68. Christmas Special

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78. No More Plumbing

Superstar pal Renee French let me use her drawing for the second panel. Thanks, Renee!

I have some recent activity to share with you!

First, the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is occurring on December 3 and not only will Sparkplug Comic Books be there hopefully selling some of the comic books of mine that they published, but also this new thing will be debuting: Study Group Magazine #1. I have five pages of comics in there standing shoulder to shoulder with many of my cartooning idols. It looks like it costs 12 bucks and is published by the underground comics anthology publishing stalwart Zack Soto.

Here’s the floor map for the festival, find Sparkplug upstairs and Study Group magazine downstairs at the Press Gang table #08. Find out more about the magazine on the Study Group Comic Books tumbler.

Second, I made a guest appearance on the Ink Panthers Show podcast a couple of weeks ago. We talked about biking and cats and conceptual art and everything in between! I didn’t listen to it yet, but you might like it.

logo by Samuel Henderson

Third and least important, I submitted a couple pictures of my desk to this new tumbler website operated by estimable small press whizkid, Jordan M. Shiveley, called either Where They Draw or Artist’s Spaces.

Oh yeah, there’s also a brand new Laugh Menu comic strip today in case you’re interested in products of that type on websites.

75. Dark Blue Tiles

77. A Waste of Time

I will be at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend, October 1-2, 2011.

I’ll be working at the Sparkplug Comic Books table alongside Sparkplug’s venerated co-publisher Virginia Paine. One spot over is I Will Destroy You, operated by indie comics darling Tom Neely. I won’t have any new comic books or anything but I made prints of a couple of heretofore unseen Laugh Menu strips that I think you will like. What other surprises await you at APE tables 121-122? Don’t ask, just be there.

Here’s an idea of what the prints look like:

It was at the APE show last year that I started to learn that there’s a ton of creeps out there in the comics business and that Dylan was the one I would always stick with. He was completely behind all the artists he published and he was the most incredible friend.

I still have all of our emails and about 20 feet of Facebook chats saved on my computer. It’s all dirty jokes and talks about old good movies and comics that we both agreed were terrible. I’m going to try to read through as much as I can before the harddrive crashes and it’s all gone forever.

I looked at the email he sent me where he suggested he publish my comics. He made it sound like I’d be doing him some kind of favor if I’d let him print my comics. Unbelievable.

I was scared to call him when he was in the hospital because I didn’t want to end up just talking about how sick he was. I also didn’t want to bother him or be in the way, or a dozen other excuses. I finally tried to call him a week ago and didn’t get through. I just got to hear that same old voicemail greeting “this is Dylan’s cellphone!” probably for the last time. The message I left was dumb too, like “I’ll just shoot you an email or whatever!” instead of telling him that I loved him and missed him, that everybody did. I’ll try not to be such an idiot from now on.

This is what we usually talked about:

1. ELO
2. David Lean and other UK cinema
3. Have Gun, Will Travel
4. Cheyenne
5. Leave it to Beaver
6. Jack Webb
7. Being old
8. Comic Book Lettering
9. Will there be more Jeff LeVine comics?
10. Girls
11 through 1,000,000. Other stuff

This isn’t really enough to say about him, but I don’t know where to start. Dylan was the only audience I ever wanted to please with my comics. I hope I never forget him.

Here’s a hundred photos of him.

This week we started selling three of my mini-comics in PDF form through the Fork Frenzy Shop.

Superstar artist Levon Jihanian is helping me out by handling the sale of the PDF versions of Crime World #1, Crime World #2 and my 2006 mini-comic Reliable Comics #1, through his Fork Frenzy Shop. They’re reasonably priced, high-quality PDFs that look good on your iPads and similar devices.

If this works out all right I’ll try to get some of my other comics up there, too, eventually. Plans are in the works, as well, to have some books by indy comics darling Tom Neely and Levon J. himself.

Please give it a try! Feel free to post any questions or concerns in the comments section.

76. Mousehole Game

Holy cow, it’s been 10 months since I put up a new strip. Will there be another one next week??

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Here I am! I haven’t been up to much!

I’ve been working on a story for an anthology comic book that’s coming out later in the year, and taking my sweet time about it, so I haven’t put anything new on here. Maybe when it gets a little closer to the time for the book to come out I’ll put up a post about how I drew the pages and put them all together or something…I have some scans and photos of the pages in varying stages, as you can see in the picture here.

A couple months ago I was an unpaid content provider for this dude Dusty Harbin: he interviewed me and I did a fill-in diary strip for him. Perhaps you didn’t see those things.

I also got another drawing on the Covered blog. This link will show you all the things I’ve had there.

On my Facebook page I’ve posted links to places where you might be able to buy my stuff in case you are the type of person who wishes to buy stuff and be a fan.