I did a little thing for the Awl’s year-end coverage about earthquakes, and how they are coming for us. An expert has since informed me that my fault infographic is marginally screwy — I made a copyediting error in my late-night rush to file. This is where I’d make some quip about blogs and fact-checking, but instead I hope you’ll enjoy the thing nonetheless.

two through four to come later this week

Today I published my first cartoon for the international syndicate Cartoon Movement. You can check it out on their site, alongside the work of many other talents from around the world. I’m excited about Cartoon Movement and what they’ll be doing for comics journalism with their Euros, so stay tuned. I especially like that one of their first cartoon collections is dedicated to hunger.

I think this is about as close to a classic editorial cartoon as I’ve ever gotten. Please don’t expect any labeled donkeys and elephants from me any time soon, though…

I will probably be posting again before the New Year (there is so much in the pipeline!), but if for some reason I find myself waylaid by drink and revelry: thank you so much to everyone who has been reading all year, and expect much more in 2011! New illustrated work for the SF Appeal and the Awl, plus other more secret projects are very soon to come…

This one even made the Awl.

Special thanks to fellow cartoonist and math-head Matthew Phelan for the peeing-in-the-pool metaphor, and to people everywhere who don’t understand how statistics work, giving me good cartoon fodder. This is the first of this project where I felt like I could’ve really improved the piece by going further into depth and explaining the issue more completely, but deadlines loom. Excuse me while I go draw some unhappy cats.

New comic for the SF Appeal, this time on California’s Prop H8. I enjoyed drawing those grave-dancers.

These are warm-up drawings given meaning. G-nib and ink with digital color.

As you can see, the entire first installment of Nine Gallons stories are now here, and reasonably well-organized. This coincides with me selling out of the second printing of the book — and I’m not yet sure how to reprint it. (Don’t worry — if you’ve already placed your order, I have a book for you.) Turns out that legal-size is more than twice the cost of letter-size, and so costs are somewhat prohibitive. That’s why I decided to put the book here for free, and it’s why I’ve decided to add a Paypal “tips” button to the sidebar. If you really enjoy what I do here, I surely wouldn’t turn down your loose change. But I also still might reprint the book if I can find a way to do it for cheap enough, and if there’s enough interest.

Otherwise, you can buy the brand new installment of Nine Gallons stories now too! Either from me or from Microcosm, who published it! Mine’s $1 more because it includes a sketch of your choice.