new book done and done.

This pile of 170 pages is my new book, Mid-Life. It's my first full-length book, until now, I've been the un-marketable entity that made short story comics when the slavering masses are drooling for “GRAPHIC NOVELS,” with this book, in which I appear in my underpants on what seems to be 90% of the pages, I am sure to be catapulted into some kind of hot-property-like-comicy-stardom. My staff of market researchers assure me that 40-something male cartoonists in their skivs are thee hot property this season. so.

chester brown christmas card

Well, not get to all name-droppy, but Chester Brown,  was kind enough to send me a Christmas “card” which is actually a beautiful, 8-page original comic book. Including a personal note in his impeccable Chester Brown lettering. Holy crap.
The Giants of Canadian comics are such consumate gentlemen that they make schmucks like myself look like ass-clowns for not even sending out cards, hand-made or other-wise.
But I have been shamed enough to be determined to send out an illustrated card next year.
 

this secret blog is about to get UN-secret…

I've been “keeping” this “blog” for several years and have only found two or three things to write about.
But, you know, I did win an award a few years ago, and I finished a new book recently…
I probably could have posted something.
anyway, I'm doing that now.
I may even do it again.

Mid-way

I just reached the half-way point in my new book, MIDLIFE.

90 pages of 180. For better or worse. Who can say?

John Bonham, John Henry Bonham…

Good Lord! Found this in a box of comics in my parents attic. I remember being mildly famous in highschool for painting The Doors or The Who logos on peoples' jean jackets.

I sketched this touching tribute to a man who died, choked by lungfuls of his own half-digested burrito.


Humbling.

Will Eisner Hesitantly and Politely Defaced Canadian Money

My old friend Mark Svennsson sent me this money with the following explanation:

“I actually got this for you 6 years ago at the Silver Snail. I asked Will Eisner to do a doodle for my buddy Joe. he was concerned that it may not be legal to deface the Queen. I assured him that Canadians weren't as concerned about defacing our leaders' images as Americans. (Or just smiled stupidly and mumbled “it's okay.”

I'm just shocked that during my dark, drunken years this baby wasn't spent on a single of cheap beer at the closest Dep.

Thanks Mark!

shee-it, I suck at the bloggin.

Well, Jeez, I started this blog with high hopes and all I have left is that I'm still high.
Hope is gone.
Ah well.
I'm working on a new book and am considering doing the tones in inkwash instead of on the damned computer.
I wonder if it really matters.
that is all.
I
whiskey!