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The Bottomless Belly Button / 720 pages / Fantagraphics Books / June 2008
Synopsis: A comedy/mystery about the fictional Loony family. Visit the links below for more story information. Available on Amazon.com.

Watch an animated trailer for it here.
 Introduction to the characters (with sample panels)
Sample pages

Color Short Stories
"Dr. Strange Vs. Nightmare" will appear in a Marvel indy-creator anthology series later this year. "The Unclothed Man In The 35th Century A.D." will appear in the new Meathaus anthology titled "S.O.S." I'm also a regular contributor to the Fantagraphics quarterly anthology "Mome" starting with volume #10.

Dr. Strange Vs. Nightmare (first two pages)
The Unclothed Man In The 35th Century A.D. (first two pages)
 Look Forward, First Son of Terra Two (first two pages)
The Galactic Funnels (sample pages)

The Mother's Mouth / 128 pages / Alternative Comics / 2006
Synopsis: A woman goes to her hometown, a pre-Katrina New Orleans, to visit her sick mother. There, she meets a musician who reminds her of her elementary school boyfriend. The woman and the musician re-enact scenes from her previous relationship as a psycho-drama to correct her troubling past. 2007 Eisner Award Nominee, "Special Recognition" category. Available on Amazon.com.

20 page PDF preview of the book
Goddess Head (short stories 2002 - 2004) / 100 pages / Teenage Dinosaur Press / 2005
Synopsis: Ten different square-sized short stories done over a few years. Some of these comics previously appeared in "Meat Haus," "The Philadelphia Independent," "Garish Zow," "Visual Opinion Magazine" and "Big Dumb Fun."

Read "Echo and Narcissus" story PDF
Read "Goddess Head" story PDF

Love Eats Brains: A Zombie Romance / 128 pages / Odd God Press / 2004
Synopsis: A love triangle, where a photographer must choose between his pregnant girlfriend and the memory of a dead teenage librarian.
The second half of the book was originally done with color gouache paint on acetate, like an animation cell. I use this same acetate-paint technique for the cut-paper backgrounds in other comics and "BodyWorld."
Sample pages at meathaus.com

MINI-COMICS
Echo and Narcissus / 22 pages / Teenage Dinosaur Press / 2005

"Sandboxes" book and CD / 16 pages / self-published / 2004