ABOUT ME

Me


AARON LECK WHITAKER / is a 23 year old comic artist and screenwriter living in Portland, Oregon. He also play in a band called The Jellyfish Bandits.

aaronlwhitaker(at)yahoo.com

Publications

Self-Printed Minicomics:
• Batcave Beach #1 (coming 4/24)
• Awkward Quarterly #1 (coming 4/24)
• Awkward Quarterly #2 (coming 4/24)
• Future Ghost
• Okay? Okay!

Featured in Magazines:
• Gizmag #8
• EatSleepDraw #3 (coming soon)

Featured in Zines:
Stumptown Underground #4
• Stumptown Underground #5
Stumptown Underground #6

Recent Posts

Hiccups | Gizmag | An Outlet | Loch Ness Monster | Shrooms | Stumptown Comic Fest 2010 | Oswald Park | Being a Drunk | Drive Home | 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2010 | Future Ghost | Push Over | Sidetracked | Camping | Ahhhhhhh!! | Unsure | Update | Famous Art Thieves | New Jellyfish Bandit’s Music Blog | New Painting: Neck Holes | New Painting: A Midsummer’s Extinction | New Painting: The Loch | NEW COMIC: BEARDAMORPHOSIS | STORE OPEN FOR BUSINESS | NEW PAINTING: Share With The Dead |


Links

The Jellyfish Bandit's Music Blog
The Jellyfish Bandit's Myspace
Melinda Boyce
Carbon Made Portfolio



BLOG

Thanks Yahoo…
April 28, 2009


Thanks Yahoo

…for really brightening my day up.


Update (May 1, 2009):

picture-1

There at it again.

Sketchbook #2
April 27, 2009


A Trip to the Park

Popsicle Stick Joke Number One
Q: What did the beachcomber name his daughter?
A: Sandy

Popsicle Stick Joke Number Two
Q: What did the announcer name his son?
A: Mike

Terrible. Do they even try to think of something funny? I shouldn’t even bother licking off the last little syrup to see the punch line. It would be better if I just never knew the answer.

A Sketch A Day
April 20, 2009


Sketchbook 4-20-2008

Starting today I am going to post a sketch per day. Also I am working on some autobiographical comics which I will also add as I finish them. Maybe now there won’t be two weeks in between each post. Maybe…

Also check out the interview with Jeffrey Brown that Melinda and I did for curiocomics.com.

Curio, a comic blog
March 28, 2009


A project that I have just started with Melinda Boyce, is a website called Curio. It’s a blog featuring news and reviews about graphic novels, indie comics and illustrated diaries. It’s goal is to search and find undiscovered artists and expose them. Hopefully, in the future, I will print comic filled magazines under the Curio name. Anyways, you should check it out. www.CurioComics.com

New Song: The Negatives
March 22, 2009


The Jellyfish Bandits is a band I am half of. We do a little bit of indie electro pop and a little bit of bedroom lo-fi folk. You should try an ear-full of us… if you want. Here is a song we finished this weekend called “The Negatives”. We are hoping to play some live shows this summer, work on an album, and other fun band-ish stuff. Download it, share it with your friends and leave me a nice comment. Thanks!

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Commercial Art: Outdoor Kitchen World
March 20, 2009


I have been working a lot lately helping set up Outdoor Kitchen World’s showroom in Tualatin, Oregon. I made large banners, signs and pictures to help decorate the showroom, and I created registration forms, maps and tri-fold brochures to hand out on the grand opening. Here is a few pictures of my work:

I will have more time to work on art now that the grand opening has passed. I have to get ready for selling my art on Alberta Street (in Portland) on their monthly summer art walk. I’m excited.

Hungover
March 18, 2009


I need to be more productive. Enough with the taco bell and napping and watching movies and ghost riding, I need to finish something. I probably only feel motivated because of the nice weather.

So really I just wanted to post this awesome Where the Wild Things Are movie poster:

Where the wild things are movie poster

I’m pretty excited for this movie. I am really feeling Spike Jonze’s vision for the movie. Amazing. I want to live in a wheat field with a constant sunset.

I am a terrible blogger / predictor / person
February 17, 2009


I haven’t really gotten a hang of this whole blogging thing. Maybe if I accomplished something worth writing about. Maybe if I wasn’t just parked halfway in all my projects. One and a half months are gone of 2009 and I am only a little gimped bird hop towards the finish line of my goals.

I married an artist

Did you see the Sasquatch 2009 line-up? I bolded my correct predictions.

Jane’s Addiction (feat. all four original members),
Kings of Leon,
Nine Inch Nails,
Ben Harper & Relentless7,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
Erykah Badu,
The Decemberists,
Fleet Foxes,
TV On The Radio,
Animal Collective,
Silversun Pickups,
Bon Iver,
Santigold,
Of Montreal,
Explosions In The Sky,
Devotchka,
Peter Bjorn & John,
Gogol Bordello,
M. Ward,
The Avett Brothers,
Doves,
Calexico,
Grizzly Bear,
M83,
Girl Talk,
The Gaslight Anthem,
The Walkmen,
Chromeo (dj set),
Deadmau5,
Mugison,
Sun Kil Moon,
Airborne Toxic Event,
Blitzen Trapper,
Shearwater,
BLK JKS,
The Wrens,
Tobacco,
Monotonix,
King Khan & The Shrines,
St. Vincent,
Passion Pit,
John Vanderslice,
Bishop Allen,
Blind Pilot,
AA Bondy,
Black Moth Super Rainbow,
The Knux,
Ra Ra Riot,
The Dodos,

Beach House,
Arthur & Yu,
The Submarines,
Owl City,
Viva Voce,
James Pants,
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band,
The Builders & The Butchers,
The Dutchess & The Duke,
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head,
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele,
Fences,
School of Seven Bells,
Death Vessel,
Horse Feathers,
Hockey,
Point Juncture,
WA,
The Pica Beats,
Loch Lomond,
Vince Mira
more to come.

sunset

The headers are pretty lame, but I’m sure there is something exciting that hasn’t been announced yet. I am most excited for M83, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Of Montreal, Silversun Pickups and Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head. I am still crossing my fingers for MGMT. Leave a comment with who you are excited about seeing.

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