I call bullshit

Ah man, I was just at the gallery here in NYC and the director let me know that someone came in and stole one of my pieces this week... I've never had that happen before. I can't believe that people steal art, thats fucked up. Anyway, it was just one of my comic pages, and actually the worst one in the whole show, and there was smaller work worth about 20 times more about 5 feet to the right so I don't really think we are dealing with a genius here, probably just someone off the street that thought he might be able to make a buck by selling it...

Anyway, if anyone happens to see this page anywhere, in someones house or wherever, let me know. I would really love to fuck this person up, but in reality I'll probably just write: "MEAN PERSON" in chalk on the sidewalk outside his or her house and run for my life...

What is really bad is that we were trying to sell the entire comic as one series to a good collection, but now thats impossible. Man, this sucks...

What actually sucks the worst is that this person is forcing me to post this weak drawing on my blog twice! Bastard!

I did a studio tour this morning with a bunch of people from Toronto, I had a good time but I totally forgot to take a photo of them... Anyway, if anyone from that tour is reading this now, I would like them to know that they were great guests to have... It was sort of an ideal talk from my point of view, when people have a ton of questions it makes my part way for fun and simple...

R.I.P

show flicks

So I took some photos during the setup of the show... As usual, I forgot to take photos during the opening... I just took one on my way out of the door at the end of the night... All that it proves is that yes, there was a room, and yes, there were some people in that room, doing...something...

Zaks show was great, the response to it, and to our Road of Knives installation was encouraging...

My girlfriend Jamiyla came to visit me for a few days during the weekend as well, I hadn't seen her in a month so it was great! I won't see her for another couple months now...sadness. I miss her and the rest of my friends quite a bit...

ok, photos:

Our stacks of Road of Knives drawings.

Zak and the gallery staff looking at...something... I think...

The back of Shawn Cheng. Man, I'm starting to realize that I really suck at taking photos, these are so boring...

Zak and his girlfriend Mandy. Mandy is a fellow Canadian, hailing from Ottawa.

Me and my bud/former studiomate Emily Stoddart. We had a studio together a couple of years ago. Weird coincidence, we now live just down the street from each other in Brooklyn.

Me pointing my camera at the door as I was leaving... Jamiyla and I had to call it an early night, neither of us were feeling very well...

This is Jamiyla! I miss her! She is awesome at drawing, I'll put her drawings on here soon, if she lets me...

Zak Smith Solo and Road of Knives Group Show

Hey All, I think this is the 3rd post this week... thats crazy.... Thats as many posts as I made the entire summer I think...

Ok, the reason for this post is to promote a show happening this upcoming weekend. It is my friend Zak Smith's solo show. I've mentioned him on here a number of times. We met about 5 years ago when he emailed me and asked me to be in a group show he was curating, I jumped at the chance, and being in that show led to my NYC gallery representation... Incase you do not know Zak's work, some of it looks like this:

Thats a photo of him at the end there... On his leg there is one of my old monster drawings... I think I've mentioned that on here before too, I just think its cool that he has it...

ok, so this friday, which is October 10th, Zak has a solo show at Fredericks and Freiser gallery here in NYC. In the back room of the show, Zak, Shawn, and myself are showing the entire Road of Knives project... I haven't posted my new pages on here in a long time, but the three of us have been working away on it... Zak will also be showing another collaborative project as well, which is sure to rule. Ok, if you are in NYC, come out! Here is the info, I pulled it off of Shawn's site...

They Fought A Running Engagement (Collaborations)

@ Fredericks & FreiserOctober 10 – November 29, 2008
New York City

Come see what Zak Smith has been up to in the City of Angels – his solo show Midnight in the Empire opens October 10. As a bonus, two ongoing collaborative projects will be unveiled:

On the Road of Knives...
The "battle blog" wherein Zak Smith, Shawn Cheng, and Nicholas Di Genova take turns drawing monsters fighting each other.

Six Versions of Blood Meridian
The heretofore "secret project" taking the one-picture-for-each-page treatment to Cormac McCarthy's violent masterpiece. Features Zak Smith, Sean McCarthy, John Mejias, Craig Taylor, Shawn Cheng, and Matt Wiegle.

Opening Reception
Friday, October 10, 6–8pm
See you there!

Ok, and lastly I'll leave you with some of my newer Road of Knives pages...

Brooklyn Studio

Well, here I am in Brooklyn, my studio is more or less set up... Here's some random flicks taken over the last month... I think rent prices in Toronto have spoiled me, I'm used to having much more space... and a shower... But don't get me wrong, I'm very glad to be here.

A balanced diet of milk, muscle milk, soy milk, and cheese.

Right across the street from me is a sheet metal shop. They start pounding on sheets of metal around 7am, and stop around 7 pm... It makes sleeping in pretty difficult...

Fucking can opener....

Laundry day.

The bucket I pee in. Don't worry, I don't think you can catch anything by looking at photos of it on the internet...

Some small drawings I've been working on... I'm trying to blend the grid drawings with the more freestyle-type drawings... What i'm talking about makes more sense in the first one...

My bud Maia. I've mentioned her on here before, we met back in 2002 during my first trip to NYC and I see her everytime I come down. Now that I'm living here I get to see her a lot more... I'm glad she's here, its kinda like having family in the city...

OK, thats it. Back to work for me, but I'll be posting a couple of more times this week to promote an upcoming show...

September update

Hey All... Of course I haven't updated this blog in a long time, I'm so bad at keeping up with any responsibility that isn't drawing... Although I think I'll get a chance to update it much more often now; I deleted my facebook and myspace accounts recently... It kinda hurt, I had a lot of contacts on there and it was great for sending out show invites, but in the end they ate up a lot of time, time that I should spend drawing because I have such a busy schedule coming up...

A lot has happened since my last update, the biggest event being my move from Toronto to Brooklyn... I don't think I'll be here for very long, until the new year I think, but no longer... depending on how I like it, I may move back more permanently, or I may stay in Toronto, I haven't really decided yet...

Also, I have a group show coming up in Oct, Zak, Shawn and I will be displaying what we have done so far with "On the Road of Knives" in the back room of Zaks solo show... did that make any sense? I can't tell, I'm really exhausted and I sorta feel that nothing I write is making sense right now... Um..ok, I'll make everything quick: I also have a fair in October and right now I'm working on an upcoming solo show.

ok, I'll leave you with a few flicks of the book signing at Magic Pony back in August... Thanks to Magic Pony for putting the whole thing together, and to everyone who came out... I was really happy cause I thought no one would show and it would become one of the saddest nights of my life, but luckily that didn't happen...

Next update I'll put up flicks of my little studio in Brooklyn, info about the group show and all that... bye!













The last photo isn't of my book launch at all, its my friends and I on a roller coaster at the fair...