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 mailbox soon!
2023-11-02 17:13:17 +0000 UTC
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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 copies will likely be headed out to mailboxes at the beginning of November.
If you aren't yet a member of my Almost Monthly 'Zine Club, today's a great day to sign up. I'll immediately send you a copy of the most recent FUN TIME 'zine, and then you'll get ...
2023-10-11 19:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Patrons send me a DM requesting one first. I’ve been sitting on these five invites, not sure what to do with them, and this seems like a good way to send them to good homes. I wish Bluesky would hurry up and go public already, feels it’...
2023-09-23 19:22:06 +0000 UTC View PostWith 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, SPENT.
I went to listen to the episode on The Comics Journal website and realized that none of my old podcasts are available anywhere online anymore. I've been kind of mulling bringing a podcast element to this Patreon, so thought maybe it would...
2023-09-21 19:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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. Digital 'Zine Club subscribers will receive their copy of this next week.
2023-09-08 15:04:38 +0000 UTC
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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 reasons I lost a lot of steam.
The first reason was that it's getting much harder to write short cartoon essays and find homes for them, particularly ones that pay, pa...
2023-08-22 16:54:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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 yesterd...
2023-08-01 14:22:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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 going to be divisive, it is in my opinion uneven, with with moments that are absolutely sublime, and it's a fantastic example of a filmmaker working with the most corporate of IP using the moment to take a swing for the fucking fences, and I...
2023-07-24 15:45:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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 this issue is Black & White comics, which is obviously...
2023-06-16 13:28:13 +0000 UTC View PostWith apologies to Charles M. Schulz
2023-06-08 15:07:35 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2023-05-31 17:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 fr...
2023-05-25 17:41:32 +0000 UTC View PostA 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 copyediting. This is the strip as I pitched it, it will be slightly different once it goes to print.
2023-05-19 12:47:29 +0000 UTC
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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 enjoy getting to take a photo of a nice stack of envelopes, brand new 'zines, about to go out into the mail, on their way to their readers.
2023-05-10 15:37:21 +0000 UTC
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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 nec...
2023-05-08 15:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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…
2023-05-06 13:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A Giant Tub of Slime That Was On Sale
I created this comic to include in the slideshow that I take to schools and public libraries. Kids really enjoy these sorts...
2023-05-05 14:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ideal one for this piece). Like, I'm wondering if it may be more fun for 'Zine Club subscribers to have to wait for the print issue to show up in the mail to read the whole thing.
Here are just a few of the first pages how...
2023-04-28 16:06:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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