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Standard Design

The Unsteady Hand Betrays

About Me

Standard Design - my portfolio
No-Shadow Kick - my semi-functional band
Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot! - my weekly comic strip
Broken Lines - my graphic novel thing

My Interests

Coffee
After Effects
gigposters.com
Ford Festivas
Home repair
Graphic design
Potato chips

I'd like to meet:

the G that killed me

Music:

Black Sabbath
Nick Cave
The Clash
The Gossip
Clutch
Neko Case
fIREHOSE
old Iron Maiden
Talib Kweli
old Metallica
No-Shadow Kick
The Police
Pop*A*Wheelie
Public Enemy
The Replacements
Paul Westerberg
Soul Coughing
XTC
Mos Def
Jay Z
Gorillaz
Ennio Morricone

Movies:

Fistful of Dollars
Bullitt
Rushmore
Fist of Legend
Last Hero in China
Drunken Master 2
Harold and Maude
Fight Club
Can't Hardly Wait
American Movie
High Fidelity
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Amelie

Television:

Six Feet Under
Strangers With Candy
Chappelle's Show
Arrested Development
The Office (both)
Extras
Undeclared
Freaks and Geeks
Curb Your Enthusiasm
LOST
30 Rock

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut
Alfred Bester
CM Kornbluth
Stephen King
Charles Shultz
Chris Ware
Umberto Eco
Ted McKeever
Mike Mignola
Ayn Rand
Joseph Heller
JD Salinger
Mikhail Bulgakov
random history crap
design & typography stuff.

Heroes:

Johnny Cash
Kurt Vonnegut
Benny Hill

My Blog

NO-SHADOW KICK

Emerging from near-semi-retirement, The No-Shadow Kick has regrouped for approximately 20 minutes on Friday, Sept 28th at The Eleven's in Northampton. We've had some good rehearsals and some good fun....
Posted by Standard Design on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:57:00 PST

BROKEN LINES - BOOK ONE OF FOUR, MAYBE

BLURB: A chance encounter at a roadside diner leads to an unexpected alliance in the fight against Evil. Or something like that. ABOUT: An 84-page perfect bound illustrated novel written, illustrate...
Posted by Standard Design on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:13:00 PST

Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!

My new weekly comic is now appearing in the Valley Advocate (western Mass).Slightly more info, plus a new strip added every Wednesday here: http://www.standard-design.com/WTF/EAT THAT.- tom....
Posted by Standard Design on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:55:00 PST

Famous Fighters

FAMOUS FIGHTERS Issue One: Situation: Armegeddalypse! (2006 - 52 pp)THE BLURB: 52 pages of evil-fighting mayhem! Incredibly stupid! Culled from the past 10 or 15 years of dumb collaboration between To...
Posted by Standard Design on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:07:00 PST

Failure, Incompetence

FAILURE, INCOMPETENCEABORTED JOKES & ABANDONED STORIES, 1995-2005 (2005 - 60pp) Here is my collection of unpublished comics & stories spanning the last decade. Jam-packed with fantastic medioc...
Posted by Standard Design on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:05:00 PST

Through The Wood, Beneath The Moon

THROUGH THE WOOD, BENEATH THE MOON (1998) and ALEC DEAR (1995)Artwork: Matt Smith - Story: Tom PappalardoTHE BLURB: Through the Wood... is a re-written, partially redrawn & expanded version of our...
Posted by Standard Design on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:03:00 PST