My favorite comics and albums of 2013.

Because I can't help but to make unnecessary lists all the time, here are my favorite albums and comics of 2013. There are plenty of comics and music I haven't gotten the chance to experience, so this list is shaped and impaired by not having much spare time.

ALBUMS:

1. HAIM-- Days Are Gone (Columbia/Polydor)

2. LORD DOG BIRD-- The Trinity Knot (Moon Glyph)

3. DAFT PUNK-- Random Access Memories (Columbia/Daft Life)

4. RED HARE-- Nites Of Midnight (Dischord)

5. EYE-- Second Sight (self-released digital)

6. LORDE-- Pure Heroine (Universal)

7. CHVRCHES-- The Bones Of What You Believe (Virgin/ Goodbye)

8. HUMANBEAST-- Venus Ejaculates Into The Banquet (Load)

9. LADY GAGA-- Artpop (Streamline/Interscope)

10. THE BODY-- Christs, Redeemers (Thrill Jockey)

11. IRON TONGUE-- The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown (Neurot)

 12. PROFLIGATE-- The Red Rope EP (DKA)

COMICS:

 
1. Demeter by Becky Cloonan (self-published)

2. Hawkeye: Little Hits by Matt Fraction and David Aja (Marvel)

3. New School by Dash Shaw (Fantagraphics)

4. Operation Margarine by Katie Skelly (self-published/Adhouse in 2014)

5. Prophet: Brothers by Brandon Graham, Simon Roy, Giannis Milonogiannis,
and Farel Dalrymple  (Image)

6. Susceptible by Genevieve Castree (Drawn and Quarterly)

7. My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn and Quarterly)

8. A Matter Of Life by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf)

9. Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)

10. Delusional by Farel Dalrymple (Adhouse)

Etsy store updated-- new original artwork for sale!

I've added five new originals to my Etsy store: illustrations from the Iron Tongue album just released on Neurot Recordings, the bookplate illustration from Lil Bub's Lil Book, a page from Ghostface Killah's comic Twelve Reasons To Die #2, and my Salt-N-Pepa pinup from Ed Piskor's great Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1. 

Check out original artwork here!

Salt-N-Pepa pinup for HIP HOP FAMILY TREE book!

Here's a pinup I did of Salt-N-Pepa for Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree book (collecting the amazing series featured on BoingBoing), which should be out later this year from Fantagraphics! I'm really excited to see the whole book come together.

I should note that Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It" was the first song that my band Soophie Nun Squad ever covered, starting in early 1994. Here's a version from our first full-length.