I was interviewed by writer David Maddox for the Winter 2022 issue of Sci Fi Magazine, mostly about my 90's Bill And Ted comic run. It's a rarity for me to be interviewed by an actual print magazine of any kind -- especially these days -- so this was pretty nifty. Funny enough, one of the only magazine interviews I ever did back in the pre-digital days was for Starlog, and it was about the same Bill and Ted project, back when the comics were being published. It still knocks me out that anyone...
2022-02-22 07:37:36 +0000 UTC
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Sarah was released from the hospital today and is home.
There's a lot more to get through but she's doing really well, especially considering what went on.
Thanks for the well-wishes and good thoughts these past two weeks +.
Talk to you soon.
evan
2022-02-19 03:12:31 +0000 UTC
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Anyone following my work for a while knows my allegiance to the world's greatest radio station (free-form or otherwise), WFMU. Located in Jersey City, NJ, available globally via their website https://wfmu.org -- featuring a host of show hosts and deejays celebrating all things audio, niches a specialty. You might not like what's being played when you check in, but if you come back in a while you might discover something that was missing...
2022-02-18 00:43:45 +0000 UTC
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My second San Diego Comic Con was in 1988. The year before I had a table in artist's alley to promote my first solo creator-owned project, Pirate Corp$!. I bunked with Brian Marshall and Tony Eng of Eternity Comics (both of whom I am still friends with, to this day) and my mom paid for my plain fare. 1988 was a bit different, I still managed to have a table in artist's alley, but I had nothing to promote. Pirate Corp$! was canceled and I was looking to take it to another publisher. I had been...
2022-02-14 12:38:39 +0000 UTC
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So, hey, if you missed out on Blackwood volumes 1 and 2, or just really enjoyed them and like deluxe hardcovers, Dark Horse is going to be publishing a library edition of the first eight issues in October. The wonderful new cover art for the book is by Blackwood co-creator and artist Veronica Fish. I'm very excited for this new edition, especially as the paperbacks are dwindling from Dark Horse and this will keep the series in print. It'll be nice to have this on my shelf with the Beasts of B...
2022-02-08 23:23:45 +0000 UTC
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JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #85
Fall 2022 – 84-page FULL-COLOR magazine
Jack Kirby Collector #85 brings to life “Kirby: Animated”, detailing how Kirby and his concepts leaped from celluloid, to paper, and back again! From his 1930s start on Popeye and Betty Boop and his work being used on the 1960s Marvel Super-Heroes show, to Fantastic Four (in bot...
2022-02-08 05:42:17 +0000 UTC
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Offhand I think I penciled something close to 300 pages for the Marvel Bill and Ted comic. Over 250. I could figure it out but what good would that do any of us? Exactly. None.
Anyway.
I got a lot of that art back, besides my share of the interior pages, Marie Severin -- who inked the bulk of the series -- was kind enough to give me her remaining pages. She didn't have any use for them and told me to keep them or sell them. I wanted to keep everything back then, but soon fou...
2022-02-05 04:14:36 +0000 UTC
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For the last few days the only things I've been able to draw are these little index card things. It's been hard to concentrate on anything that actually matters or that someone has paid good money for. If I screw up one of these I just crush it and toss it into the paper recycling trash can under the desk. I've thrown out a lot of index cards this week. With a lot of serious worry past, and a little less uncertainty ahead, I'm cleaning up this mess of a studio so I can hunker down at the draw...
2022-02-04 04:16:38 +0000 UTC
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In case you aren't following on social media or haven't seen it yet, Sarah is resting after a nearly 17-hour surgery at Sloan-Kettering. Actually, two surgeries. She was admitted to a room earlier and is resting. She says she "feels like shit but I'm alive".
We were told she'll likely be in the hospital up to two weeks. There's still a lot to deal with, follow-up procedures and possibly one more minor surgery, a lot involved with what will be a slow and extended recovery. But the ...
2022-02-02 22:48:46 +0000 UTC
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Sarah is scheduled for surgery on February 1st.
