Giant Robot has posted some of their tiger art for sale online here. You can't buy my piece because--hooray!--it already sold, but you can get a look at it finally, and the other madly cool work that's in the show besides.

And look what I found on GR's Flickr: a picture of a lady with a cute dog, and my drawing on the wall in the background.

The comic book project which occupied my grim winter months is finally nearing completion, and I can now confidently predict an April publication of its forty pages by Sparkplug Comic Books. Dylan Williams, the CEO of which, when plied with oolong tea and wheat free vegan fig newtons, has declared the work "beautiful" and "awesome", to my great relief, if not surprise. With home ports in view, the pace of my labor has slackened a little, and I have ample time to flip through the completed pages, identifying countless errors and misjudgements with which I must make peace if I ever hope to have the damn thing complete.

"Year of the Tiger" opens this week at Giant Robot 2 in Los Angeles. If you're in the area go there and see my gruesome (and very reasonably priced) contribution to the show in person. Otherwise you can preview some of the other contributions here.

January is a tough month for everybody, right? It's been snowing and raining here, I miss my folks, a family pet back in New Hampshire died the other day, money is scarce, my baby's been under the weather. Nothing to be done but carry on bravely with "emotional fragility" as our watchwords. I say that to say this: the final David Tennant episode of Doctor Who affected me more deeply than perhaps it deserved to.

There are two art events this month: I'm in Together Gallery's "Family Quilt II" show, which opens this weekend, and Awesome But True Sean Christensen organized an art sale at Cosmic Monkey Comics which takes place on December 19 and 20.

And in January I'll have a never-before-shown painting in Pony Club's "Self Psyche" show. What an exciting blog post.

Happy holidays.

We're about to leave for the reading at the Central Library tonight! We have to get downtown in time for a couple whiskey shots before we go on. Wish us luck!

So far this month I've been featured in two of my favorite art/sex blogs: Sex in Art and Filthy Gorgeous Things.

Rob Clough of sequart.com reviewed my comic book(s), Ariadne auf Naxos, on his blog High-Low, and had some really insightful things to say. I especially liked this part (spelling errors aside):

There's an obsession with nomenclature and language that pervades this comic, especially the ways in which focusing in on picayune details obscures real meaning. Grforer expresses this idea with deadpan wackiness, with dialogue a bit reminiscent of Mat Brinkman's MULTI-FORCE: slang and curses spoken by supernatural characters....This comic is as much about the creation of the comic as it is a narrative, as Grforer never lets the reader forget that the comic is being drawn and that she is drawing it, even as strange things happen to her. The drawings have the crackling energy of sketchbook spontaneity but with a wit that provides a solid support structure.

Ariadne auf Naxos was written mostly during TBA last year, when I volunteered as a gallery sitter. (When you are reading it, try to imagine that you can hear Tamy Ben-Tor's Gewalt, faint but distinct, played every eleven minutes for many hours at a time.) Though I wasn't able to volunteer this year, I have started working on a third book. Brodie and I will be performing my comics at the Portland Public Library in October, about which more soon.

This evening I dropped off my work for this months' show at Zhu Lin Gallery. I'm especially excited about several brand-new large drawings on Japanese Masa paper that I did over the last couple of weeks.



The show opens this Friday, August 7, from 6 to 9 PM. There's a writeup at The Hungry Eyeball.