I'm number 10! I'm number 10!

So, Amazon.com announced their Best of the Year So Far 2011 and my book MID-LIFE was in the top ten for Comics/Graphic Novels.
Just when I thought my google-searching of my name would turn up nothing new…



(this drawing was done late at night in a haze of tired and whiskey. the trumpet sez: TWET!
say what?)

old joe's working hard, folks…

…he just can't draw. But he keeps trying. Here's 4 versions of page one of the next book, tentatively titled: BURDEN.
In the version 2 photo, there are ten more pages like this which will be trashed. I will get it together, folks. I promise!

ALSO! I promise there will be photos, drawings and hilarious accounts of my Mid-Life book tour antics here on this weBLOG.
soon as hell folks.

regards,
as always,
your pal.
ol joe


Update:
In the bright light of day, a new version emerges. To be shredded another day…

Taddle Creek

I have a new comic in the new issue of the fine magazine, Taddle Creek. They publish a lot of great comics and art by Seth, Ethan Rilley, Zach Worton, Michael Cho and dear old Dave Lapp is a regular feature. Buy Taddle Creek! It's a great magazine!
Do it here:
Seriously, buy magazines people. It's a labour of love for the people involved and we can piss and moan about the death of print, or we can PREVENT IT!
love, old joe

A hayseed amongst the literati…

So, I did some culture diaries for my new pal, Nicole Rudick over at the Paris Review. Pretty heady stuff for a guy educated in a box factory. Don't worry, in my entries I curse, am culturally-insensitive and generally make an ass of myself.
Have a look here.

Goddamn Wizard World: R2D2 likes Mid-Life

I was taken by Andy Brown of Conundrum Press to Wizard World last weekend. Which, I realize, sounds fun at some level.
I'm not entirely convinced.
Here's Andy's report from the event, including Dave Collier, Dave Lapp, Britt Wilson, Vicki Narino and goddamn Darth Vader as well.

Conundrum'sWizard World Report

Have you ever BEEN at one of these things?

reviews

Here's some reviews of my new D&Q book,
MID-LIFE.
Thanks, nice reviewers!

The onion AV Club.

Paste Magazine.

The Georgia Straight.

(be sure to scroll down on some of these pages, otherwise you'll only read about other people.) gah.

MAN DRAWING SALON RETURNS

Like a sweaty, farting phoenix from the ashes, the noble Man Drawing Salon, Montréal's most envied drawing consortium are back making their particular brand of sweet, fecund visages.