I was interviewed by writer David Maddox for the Winter 2022 issue of Sci Fi Magazine, mostly about my 90's Bill And Ted comic run. It's a rarity for me to be interviewed by an actual print magazin...
2022-02-22 07:37:36 +0000 UTC View PostSarah was released from the hospital today and is home.
There's a lot more to get through but she's doing really well, especially considering what went on.
Thanks for the well-wis...
2022-02-19 03:12:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Anyone following my work for a while knows my allegiance to the world's greatest radio station (free-form or otherwise), WFMU. Located in Jersey City, NJ, available globally via their website 2022-02-18 00:43:45 +0000 UTC View Post
My second San Diego Comic Con was in 1988. The year before I had a table in artist's alley to promote my first solo creator-owned project, Pirate Corp$!. I bunked with Brian Marshall and Tony Eng o...
2022-02-14 12:38:39 +0000 UTC View Post
So, hey, if you missed out on Blackwood volumes 1 and 2, or just really enjoyed them and like deluxe hardcovers, Dark Horse is going to be publishing a library edition of the first eight issues in ...
2022-02-08 23:23:45 +0000 UTC View Post
JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #85
Fall 2022 – 84-page FULL-COLOR magazin...
2022-02-08 05:42:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Offhand I think I penciled something close to 300 pages for the Marvel Bill and Ted comic. Over 250. I could figure it out but what good would that do any of us? Exactly. None.
Anyway.<...
2022-02-05 04:14:36 +0000 UTC View Post
For the last few days the only things I've been able to draw are these little index card things. It's been hard to concentrate on anything that actually matters or that someone has paid good money ...
2022-02-04 04:16:38 +0000 UTC View PostIn case you aren't following on social media or haven't seen it yet, Sarah is resting after a nearly 17-hour surgery at Sloan-Kettering. Actually, two surgeries. She was admitted to a room earlier ...
2022-02-02 22:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Sarah is scheduled for surgery on February 1st.
She's in good health otherwise, and in excellent hands regarding her doctors and surgical teams.
If all goes well, the cancer will ...
2022-01-31 05:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot of older work is still in purgatory on a busted hard drive from Sarah's computer, so I'm trying to scan some of the art that I have on hand that I don't have on my computer in order to can sh...
2022-01-28 23:43:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hmmm.
More soon later. Hopefully.
2022-01-24 00:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to the drawing board. So much to catch up on.
Winky the Pirate Girl ruined three Winky card drawings in the past few days. Guess she won't be hired as an assistant after all.
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In October, 2021 I posted about the paper figures I made while I was attending college in Manhattan and working at The Fantastic Store comic shop on Staten Island. I wanted to post the "master list...
2022-01-19 07:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Commercial monthly comics can become a grind. You want to do the best job possible while keeping to a monthly schedule and not causing monthly nightmares for everyone involved. It's a system dating...
2022-01-16 03:36:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, we didn't get the news we wanted, but we also didn't get the news we dreaded. Things are going to be tough, but there's solid hope for the best possible outcome. I'm feeling pretty jittery an...
2022-01-04 09:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostI'm trying to get to them tonight/tomorrow. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Keep your fingers crossed btw. No news yet.
2022-01-03 22:31:54 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's the scanned originals to the Milk & Cheese "No Feelings' comic. Selling this one was bittersweet because it's dedicated to Sarah and she always wanted us to hold onto these ...
2022-01-03 00:37:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Also working on e-mails. And Winky cards. And commissions.
New Year's Resolution is to catch up/stabilize/remember to breathe.
Tomorrow we get important news. Everyone cross...
2022-01-03 00:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I sold some Milk & Cheese originals to a longtime customer and even though we have sources for the work elsewhere I scanned them for sentimental reasons. This two-pager is one of my favorite M&...
2021-12-31 02:44:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The title tells the tale.
BOOM! Studios had the Disney character license back in 2010, and I was contacted in September of that year about writing a Duck story. I still hav...
2021-12-15 02:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I spy an unearthly eye.
So. This was a double experiment. I have very little idea of what I'm doing with the GIMP program, and this drawing needed some fixes before I could post it. Simple th...
2021-12-06 10:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostEleven years ago or so I was asked to give a commencement speech to the graduating class at the Center For Cartoon Studies. I wrote pages and pages of preliminary notes and was going to cobble ...
2021-12-06 06:14:51 +0000 UTC View PostFirst off, thanks to you all for being here, it means more than ever to me and to the household. I always let folks know that there are no worries when and if they need to bail, and that still goes...
2021-12-06 03:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Doesn't play well with others.
Might not play well with itself.
2021-12-03 02:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Characters from obscure horror movies don't excite too many people, but I figure if the damned thing's out on Bluray someone will get a kick out of the deep cut, grade C-to-Z slashers, monsters and...
2021-12-03 01:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post
1) Lettering is not just worth crediting, it is worth celebrating and understanding as an integral artistic element on the comics page along with the illustration work -- in short, whatever is on t...
2021-12-01 05:02:44 +0000 UTC View Post
1) I love Moebius' art, and I think he's a genius, but I can't read his comics because I find them extremely dull.
2) The Spirit is Will Eisner's best, most fully-realized and executed projec...
2021-11-26 06:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to everyone for their well-wishes for Sarah and the family. Hopefully the next time we discuss the situation it's because we have some good news. Thanks, everyone.
Wishing you all a ha...
2021-11-25 13:18:26 +0000 UTC View PostAs you know, I'm pretty open about most things but when it comes to the family we're actually pretty private people. Sarah, especially.
One of the reasons things have been tough this year in ...
2021-11-23 10:23:56 +0000 UTC View Post