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SOME FOOTBALL COMICS - going out to ‘Zine Club members
I got copies of my newest ‘zine, SOME FOOTBALL COMICS, back from the printer’s today and will be immediately sending them out to ‘Zine Club members. 16 pages, full color. It’s about NFL football but of course it’s not really all about NFL football. Members look for this showing up in your ...
Are You Ready For SOME FOOTBALL COMICS??
I wanted to share this cover image for the new 'zine I am in the process of finishing up. SOME FOOTBALL COMICS is filled with cartoons having to do with America's Actual Pastime, watching NFL football. I should be getting this out to the printer's at some point next week, which means cop...
Newest ‘zine going into the mail this week
I’ll be dropping copies of my cartoon response to the novel “Now Is Not The Time To Panic” by Kevin Wilson into the mail for ‘Zine Club members this week. Keep an eye out for that!Also, inspired by a Chris Schweizer Patreon post about Bluesky, I’m offering an invite code to whichever five ...
PODCAST: TCJ Talkies - Julia Wertz on CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? and SPENT
With the news of Joe Matt's death, I was reminded of an old episode of the podcast I used to host at The Comics Journal, TCJ Talkies, where Julia Wertz and I discussed two autobiographical graphic novels, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast and Joe Matt's final book...
Getting Stuff in the Mail
I know everybody here already knows about my 'Zine Club, because you're all already supporters, but I am posting here some new comic panels I put together to try and give this thing a little extra push. I would love to beef up my membership, so I put these pics together for putting on Instag...
'Zine Club Update - Now Is Not The Time To Panic
Announcing the late-September 'Zine Club comic, a cartoon essay entitled Now Is Not The Time To Panic. 12 pages, full color, I'm sending this out to the printer's this weekend, so am anticipating being able to start mailing copies to 'Zine Club members towards the end of this month. ...
Banned Books
To Kill A Mockingbird doesn't need any help getting sold, but hopefully seeing that extremists across the country are banning books like this at least raises awareness about what's going on.
the THING
A ruptured ear-drum is maybe not a huge deal, it might be much more common than I realize, but I'm funny about my ears, I was a chronic ear-infection kind of kid, and had those drainage tubes put in twice while I was little. I very much hate having something going on inside them. Right now it do...
A Year of Making Comics - Update #16
It's been a little while since I've posted one of these "Year of Making Comics..." updates. My thinking with these semi-regular posts is that I could document how things are essentially going for me in terms of, well, obviously, a year of making comics. However, for a couple of reaso...
FUN TIME FALL 2023 - In the mail!
All copies of FUN TIME FALL 2023 have been packaged up and are getting dropped into the mail today and tomorrow. A good chunk of them went out yesterday. Members of the 'Zine Club, keep an eye on your mailboxes. Please reach out if you don't receive it in the next week or so (international s...
Barbie!
I did the Barbenheimer this weekend, and I 1000% spent more time dwelling upon and turning over in my mind and struggling with the movie about the toy than I did thinking about the one about the atomic bomb.I think Barbie will end up having a lot in common with The Last Jedi. It's definitely goi...
Apu's Citizenship Test + FUN TIME update
I took a citizenship test myself about eleven or twelve years ago, there weren't any questions on it anywhere near as complex as Causes of the Civil War. It was all stuff like, what do the stars on the flag represent?FUN TIME FALL 2023 - UPDATEI am happy to be able to announce, the new issue of ...
Middletown Board of Ed Meeting
This didn't happen at the Board of Ed at the school my kids go to, it's at the school system that I personally came up in, one town over from where I live now. It's got a particularly MAGA leadership board, a husband and wife team who rose to power on an "Unmask our kids" anti-va...
New FUN TIME Cover Reveal
Here are some images from the next issue of my FUN TIME 'zine series. The cover is above, and an inside cover image is below-This page will carry all of the indicia, etc, it's still in progress, but it's a nice drawing on its own, I thought, and I wanted to share.The "theme" to t...
History of the Recent Past
With apologies to Charles M. SchulzI was incredibly fortunate to graduate from art school in 1998, at exactly the right time to fall into a dot com job back when they didn’t expect anyone to have any qualifications to do that kind of work at all. I first got a job “coding” html, and then in 19...
Tears of the Kingdom
Like, I'm sure, a lot of you, I've been going through (and loving) Tears of the Kingdom, except I've barely had a chance to play it myself. I'm "advising" my ten year old as he mans the controller. As much as I'd like to get my own game going, I want to share the experien...
These Hard Working Hands
Another one of those horrible realizations this morning, as I noticed I've totally got a callus on the little finger of my left hand that has absolutely been formed from excessive phone usage. This is the callus of shame that off-sets the callus of pride I've got from a lifetime of drawing.F...
A Year of Making Comics - Update #15
A sneak-peek at an upcoming piece.Recently I submitted this cartoon essay to The New York Times Book Review. Happily (because I put quite a lot of work into this pitch draft!) I heard back from them this week that they love it. I am guessing it will run in a few weeks, after some revisions and copye...
A Year of Making Comics - Update #14
A short black and white comic I finished up this week. I feel like this one is publication worthy, but I'm not sure where to send it. I decided to try The New Yorkers "Daily Shouts" feature, even though everything I have ever sent them with the exception of the one piece I sent them firs...
What is the 'Zine Subscription Anyway?
A nice thing about self-publishing new 'zines and mini comics regularly is that you get the thrill of "unboxing" a freshly printed comic every couple months. Seeing how it all turned out, getting to turn the pages, this is probably like 40% of why writers write. Additionally, I very much...
Oogy Tummy
No matter how many schools I visit, or cartooning workshops I present, I feel oogy and anxious beforehand. My actual feeling on this is, as much as I dislike the nervousness, having it is what helps make the talks go well. It's what helps me put in the effort necessary.You might have noticed an ...
They’re just not that into Star Wars
I think I’ve figured it out, my daughter is a lost cause, but tonight I’m going to force my son to watch SOLO. I think there’s still hope…
Giant Tub of Slime
A Giant Tub of Slime That Was On SaleI created this comic to include in the slideshow that I take to schools and public libraries. Kids really enjoy these sorts of lighthearted everyday moments.
HOT SPACE MINI-PREVIEW
Been wrestling a tiny bit with whether or not to post my new HOT SPACE cartoon essay online. Part of me very much likes the idea of this being a comic you can only read in the 'zine format (and the way it's been coming out as I've been working on it, I think that format is really the ide...
