he dreams a city street a hundred ways

Recommended for a perfect night: Listen to loud music. Drink vodka-tonics (vodkas-tonic?). Draw one of your favourite people.

He ate a donut!

Almost there

Thanks to the Nick Novak Scholarship in 2010, Unspent Love, Volume One is on its way to completion. Due November 4, along with an installation of artwork from the series, at Open Studio.

Incidentally, Tara Cooper, modeling in the image above, is the 2011 Nick Novak Scholar! Toot toot!

Talk of loneliness in quiet voices

Another chapter of Unspent Love is up at Top Shelf. I'm so touched by Leigh's assessment, "With this series, Shannon is quietly stitching together a tapestry of human relationships that's devastating in its insight. In this installment, misheard lyrics mean more than the originals."

Thank you, Leigh.

BTW, the song is Lakes of Canada by The Innocence Mission. My all-time favourite band. I even love them more than Bruce Cockburn, more than Mike Doughty. I even love them more than John K Sampson.

you are perfect and i love you

New strip up at Top Shelf.
Thank you stef lenk, for lending me your face.

Unspent (in other words, buried)

What a satisfying, productive period the summer has been so far (a summer from work for me, though not by the calendar). Current projects are shaping up pretty well, so it looks like I am going to head out for westerly parts through the month of August afterall. I am squirrelly for a break from this city!!

Unspent Love, Chapter 11 is done. This one is terrifyingly sad for me. Gulp.

Two pages excerpted above. Click images for bigger versions.

Not sure when this will appear online at Top Shelf.

28 on the 28th

One of my favourite people just got a liiiittle bit older.

I miss you, Swaters

I miss you, stef lenk

New drawings in progress for Unspent Love. Four chapters on the go at once!

Standing in Tomorrow (on the runway)

Look at this face! New Unspent Love on its way to completion...as...we...speak.

Stu-studio*

After a sickly summer, it feels really great to say that I am back in the studio hard and heavy-- working towards a print edition of Unspent Love. This project has languished while I've been working on S-word and because I've been seeking some funding to get it made. But, this year I won the Nick Novak Scholarship at Open Studio, an incredibly generous opportunity which affords me the space and resources to finally complete this book. Thank you Open Studio!

The skimpy 6 chapters currently up at Top Shelf will soon grow! Meanwhile, I'll be screenprinting and letterpressing my heart out (really!) to make a print edition of at least 20 of the stories in time for the Novak exhibition next Fall.



*For the record, I derisively categorize Phil Collins under the label "Old Man** Music," though, Starlee Kine could change my mind.

**No offense old men.***

***Especially old men with beards.****

****whoa.

They just keep coming....

Number 6 is online....
This chapter stars the lovely Genevieve and her amazing tattoo. Today also happens to be her birthday. Happy birthday Gen!

Number Five

Unspent Love Number 5-- now available in hot online action.

NUMBER FOUR!

Check it out HERE

Unspent Love Chapter 3

Number Three is UP

Smoochies

In progress for Unspent Love

Unspent Love Chapter 2

Chapter Two is up already! Read it HERE.

UNSPENT LOVE; Or, Things I Wish I Told You -- NOW LIVE

The first chapter is live at TOP SHELF!

I remember the sound, of your November downtown

and I remember the truth, of a warm December with you.

More of Top Shelf

Another in-progress page from my comic for Top Shelf.
This panel and the one below are excerpts of the second installment in my strip Unspent Love; Or, Things I Wish I Told You. When the first strip goes live, I'll post images from that work and link to the real deal at Top Shelf 2.0

In Progress for Top Shelf 2.0

...tucking a small sweetness into the fabric of your life and ideas.

SNEAK PEEK: Working on some new comics for Top Shelf 2.0!