RVAnthology

In the middle of this year, a few friends and I talked about a comic book project. We all love comic book anthologies and wished that we could see something like that in Richmond, where a couple of illustrators create their own stories. We realized that we could do this and more importantly we wanted to do this. This became the start of the RVAnthology (pronounced R-V-A Anthology), a graphic novel composed of five short graphic stories written and illustrated by five different artists with five different personal voices. What sets this anthology apart from others is that all of the stories are inspired by our city Richmond, VA (known as "RVA" for short, hence the title). The stories are as follows:

Rooftops by Chris Visions

Amygdalae by Eric Pfeiffer

Restless by Nate Nelson

Malaise by Richie Pope

Sink Slow Down by Julia Scott

Not only will this book be released as a physical book for purchase, but we will also have a release party/opening reception in Richmond, VA at the Whitley Gallery on December 10th, 6-9 pm. There will be all kinds of good stuff to see including the anthology for purchase, prints, variant covers and original pages.

Below is my version of the promotional poster to be released pretty soon.

We have five versions, one for each of our stories, so they will be a nice thing to collect and hang up in any formation.

I will also be working on a whole new set of portfolio pieces and getting prepared to enroll in the Richmond, VA Pod of The Art Department for the 2011 semester. A lot of things are coming up that I'm really excited about, mostly things that I'm putting my heart and soul into. That's the way an artist should be, right?