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Yep.
I just finished the first page of a 12-page story that I’m writing/drawing for the upcoming issue of Jeff Seiler’s Cerebus Readers in Crisis (which will be available at SPACE), and the story will feature Blink & Sam (and myself~ sort of) along side the main aardvark himself, Cerebus.
My little tale takes place in between pages 266 and 267 of Minds (Cerebus, Volume 10). For those of you familiar with the story of the Earth-Pig born, you might recognize the location (featured below) in which Cerebus finds himself– he is trudging across the surface of (the object formerly designated as a planet)* Pluto.
It’s a treat to be able to play in Dave Sim’s sandbox for a little bit. (Yay! I can crosshatch to my heart’s content!) Dave’s 6,000-page story is a monumental acheivement in sequential art; I can take down any one of the 16 volumes of Cerebus from the shelf and learn something new (even the early stuff from the 1970’s!). And add that to the fact that Dave has always been so supportive of my work as an artists and writer over the years, I can’t imagine being where I am today without him.
*I find it funny that astrophyscist Neil deGrasse Tyson received hate mail from third graders because of what he did to Pluto:
more about “Neil deGrasse Tyson | The Daily Show …“, posted with vodpod
Urrg. Busy busy. No time to chit-chat about MOC. (Maybe tomorrow? Does anyone care?) Anyway, the Blink comic strip below was suppose to run in the October issue of the Short North Gazette, however, due to the power outage, that issue was cancelled and this cartoon might run in next month’s issue, but that’ll be a little late (less topical in nature, y’know?). Oh, well.
Maybe (if it was worth it) I’d figure out how to embed videos in here and post the debates along with my cartoon so you could determine which debate (mine or theirs) is the most honest; but I’ve really gotta go to work right now and earn a paycheck.
So, just over a month ago I attended the HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC and had a totally awesome time. Hung out with a slew of very cool people- some were old acquaintances but I met quite a few new comixers. I’d love to write about all the people I connected with, however I’m in the middle (or the 4th/5th) of completing a new Blink story (see page below). One person I do want to mention is Matt Wiggins. Why? Because he’s one of the very few people to write me a an honest-to-gosh letter (well, email… but whatever…).* Also because he works at the awesome store, Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find and that he is an Ohio State University graduate! What are the odds?? So, anyway- he wrote me this letter…
Hey, Max!
I’m the Heroes employee who talked to you about Columbus and Ohio State and all that when you were at Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find during the HeroesCon, just about a month ago. Finally had a chance to catch my breath a little and catch up on some reading which included Barefoot in America, Breakfast in the Park. Good stuff! I really enjoyed it and it was great to go back “home” for a little while. I read the other one you gave me, forget the title right now,** second but I could see the art progression from that one to BiA,BitP. And the squirrels, gotta love the OSU squirrels. We used to tie strings to peanuts and throw them at the squirrels but wouldn’t let them grab them until we wound the string in and the peanut was about an arms length away. Then we’d let the squirrels grab the peanut and we’d lift them into the air. It was hysterical and passed for cheap entertainment back then
Well, still passes in my book. Anyways, thanks again for the books and best of luck with your continued comic booking and hopefully we’ll see you back down here for the next HeroesCon!
Matt
Yeah, the squirrels in Columbus are something else. (Especially the Buckeye squirrels.) I had a lot of fun drawing them (and writing their dialog) in BiA, BitP.
Okay… now I’ve really gotta get back to work on finishing my newest Blink comic for Bob Corby’s Oh, Comics! (in which Blink reveals her real name!)
* There were a couple of very cool people I know who did mention me in their reports on the Con– in fact, some of them even reviewed Blink! That is freakin’ awesome. Sorry it took me so long to get around to mentioning that.
** The book title Matt blanked out on was my Free Mini-Comic Let It Be As It Is. I dropped off about 20 in the freebie area of the store and Matt said that they’ve all been taken.
At the Laughs At Lakeside gallery show, I met quite a few Ohio artists & cartoonists and was lucky enough to have some of them join the cartoonist group, Sunday Comix. One of them was the “newly minted” cartoonist Sue Olcott (that’s her on the left talking with another long-time local artist, Susan Sturgill).
Sue recently began writing & drawing this wonderful, quirky comic Onion City; in the vein of some of the great underground comix artists of the 60s & 70s:
At present, I don’t know how else to get a copy of her book besides you emailing here at optikstix_at_yahoo.com.
Anyway, when I saw her watercolor-styled art, I knew I found someone who could translate my (occasionally overwrought) B&W line work into and elevate it to another realm. So I asked her to color my version of Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book; a tribute to Bill Watterson’s phenomenal comic. I think she did a stupendous job:
