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Driven By Lemons
“Up the stream of consciousness without a paddle.” — From the creator who brought you Skyscrapers of the Midwest (me) comes a sketchbook replica of recent multimedia explorations in intuitive narrative. Won’t you be his (my) neighbor?
4C cover
104 4C pages
5" x 8" HC
$8.00
Project: Romantic
ATTN: COVER COATING IS RIPPLED, THUS DISCOUNT
The trilogy is complete. With Project: Romantic, AdHouse Books follows up their smash hits of Superior and Telstar with a book about love... and love stuff. Including work from new-comers and seasoned pros, Romantic is a cornucopia of technique, philosophy and love. See below for a partial list of contributors!
Creators: Big Time Attic, Randall Christopher, Joshua Cotter (me), Nick Craine, Brian Flynn, Doug Fraser, Jose Garibaldi, Debbie Huey, Damien Jay, Hope Larson, Mike Laughead, Adam McGovern/Paolo Leandri, Junko Mizuno, Scott Morse, Roger Peterson, Chris Pitzer, Joel Priddy, Paul Rivoche, Alberto Ruiz, Maris Wicks and many MORE!
2C cover
256 4C pages
6" x 9" SC
$0.00
Skyscrapers of the Midwest
OUT OF PRINT. WILL BE BACK IN PRINT AUGUST 2010!
Observing the isolated existence of an adolescent cat, his younger brother and their overactive imaginations in the American Heartland, Skyscrapers of the Midwest serves as an intimate chronicle of their stories of childhood hope, panic and loss. Filled with belligerent cowboys, lumbering automaton deities and wide-open spaces, this comic gives voice to a highly respected new creator in the field of sequential literature. (Me, apparently.)
2C cover
288 1C pages
6" x 9" HC
$75.00
JWCXI
First drawing in a new series...
Pen & marker on bristol board
5" x 7"
$50.00
Chicken Avenger Unit
As it turns out, chickens are smarter than humans AND dolphins COMBINED. Their wrath is chicken nuggety.
Acrylic on terracotta
3" x 2.5" x 2"
$40.00
Custom Black & White Drawing, 5"x7"
Want me to do a black & white drawing for you? If you have a request we can communicate via email (contact page), or if you'd rather I do whatever tickles my fancy, I'm perfectly fine with my fancy being tickled.
BLACK & WHITE!!! Probably pen, ink and marker on bristol board, unless you have a specific and/or reasonable request...
5" x 7"
$60.00
Custom Color Drawing, 5"x7"
Want me to do a color drawing for you? If you have a request we can communicate via email (contact page), or if you'd rather I do whatever tickles my fancy, I'm perfectly fine with my fancy... wait. I don't know if that sounds gross or not. It's not supposed to be dirty. I really don't think that way.
FULL COLOR!!! Probably pen, ink and marker on bristol board, unless you have a specific and/or reasonable request...
5" x 7"
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$100.00
Custom Black & White Drawing, 8"x10"
Want me to do a black & white drawing for you? If you have a request we can communicate via email (contact page), or if you'd rather I do whatever tickles my fancy, I'm perfectly fine with my fancy being... OK, sometimes I think dirty. I can't help it! Don't we all? Don't we? Anyway, I'm trying to keep this page professional. I'm nearing my mid-thirties and I need to start behaving like an adult. And I won't be able to help it if you still have a dirty mind.
BLACK & WHITE!!! Probably pen, ink and marker on bristol board, unless you have a specific and/or reasonable request...
8" x 10"
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$130.00
Custom Color Drawing, 8"x10"
Want me to do a color drawing for you? If you have a request we can communicate via email (contact page), or if you'd rather I do whatever tickles my fancy, I'm perfectly fine with my fancy being tickled... Mr. Fancy Tickler, that's me. Joshua W. Cotter, tickling of his own fancy and the fancies of others. Tickle, tickle, tickle. A regular tickle party where you take your fancy for a good time.
FULL COLOR!!! Probably pen, ink and marker on bristol board, unless you have a specific and/or reasonable request...
8" x 10"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 140
Page 140 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Jeffrey still asks me questions just like this one.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 152
Page 152 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. The limitations of black and white media prevented me from expressing how weird it was that everyone was drinking orange soda. So I just made the kids go without. Take that!
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 167
Page 167 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. This environment was based on my grandparents' kitchen. I had to use my imagination 'cause I never actually saw it from 3/4 perspective. I've been lying to all of you.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$130.00
Skyscrapers, Page 190
Page 190 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Northeast corner of the Cotter backyard. Lots of sticks to make kites with.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$0.00
Skyscrapers, Page 191
SOLD!
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$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 193
Page 193 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. That's my uncle's deer hunting box on legs thing... Travis Fox used to hand out knuckle samwiches.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 194
Page 194 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. I could have drawn volumes involving Jeffrey's relationship with 'NOT HE-MAN' and 'NOT TRI-CLOPS'.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 195
Page 195 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Jeff's just super-duper brave..
