The Business Up Front cover and back cover

Business Up Front ready to mail out in eye-searing yellow envelopes

One of many alternate shots from the fog machine and lasers photo shoot that were too mutated to use (touched up for extra shininess)

Business Up Front is an eighty six page zine that I put together as a thank-you/gift book for friends and associates which only slightly approaches being a promotional item for the things that I do commercially before retreating fully into being a personal comics and sketchbook anthology. Among posters and illustrations are the comics that I’ve done for Vice Magazine‘s website, Meathaus S.O.S., and my pages from both GO FOR THE GOLD! 2 and 3.

The process began with the cover concept: Me in a suit and tie, confidently approaching the universal business hand representing you, coming in for a firm, friendly handshake all while traversing a fog and laser field of treacherous business uncertainty, or techno-futurism, depending on your inclinations. I called friends in from several nearby cities to converge on Jenny Drumgoole‘s studio where a full scale laser fog machine party was launched. It was only thanks to the steady hand and clear thinking of Jenny that I actually did end up with a few shots to choose from, because by the time I put on my suit this thing was going full-on laser:

Laser biz

Important Business Up Front notes and ideas from my sketchbook.