22-23; MoCCA in Manhattan, March 15-16; and BICS in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, April 26-27. Stop by and say hi!
January 21st, 2025
Thrilled to have written a review of Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s graphic novel, Dog Days, for Hyperallergic check it out here!
November 25th, 2024
Feeling very privileged to have been able to write three graphic novel review blurbs for Hyperallergic’s round up of The 30 Best Art Books of 2024. I wrote about Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S. by Caitlin Cass, Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory by Solomon J. Brager, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbooks Got Wrong by Nate Powell and James Loewen.
October 17th, 2024
I am Crowdfunding the printing of the second chapter of my in-progress book length memoir, Exodus to Orlando. We currently have a stretch goal with the aim of reprinting my short story That’s Not What We’re Called, as a stand alone comic. The story was originally printed in the anthology American Cult, published by Silver Sprocket and Paper Rocket Minicomics. Support if you can!
October 5th, 2024
I’ll be leading two sketching workshops at the Bowne House, in Flushing, Queens as part of my 2024 Queens Arts Fund project. All participants will get free drawing supplies and a copy of my Bowne House comic.
September 10th, 2024
I’ll be exhibiting at a couple of festivals coming up: SPX in Bethesda, MD, September 14-15th and at PictoBeach Bazaar at Rockaway Beach on September 21th.
May 16th, 2024
I’m excited to announce that I’m a 2024 Queens Arts Fund recipient. This project-based grant, administered by NYFA, will enable me to create a comic about the Bowne family historic house in Flushing, Queens and lead a drawing workshop there in the fall. After being arrested for holding a Quaker meeting in his home in 1662 and winning his case in court, John Bowne set a precedent for religious freedom, free speech, and right of assembly. Subsequent family members were abolitionists and participated in the Underground Railroad.
May 5th, 2024
I’ve contributed a blurb for Hyperallergic’s 14 Art Books to Read This Summer about Navied Mahdavian’s graphic memoir, This Country.
April 24th, 2024
I am honored to have a new comic published on Hyperallergic. Read it here. I poured my whole heart into this one. The comic is about the painter Arshile Gorky who survived the Armenian Genocide, cultural erasure, and the neglected Armenian Genocide memorial at Union Square which Gorky’s studio would have overlooked.
April 13th, 2024
Excited to be back at BICS on Saturday, April 13nd, 11:00am-7pm. At St. Mark's Comics, 51 35th St, Industry City, Courtyard 5/6, Brooklyn 11232. FREE Admission!
April 1st, 2024
I’ve contributed a blurb for Hyperallergic’s 12 Graphic Novels to Read This Spring about Mattie Lubchansky’s, Boy’s Weekend.
February 22th, 2024
I will be on a panel discussing the representation of the Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall community, more commonly known as “the Sullivanians,” 5-7pm at the Columbia Journalism School, lecture hall (3rd floor) 2950 Broadway, New York, NY. The event will consist of two panels moderated by Alexander Stille, author of “The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune”. The first will include various people who have written or represented the group’s experience including Alexander Stille, Amy Siskind, Luke Meyer, Alice Graves, Kaethe Cherney, and myself.
The second panel will be made up of people who were interviewed for Stille’s book and/or the upcoming “Fourth Wall” docuseries (created by Keith Newton and Luke Meyer) to talk about the experience of having their stories told by others. There will be time after each panel for comments and/or questions from the public.
February 13th, 2024
Very excited to participate in an exhibition of comics art at The Pace University Gallery. The show is up from Feb 13th - March 16 and is curated by Tommy Nguyen and Anna Zhang. The Journey Illustrated exhibit highlights seven cartoonists, graphic novelists, and illustrators who create deeply personal stories of identity that recast the quotidian as heroic and celebrate the essence of the city. Artists included: Tanya Dorph-Mankey, Sija Hong, Kuri Huang, June Kim, Jesse Lambert, Barbara Slate, and Ronald Wimberly.
January 25th, 2024
I’ll be participating in a panel at the Society of Illustrators at 6:30pm, Thursday, January 25th about the collaborative graphic novel biography of Clayton Patterson, artist, photographer, anti police brutality activist, and documenter of NYC’s Lower East Side in the late 70s and 80s. Clayton was curated and written by Julian Voloj, features sixteen artists, and was published by Permuted Press in 2020. I drew five pages for the project.
December 9th, 2023
So excited for the very First Jackson Heights Mini Comics Fest taking place at Art Retail Therapy on December 9, 1-5pm! I’ll be tabling there along with some very talented local NYC comics artists.
