Uberbot Holiday Heroes Custom Munny Auction this Dec 16th

NEAT.

But won't the ocean water get his wrappings all wet and soggy?

Re: NEAT.

Whatever mystic invidiousness makes it so he can surf makes his bandages all waterproof?

Re: NEAT.

I am indeed envious of his ability to surf.

Hey, this is totally off topic but I finally got Dork #11 sat. and I really loved Bad Dad. So I had two questions. #1 How did you come up with that ? #2 Would it be okay if I put up Bad Dad on my LJ to share with all of my friends ?

Thanks for all of the Laffs.

Oh btw I never heard the term "Skell" before I read this comic.

I am here for no other reason than to inform and enlighten. Oh, and write jokes about jerking off anw whatnot.

Re: "Bad Dad", a couple or reviewers seem to feel that this strip pointed to my anxieties over being a new father. If that's so, they have a better link to my subconscious than I do, because it was a one-off gag that I found a few more uses for, and turned into a full page. Not much deeper went into it than trying to execute an effective series of morbid/disgusting/enjoyable innapropriate jokes. The more direct bit coming from being a parent is the one with the cursing child, because for a short while our wee imp was saying some FCC-banned stuff around the kitchen table because her dad is a foul-mouthed moron. Fortunately, we nipped that in the bud rather quickly. I get the stitche off my mouth next Tuesday if I promise to control myself.

If you want to put the Bad Dad page up, go ahead, but just credit it properly as my work and all that horseshit so I'm covered. Word of mouth is the only way we ever sell this stuff, so thanks for the interest. And thanks for picking up #11, btw. Sales dropped quite a bit on this one, so I appreciate everyone who's still with us at this stage of the game, especially when I barely put out any of my own books anymore.

I'm gonna get right on it and see who I can get to defriend me over it. I actually thought that you went over the edge to show that fatherhood didn't make you soft. Not that you would conciously do that .

The only thing that I missed in Dork #11 was the longer stories. But yeah I've been with you a long fucking time. Ever since I met you in 99' or 98'. It was at that church near columbus circle. I actually liked going there better than the set up at 34th st. I hate 34tth street. Well I don't hate it but I just think it is depressing.

Mocca has the best set IMO, but I hear they are moving it.

Well off to spread the word and bad vibes...LOL.

You'd make me laugh Hilary, if you didn't get up there tonight, in Ohio, acting like you just became President of the world.

Awesome. How does one come by a munny to art oneself upon?

I believe the Munny blanks are available from Kid Robot. Google around.

Domo danku!

Ever gonna draw a surf mummy comic?

Come to think of it are you ever going to draw a full devil puppet comic because that would kick

I doubt there will be a Surf Mummy strip, but who knows. Might come up with an idea for him that might work for someplace like Nickelodeon Magazine. One never knows, although one guesses. Meaning, "no".

I've toyed with devoting an entire issue of Dork to the Devil Puppet, or even one extended DP story focused on a single event. Those stories are alwasy so goddamned cramped and could use some breathing space, especially the last one with the dense Wertham page. Nightmare cramming that in.

Also, I've batted around the idea of an EC-like anthology comic hosted by the Devil Puppet, featuring three or four stories which I'd write and other folks would draw. I have some notes on it (and further DP tales) but I can't afford to start yet another no/low-pay project, forget dragging other poor souls down the drain with me for a no/low gig. Barring illness or accident, there should be more DP strips eventually. I say this having promised more Hectic Planet, a new (final?) M&C, a final Eltingville, Biff Bam Pow...all nothing but smoke...

"Also, I've batted around the idea of an EC-like anthology comic hosted by the Devil Puppet, featuring three or four stories which I'd write and other folks would draw. I have some notes on it (and further DP tales) but I can't afford to start yet another no/low-pay project, forget dragging other poor souls down the drain with me for a no/low gig. "

This is a double-plus good idea. I myself would volunteer to draw a few pages. I work cheap (free) and slow and I've got nothing else going on. My meager cartooning skills are at your beck and call any time you wish, sir.

