It’s getting to be very cold over here in Rabat. (“Don’t mess with me.”)
Author Archives: steven
Cartoon of the Week: Dynamite
This week: Shitty Kitty. Because her show just ended at Mission Comics and Art and we already miss her.
We Be Graphic Novel-ing Again!
This week Steven got to start working on more of the final art for our upcoming graphic novel, To Timbuktu. Very fun times. (We’d been on hold for all kinds of boring-to-most-readers reasons.) He’ll be drawing these spreads (and occasionally asking Casey to for some … Read More →
MOVIE PREMIERE this Sunday. “Shitty Kitty II: the Rise of Cobra”
So our Shitty Kitty show at Mission: Comics and Art is coming down this weekend. You can take one last look at it this Sunday AND be treated to the UBER VIP PREMIERE of the SHITTY KITTY MOVIE: “Shitty Kitty II: the Rise of Cobra” … Read More →
Eid el Kabir! (“Holiday the big!”)
Eid el Kabir (aka Eid al-Adha) is coming up in the Muslim calendar. It’s sort of like the Christmas/Hannukah/Thanksgiving of Morocco in that it’s a big holiday where families get together and eat a lot of food. Of course, there is no tree/menorah/turkey, and this … Read More →
Tangiers + us =
Even though Tangiers was technically an international zone, and not part of Morocco from 1923 to 1940, it is still F-ing magical. See what we made when we visited the fine city below.
Soup and Soup
Today we got our cartoon learn on with Jan Eliot who writes the comic Stone Soup. We were not privileged to a private tutorial. She was actually giving a talk at Art Com, a small art/design school here in Rabat. Proof: She talked about how … Read More →
Off to the Wild West… which is actually East
We’re taking two weeks to meander through the northeast, a region neither of us have been to before. We hopped a train from this train station: And are now somewhere* within the carefully crafted dotted lines of this map: Can you see us? Because we … Read More →
Street Art Part 2: Elections and Stencils and Punky Highschoolers
Last week, we wrote up something for SF Weekly’s “I Heart Street Art” about Moroccan soccer team tags around Rabat. This week we’re contributing again, this time about stencils and their role in the election process in these parts. Check out the full post here. … Read More →
FAR 4 eva
Even though we’re not the most avid football/soccer fans, we’ve kind of got a thing for street art– hence our recent fascination with local teams’ tags around the city. (You just can’t turn the corner here without running into a “FAR” tag.) Alan Hough of … Read More →
TOP SECRET (final art sneak peek)
Shhhhhh! Steven doesn’t know that I, Casey, have sneaked into his account to leak some of the final art for “To Timbuktu”. Take a peek. Then call up your guys in China and tell them to get the presses ready for the bootleg copy. (Can … Read More →
We promise we’re really leaving this time.
We like maps. Maybe you like them too? #1 our fascinating flight path to Casablanca: #2 our fascinating train path to Rabat: We know you CAN’T WAIT for #3. So stay tuned. Along with maps, we also like canals, bocce ball, man-caves and green walls. … Read More →
Peace Out Boy Scouts
There we are, leaving San Francisco. Thanks everyone for putting up with all of the send-offs of July. We love you back heartily. Casey is now in Brooklyn eating bagels and Steven is in Maryland playing with homemade skateboards. Catch us in New York together … Read More →
The Mission Comics and Art “pre-launch launch” launched
Much like the recent (give or take 40 years) Apollo mission, the Mission Comics and Art pre-launch launch show launched off and made it to incredible heights. We had a lot of fun and had a great time kicking it with all those other cool … Read More →
Setting up Meanwhile… Shitty Kitty is already there. Are you?
We just got back from setting up at Space Gallery for the group show Meanwhile… Casey and I are a part of this Friday. You’d better come. Look! Shitty Kitty is even giving a history lesson on the front window. And is that Travis Nichols … Read More →
Mission Comics and Art 4eva
Come get your comic-inspired art on this Friday night at Space Gallery! Curator Leef Smith just found a home for his store Mission: Comics and Art on 20th near Mission– so come celebrate! As for our part, we’ll be taking over the front window with … Read More →
Want it? Get it!
Come on by tomorrow, Saturday July 18th 11am-5pm, and get some! “Some” being our art before we head off to Morocco. Check it out below. Our studio is located in the Mission at 744 Alabama, 3rd floor, studio 326. Ring up for us on the … Read More →
Crazy weekend — Frenemies and Shitty Kitty. What could be next?
That was wild. Saturday: drawing frenemies with kiddos at Paxton Gate kids. Sunday: drawing and BBQing at Receiver Gallery’s Orange Alley with the grown ups. Well… you know there were grown ups drawing frenemies and there were kids checking out Shitty Kitty. What can I … Read More →
America loves us back
Hope everyone had a fun fourth. We did, and managed to go back in time to July 4th, 1776. Here are two Degarrotypes we took.
Hey, did we mention we’re making a graphic novel?
Well we are. It’s called “To Timbuktu” and is about everything we ate/saw/smelled/touched/contracted/met/studied/made/realized when we were living in China and West Africa. Here are a few pencil sketches with text from the 3rd draft as it stands now: You can check out more pages from … Read More →
Is this a clue?
Hello all. We just returned from a few days in Humboldt visiting some friends. When we were walking around downtown Eureka yesterday, we saw a “Lost Cat” sign. Is this the Shitty Kitty thief taunting us from afar, or possibly the beginning of a state-wide … Read More →
Another Shitty Kitty is stolen! Meowwwhere is she?
Gone. Another one. This past Monday someone stole the above Shitty Kitty cut out from Shotwell’s bar. One cut out stolen seemed like a random act of Shitty Kitty admiration. Now that a second one is gone it is clear that someone (or some folks) … Read More →
Postal boxes in the Mission
All three of these are based off of real things I saw when Casey and I first moved down into the Mission a year and change ago. Really, real. Some homeless guy eating his lunch on top of the box. A postal worker clearly trying … Read More →
New Shitty Kitty appears at 744 Alabama
The sign says “Shitty Kitty was starting to think that the PBR tasted a lot like grape soda.”.
Quel the merde! Bastille Kitty has been stolen.
Oh non. Remember the brave Shitty Kitty once standing defiantly over the jukebox at Shotwell’s? She arrived there after our last Shitty Kitty meet up, last week. (Who’s cheers-ing Shitty Kitty now?) Well, it is gone. We were in there yesterday and bartender extraordinaire David … Read More →
T & S Holiday Cards
Nothing says “Merry Christmas/Happy Hannukah/Happy New Year/Delightful Eid/Good Whatever Else You’re Celebrating” like a Telephone and Soup online greeting card! Here’s how it works: Step 1: Choose a card. Step 2: Email us the email addresses of the recipients and your chosen design. Step 3: … Read More →