Update 4/4/25

I am writing two short stories for a comics anthology. These were pitched last year and forgotten about and written off as "no sale". I was surprised to get the go-ahead on one recently and got the news that another was okayed last week. Or so. Feeling very rusty.

I'm getting back to some comics pages I'm doing for a project that some friends are writing. Feeling very rusty.

A friend and I are talking about my pitching in on a project being developed that looks like fun. And there's two drawings I need to do asap for a thing.

I've been asked to do two variant covers but I don't have time so hopefully that's something that can happen later on. It's nice to be busy.

We've been contacted by two people in the last week that we worked with back in the day on T.V. projects. I'm waiting to hear back from them about whatever it is they have in mind. Perhaps it's work-related? Or maybe we left a pair of gloves in the office that they just found after getting laid off? Maybe they just want to say hi? Who knows?

I have been busier than usual doing podcast-related stuff. last week I recorded two episodes of a podcast which invited me on as a guest and co-host. I did an interview with a comics-related podcast the week before that and will be interviewed for another comics podcast in May. I'm scheduling another podcast interview about my work on the Predator comics I worked on for Dark Horse in the 90s. I had another interview in the works but I think they're ghosting me after I said I wasn't interested in talking about Star Wars movies.

Sunday at 8 PM EST I'll be doing a live Tear them Apart videocast with Paul Yellovich. Here's the YT link: https://www.youtube.com/live/L-vaqXyB3UE 

I am (still) working on (very) late commissions. I hope to be done in time to open the commissions list up again for the first time in years. We'll see. I just screwed one up and am re-penciling, a few others are still works in process. Then I have two to do for folks I traded stuff with a ways back (Peanuts books and an Ultra-kaiju vinyl).

I can neither confirm or deny that my out of print humor books from Dark Horse -- The Eltingville Club, Milk & Cheese and Dork -- will be made available again for folks to buy without selling blood. But I will say that no one needs to spend hundreds of dollars for an Eltingville comic or collection. Just put a bunch of ten dollar bills aside for a rainy day next year. Not that you heard that from me. This is classified as a "rumor".

I finished inking an "orphaned" Milk & Cheese pinup that was started as a commission (image above). It's been played with for a few months here and there and the inks are done. I'll probably color it. Don't know if it's Patreon-bound or eBay-bound. Depends on how the bills shake up. A check I was expecting hasn't arrived and that always throws things off. Wheee!

I'd say about 40-50% of my drawings these days are thrown out because I screw them up. Bad batting average. It's the hands, again (see below).

I have two doctor's appointments coming up, neurology check up and old man stuff. My drawing hand and arm have unfortunately been in bad shape recently (the result of drawing more, which is better than falling down in a supermarket or falling down while carrying an air conditioner) , so I'll be needing to see the pain management doctor again asap. I can sign his copy of the Beasts of Burden Omnibus. I already signed his copy of World's Funnest. I wish all my doctors were comics fans. Sales!

The new Wet Leg single is really good.

Winky the Pirate Cat is asleep on my drawing table chair so I'll be drawing at my desk after I post this. Probably with a movie on, probably a bad movie with a rubber-suited monster or a vampire with very fake fans or something like that. My mostly black & white creaky old comfort viewing movie marathon continues unabated on Tubi, Youtube and the Internet Archive. I will be 60 in a few weeks and am fighting the horrid inevitability with monster movies, Keebler Vienna Fingers and the occasional orange soda. It is a lost cause but I like monster movies, cookies and orange soda, so, no harm done. I had some chocolate milk the other day and that was also good. Where did fifty years go? Let alone sixty. I wonder how many more I have left. Brrrr!