Oh man, that EC idea. You shouldn't of said it cause now I want it to happen. Would you want to illustrate the devil puppet framing device or leave that to someone else?

I would have wanted to draw all the framing sequences, maybe even drop in a few DP illos into other stories the way EC would sometimes use a Craig Vault Keeper or David Crypt Kreeper illo in a strip they didn't draw. Iirc.

Back up. Did you say "a new (final?) M&C"?

I was going to email you about his, but fuck it, I'll say it:

You've gotten too good for M&C.

Don't get me wrong. I love M&C. We would not be having this nor likely any other conversation if not for them. Discovering them at age 16 was a watershed moment in my life. I haved gushed before and I gush again that if you'd only ever produced that, you'd still be my hero.

But I think, and I think you know, you've gotten too good for them. The gag worked best when you kinda sucked. It even worked great once you got a bit better. I get the impression the old strips were written by the seat of your pants while likely drunk or hungover. That they turned out as good as they did is a testament to your inherent quality that no amount of liquid retardation could suppress.

But between finding a bit of comfort and peace, such as it is, with yourself and your life, and honing your abilities to where they are, the frenzy is gone. It's too calculated now. What new strips I've seen I dig, but I want to adore them the way I used to, and it's just not reaching that level. I dunno, maybe it's me; I'm not 16 anymore, I'm 30. But I get the impression you could do without them, despite the debt you owe them. You're bored with the joke, so we're right behind you. Shit, that it lasted this long is more than you ever expected.

So in the words of Star Trek, let this be your last battlefield. See if maybe you can take a few days off from the fam, crawl back into the Hanley's basement with a bottle of Jack or whatever is your poison of choice, summon up those demons one last time with the most insane carnage you can devise, and send them screaming to hell as you know best.

Or if you got any better ideas, go with those. I ain't your agent.

That all said, I would still sell all my teeth (I betcha I could get a cool $4 for 'um on eBay) to see a CGI'd-up version of your boys over live action footage of people getting savaged to a peppy soundtrack. Really, after BORAT, I don't know what you couldn't do to get laughs. If AQUA TEEN warrants a movie, M&C sure as shit do, too.

Ken A.

Milk and Cheese are what they are. The joke is that it's the joke, just told a bit differently, and it played out a long time ago but as long as I'm still fond of them and someone else is, there will probably be some one and two-pagers here and there until who knows when. The eighth issue is going to happen because it's unfinished business, and I've been doing new strips (that nobody's really seen) for the SLG Stories and Neg Burn comics and they need a collected home. I don't like the idea of making people buy a new trade to get ten or fifteen "new" pages they missed, you know? Let them have it for a measly three clams if they want it. But as for the dairy products, they'll always get drawn, once this slew of strips gets stapled, it might just be pin-ups or whatever, but I am very, very fond of them, and that's what counts. I've never shoved them down anyone's throats, purposely, to aloow them to breathe this long when by all rights they should have been dragged into the street and hung by their necks. Wait, what necks.

Here's one thing: Some people still like them.

Here's another: I'm not "too good" for anything. Have work, will cartoon. I'm not too good, too proud, and not too popular, y'know? I have no reputation to ruin with dopey work, because most of my work is dopey. I'm dopey, what can I say?

And another: yeah, not to sound defensive, but I do think M&C are one of those things, like rock and roll and monster movies and rap and wrestling (which influence them), that work best the first and maybe second and third time you experience them. Or when you're younger. I still get letters from younger folk who have stumbled on them, and that first trade is s till selling to someone ten or so years later. Not in Watchmen or Johnny the Homicidal maniac numbers, but better than it has any right to.

I hear where you're coming from, I struggle myself at times with how M&C fits in in 2006, but what can I tell you other than the above. I still like them enough to revisit them here and there for a few pages. It's not like they're a life's work. But they're my babies, and I'm still protective of them and like to see them run around and play in the yard once in a while.

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Thats really cool huh... Best greetings to all!

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I have a friend who loves collecting Munny's and has designed his own ones which he sells and keeps for himself. They are brilliant to collect and this one is very cool. It's a shame he is long gone, I would have loved to buy him for my friend. Hope to see more Munny around soon.
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