She's in good health otherwise, and in excellent hands regarding her doctors and surgical teams.
If all goes well, the cancer will be removed and that part of the ordeal will be over and done with.
Trying to stay positive.
Thanks very much to all of you out there for your support and encouragement. It's meant a lot, especially these past several months.
Hope to have good news soon.
eva...
2022-01-31 05:03:12 +0000 UTC
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A lot of older work is still in purgatory on a busted hard drive from Sarah's computer, so I'm trying to scan some of the art that I have on hand that I don't have on my computer in order to can share it here.
These are most of the finished ink drawings I did for the third fabric design we were putting together for a clothing company, after the Baby Cthulhu and Monster projects. Unfortunately things went super sour at the company, long story, complete disaster, I couldn't even beg...
2022-01-28 23:43:55 +0000 UTC
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Hmmm.
More soon later. Hopefully.
2022-01-24 00:09:41 +0000 UTC
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Back to the drawing board. So much to catch up on.
Winky the Pirate Girl ruined three Winky card drawings in the past few days. Guess she won't be hired as an assistant after all.
2022-01-19 12:29:19 +0000 UTC
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In October, 2021 I posted about the paper figures I made while I was attending college in Manhattan and working at The Fantastic Store comic shop on Staten Island. I wanted to post the "master list" of all the figures I had made but couldn't locate where it was filed. I found it tonight while going through some envelopes of archived papers and, well, duh, you know I posted it because it says so up there along with the posted list. Duh!
Here's the very important information you wer...
2022-01-19 07:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Commercial monthly comics can become a grind. You want to do the best job possible while keeping to a monthly schedule and not causing monthly nightmares for everyone involved. It's a system dating back to the golden age of hackery, where largely substandard work was being poured out to fill pages, usually with an assembly line approach.
We're past the days of the steady monthly mainstream comic series done by a steady creative team over an extended time. Creators come and go for ...
2022-01-16 03:36:22 +0000 UTC
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Well, we didn't get the news we wanted, but we also didn't get the news we dreaded. Things are going to be tough, but there's solid hope for the best possible outcome. I'm feeling pretty jittery and have spent the night playing app games and listening to old radio shows and petting Winky in-between naps. Hers, not mine. She has discovered the joy and wonder of wrapping paper today while downstairs, evading Nutmeg. Small pleasures, for human and cat. I'm going to occupy the rest of my time typ...
2022-01-04 09:36:44 +0000 UTC
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I'm trying to get to them tonight/tomorrow. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Keep your fingers crossed btw. No news yet.
2022-01-03 22:31:54 +0000 UTC
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As promised, here's the scanned originals to the Milk & Cheese "No Feelings' comic. Selling this one was bittersweet because it's dedicated to Sarah and she always wanted us to hold onto these pages. On the other hand, we turned them into funds during a rough time, and that's not something to be unhappy about. I can make more M&C pages -- and hope to -- but it's not like when I sold off my Dan Clowes page, which still weighs heavily on my nerd heart. We do what we have to, we do what ...
2022-01-03 00:37:58 +0000 UTC
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Also working on e-mails. And Winky cards. And commissions.
New Year's Resolution is to catch up/stabilize/remember to breathe.
Tomorrow we get important news. Everyone cross your fingers for us.
(Happy This Year, btw)
2022-01-03 00:16:43 +0000 UTC
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I sold some Milk & Cheese originals to a longtime customer and even though we have sources for the work elsewhere I scanned them for sentimental reasons. This two-pager is one of my favorite M&C bits and was in the "Not For Sale" art stack until I was made an offer I could not refuse (along with another two-pager that was previously in the stack under Sarah's orders). I'll always have my scans and my books. I'll post the scans for the other story separately.
I kind of like the M...
2021-12-31 02:44:00 +0000 UTC
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The title tells the tale.
