I Make Comics
As long as I have studied graphic design, I have also been drawing comics. I've never seen much of a separation. Both are the study of visual arts, using a pairing of words and images to communicate ideas. Lessons I've learned while making comics have made me a better designer, and vice versa.
Comics will be posted until morale improves.
In the summer of 2008, I began a new comic project that used the iconography commonly used on "symbol signs" (aka "Helvetica Man") as the characters and imagery for a new comic series based around minimalism and very strict rules of storytelling; only one person speaking/narrating in each panel, with only three lines of Helvetica Neue Bold in each panel. The largely copy-and-paste nature of the imagery gave me more time to focus on the writing, and the vector graphics made it very easy to turn into related media such as t-shirts and posters.
This comic runs online on my website, SystemComic.com, where it is part of the larger "webcomic" community.
“Rosscott's Law” and Other Claims to Fame
Since I post the comics online, a few of them have managed to spread across the net amongst various communities. The "So You Found Something Cool on the Internet..." comic about proper attribution for an artist's work found its way to many popular blogs such as BoingBoing, Gizmodo, and Laughing Squid. The pseudo-internet-notriety has yielded some amazing perks, such as a chance to talk to some of my favorite artists as peers instead of just as a fan. It's also led to speaking opportunities, the most notable being a panel at SXSW Interactive 2011 on the pairing of words with images, with fellow speakers Austin Kleon, Drew Dernavich, Jessica Hagy, and Maris Kreizman.
Rosscott's Law, a term I created as the combination of Moore's Law and Murphy's Law, states that "The faster the computer, the faster it will break." This made it's way to Urban Dictionary, as have a few other terms I invented for use in the comic.
Be sure to also check out the The System's Site Redesign page, as well as The System Collateral page in the "designer" section, featuring much of the design work done around the site as well as a redesign of the site itself.