Archive for November, 2008

Thumpety-thump-thump

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

In case you missed it in the papers and on TV, it’s Christmas Season again. It means that it’s also time for me to do my annual Christmas card. Waaaaaay back in 1993, I decided to design my own Christmas cards with a little cartoon on them. They were just simple photocopied and cut cards [...]

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FCBD09 Plans

Friday, November 28th, 2008

I’ve teased this before, but I got the official okay to talk about it a couple days ago: For Free Comic Book Day 2009, I’ll be at Rogues Gallery Comics in Austin, Texas. I’ve known owner Randy Lander for some time now, and am a huge fan of his Comics Pants podcast (along with the [...]

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The First Thanksgiving Without

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

It’s Thanksgiving and it feels kind of wrong. Oh, it’ll be a good day. And I’ve got a ton to be thankful for. Great family, great friends, good health, and the good fortune to be making a living the thing I know without question that I was put on this earth to do. But this [...]

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The One Where I Relentlessly Shill

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

So you want to buy the Love and Capes: Do You Want to Know a Secret? collection. I can’t blame you. I have them here, and they’re just so pretty. IDW did a bang-up job with them. I’m offering a premium edition here at the Love and Capes website. For $25.00, you can get the [...]

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Lyric Header Answers, Part the Third

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

It’s time to give the answers for the final lyrics quiz of issue #9. 17. You can windsurf into my life Get Here by Oleta Adams. 18. From door to door and a house to house Jane by Jefferson Airplane 19. The stars are shining for you, and just like me I’m sure that they [...]

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It's Only Six Months Away…

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Love and Capes will again be part of Free Comic Book Day. Issue #10 will be available, completely free, on May 2nd. It’s a brand-new, complete story. I think FCBD should be about actual stories, not just samplers, and I’ve never understood offering a book that you made people pay for three months ago as [...]

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I tried so hard, and got so far

Monday, November 24th, 2008

And here’s your mystery panel from the last page of issue #9. That’s it. I’m done. Well, there’s a fix or two to be made. And doubtless some typos to be fixed. But it’s as done as I need it to be right now, and I’m pretty happy with it. There’s going to be a [...]

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You've got the moves, you know the street

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Just one page to go. And, at this point, LNC has taken over my entire brain. So no clever posts or witty anecdotes, unfortunately. Page 24 is going down, today most likely. My brain should clear after that.

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Jimmy quit, Joey got married

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

There’s a line from the never-aired pilot Heat Vision and Jack, starring Jack Black as an astronaut who was exposed to inappropriate levels of solar radiation and became a super-genius in daylight, where he says "The human brain is like cookie dough." It expands when baked to fill the available space. Love and Capes is [...]

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Sadly, I Know This Moment Will Pass

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I’m Number Two on other list,too. I’m on Dan Grendell’s Top Five Books of the Moment. Dan is one of the Comics Pants brigade, and obviously a man of impeccable taste.

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