About

I am an illustrator and comic artist working out of the San Francisco Bay Area. My work has seen print in the East Bay Express, the Lavapunch comics anthology, and the Missed Connections and Bridge Project anthologies. On the web, my work has appeared on the frontpages of XIP, Retrocrush, Somethingawful, and creativeskin.

Aside from illustration, I am also currently working in Silicon Valley mocking up and implementing GUI designs for web applications. I do a lot of HTML, CSS, and javascript scripting in my job, and I've done my share of Java, PHP, Perl, and JSP.

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Post its for POST IT SHOW 4!

Hellen and me just sent off a ton of post its to the POST IT SHOW 4 at GR2 Los Angeles. It goes from December 5, 2009 - January 13, 2010.

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Posted: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:04:24 GMT

Calvin fucked up

Hey everybody, it has come to my attention that some orders for Ramble On! have slipped through the cracks and have not been fulfilled. Blame the UI clusterfuck that is yahoo mail, where I can't even tell the difference between a Zimbabwean Trying to Scam Me vs. Somebody Actually Trying to Give me Cash Monies. I have since changed my paypal inbox to my gmail account where I will be super alert and vigilant about orders because of the clean UI and excellent spam filter.

I sent some of the delinquent orders out this morning with some extra goodies as an apology, so if I have inadvertently scammed you out of your $4, please contact me!

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Posted: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:11:44 GMT

Electric Ant #2

Hey dudes, I will be at APE this weekend (BANG GANG table) with a zine called "COMIX QUEST"-- it's basically a collection of older comics with a common sci/fi fantasy bent. 

I'll also be there to support my pal Ryan's new perfect bound zine ELECTRIC ANT for which I did a handful of drawings. I took a look at it on the plane back from SPX and I can vouch for it's kickassitude-- the theme was BODY HORROR. Forgive me if posterous fudges the below HTML but this is the "buy" link: 

<br> CLICK TO BUY ELECTRIC ANT #2!

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Posted: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:03:25 GMT

DS-10 Ringo, Te Amo (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) !

  
Download now or listen on posterous

Ringo.m4a (1835 KB)

Recently I discovered this great Cher paean to the least understood Beatle via Hellen (from the 60s: Ringo, I Love You) and I decided to cover it on my DS-10. It's not the whole song (i ran out of memory for patterns) but it's most of it. The Kraftwerk-esque breaks were artistic license of course. There's a new version of the DS-10 coming out in September that doubles the amount of Analog Synths you can have and doubles the drum sounds. Only for the DSi unfortunately though :(

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Posted: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:06 GMT

In NYC this week for MoCCA!

I'll be showing this Kirby inspired piece + two older pieces at the Panelists show at GRNY on Saturday, as well as the MoCCA comics fest this weekend for the first time ever! This trip is mostly for leisure and mostly came out of a series of happy coincidences so I didn't prepare any new stuff, but I'll be selling Ramble On! and the Game Over/Continue Fake Instruction Manual I made for Stumptown a month ago. Hellen and I will be demoing the game we made again, but only for as long as my Macbook battery lasts (3 hours or so) since apparently at the Armory you literally are not allowed to put a plug into another plug.

"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Group Art Show Opening/Book Receptions
Panelists V June 6 - June 24, 2009 Reception: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009
(212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net Giant Robot is proud to present the Panelists V art show and as well as a reception for three new comic books at the Giant Robot Gallery in the East Village.

The follow-up to the popular series puts a spotlight on indie-comics creators from across the country, ranging from stapled-and-folded stars of DIY to art-gallery superstars. The show will feature original illustrations, paintings, mixed-media work, and special surprises from an assortment of contributors--including many Eisner and Ignatz Award nominees and winners. This event coincides with the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art Festival."

If you're in the area, stop by!  We are at table 810 with Damien Jay, and Corrine Mucha.

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Posted: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:53:06 GMT

STUMPTOWN POST MORTEM

Well a week ago today I was in Portland OR for the Stumptown Comics Fest with Hellen and Ryan. It was the best one I've been to yet, making good scrilla and hanging out with friends old and new. I couldn't help but feel like a rockstar after the Guapo reading, and not just 'cause I forced people to listen to my guitar playing-- Jason Martin ( Laterborn ), Vanessa Davis ( Spaniel Rage ) and of course Miss Hellen Jo rocked the mic as well. It was probably the most well-paced of the 3 Guapo readings I've been to the past few years. I didn't win the Maisie (Vanessa did) but I felt honored to be nominated from 40+ zines. Plus I drank my pain away with all the free beer they had that night... dang, Jeremy and Allie of Guapo got HOOKED UP.

