In the Pipeline

I'm working on a new mini-comic to have a grand unveiling at San Diego COMICON INT'L this summer, published by my friends, the team at Sparkplug Comic Books and Books and Distributors. It'll be an historical essay in comics form. I have to get it turned around pretty fast, it looks like (I might give up, too).

Henry Boltinoff

Here's a few strips by Henry Boltinoff! They're dumb, but the guy can cartoon astonishingly. I get old comics now and then, I'll try to post these here and on Flickr as I come across them. Boltinoff did comics to fill space in DC magazines for 150 years.

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Danny Dutch #40

Strip #40

TCAF Finds

The Shadow #8, 1975

Legion of Super-Heroes #1, 1989

Above are the covers of the two best comics I brought back from my TCAF trip last weekend. Do they tell you how to make comics like this at CCS?

Danny Dutch Postcard

I've been working on this postcard the last couple of evenings. I think it's supposed to go in the same print run as Austin English's Windy Corner #3, coming soon. I posted this to show something that I was working on instead of more dumb promo stuff, but I guess I messed it up. Next I'll get back to work on Strip #40 and maybe other stuff.

Danny Dutch Reviewed on Daily Crosshatch

The Daily Crosshatch has posted a pretty nice review of the Danny Dutch Comic Book:

"The characters ... almost treat each other like objects in a room passing time rather than as friends or lovers. It lays a strange mood on the reader, and even though I’ve re-read this book enough times to know what that mood is, I can’t quite put a finger on it. It’s really unique."

TCAF This Weekend

I'll probably be at TCAF this weekend along with Dylan Williams of Sparkplug Comics and Tom Neely of whatever he's of. This will be the Danny Dutch Comic Book's first Canadian comics fest appearance. Still only $5.50!

Free Comic Book Day: Bird Hurdler

HOTT cover by Andrice Arp

Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow! My publisher and pals have produced a a nice looking free comic for the event:

Teenage Dinosaur, Tugboat Press and Sparkplug present the release of Bird Hurdler by Andrice Arp, Theo Ellsworth, Farel Dalrymple, Zack Soto, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg [doesn't have a website ??] & Julia Gfrörer and printed at Brown Printing.

Follow the link to see the list of participating comic shops where you can score a copy. My guess is that Bird Hurdler will also be offered at convention appearances until all the copies have been given away (with purchase ???). That's what happened with last year's now-classic Nerd Burglar, anyhow