ABOUT ME

Me


AARON LECK WHITAKER / is a 24 year old painter, comic artist and screenwriter living in Portland, Oregon. He also plays in a band called The Jellyfish Bandits.

aaronlwhitaker(at)yahoo.com

Where I'll Be

Aug 28-29: Portland Zine Symposium
Sept 24: Last Thursday on Alberta


Paintings

Comic Books

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Zines & Magazines
featuring my comics

Gizmag #8
EatSleepDraw #3
Stumptown Underground #4
Stumptown Underground #5
Stumptown Underground #6
Stumptown Underground #7

Donations

If you've enjoyed my comics/art and have a little extra money to donate, I'd really appreciate it. I'm unemployed currently and spend most of my money trying to fund art supplies, printing costs and top ramien. Cheers!


My other websites

Aaron Whitaker on Etsy
The Jellyfish Bandits
Batcave Beach
Gingham Ghost (Under Construction)


Awesome Links

MELINDA BOYCE
Dash Shaw
Jeffrey Brown
Nate Beaty
Alec Longstreth
Tugboat Press
Sparkplug Comics
ffffound
Deth Junkie


Recent Posts

Portland Zine Symposium | To My Own | All My Arms | Eye Poke 3 | I’m On Etsy Now | Ozonaut | love never suffices, just leave me to my vices | Diary Comic Reading | Mistaken | The Biggest Douchebag I Have Ever Met | Another Group Comic | Group Comic | Eye Poke 2! | Batcave Beach Now Available in PDF Download | Eye Poke! | Eye Injury | The Awkward Quarterly #1 | Misc Road Trip Comics | Album Artwork | Wanderlust | In Their Image | Implode | Hiccups | Gizmag | An Outlet |



Store

If you live in Portland, Oregon you can purchase my comics at these comic book stores: Reading Frenzy, Guapo Comics & Coffee or Floating World Comics


***Unfortunately this store is just for shipping within the United States. If you live outside the United States email me (aaronlwhitaker@yahoo.com) your order and address and I will let you know what the cost of shipping will be. Sorry for the inconvenience!***



$3.00 + Shipping

The Awkward Quarterly #1

Autobiographical / 48 pages / 8.5″ x 5.5″ / Black & White
Mature Readers

This is the first issue of my quarterly mini-comic “The Awkward Quarterly”. It is a collection of my autobiographical comics most have not been seen before on my website. This issue is divided into two parts: “Teenage Ruckus” (dumb things I did as a teenager) and “Starving Artist” (dumb things I am doing now).

Preview





$6.00 + shipping

Batcave Beach: Chapter 1

Written by Aaron Whitaker & Illustrated by Melinda Tracy Boyce

Fiction / 52 pages / 8.5″ x 7″ / Full Color
Mature Readers

A teenage outcast sneaks into a rich private school’s party. There he befriends an eccentric duo obsessed with death and begins a haunting and quirky adventure to discover the meaning of life… before it’s too late. The first of five chapters in this awesome new series.

Official Website | Preview





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Future Ghost

Fiction / 44 pages / 8.5″ x 5.5″ / Some Color
Mature Readers

A lonely girl house-sits for the summer and falls in love with the music of a recently deceased boy.

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$4.00 + shipping

Okay? Okay!

Includes work by Aaron Whitaker & Melinda Tracy Boyce

Autobiographical / 64 pages / 5.5″ x 8.5″ / Black & White
Mature Readers

A double comic about the real love story of the two artists told through two perspectives in two contrasting art styles.

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