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Art For Sale Update: Vroom Socko Pages Added To Original Art List

A customer asked about some pages from the Vroom Socko (Hectic Planet) comic, and I pulled the envelope yesterday and priced everything out that's available. The page above was sold some time ago, but it's the only interior page I have a ready sca...

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Adventure Time Comic Plot/Pitch (By Me, Sarah & Our Kid))

Hey, typing mostly w/my left hand, so pls excuse any/all typos. I found a memory stick (or wahtever they 're called) and on it was this pitch we did for an Adventure Time comic for BOOM studios some time back. 

Apparently, 2014, accordi...

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Update On The Hand

Tomorrow morning I have an EMG appointment to check out if the electrical activity in the muscles in my arm and hand are screwy. Or, rather, why they might be screwy, because they are screwy for sure. If I hold up my arm for ten or fifteen seconds...

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The Urbz: Central Station 4-Page Comics (Electronic Arts,2004)

In 2004 Sarah and I were hired to do a 4-page comic for a then-new Sims game called The Urbz (along with Pete Bagge, Jay Stephens, Chynna Clugston-Flores, Jim Mahfood, James Kochalka and other creators). The Urbz was some kind of grittier Sims add...

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Experiment #105

You recognize the shirt. And the hairline. You've never smelled anything like that before, though.

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Random Old Hectic Planet Sketch/Notes

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Dork #12 As It Stands Now

In a pile! Wheeeeeee!

There's maybe 17-19 pages here, depending on how many Fun Strips run on a page, it'll possible shrink to four box strips in a new format. 

Speaking of format, I have nooooooo idea what that will be for the is...

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Six-Page Josie Story (Dan DeCarlo Original Art)

Hey, gang, here's a hopefully fun post while I'm still having trouble taking care of things around here. 

Sometime in the 90's Sarah and I picked up a small batch of DeCarlo pages from Josie and Betty and Veronica, back when there were ...

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Covid Update 6/26/23

Still tired and weak, still eating very little, but I tested negative for being a carrier! Huzzah and all that stuff.

I'm not coughing much at all, throat isn't hurting, still hve the dizzies. In a few days I will call the neurologist for an...

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Covid Update 6/21/23

Hey, folks. Definitely getting better but still sick, still weak, coughing, sleeping most of the time. Sarah had mild symptos and has been taking precautions, so far the offspring has been free of trouble, thankgully. 

Can't eat much, b...

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Quick Update 5/13/23

Thursday I had my doctor's appointment. I got a referral to a neurologist for my arm and hand issues. I didn't get pain meds because they would compromises the neurology tests. 

I cam home, fell asleep, woke up the next day. Felt awful....

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Ask me Anything, Continued

Hey, folks. I'm having trouble loading some follow-up questions/comments so if you haven't seen a reply to something you wrote on the previous AKA, hit me up here and I'll answer asap.

Or feel free to ask me anything else here. I'm dealing w...

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Ask Me Anything

It's been a while since I did one of these. So, fire away. Within reason, of course. 

My drawing/typing hand is currently up on blocks for extended periods of time (earliest doctor's appointment I could get is June 8th), so, replies mig...

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Fading Newsprint: Supergirl Adventures Is 25 Years Old

Originally planned as an oversized Supergirl one-shot, delays in the two-part episode debuting the character in the Superman animated series (which Sarah and I co-wrote) caused it to be published as issue #21 of the Superman Adventures title. It w...

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World's Funnest: Fifth Dimension Sequence Script w/Art by Jim Woodring (Pg 30-32)

Sorry it's been a while to get back to the World's Funnest Restrospective, but we're finally in the Fifth Dimension. On the planet Zrfff. I didn't know that Mr. Mxyzptlk lived on a planet called "Zrfff" in the Fifth Dimension until I did the resea...

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Bim Bam Boom: The Songs of Bim Skala Bim Cover

Should be the final version. 

Should be available digitally any day now, possibly tomorrow.

Colors and assembly by Sarah Dyer.

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Some Advice to a Fellow Creator

From an e-mail I wrote in reply to some specific questions. I thought it might contain some potentially helpful advice for those of you who make comics (or art/writing of any kind). Please keep in mind that it was written off the cuff, is pret...

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Bim Bam Boom LP Cover WIP (New Revisions/Process)

Some jobs linger unexpectedly.

Above; My initial layout for the Bim Skala Bim covers comp art. After initial approval, the label guy was very concerned people would read the title as "Bam-Bim-Boom" rather than "Bim-Bam-Boom". I showed it to ...

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Milk & Cheese 11" x 17" "Sterno" Pin-Up For Sale

Please see the previous post (which has now been unlocked for all backers) for details. Thanks!

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Milk & Cheese "Play With Sterno" 11x17 Pin-Up For Sale

EDITED as this offer is now open to all Patreon backers. 

Hey, folks.

This 11" x 17" pin-up is finally finished and is available for sale exclusively to Patreon backers (at all levels). If anyone wants to own this, I'm asking $250...

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Experiment 104

Reach out and touch someone.

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Bim Bam Boom: The Songs of Bim Skala Bim Cover Illos

Scanned the seven illustration elements for the upcoming ska cover comp album. 

Below is the initial rough layout. I was asked to change the text/title panels around (to read diagonally from upper left to lower right, like a tic-tac-toe...

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Update 4-21-23

Recent Patreon book orders have started going out, I will be sending e-mails to customers with tracking numbers sometime tonight. The last half of the book orders will go out asap, I'm still sketching some of the books.

The Bim Skala Bim cov...

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PROCESS/ADVICE: NICK MAGAZINE/FAIRLY ODDPARENTS COMIC

In 2007 I was hired by editor Chris Duffy to do layouts for an 8-page Fairly Oddparents story for an all-comics issue of NICK MAG PRESENTS. Afterward, Nick Magazine ran a feature on how one of their comics was produced, which used a panel from the...

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Todd-O-Phonic Todd Activity Book Page WIP

Just finished up these two panels for WFMU deejay Todd-O-Phonic Todd's fundraising marathon premium, which this year is an activity book illustrated by various artists. My contribution is a "Spot the Differences" page. 

I scanned the fi...

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Milk & Cheese "Play With Sterno" Pin-Up WIP

11 x 17, WIP. 

Started life many years ago as a comic page, ended up as a pin-up that I add lines to every few week or months. 

I added some more lines to it late last night during a terrible, terrible movie (Argento's Dracul...

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Behold! "The Blank Stare Of Hate!" T-Shirt Now Available

The latest Milk & Cheese design is now available at  the House of Fun Teepublic shop (in a choice of 14 shirt colors). Whee and huzzah! 

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Forgot To Mention Here

Our friend Jennifer Grünwald (who has been working at Marvel Comics since forever ago) recently asked me if she could make a one-off shirt for herself using an old Milk & Cheese trading card image. You can see the result in the photograph abo...

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Update Time, Update Time, Time To Get All Updated And Stuff

I just finished up the artwork for the Bim Skala Bim covers album. Oy. I kept screwing things up and it took days longer than it should have. Shaky hand, fucked arm, anxiety, and a bad choice of paper and a revision that rejiggered the layout help...

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Hellboy: Weird Tales Signed/Sketched Bookplate

Some books don't provide a great place to sketch in. Hellboy: Weird tales is one with all black pages in the front matter and while I did draw a Roger in white ink and sign the actual book, I wanted to add something more along the lines of what I ...

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