Calm Wolf Shirt

I designed this shirt. I think it's pretty good. I did it in Illustrator CS2, drawing each triangle individually, using no filters or cheats. If enough people vote for it, Threadless will print it and America will be a safer place.

Thanks.

Low Poly Gray Wolf

I love the look of low poly artwork, so I spent all day making this wolf. Well, I made a full color wolf, and then changed it to this blue-gray version because I'm thinking about making it into a shirt. It's pretty cool to have it as a vector file and able to manipulate it in different ways.

How to Make Tea

I made this to show people how to make tea, and I also wanted to do something fun on the tea side of the Darjeeling Café. Even though we're concentrating a lot of our efforts on wine, trying to turn our restaurant into the wine destination of Central Virginia, we don't want to forget where we came from. After all, this whole thing started with tea.

We're much more like a European tea room than anything else: come in for some tea, stay for lunch, hang out with friends, before you know it, it's time to enjoy a great beer or wine, then it's dinner time. That's how I lived when I was in Europe (not every day of course, but often), and I think that luxury is missing in people's lives here in the USA.

Skull Maze

This is another maze I did for the upcoming Murder Bros. package. I think people are going to really like this. It's going to be a really cool thing you can get at our shows.

Staunton Clocktower Maze

Climb up the Staunton Clocktower in this maze.
If you have fun with it, let me know.
Thanks.

Elephant on Stress in America

If you click the image, you'll probably be able to read the speech balloons.
I thought this little comic was funny. At the Darjeeling Café, our mascot is an elephant, and we want to put a little magazine together that extends the Darjeeling Café's brand and message of well-being and thriving lifestyle, and that would include a comic from time to time with an anthropomorphic elephant. We are constantly worried about people thinking that it's a republican thing, but I've resigned myself to it. Artists' work is often misunderstood because it does not really belong to the artist once it is thrust out into the world.

Anyway. It's anti-circus and animal violence and pro therapy. I hope you like it.

Super Rocket Car Maze

I created this Rocket Car Maze. I was inspired by a fairly horrible film called Hooper - The Greatest Stuntman Alive with Burt Reynolds. It's pretty awesomely bad. This maze is part of my book-length project I'm working on of mazes.

Click the image to make this Super Rocket Car bigger then print it out and solve it. If you like it, please let me know!

Tea Maze

I think it's better to start this Tea Cup Maze at the handle so that you're going left to right, unless you're left-handed, and you can solve this moving right to left. That's what I was thinking about when I did this. I also thought maybe you could have a tea at my wife's tea shop when it opens back up after a year-long expansion and find this on your table and solve it while you drink. Wouldn't that be a nice way to spend a few minutes? This should take less than 60 seconds to solve, so you could finish it while you waited for your tea to steep or while you waited for it to cool down to the temperature you prefer.

Anyway, this is another maze I did. It's part of the book I've been working on. I hope that you click on it, get the bigger size, and print it out and solve it. If you have fun doing those things, please let me know.

Pegasus Maze

Most people don't know this about me, but I love making mazes. I am fairly obsessed with them. Well, very obsessed. I am working on a book-length maze project that is part art-book, part puzzle-book, fun/interesting for adults and kids, and in black and white. I am also working on rock and roll-themed mazes so that when you buy the new Murder Bros. album, you also get a little book with a few mazes. I think it could be a very cool thing for people to go home with from a show.

Anyway, here is a maze for Pegasus I drew a few years ago. I like it a lot because it's kind of psychedelic.  If you click it and get the bigger image, you can print it out and do it. I hope you have fun with it. Let me know.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (9) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part Nine (9) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten (10) pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (8) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part Eight (8) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten (10) pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (7) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part Seven (7) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten (10) pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (6) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part Six (6) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (5) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part Five (5) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (4) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part Four (4) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (3) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part Three (3) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (2) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part Two (2) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (1) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

Click image to enlarge. Part One (1) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

I might have forgotten to tell you that I studied German at UC Berkeley and graduated with Highest Honors. Translation theory was one of my main focuses.

Tiger Lilly

I drew this and then colored it in Photoshop. I only used a mouse. I never use a tablet. I've thought many times about getting one, but I never got around to it, and I'm crazy good at using the mouse.

Murder Bros. and Life in a Foxhole at the Bazaar

I made this for the Murder Bros. and Life in a Foxhole, who will be playing in Roanoke on June 11 at the Bazaar. It's $5 and starts at 9pm. It's going to be a great show.