BOOM! Studios had the Disney character license back in 2010, and I was contacted in September of that year about writing a Duck story. I still have my e-mails from the time so thankfully I don't have to trust to my rotten memory -- the editor contacted me on September19th and we began discussing the basics. We met in-person at the NYCC that year, and we had some back-and-forth on page rates and format after that. I didn't think I had any idea...
2021-12-15 02:22:27 +0000 UTC
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I spy an unearthly eye.
So. This was a double experiment. I have very little idea of what I'm doing with the GIMP program, and this drawing needed some fixes before I could post it. Simple things, like filling in some black areas that were spotty. But I didn't know what to do in order to export the image as a jpeg to post it here. Everything was madness, sheer madness. I didn't even know what the hell "exporting" was. Anyway, I went through a lot of tutorial pages to find the stuff beca...
2021-12-06 10:07:03 +0000 UTC
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Eleven years ago or so I was asked to give a commencement speech to the graduating class at the Center For Cartoon Studies. I wrote pages and pages of preliminary notes and was going to cobble the speech together from my notes the night before the event. After spending a day with James Sturm, getting a tour of the school, meeting members of the staff and hanging out that night with a number of the students, I decided to pretty much chuck the speech and wing it based on my thoughts while w...
2021-12-06 06:14:51 +0000 UTC
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First off, thanks to you all for being here, it means more than ever to me and to the household. I always let folks know that there are no worries when and if they need to bail, and that still goes. We can only do what we can do, financially, and this isn't a charity -- I work for your patronage and if you're unhappy with the site than I understand not wishing to support it.
Things have been tough, I'll be honest, but obviously more so for Sarah. Her third chemo treatment was last...
2021-12-06 03:52:14 +0000 UTC
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Doesn't play well with others.
Might not play well with itself.
2021-12-03 02:00:28 +0000 UTC
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Characters from obscure horror movies don't excite too many people, but I figure if the damned thing's out on Bluray someone will get a kick out of the deep cut, grade C-to-Z slashers, monsters and madmen. If I could sculpt I'd be making custom figures or little resin statues of all these (often rightfully) overlooked horror jobbers.
So, anyway. The movie is Girls Nite Out (1982, aka The Scaremaker). The killer inside this ridiculous mascot suit has a proto-Freddy Krueger claw device th...
2021-12-03 01:48:42 +0000 UTC
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1) Lettering is not just worth crediting, it is worth celebrating and understanding as an integral artistic element on the comics page along with the illustration work -- in short, whatever is on the comic page is artwork.
2) If you are making comics, consider the fact that you wouldn't want to write or draw generically, so why have everyone else's generic computer lettering?
3) Comics don't have to have that clean, concise "mainstream" lettering style -- newspaper comic str...
2021-12-01 05:02:44 +0000 UTC
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1) I love Moebius' art, and I think he's a genius, but I can't read his comics because I find them extremely dull.
2) The Spirit is Will Eisner's best, most fully-realized and executed project despite it's "low" aspirations as plain entertainment.
3) Thought balloons are a useful part of the cartooning tool-kit and should be embraced.
4) I miss exaggeration, foreshortening and distortion in mainstream genre comic art.
5) People who write eight comics a month are not wr...
2021-11-26 06:11:05 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to everyone for their well-wishes for Sarah and the family. Hopefully the next time we discuss the situation it's because we have some good news. Thanks, everyone.
Wishing you all a happy holiday weekend, if not that, then a restful holiday weekend, and if not that, a reasonably endurable holiday weekend. I'm going to sleep through a good portion of Thanksgiving and then futz around a bit and get back to some drawing before heading into what will be another tough week.
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2021-11-25 13:18:26 +0000 UTC
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As you know, I'm pretty open about most things but when it comes to the family we're actually pretty private people. Sarah, especially.
One of the reasons things have been tough this year in regards to life and work -- tougher than we've let on -- has been because Sarah has been sick. She posted the message below on Facebook on Sunday night. We appreciate the kind DMs folks sent in response. As Sarah mentions, please understand that she's not really in a position to respond person...
2021-11-23 10:23:56 +0000 UTC
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