I remember two years ago I was obsessed with Aziz Ansari, and now two years later, he’s starring in movies, gracing the covers of magazines, and becoming an art critic. Complex Magazine scoured the internet and came back with their top 5 most interesting pieces, and mine made it into #4. Check it out at minute 0:54! (you can even see it right there on the video image preview!)

I’m glad that he actually responded positively to my illustration. But I was hoping to make him cry over it.

Here’s the process to that piece! (Update: Oh no! I lost the final image artwork! It must have happened when I redesigned my website. Thank god I updated my website before Complex did their search.)

Are you a fan of Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast? Did this piece a little while back for a very vague and ambiguous project. When I illustrate, I listen to podcasts a majority of the time. Without people like Marc Maron, I wouldn’t have gotten through so many hours of drawing without their entertaining interviews and chats with actors and comedians.

Some notable episodes include Conan O’Brien, Dan Harmon, Louis CK (part 1 and 2), Nick Kroll’s El Chupacabra, Judd Apatow, Bob Odenkirk, Dave Attell, and so many more. Marc has also gotten a lot of attention for interviewing Carlos Mencia and Dane Cooke, calling them both out on their joke-stealing. I am a big fan of the podcast and I am so happy with his success, because he’s put in so many years trying to make it. Much love, Maron.

I’m a huge fan of the ridiculous. There’s the Old Spice Guy, Suckerpunch, Lady Gaga. But no one makes fun of the ridiculousness by being even more ridiculous like Nick Kroll. Nick Kroll is a comedian, comedic actor, a one-man Muppet show, whatever you want to call it. His character Ruxin the best thing about the FX series “The League”, but thats not the best thing about Kroll at all.

El Chupacabra, the Mexican radio announcer. Or Bobby Bottleservice, the Jersey-Show-esque party boy. And there’s Fabrice Fabrice, where all you have to say about him is that he is the craft cervices coordinator of the TV show “That’s So Raven”. His fearlessness of being in character no matter how ridiculous gave me the balls to hit stage in costume as the Aflac Duck. And as the Gilbert Gottfried-sounding mallard, I had the freedom to say almost anything I wanted under the mask of a duck bill. Which helped me not fear crowds when performing as myself.

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Oh my god. I’m so excited for this. I am putting together this gallery show and I haven’t been this jacked since my last quarter at SCAD. It has been an incredible time living in Savannah, putting together comedy shows, and promoting them on Facebook with these posters. There are posters from a handful of different venues in Savannah; a majority from the open mic show at the Sentient Bean. And the space is amazing and nice and bare. I’m way too excited. My curator is also my best friend Josh! He is helping me out in such a big way, putting together my prints, originals, comics, etc. Some of the comedians will be on hand, too, so you can match comedians with their illustration!

I will be selling a lot of great sketches from the past few years. I have never-before-seen sketches and paintings available. Also, I will be having my latest mini comic “Luke Holds Off” for sale as well. Stop on by!

May 26th, 10p.m. 625 Tattnall St. Savannah, GA 31401.

I was actually against making this poster at first. Then I realized, I’m not Chinese, I wouldn’t be offended at all. So I went with it. Nick Brown is an interesting character and pulling from this joke was a no-brainer. It was the most visual one I could come up with. You’ve got to come to the open mic to get a chance to see what this joke is all about. And the other reason you may want to come: This may be my very last performance in Savannah EVER!

the costuming was stolen from Gene Yang’s stereotypically Chinese caricature Chin-Kee, from the book American Born Chinese. Yang is an important voice in the Asian-American comics community, and I just had to take his lead with the costume.