Chris Yates
@superyates
Multimedia artist living and working in Butte, Montana. Makes a lot of jigsaw puzzles for some reason or another. www.chrisyates.net
A triptych of sorts. These painting tables are 5 years old and getting rather heavy, so will be cut up into Yatesite fragments soon...
I've been refining a few of my road doodles for possible Baffler templates - here's the "Lake House"
Puzzle Parley 2026 is a wrap and I think it went very well! Organizing a show like this takes a lot of work and effort, so it was truly wonderful to see the puzzle community react so positively and engage with all the aspects of the event as well as with each other. More photos to come…
On my way to the Puzzle Parley! Here is a bad map of my progress today
My interpretation of Escher's Horsemen with color-shift paint! Another exclusive for the Puzzle Parley! (Also: not easy at all)
Continuing on my theme of oversaturated musical instrument puzzles, here is "Honk Honk". This will be one of many special Bafflers I'll be bringing to the rapidly approaching Puzzle Parley in Minneapolis!
And then @mcfrontalot.bsky.social remarks upon the gentrification in Denver in this one
I think @ferociousj.bsky.social actually named this comic series, here we are in his old place in the Presidio I think?
Back in Boulder, @dcorsetto.bsky.social swung through on her book signing tour to dispense crowdsourcing knowledge
For awhile in 2014-2015 Emily Kryska and I made a rather weird series of photo-based webcomics of me talking with various folks, "In Medias Res" - which I had honestly kind of forgotten about! Here's a few of these oddities still worth sharing, here @rstevens.bsky.social and I are at SDCC14
"Cornish Tin" (again, a hat tip to @ricksteves.bsky.social for the inspiration)
"Toot Toot" This is a deceptively difficult puzzle, much like the French horn is probably in the top 5 of deceptively difficult instruments to play...
I was in Helena recently with my folks and checked out the new Montana Heritage Center, which is superb, and saw Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (also superb), but I was most impressed with The Bray, a communal ceramics studio housed in an old brick factory. Lots of very funky outdoor pieces of all sorts!
I found it! Here is the 2006 MoCCA comic that Malki's original comment referenced, we're all having fun running through fountains in Central Park like all cartoonists who mostly know each other on the internet do (also featuring my old buddy Steve Carey of Poppycock Circus!)
And here we are at the actual show in the Puck Building, featuring, amongst others, @keansoo.bsky.social @badmachinery.com @rstevens.bsky.social @colleenaf.bsky.social and an up-and-coming Reggie Watts who displayed his Circle Of Success!
As @davidmalki.com pointed out, it's been 20 years since we drove 2000 miles together to MoCCA 2006, our first "big" show! We barely made any money but we had so much fun and made so many friends. Here's a couple comics featuring a *lot* of webcomics creators. Feel free to tag yourself or others :)
Rewatching Starship Troopers and remembering that the alien planet scenes were filmed where you also placed a crude sculpture in 1999 >DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE