Just got the proofs today for MAGIC WHISTLE #13, the official release date through Diamond is August 28. The bottom is the back cover by David Goldin from one of my gags. There will also be some pages by Lizz[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I don’t even know where to start. There are so many exhibitors and so many guests. Even more than on this poster, too many to mention. Name any cartoonist you can think of and there’s a 75% chance they’ll be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The cliche is true. When your voice is played back you ask yourself “Do I really sound like that?” and you’re the only one that sees anything wrong. A couple weeks ago I was sat down with Robin McConnell for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I posted about the Small Press Explosion a couple weeks ago, where you’ll be able to get the thirteenth issue of Magic Whistle. There’s also a party at Atomic Books in Baltimore the night before, mainly to promote Peter Bagge’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I know I keep talking about the Small Press Expo (It’ll be over this weekend. I’ll stop. I promise. I’ll talk about CAB instead.) but I had to let you know again about these two events. The Carousel reading will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was scheduled to come out three weeks ago but it’s obviously low priority for Diamond Comics. I’ve gotten reports that it is in fact in stores. This picture from the staff of Staffars Serier in Stockholm shows that it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I only put this here because I only get a picture taken of me about once a year and even then I look fat or retarded or just got out of bed and here’s one I’m not ashamed of. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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My new publisher just went down to the home of my old publisher in Florida to collect all his back inventory and found several copies of the long-thought-to-be-out-of-print second issue of Magic Whistle. Now’s your chance to own this piece[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Alternative Comics is on a roll putting out e-versions of most of my older work. Next up is Magic Whistle #4 from 2000. It’ll be available through ComiXology for the low price of $1.99, in the meantime you can get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’ve been waiting years for this, and the copies have finally arrived on our shores. SCENE BUT NOT HEARD, the collection of strips I’ve been doing for NICKELODEON magazine, is here. I’m making a couple public appearances in November (details[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There’s this new site called “Ten Rules for Drawing Comics” run by Dov Torbin with advice from Johnny Ryan, Alex Robinson and others, with more to come. Some serious, some not. I did one kind of in-between here.
Every few months I’m I’ll do a reading with slides of my comics. This is quite common with cartoonists and authors in the NYC area. Mostly I’ve done them in Carousel hosted by R. Sikoryak. Over the years I feel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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If you’re in Brooklyn or near it, don’t forget to go to Comic Arts Brooklyn next week, the main comic convention of Williamsburg, a splinter convention from Gabriel Fowler at Desert Island Comics. The Alternative Comics table will be downstairs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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No, I haven’t been in The New Yorker but I am part of this show. I haven’t tried to submit in a while, though I am friends with curator Shannon Wheeler who sees me in the office when he comes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I mentioned CAB two posts ago and how I’ll be at two different tables. I have an all-ages book as well as copies of Magic Whistle to sell and it would be better if they weren’t in the same place,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m apparently big in Europe. At least I think. here’s a review that was posted in the Dutch pop culture magazine Zone 5300. I’m not sure how big the magazine is. I’m not even sure what this says. I think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m expecting my comp anytime soon. I did an interview with Al Jaffee about 13 years ago and it’s been used again in this big volume. Now that Fantagraphics has become the main publisher of EC Comics, they’ve released this.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I was talking with my publisher a few weeks ago about how my covers all look the same and this is why we think people walk by our table at conventions as if they don’t see us, and if they’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I just did an interview with Alex Deuben at Comic Book Resources about the Scene But Not Heard collection. It can be found here. I also had an old strip reprinted at Panel Patter a couple weeks ago as part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I did about 5 covers for Screw in the 90s. Instead of doing color on computers, we had to do each color on a separate overlay on tracing paper and make targets to get all the overlays to match up.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Here’s a commercial I made for the issue yet to come.
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I have several pages of original art for sale and have asked why I only sell about a piece a month when I have 1400 followers on Twitter and 1700 on Facebook. I’ve been told people are more likely to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Why wouldn’t I do commissions? Not that you’d doubt I do them, but I just feel the need to remind you that I do every once in a while so the thought will occur to you. Band, flyer, party invitation,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Sorry to keep bringing up the 90s. Makes me sound like a middle-aged guy who yearns for his old high-school football days. I’m only the first half of that sentence. Years ago I asked around about a nameless mini-comic I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It’s unfortunately too late to attend the gallery show but I’m proud to be included in Characters: Portraits of Contemporary Cartoonists, featuring a hundred paintings of just that by New York cartoonist Jess Ruliffson. My portrait was also done a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’ve posted different versions of this before, and will keep doing it until the final version is done, and that might not be until it’s published. My friend Marc Arsenault, in addition to running Alternative Comics, publisher of Magic Whistle,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I post these every year somewhere on the internet and even used them as the endpapers in Magic Whistle #13, but here they are again since that time of year has rolled around once more.
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My friend John F. Kelly, in one of his many enterprises, has begun selling shirts. In addition to the ones of Tony Millionaire, Peter Bagge, and Danny Hellman, he has a few designs himself. Oh, and mine too. That’s the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Sometimes I write things for other places. Over at The Comics Journal I reviewed ViP:The Mad World of Virgil Partch They’ve also reviewed my book as well.
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Like most years, I’ll be at this year’s annual MOCCA Festival in New York, at the Top Shelf table, signing copies of Scene But Not Heard April 5 and 6th. When I’m not at the table I’ll be wandering around.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The 14th issue of Magic Whistle won’t even come out for another couple months and I’ve already started work on the 15th issue. Here are thumbnails for a story. Now that I look at it I should lose the shadow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Next Saturday, May 3, will be Free Comic Book Day and you’ll have plenty of comics too choose from, and you should take them all, because they’re free. I mention it because I have a page in SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It started with a Tweet I got earlier today. That and the Donald Sterling story reminded me of something I printed in a mini in 1992 that I don’t have anymore. A doodle a co-worker did for a dubiously legal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There are two new events New York I’m doing next week. Another Carousel and another convention. Instead of additional hyperlinks and dates I’ll post cards about the events themselves which contain all the information you need. If all goes well[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I made a video yesterday that went viral (hits in the low three digits instead of the usual two) and I got all these suggestions so I expanded on it. I was originally going to call it Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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While #14 hits stores this week I’m starting to work on the 15th issue which should be available in November or December. There are also back-up strips by Meghan Turbitt and Steven Kraan. I’m not sure who’s doing the back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I posted the roughs on this site before but have just sold them to VICE. You can see the links here: HIGH SCHOOL URBAN SEX LEGENDS SATURDAY NIGHT ON ZETA-9711
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A couple days ago, contemporary Mike Dawson wrote an excellent piece about the frustrations of being a middle-aged cartoonist, which made me think a lot again about my own place in the “industry”. I can relate, being 45 and considered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m really surprised by the response I’ve gotten for the previous essay assessing myself. But it did result in my sitting down with Tim O’Shea for this interview over at Comic Book Resources’ Robot 6. Actually, I didn’t sit down[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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In 2008, I did illustrations for a book called Well-Defined: Vocabulary In Rhyme by Michael Salinger. He is a poet and teacher who does speaking engagements at schools and libraries performing his work. The book was a series of poems[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Now that the new year’s started, I can now say some things we’ve been sitting on for a while: -My publisher, Alternative Comics is now being distributed by Consortium Books, which should give more presence in bookstores. –Magic Whistle will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I did the back cover to the newest issue of SpongeBob Comics, #40. I have a few stories coming up, some I’ve just written, some both written and drawn. Got a two-pager I’m working on right now.
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There’s something about being a cartoonist that makes people think you’re the foremost authority on anything cartoon-related. It’s assumed you know how much any particular comic book is worth or any trivia related to anything in the medium, anything a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Don’t forget to go to The MOCCA Festival in a couple weeks. We’ll be at table 308 where I’ll have copies of issues of Magic Whistle #s 12-15, and on Sunday I’ll be part of the Carousel for Kids program.
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All week long I’ll be doing the A Cartoonist’s Diary feature about my experiences teaching an after-school PTA-sponsored cartooning class over at The Comics Journal
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Fantagraphics will be reprinting a translation of Valentina next year, an Italian series of erotic adventure comics from the 60s and 70s. There will be some background information and guest pinups, including artists you would expect such as Gilbert Hernandez,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I know I keep changing the format of Magic Whistle every few years. This newest incarnation will be sort of a full-on anthology. It was evolving into that. It’s going to have the same usual 20-something page count of my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m constantly adding to this. I have a pretty big collection of golden age studio cartoons but I don’t have time to go through every one looking for nose-honking, though I remember it all the time as a kid. I’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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So you know, I do them. Sliding scale depending on the size and what it is and such. If it’s timely or a gift, let me know at least three weeks in advance though so it’s not late like this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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That’s right. I printed one display copy on my computer printer last night. What, you didn’t think there were copies available yet, did you? Yeah, I’ve been hyping the shit out of it and copies will come to stores next[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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