The stuff I did in 2023

This past year I started a new Patreon to post news, document comics in progress and generally try to share more outside of a social media setting. I'm enjoying it, check it out and subscribe:

https://www.patreon.com/talixopulos

And the New Yorker ran a strip of mine in Daily Shouts:

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/lies-i-want-to-tell-my-child

The stuff I did in 2022

One freelance job I did in 2022 was this incarceration alternatives comic for Designing Justice + Designing Spaces. I worked with writer Rosten Woo to illustrate a proposal for a youth center. Writing contributions from DJ+DS and local Long Beachers helped distill the project into words and pictures.

See whole thing here: https://designingjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/LA-ATI_FLOW-Youth-Center-Concept-Paper_PDF.pdf

I also contributed several comics to to AWRY, the one stop comics shop in the BRICK HOUSE journalism cooperative. 

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The stuff I did in 2021

The big thing that happened for me this past year was my successful (575%!) Kickstarter for my collection of sleazy nightlife comics, LIPSTICK TRACES. Much gratitude to all who helped make it happen. 

You can listen to the original comic book soundtrack to Lipstick Traces here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1JRrBm1MpiL0J6HwDHEGvJ?si=62e57470286445af&nd=1

Lipstick Traces was reviewed at the Comics Journal here and featured on the Comics Journal's "The Best Comics of 2021."

If you're of a mind to, you can review it yourself on GoodReads.

Also had a great time tabling a comics show this year, the fantastic Permanent Damage show held at the amazing Permanent Records Roadhouse LA bar + venue + record store. 

Recent Comics

I drew this comic for Cleaver Magazine about becoming a father

https://www.cleavermagazine.com/the-creature-crawlin-by-trevor-alixopulos/

I've been doing a bunch of comics for Popula.com (which also hosts many other excellent cartoonists). 

See my Popula work here: https://popula.com/author/trevor-alixopulos/

2017 Comics Round

Here's where I guess I would post one of those photos of all my comics printed this year, except I didn't have any comics published in 2017.

Despite this, I drew a fair amount of comics and here they are in one easy post.

Hope you enjoy. -TOA

"Mysteries of East Hollywood" (Feb 2017, for the Los Angeles Review of Books blog) 

Cover, North Bay Bohemian (May 2017)

"Prax and Bleps" (unpublished April 2017)

"Silver Suit" (unpublished May 2017)

"Speaking Circuit" (unpublished, May 2017)

Cover, North Bay Bohemian (September 2017)

new Alixopulos comics in Kramers Ergot no. 9

My comic strip "Close Enough" is featured in the newest volume of the acclaimed comics anthology Kramers Ergot.

Available from Fantagraphics

Comic: Mysteries of East Hollywood

Currently up on the LARB site, my comic "Mysteries of East Hollywood"

The Luna Negra Cocktail

Every so often I come up with cocktails. The Luna Negra is a drink I made last spring.

It's really best as a spring or summer drink but it can be enjoyed any time.

It was inspired by a song of struggle by Los Cojolites. The Luna Negra recipe is made of everyday things but is dense with mystery.

How to make the Luna Negra (revised):

stir the following in an Old Fashioned glass with big ice 

 2 oz 100% agave silver tequila 

 Juice from one quarter a lime 

 3 dashes orange bitters 

 root beer (brand w real sugar) 

the civilizing power of disaster

drinks all around

I contributed art and cocktail recipes to THE COCKTAIL HOUR, a series of pocket sized cocktail manuals from Good Ink/Scout Books. It's quite a nice little product for a reasonable price: 

I illustrated the "GIN" volume:

Buy it here: http://www.scoutbooks.com/shop/category/bookstore/books/good-ink/

    New Release! | The Cocktail Hour: Rum, Vodka, & Gin 

What do you get when you mix favorite spirits, great contemporary bartenders, and add a dash of lively illustrations? The Cocktail Hour: Rum, Gin, & Vodka is a trio of single-spirit drink recipe guides from some of today's best bartenders and cocktail-savvy creatives. With a mix of fresh twists on classics and unique modern concoctions, each of these charmingly illustrated, pocket-sized volumes showcases over two dozen drink recipes. Throw in recipes for easy-to-make infused liquors and professional-grade tinctures and syrups, and you'll find that The Cocktail Hour: Rum, Gin, & Vodka is a perfect fit for novices and seasoned mixologists alike! Featuring cocktail recipes from Teardrop Lounge, Clyde Common, 12 Bottle Bar, KASK, Portobello, Metrovino, Beretta (SF), New Deal Distillery, Aviation Gin, Deco Distilling, and many more!

Illustrated by Tuesday Bassen, Anna Hurley, and Trevor Alixopulos.

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Meanwhile, there are the usual sketchbook pages: 

In with the old

I dug through my old minis to scan and clean up "Do Tell," a punkish minicomic that I drew in 2003. Click image to read it:

fleurs du mai

a sketchbook page to start things off:

 

I am contributing a comic to the third volume of the giant Graphic Canon series from Seven Stories Press. The series features cartoonists ranging from Robert Crumb to T Edward Bak to John Porcellino interpreting major works of Western literature. The third and final volume is out in October. Here's a detail from my contribution:

I'm also doing some fun illustrations from a book of cocktail recipes, more details TBA. Here are a couple of the spots:

Personal internet galaxy: 

blog: http://hautejunk.blogspot.com

tumblr: http://bringfire.tumblr.com/

twitter: http://twitter.com/xotoa

Art for Art Shows

Over the past couple of months there's been a little flurry of group shows that I contributed art for. The fine folks at Giant Robot hosted a big "Year of the Dragon" show and I took part in a very fun show at San Francisco’s RGB Shop and Gallery entitled “One or Two Things I Know About Her.”

I think it’s probably pretty clear which art went to what, so I’m just going to post away:

 

Links aplenty:

Charles Brownstein of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has nice writeup of the RGB show here: http://brownstein.blogspot.com/2012/02/ladies-night.html

Photos from the RGB show:

http://folkloreshed.tumblr.com/post/20806656588/saturday-nite-opening-reception-outtake-portraits

http://rgbsf.com/post/20419060910/our-current-exhibit-one-or-two-things-i-know

Personal internet galaxy: 

blog: http://hautejunk.blogspot.com

tumblr: http://bringfire.tumblr.com/

twitter: http://twitter.com/xotoa

when the cats come out the bats come out

A batch of spooky images for October:

sacred & profane

                  3 ways a noir: Ida Lupino, Jane Greer and Michèle Morgan

                         "Cleanliness" Acrylic, watercolor and ink on paper