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Bim Bam Boom: WIP

I was asked to draw the cover art for an upcoming ska comp featuring cover versions of songs by the band Bim Skala Bim. If all goes well Sarah will be doing the colors. According to Dan Vitale, Bim...

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Experiment 103

When the worm-things hatch.

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MAD Reprint Redux (Again, Once More)

Two days after posting about the mostly-reprint MAD #30, today the mail brought contributor copies of something called MAD Treasure Trove Of Trash vol. 5 (2023 Barnes & Noble Edition). Which is...

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Checklist: MAD Magazine Appearances 2004-2023

This list does not include any MAD book collections because they're in another category on my bibliography. And I forgot about them and am too lazy to go do it now. They're reprints except for ...

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MAD, Bad and Depressing To Know

About two weeks ago I was surprised to receive an unexpected, anonymous-looking package, which at first I thought might be from the vestiges of Bongo Comics. That's because a staffer from Bongo rea...

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Index Card Comic #14

I have to call a credit card company next week. Kill me now!

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Random Acts Of Eltingville: This Fan, This Monster, pg 18

"The shit half of Harvey Dent" is, to me, perfect Staten Island trash geek-a-nerd speak. If I do say so myself.

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Experiment 102

Maybe it means no harm. 

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Experiment 101

If a man screams in another reality, and there's no one there to hear it...

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New Comic About Making Comics (#4 in a series)

Use where applicable, obviously. 

But honestly, too often it feels like there's a generic fallback position so many comics make in regards to setting and atmosphere, which has nothing to...

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Process: WFMU DJ Fox Design Process

I liked the word balloon version, but the sticker dimensions were getting thrown off, and the vintage radio microphone threw off the balance of the design for me. I wanted to keep a radio item in t...

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Comic Book Ephemera Item Of The Day: My F.O.O.M. Membership Card


Nice handwriting, kid! 

I only ended up getting three of the four issues from my ...

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Comic Book Ephemera Item Of The Day: Marvel Check From 1991

From my first year as a full-time comic book professional/freelancer.

1991 was a good year for me in many ways. Anything seemed possible. Oh, well!  

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Finished Inks (WIP)

Raw inks for a planned DJ premium for the upcoming WFMU fundraising marathon. Due to an unfortunate circumstance (that didn't involve the art end of things) the premium will have to be banked for (...

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Checklist: TV/Animation Credits

In alphabetical order, including unproduced scripts and series bibles. Should be complete as far as the main points go. It would be nice to be able to add something to it someday but I'm not holdin...

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Blackwood Orders Update

The last signed/sketched Blackwood Library Edition orders are all packed up to go out this coming week, save for one overseas shipment (I've contacted that customer about the status of their order)...

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Unmade, Unseen: More What Might Have Been

Back in the day, Sarah was planning an Action Girl Queen-Sized Special, which would have been a co-ed giant-sized one-shot, kind of like an old mainstream Annual. 

It looked like it was ...

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Checklist: Album/CD Art Credits

Ask and I shall cut and paste. Here's a list of my album/CD/DVD artwork. Okay, one person asked, but it's an easy ask. 

Some of the early color artwork is buried in the past as they were...

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WIP Sketch And Stuff

Process sketch for something I'm drawing for something.

I went through a lot of revisions and ideas for the overall design. Finally hit on something I liked a few days ago, got the go ahead, ...

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Comic Book Ephemera Item Of The Day

While cleaning up the office last weekend I found the EC Library volume that I got signed by Al Feldstein.

2023-02-18 02:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Comic Book Ephemera Item Of The Day

Sarah and I met Gene Colan at a New York Comic Con, I can't remember which one, I can't remember what year. he and his wife, Adrienne were very nice to talk to and generous with their time. Sarah h...

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Tomorrow: Tear Them Apart Live Youtube Thing

Join Paul Yellovich and myself for some jibber-jabbering LIVE on YouTube this Thursday February 16th at 8.15pm EST.

2023-02-16 00:44:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Comic Book Ephemera Item Of The Day

Don't remember where or when this card was handed to me, 90's convention, I'm sure (most likely SDCC). Like so many nifty-sounding comic industry get-together projects, it didn't go anywhere. We co...

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Found In An Old Notebook

Finding some odds and ends while cleaning up the studio, including an old notebook with some very random notes about comic books and stuff. I used to make a lot of lists like these because there's ...

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Update On Blackwood Library Signed/Sketched Editions

Thanks to everyone who responded to the recent sale of signed/sketched copies of the Blackwood Library Edition (offered to backers at the two top tiers). 

All the books have been sketche...

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Comic Book Ephemera Item Of The Day

I'm cleaning up the studio (not because I want to or am procrastinating, but because it's gotten to "that point") and came across my file booklet where I keep old business cards. 

I alwa...

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Calla Cthulhu: World Building/Researching/Designing

I've been on another deep Weird Fiction kick lately, picking up and tearing through Weird Tales collections, rivals of Weird Tales collections, Victorian ghost story anthologies and the like. Which...

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Unmade, Unseen: What Might Have Been

So, here's some things I've never shared before. 

I like to joke that I knew Frank Cho back when he was still a human being. Anyone who follows the comics world more closely than is nece...

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Munden's Bar Annual #2: M&C/Pirate Corp$! Crossover (Color version)

A while back I posted my black and white photocopies of this old comic  dating back to 1991. A Patreon backer very kindly provided me with files of the story as it originally appeared in color...

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"If You're Human -- We Are Your Ruin!"

A 9"x12" color M&C pinup is up on eBay, the last one I'll be putting up (I expect) for a little while. You can see the auction listing at: 2023-01-21 01:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post