Tons of people stopped by and played Hellen and Derek's game. Some even played for 10 minutes plus, despite our disclaimer that the game NEVER ENDED and had NO GOALS! Just goes to show you how important the look and feel are in making videogames! Anyway, if you guys want the fake instruction manual zine we made, just paypal 5 bucks to me @ calvin_w_wong@yahoo.com 

Highlights not mentioned above!

• Sustainable Sushi Saturday with Erik, Jason, Ryan and Hellen!
• Goofing around in the car on the way to parties!
• Seeing the premiere of host Gariet's OLLIE video at the Laurelhurst about the life and times of Ben Franklin!
• Dunja Yankovic's reading of "Department of Art" at the Multnomah library. She played improvised keyboard music while reading her comic. Bar none the best reading ever.
• Robin Enrico's BUCKET O DONUTS. Peanut Butter and Oreo donut FTW
• Spontaneous INDIE CARTOONIST BAND JAM at Jesse's where the WORST COVER OF ROCK LOBSTER EVER was borne upon the earth. Dunja and Shaye are also amazing drummers, who knew?
• Trading a comic also inspired by Ramble On by David Lasky! Zep rules!
• Angie Wang!

Anyway, there's a  full flickr set here. Unfortunately we didn't get time to see the sights as much as we would have liked, mostly restricted to the Lloyd center area and the hectic convention schedule. We didn't even stop by Powell's! How fucked is that. Hellen and I just got confirmation that we will be sharing a table at MoCCA-- for that trip we'll definitely relax more and see the sights!

See the full gallery on posterous

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Posted: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:34:00 GMT

Stumptown this Weekend

Hey all, if you are in the area please come to the Stumptown Comics Fest at the Lloyd Center Doubletree in Portland, OR April 18-19th. I'm tabling with Hellen, and our friend Ryan Germick (www.ryangermick.com) at table #74, where I will be selling copies of Ramble On! + some older comics, the new Papercutter, Jin and Jam, and you will have a chance to play the game we made for Attract Mode at Giant Robot (http://attractmo.de/blog/game-over-ii-opens-at-grsf-on-032709/). We made a fake instruction manual for the game, chock full of lame retro gaming jokes which we will be selling for a fiver!
 
Also, tomorrow Hellen and I are reading our comics at Guapo Comics and Coffee, and if the flyer is any indication, it will be the BADDEST COMICS PARTY EVER. Oh yeah, and I'm up for the Maisie Kukoc Award for Comics Inspiration. It's too late to vote, but if you did, thanks!

See the full gallery on posterous

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Posted: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:32:54 GMT

15 minutes...

I've had my browser open to CADIE's blog and I've been hitting F5 periodically:

This is bad... I have the panda music playing in the backrgound... but.. its so fun!!!!!
Cuate Nunez 4/1 2:36pm

It looks like a myspace page with Japanese anime porn music.
jjmiller878 4/1 1:45pm

I <3 http://www.google.com/googleblogs/images/cadie/sunday_panda.mp3
Sapacious 4/1

has anybody noticed that u cannot turn that annoying music off
Unknown 4/1

 I never thought I'd see 4chan and SA memes on google's site. Ryan you are a genius sir.

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Posted: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:18:26 GMT

Curriculum Vitae

Education

UC Berkeley '03: B.A. Cognitive Science (Computational focus)

Skills

HTML, CSS, Javascript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Web & User Interface Design, Drawing, Watercolor Painting

Shows

Projects

Work Experience

Haunts

• XIP Hypermedia Conglomerate
• The Post it Project
• Drawing Meats
• Kirsten Academy
• Baau

Kin

• Vic
• Ray

Pals

• Alex Ahad
• Andy Ristaino
• Anthony Wu
• Brad Winters
• Coey Kuhn
• Damien Jay
• Derek Yu
• Evon Freeman
• Gabriel Gilder
• Gariet Cowin
• Geoff Vasile
• Genevieve Tsai
• Hellen Jo
• Ian Sy
• Jason Martin
• Jason Rainey
• Jenn Yin
• Jill Ogle
• Joey Sayers
• John Issacson
• Jonathan Hill
• Kiyoshi Okuma
• Mari Naomi
• Meg Hunt
• Minty Lewis
• Rina Ayuyang
• Robert Syrett
• Ryan Germick
• Ryan Sands
• Teerawat Palanitisena
• Willy Hwang