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 196
Page 196 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. As a child, it felt like we spent at least 80% of every single day either on dad's bus route or in the front of his truck while he went out to run errands. Usually to the hardware store. He built our house when I was nine or so, and while it was pretty impressive that my father (a/my math teacher and avid bus driver) wanted to build his own house, it led to what became a special circle of hell reserved for my brother and I, spending hours upon endless hours in 'Payless Cashways' and 'Woodruff Arnold', where everything smelled like pine fresh-cut pine and you got to watch middle-aged couples in matching denim jackets argue over which of the 843 tile options would be most appropriate for the godforsaken utility room. But he ended up building a really nice house, held up really well over the years... and it's still my favorite place to go to get away from the outside world. Damn you, outside world.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 197
Page 197 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Jeffrey was always trying to imitate my state of being.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 198
Page 198 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Of course shooting the weather man will improve meteorological conditions! Shooting solves everything. Don't be an idiot.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 199
Page 199 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. See? Hate hardware store. HATE.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 200
Page 200 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Jeffrey, always touching the steering wheel.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 201
Page 201 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Dinosaur on the China Shore.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 203
Page 203 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. The guy pumping the gas was a bus driver, too. Everyone, crazy for bus driving.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 205
Page 205 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. The others noticed wolf mom before 'NOT TRI-CLOPS' did.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 206
Page 206 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. OK, I admit it. I faked fevers and stomach aches to keep from going to school every now and then... every year from 3rd grade on, I would guess. No more than one day a semester, or so... I was simply a child that happened to be fully aware of his limitations in an educational environment and, ultimately, it didn't really matter because I couldn't focus on what was being taught at me anyways due to my crippling social anxiety issues constantly tearing away at my insides. Easier to watch Andy Griffith and The Beverly Hillbillies all day... Go ahead, report me truant. And ya'll come back now.
Oh, but I WAS sick this time. Fever dreams, man.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 207
Page 207 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Nova Stealth PJs.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 208
Page 208 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Mickey Mouse lamp.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$130.00
Skyscrapers, Page 211
Page 211 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Nova Stealth would never hit a girl.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$130.00
Skyscrapers, Page 214
Page 214 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. That's a filthy lie, and you know it.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$130.00
Skyscrapers, Page 215
Page 215 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Because, obviously, a romantic date with Quasar Stealth is the worst possible thing that could happen, ever.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$130.00
Skyscrapers, Page 216
Page 217 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. I always wonder why people are doing 'this', whatever the current 'this' may happen to be.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$130.00
Skyscrapers, Page 217
Page 217 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. This is what you get for being a pervert.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 218
Page 218 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Like a child to a cicada shell...
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 219
Page 219 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Super-secret robot meeting.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 220
Page 220 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Story is in the bag.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 221
Page 221 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Can you spot the merit badges?
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 222
Page 222 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Who drew this?
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 223
Page 223 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Gramma's fridge.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$170.00
Skyscrapers, Page 224
Page 224 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Finally with the pies.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 225
Page 225 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. The bottom panel makes me feel weird and anxious. In a good way.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 226
Page 226 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. He ended up doing the dishes.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 227
Page 227 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. If this part took place in modern times, Nova Stealth's iPhone would interrupt their 'conversation' no less than three times.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 228
Page 228 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. You can tell Nova Stealth has a fever 'cause of the bubbles coming out of his head.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 229
Page 229 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. I wish cities looked more like piles of grain towers.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 232
Page 232 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. This part makes me sad.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 236
Page 236 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. People like angel cats.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$185.00
Skyscrapers, Page 233
Page 233 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. This page took a long time to ink. I lost a little bit of me in the process.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 237
Page 237 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. That poster on the wall in the background was for real. It was a poster of a window with a freaked-out giant 'outside' looking in. I think it was a Book-It perk or something. Pretty much set the tone of my nightmares for the remainder of my life. Thanks, Book-It.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 240
Page 240 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. We loved flying 'kites'. 'Kites' were Hy-Vee grocery bags on sticks.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 241
Page 241 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Jeff question, Josh response.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 242
Page 242 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. My cats make the 'Hnf, hff..' sound.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 243
Page 243 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. 'I don't know what's wrong with me...' is an allusion to the fact that I had just been diagnosed as 'Bipolar 2' in real life. My disease makes me cranky! Case closed.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$150.00
Skyscrapers, Page 244
Page 244 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. Jeffrey always recovered this quickly, and Mom always interrupted peak kite- flying time. Always. 
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$60.00
Skyscrapers, Page 246
Page 246 from the 'Skyscrapers' collection. I know it's just footprints in snow, but it took some planning, dammit. And it's the last page with dialogue in the book, so... You don't HAVE to buy it.
Pen & ink on illustration board
6.625" x 10.25"
$0.00
SSMW Cover #4
SOLD!
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$300.00
The Richest Man in the World, Parts I-IV
A four-week series I did for the Kansas City Star back around late 2005. Not a whole lot of people have seen it, but it's a series I'm still proud-ish of, even a few years later. Go on, now. Get.
Pen & ink on illustration board
Four pieces at 6.625" x 13"