Archive for October, 2009
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I think the second comic strip I posted when I started with these was a Halloween one, so I felt like I should make sure I did one this year. Hopefully I’ll be back to regular posting soon here. Stick with it.
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The image up there is the comic I drew while at Brian Andersen’s table at APE. I guess it was my table, too, since it had my comics on it, but he paid for the table and paid to print most of those comics, so there you have it. Check out his comics at sosuperduper.com , by the way.
That’s me at the table, drawing a little bit and looking pretty fucking adorable. The show seemed slow overall, but I had a really good time and met a lot of other artists, found some really awesome comics, and so that’s the most important part. The Sina I mention in the comic would be Sina Grace, whose comic Books With Pictures I purchased most of a while back and who is, indeed, adorable. He was sitting at the table next to me along with Justin Hall, who, if you don’t know him, has some really amazing comics out there that you should track down, and was in the first America’s Best Comics anthology, among a lot of other things.
Like I said up there, I found a lot of comics that were pretty great, and I’d like to give a quick mention to a few, maybe more in the next couple of days as I work my way through the stack of stuff I got.
That’s a page from a comic by Melaina, whose comics can be found and purchased at http://blog.melainacomics.com/ , and who is awesome. I was lucky enough to have her come read at one of the Papercuts shows I worked on with Dylan Coyle, and everybody should buy some of her comics. Go, now.
Next I wanted to mention Matt Runkle, whose hilarious comics can be found at http://www.matt-runkle.com/ .
I was also lucky enough to have Matt come to one of the Papercuts shows, and he’s great.
And lastly, for now, but certainly not least, I’m gonna mention Rene Capone, renecapone.com .
I would venture to say that the comic of his that I read is easily the best comic you’ll find this year about unicorns and abused children who cope by running away from home and wearing, on their heads, the corpses of small animals that they’ve killed. And it’s a competitive field.
I’ve been waiting for a long time to draw this.
Did anybody out there really think that Capitalist Pig was dead? I’m kind of hoping so. I like the idea of being able to build dramatic tension with these little strips.
At this point, I’d mention very gently that, with a religious fundamentalist character, a robot character, a Capitalism-obsessed character, and an artist that happens to be myself involved in a drama involving xenobohobia, Pandemic panic, and drug trafficking, I might be trying to say something about something more than just a few cartoon animals. Of course I wouldn’t venture to say what exactly I”ve been trying to say, how successfully it’s been said, or anything like that, because none of that’s my place. I just want to kind of nod in that direction in case some people are wondering if they’re right to be reading all of this at a particular level.
If we don’t fully exploit the victims of our violence for financial gain, the terrorists win.
It’s fun for me to finally get to this stuff, because I’ve known for a while now what was going to happen to Capitalist Pig when they cracked him open. I’ve also had an idea for a while what those two characters would do with the money, and what the fallout of the might be, so stay tuned. I actually have the vague outlines of a pretty epic long-term storyline for these characters, as well as knowing quite a bit about their history before these current comics, so it’s fun for me to finally see some of that coming out. Yep. I don’t plan to abandon the one-off strips, either, though, so this storyline stuff will hopefully be threaded throughout and who knows how long it’ll take to finish, but enjoy the ride.
Things begin to speed toward their harrowing conclusion.
Here’s the promised next part of the Swine Flu storyline, only a couple of days late. Enjoy!
