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The "Cartoonist Goes to Hell" comic I did for Dork #8 is available for a limited time as a t-shirt from Comic Strip Tees. Here's a short interview with me about Dark Horse Presents, Beasts of Burden and the House of Fun material at ComicBook.Com. Speaking of Dark Horse Presents, issue #12 ships on May 23rd, with a 1-page Milk and Cheese strip and a seven-page Eltingville Club full-color zombie crawl story. You can see a CBR preview of the issue here, but my stuff's not there. NSFW reasons, I think. A little too much cursity-curse-curse action. F-Bombs, S-Missiles, that sorta thing. But, hey,the return of Mister X, the return of Nexus, and the return of The Eltingville Club, as well as Finder and a lot of other stuff. Go look, why don't you? And, speaking of Beasts of Burden, Jill Thompson and I apparently won an award in Norway for the translated version of the series being that's being serialized over there (under the title "Dog Guards"). All for now. |
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We had a great time at the Asbury Park con. Sold a bunch of books, got rid of the last of our Milk and Cheese mugs, drew for kids, drew in people's books, all while they played old punk rock and new wave at Asbury Lanes. Would definitely go again. Thanks to the folks who stopped by the table and kept me busy the entire day, thanks to the folks who picked up something, special thanks to Chris for the Mr. Blue statue. Also thanks to Cliff Galbraith for the invite, and dinner afterward. Nice seeing him again, meeting his wife, talking comics, Jack Kirby, etc. Nice to see Jamal Igle, always great seeing Stephanie Buscema and Rob Harrigan. Emily chose to hang out with them all day and ignore her poor old dad. Sob. Anyway, nice time, easy drive, good business, good people. Good time. Emily came down with a cold/fever afterward, unfortunately. Then I got it. Getting a lot of reading done (Twin Spica vol 2-4, Saturn Apartments vol 4, some Spider pulp nonsense, the Roger Langridge collection from Boom, etc) and playing some video games on the couch with Em. She kicks my ass at Godzilla: Unleashed. We don't fight one another, we just destroy cities. Our monsters are friends. Finished up a 3-page Mad illustration job last week, in case anyone's wondering what we've been up to recently. Starting a cover when I'm back up and running, and getting back to a script. And some other stuff. Hectic month. Over and out. |
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This Saturday Sarah and I will be appearing at the first-ever Asbury Park Comic Con in Asbury Park, NJ. The show will be at Asbury Lanes, a place, like Asbury Park itself, I've heard a lot about but have never been to. Asbury Lanes is a bowling alley that has been turned into a rock club and bar (although apparently some bowling still goes on there). Which of course sounds about a hundred times better than most places I've gone to to hawk comic books. Other guests at the show include Michael Kupperman, Jamal Igle, Stephanie Buscema and Danny Hellman. We'll be signing and I'll probably be sketching, although most likely I'll be doing quick freebies and not commissions. We'll have copies of the Milk and Cheese book, the Beasts of Burden collection (not too many, though), a batch of Dark Horse Presents issues (I'll probably sell them at less than cover), copies of The Goon #35, The Guild one-shot we did the cover for, a few copies of the Hellboy/Beasts crossover signed by Jill Thompson and I and some other odds and ends. Probably some copies of Action Girl. I assume I'll have some art for sale. We're also thinking of bringing some old merch we've dug up depending on how much time we have to pack stuff up (crazy-serious deadline this week), might bring a few sets of Milk and Cheese beer mugs. Might not. Glass, and all. Maybe the bartender would fill 'em with beer if you buy them. I dunno. Probably not. Anyway, sounds like a fun comic book thing. If it stinks you can get stinking drunk and give up on comics forever, which sounds like a decent idea sometimes, doesn't it? More information on the show can be found here. Perhaps we will see some you there. |
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Dark Horse is going to collect the the Beasts of Burden stories that ran in Dark Horse Presents in a one-shot comic coming out this August. Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch will contain three 8-page comics, "Food Run", "Story Time" and "The View From the Hill". Here's the new cover by co-creator Jill Thompson, which I think looks terrific:  The Geeks of Doom site has a write-up on the one-shot here. Hopefully we'll have some news about some new stories before too long. I'd love to get to the second book collection as soon as possible. In the meantime, if you haven't read these stories yet, here's another chance to catch up. |
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This Saturday, May 5th is Free Comic Book Day, for which many comic shops will be holding tie-in events including creator appearances and sales. I'll be signing and sketching at Comic Book Jones in Staten Island, NY, along with other folks. I should be showing up around noon or so and I'll be there for at least four or five hours (I almost always end up staying longer than I expect). I'll be signing copies of Oni's Yo Gabba Gabba (free) FCBD comic, which is (free) supposed to have a Super Martian Robot Girl comic Sarah and I did (taken from the Oni YGG! anthology that came out last year). For anyone looking to spend a few bucks, there's the Milk and Cheese book, Beasts of Burden, the recent Dark Horse Presents issues I've contributed to, and probably some other stuff I've worked on that I'd be happy to sign and doodle in. Or on. You can find a store participating in Free Comic Book Day here. You can see all the comics that are available here (not all FCBD comics will be available at all stores, obviously). You can find out about creator signings scheduled for the day here. Have a fun FCBD, and I hope to see some of you down at Comic Book Jones this Saturday. It's a kid-friendly store, they're good folks, and they give a lot of books away at these events. Should be fun. 
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 11" by 17" private commission, pen and ink, brush marker, rapidograph, caffeine. Soon to be colored. |
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A new site launched today called Comic Strip Tees -- as you might have guessed, they sell comics-oriented t-shirts. They'll be offering t-shirt designs by various cartoonists, some of the designs are new, some will be based on existing material. The site also has comics and will have interviews and other business. The first designs are up and are by Roger Langridge, Mike Allred and Simon Fraser. Designs apparently will go out of print after a short time and will be replaced by others, new comics will continue to be posted every day (good luck with that, whew). They'll be offering a t-shirt based on the "Cartoonist Goes to Hell" strip I did for the back page of Dork #8. I'll let folks know when the shirt's available and when/if we do any other designs. |
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