LA Times Festival of Books

I'll be attending the LA Times Festival of Books this Saturday. Come check out Snowball, LoPM, plus many other cool work at the Literacy Guild booth! There will be live acoustic performances as well.


-->LOCATION:
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089

-->DATE
April 30 & May 1, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011 10am-6pm
Sunday, May 1, 2011 10am-5pm

-->EVENT LINK
http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/

-->BOOTH
The Literacy Guild @ Booth 566 McCarthy Quad (Near Target Booth )

-->USC PARKING $10
Best to park in USC structures near Figueroa and Jefferson intersection.
Parking Structure X (PSX)
Parking Structure D (PSD)
Parking Structure 2 (PSD)

--> Authors & Artists
Jacky Zhang
Wing Kwok http://baitcomics.blogspot.com/
Carissa Chen
Ida Shum http://www.flickr.com/photos/idashum/
Calvin Ru
Diana Chen
Melanie Chen
Derek Taylor Kent http://www.scaryschool.com/
Tina Tsai http://tinabot.blogspot.com/

-->ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES

Saturday
GGFORCE - TBA

Sunday
Gu Zheng - 12-2pm
Random Ninjas - 2pm

new cover for LoPM

I just finished working on a new cover for tinabot's The Legend of Phoenix Mountain. I was very inspired by old Chinese sumi-e painting and the illustrations you often find in old editions of famous wuxia novels. At the same time, tinabot wanted the emphasis to be on the fusion of two cultures - Chinese and American, old and new, etc. So the result became something of a mix between sumi-e landscape paintings and classic fantasy imagery.

We will be promoting LoPM, along with Snowball and many other newly published work, at the Festival of the Books @ USC end of April. Stay tuned for more info!

NDPC got tron-ed

Made this new show flyer for our upcoming gig at the Neon Venus gallery using Tim's awesome NDPC logo. I was trying to play off the word "neon" and somehow it became very "tron" instead. All the image treatment was done in Nuke, because I was lazy and felt that I could achieve this look way faster in Nuke than Photoshop, hehe. XD