December 5th, 2023
I am so happy to be published by Hyperallergic for a second time. You can read about my art fair nightmare here.
October 16th, 2023
Looking forward to exhibiting at the Nonfiction Comics Festival in Burlington, VT at the Fletcher Free Library. Coming up November 18, 11am-6pm.
September 1st, 2023
I’ll be exhibiting at a couple of festivals coming up: SPX in Bethesda, MD, on September 9th-10th and at PictoBeach Bazaar at Rockaway Beach on September 16th.
April 11th, 2023
Excited to be tabling at BICS on Saturday, April 22nd, 11:00am-7pm. At St. Mark's Comics, 51 35th St, Industry City, Courtyard 5/6, Brooklyn 11232. FREE Admission!
March 26th, 2023
I’ll be tabling at MoCCA on April 1st and 2nd at Paper Rocket Minicomics table, #201. Robyn Chapman, Colin Lidston and Sacha Jones will be there too!
March 7th, 2023
I’m honored to be a featured artist on the awesome Epicenter-NYC online newsletter. You can see it here, and check out all the other NYC artists they have featured since 2020.
December 6th, 2022
Very excited to have been accepted as an exhibitor at the New Jersey Art Book Fair that will be held at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City on January 28-29th. Come and visit me there!
October 25th, 2022
I am absolutely thrilled to have one of my comics published on Hyperallergic. You can read about Clement Greenberg, abstraction, cartooning, cult therapy, and me here.
September 24th, 2022
I’ll be tabling at the Nonfiction Comics Festival at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, VT on October 15th. And after that, it’s on to MICE in Boston on October 22-23. It’s been a busy Fall!
August 30th, 2022
I am very excited to be exhibiting at a couple of conventions coming up: SPX in Bethesda, MD, on September 17th-18th and at MICE in Boston on October 22-23. If you’re going, stop by and say hi!
March 16th, 2022
Looking forward to tabling at MoCCA this year on April 2nd and 3rd. Paper Rocket Minicomics is hosting me at their table and Colin Lidston and Jon Allen will be there too!
December 10th, 2021
I’ve rebooted my Etsy shop for the holidays with new mini comics and giclée prints available.
December 8th, 2021
I’ll be giving an artist talk through the JH Art Talks series on Zoom and presenting in-progress work on my graphic memoir. The work I will be showing was generously supported in part by a 2021 New Work Grant from the Queens Council for the Arts.
December 4th, 2021
Julian Voloj and Clayton Patterson will be having a conversation about the collaborative graphic novel biography Clayton: Godfather of the Lower East Side – A Documentary at the Tompkins Square Library. I will have some sketches and final art for my contribution to the project displayed at the library. Register for the event here.
August 25th, 2021
I’m excited to have received a grant administered by NYFA and DCLA to join the City Artist Corps New York City public art initiative. Looking forward to leading a kids comics making workshop on Sunday, September 19th, at 34th Ave Open Streets in Jackson Heights.
June 16, 2021
I am honored to have received a 2021 New Work Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts to publish an excerpt of my book-length graphic memoir in progress. More coming soon.
May 18, 2021
My short graphic memoir, “That’s Not What We’re Called,” is included in the anthology, American Cult, edited by Robyn Chapman, and published May, 2021 by Paper Rocket Comics and Silver Sprocket. The story explores themes of community, belonging, and identity formed in an environment saturated with counterculture ideals and radical politics. As well as how the objectifying lens of the news media sensationalizes the cult experience, portraying members as “other.”
February 15, 2021
I’m excited to have some of my COVID themed comics included in an anthology published by Graphic Mundi, the new graphic novel imprint of Penn State University Press. COVID Chronicles is available now on Amazon. A portion of profits go to charitable organizations in the comic book industry benefiting those who have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
November 29, 2020
I’ve opened an Etsy shop where I’m selling my mini comics and a selection of giclée prints. Check it out!
May 19, 2020
I have five pages of comics in Clayton: Godfather of the Lower East Side – A Documentary. A collaborative biography of Clayton Patterson, artist, photographer, anti police brutality activist, and documenter of NYC’s Lower East Side in the late 70s and 80s. Clayton is curated and written by Julian Voloj, features sixteen artists, and is published by Permuted Press.
April 27, 2020
I am currently working on a book-length graphic novel memoir. Applying with this project, I was a finalist for the Creative Capital Awards of 2020. You can see images and progress updates on Instagram at @4thwallcomix