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NewOldRare

DO NOT REPOST MY ARTWORK. Anywhere or for any reason.

The art and comics tagged newoldrare are from an original series in progress. It’s set in the 90s in New Jersey but not quite - retrospeculative instead of historically accurate, filtered through my own experiences. The two main characters are Louis (FTM) and Neil (cisgender), and it’s mostly about music and movies and the part of growing up you do in your thirties.

You can buy physical copies of these comics here through Radiator Comics, or at South Street Art Mart in Philadelphia. They also have some of my prints and stickers.

You can read all my comics on my website.

You can join my free monthly mailing list (don't forget to confirm).

I’m not making things in order, so here is the chronological reading list for the NewOldRare comics. More will be added as I do them.

You're So Cool (October 1994)

Interstate 280 East, Exit 16 (May 1995)

Say I'm the Only Bee in Your Bonnet (July 1995)

Picture Search (September 1995)

Needles (October 1995)

Ghost Stories (October 1995)

Diggin the New (December 1995)

Dear You (March 1996)

Art Critic (April 1996)

How To Tie A Tie In Seventeen Steps Or More (April 1996)

Dracula Daily, 1980s Style (May 1996)

Great Dickspectations (November 1996)

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I'll be at 3 Rivers Comic Con in Pittsburgh (table 308 with Keness Printing) on the 6th and 7th of June with the usual books and prints and stickers, but also shirts and some other neat stuff. Come say hi if you're in the area.

I'll also be selling shirts and other things online properly when I get back! I'm working on an online store, learning as I go.

And I'll be at Princeton Zine Fest on the 20th of June and Flamecon in August.

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A wedding gift for my friends Barry and Tristan. They weren't sure what they'd like, and because Barry is an amateur bodybuilder I jokingly said I'd just put their heads on Frank Frazetta's barbarian painting. They liked the idea/composition and I tweaked it to make it more equal, and added a Dr Who theme.

Inkwash, watercolour, and coloured pencil on hot press paper. 10x14.

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he's here in LEGOOOO CITYYYYY

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Remembered to get a photo with this legend when I was in Manchester last weekend.

The instructions are in the reblogs btw.

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I did a restock - and added new stock - at South Street Art Mart! New t-shirts, new types of teeth, new stickers, and restocked the prints. All my NSFW prints are getting low and won't be reprinted, I'm focusing on making new things.

Finally remembered to send physical copies (two-colour risograph) of Ghost Stories to Radiator Comics too.

This year I'll likely be retiring things as they run out and moving forward, with the possible exception of the faggot zine.

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In late 2020 I would get on Mapcrunch and draw places around the world in an A6 sketchbook.

The giant watermelon is outside a farmers market type place near where I grew up.

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I'm going to be at BICS this weekend (in the yellow room) with some of my first run of shirts! And books/stickers/prints/teeth, of course. Come say hi if you're in the area.

If you're on my mailing list, you know I got some secondhand screenprinting equipment and have been learning. I'm setting up an online store this month and will be selling these (hopefully) by May, adding a few other designs slowly over time. I'm not interested in running a print shop, but the point of doing it myself is that I don't have to guess at sizes to order and I can offer designs longer term, experiment, etc. I also just enjoy doing it.

Sizes for online will be XS to 5XL, but I will only have S to XL at BICS. I've got white or metallic green (looks way better in person than in that photo) on black this weekend, plus a few wildcards.

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I explained Wet Beast Wednesday to my very offline coworker and she sent me a photo of her giant dog experiencing bathtime.

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Feb and March 2x3 sketchcards. Pop punk guitarists and seals.

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A gift for my friend whose cat Oscar likes to sit on her record player.

Inkwash, watercolour, and coloured pencil on hot press paper. 10x14.

My first try at a bigger painting in this style, I've only done sketchcards and postcards like this before.

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Illustrating things @titan-t-dog says as film frames.

The last one arrived as a video message while I was in the ICU after my phalloplasty graft.

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A little bonus bit of fanart I did for the Wallace and Zephyr comics. Just a 4x6 postcard.

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I think IFC's Cinemetal shirts are fun so I did a parody of an old Circle Jerks shirt for David Cronenberg.

I like both looks. If I made a shirt, it'd be single colour because I have a single-colour setup.

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Ink on bristol commission of Wallace and Zephyr from Catalina Rufin's comics. They're a similar format to NewOldRare, with shorter stories about moments in a relationship instead of one big story. Check them out!

Also it's pretty funny that we both independently used Warren Zevon as visual inspiration for a trans man character (Louis has a few other guys in there too).

Neil and Louis would be 60 and 61 in 2026.

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Made my friends a couples gift to wear on their Valentines Day date to see Nine Inch Nails (who were amazing).

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I did some little TV head paintings for a tutorial (with process pictures) of how I do watercolour on wood, because I don't think it's a common way of working. You can see the uncensored versions there too, of course.

Yeah, I know the stickers look kinda silly.

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2x3(ish) sketchcards.