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From James Kochalka’s SuperF*ckers cartoon, here’s an animatic clip from the episode “Sh!tstorm MotherF*ckers.” That’s David Faustino as Jack Krak and Ted Biaselli as Wonder Kyle. SuperF*ckers premieres on Cartoon Hangover late this summer. What do you think?
I’ve been watching lots of Adventure Time recently and can’t wait for the first episode of SuperF*ckers.
Pocket Club!
This is a collaborative comic by myself and Pendleton Ward. Pen is best known for the TV show Adventure Time. We both have new series coming this year from Cartoon Hangover… Pen’s doing Bravest Warriors and I’m doing SuperF*ckers.There should be a word for that feeling you get when an older person — and not much older, so quickly are things changing — shames him or herself by telling young people how to live. I’d vote for Bedeutungslosigkeitschmach, or “irrelevance shame,” (made up with the help of Google translate) or perhaps Rünschmerz, the horrifying gut pain one experiences watching Andy Rooney. Whatever it’s called, Franzen brought it in buckets.
A few weeks ago I got to sit next to cartoonists Melinda Boyce and Aaron Whitaker from Gingham Ghost and I just got a the chance to read Melinda’s fantastic first issue of The Melinderly.
It’s a shockingly beautiful book. It’s sweetness and vibrance makes me excited to be alive.
Looking through her other comics can help give you a sense of her work, but really the best thing to do is just subscribe.
They are doing a subscription service, which means you can send them $40 and throughout the next year you’ll four, 36 page issues of funny, full color comics mailed to your door. It’s pretty cool.
I just subscribed, and you really might want to as well!
You know what’s cool? Infinite canvas webcomics by Eric Erbes, especially ones designed for the iPad. (via Random Bonus Ramble | iPad Webcomics | Eric Erbes)
break into comics. smash and destroy comics. murder comics. burn all the comics to the ground
I just redescovered this old episode of The Show with Ze Frank from 2007. Jonathan Coulton sings Ze Franks songs. I’m so happy that Ze Frank is producing episodes again.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a preview of my next book. Here’s another page in progress.
Hey everybody! The downloadable PDF version of The Chairs’ Hiatus is now available for free! All you have to do to get it is share a link to the story on Facebook or Twitter. If that’s not your thing you can download it for the new low price of one dollar and help support the story that way.
Anyone can, of course, still read the main story in your web browser right here.
- The full graphic novel, including chapter inserts.
- “Jon” a rare 4-page backup story introducing you to an important character never seen in the main story.
- Super high, print quality resolution that’s designed to look fantastic on the new iPad. The 2-tone version has never been available in this much detail.
I was honored to do a second poster for the truly unbelievable group The Whirlwind Company. These folks are some of the best performance poets you will ever find. I can not give a higher recommendation. Take a look at this performance calendar, because if they are coming to your area I swear you will not want to miss it.
I’m including the poster I did for them last year, since they are part of a set.
“The population census has got him down as “dormanted”. The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as “deleted”. […] Information Retrieval has got him down as “inoperative”. And there’s another one - security has got him down as “excised”. Administration has got him down as “completed”. … He’s dead.”
My first ever drawing of Warren from The Chairs’ Hiatus along with what he looked like in the finished product.
It seems like the more exciting interesting things are coming from companies that didn’t exist, or people just getting the wherewithal to do something on their own and collaboratively figuring out how to do it.
John Siracusa Hypercritical #61: I Ran Out of Bombs Long Ago
I couldn’t agree more.
Paper (by FiftyThree)
Cool. This is a beautiful app and the video pays right into my life long dream of being a prolific sketcher. I’ve never really developed the habit.
I still think it would be good for me to draw a lot more, but I have to remind myself that a new app alone isn’t going to form that habit.
Everyone seems so excited about these presidential candidates.
In an attempt to stay relevant these are my attempts at drawing John Kerry.
I’ve decided to have two different blogs from now on.
This one here is going to be a place where I share thoughts, links, sketches and other random material I think folks might find interesting, and this new blog which just started is going to be exclusively for news about my comics. (new stories and comic events I’ll be at etc.)
I value your time and attention tremendously and want to be very careful never to abuse it. So click here to subscribe to this blog if you want to know when my next comic is posted, and click here to subscribe to my tumblr if you still want more.
Thanks everybody. I love you guys!
I was honored to be asked for an interview on the fun Champion City Comics site.
I’ll be honest, it’s my first web interview ever.
I talk about how tough it can be to start making work again after a long time away, how my friends are my biggest inspiration, and the idea that lead to The Chairs’ Hiatus.
It was lots of fun! My thanks to TonyDoug Wright.
I’ve blacked out MatthewBogart.net and my blog TheDaysAreLongAndShort.com to try and raise awareness about SOPA and PIPA, two pieces of legislation that are nearing becoming law in the US.
While these bills may be well meaning, the way they are set up, they could potentially destroy the internet as we know it.
I’m not trying to be overly dramatic.
If these become law, it would allow the entertainment industry to block virtually any website they choose from appearing on any computer in the US for simply posting a link to copyrighten material.
For instance: remember that link I posted several years ago to a song I found on some singer songwriters blog? I liked the song and wanted to share it. Well it turns out that song had a verse lifted from another song that a large media company owns. They would have the power to shut down not only the singer songwriters site, but mine as well. Forever.
This is not a power that big media needs. It’s an abuse of power and we have to do everything we can to stop them.
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- "One thing I realized while making the book is that we usually think of the story as “Boy vs Giant,” but..." http://t.co/uFV6VFsH
- @rstevens Keep them on your desk and touch their domed top when stressed.
- @rstevens Little laughing Buddha statue = big plastic EASY button.
- "I need to unwind. Lets go to Kinkos." - No One
- I've been drawing this picture of a sunny day for so long that I was actually shocked to discover it is still stormy out. #livinginoregon
- James Kochalkas hulk comics are the best. http://t.co/Leovo6ub
- You see, if I take the time to carefully tag my vast iTunes music and movie library, it's contents will become more entertaining.
- Answering phones, sending tweets, not inking this last panel. It's my new *thing.*
- @rstevens I'm sure there's a cart that can fry ya up some human fingers. Sure. Just explain how far you've traveled.
- @rstevens Sweet. Perhaps high fives can be exchanged. I'll warn the food trucks.
- @VERWHO that would drive me crazy!
- It turns out, when you take your time and *try* while inking, it turns out much better.
- 8 panel grids sure get a lot of story per page but MAN, there's so much to DRAW!
- @rstevens I just heard about XOXO. That sounds fantastic! If you end up free at any time while in town I'd love to say hi.
- I smell band-aids. Suddenly I want to run really fast outside.
- James Kochalkas SuperF*ckers anamatic. I loved the comic and I'm looking forward to this show. http://t.co/0oKeaytF
- @rstevens nothing shows those pixels more than comic lettering too. I wish I could slap on a retina display to my existing iPad.
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