Watched the ol’ Captain America serial matinee this afternoon, and let me tell you, ol’ Dick Purcell could have stood to loose a few pounds of (what my brother and I affectionately refer to as) sweet meats.  Cheap VHS fun, an excuse to drink flat home-brew and eat popcorn.  Just to watch ol’ Dick “sweet meats” Purcell waddle out of the way of a slow moving bulldozer was worth the time alone!  Also don’t look for a shield or nothing, cause all you are going to get is ol’ Sweet Meats tossing thugs off 100-foot cliffs or shooting them in the stomach instead of chasing them.  The dude really could fight at all.  No kidding, a frail old man bound, arms and legs, to a chair managed to be more useful in a fight than ol’ Fat Cap.  No, I will not be kind to him.

First things first go HERE.

Back? Good.  Wasn’t that guys site AWESOME. He does all these cool mock posters and puts up old SHADOW radio shows and stuff.  He’s got a web comic that totally rules.  AND he draws for ZORRO.  Poets write, monks pray, and Francesco Francavilla is awesome.

Yeah, he’s had the most influence over my artistic developmental than any other artist.  I mean, I still love Kirby, and Chris Sprouse, but I really do have to admit that Francavilla is the man.  He puts so much love into his subjects and illustrations that its communicable.  I think you can become a better artist just by looking at this guys stuff and soaking it in.

One day, I’ll have to get my stuff together and stop trying to be a Hong Kong version of him, but until that happens, he’s the king in my book.

The above is a tribute to his original character, the Black Beetle.  Just my way of saying, ‘thank you for the music, Francesco.”

‘Tis the season y’all!  You know how people sometimes donate a goat or something in a person’s name for Christmas?  Well, if you wanted to donate money to something cooler than a goat, donate to my favorite indy comic JOHNNY RECON!  These guys are working their butts off to make a kick ass comic that makes the world suck a little less, and isn’t that the spirit of Christmas?  The ammount you can give can be as little as $10, but even that would mean so much to these aces among deuces, that they’ll send you a special varient cover of issue #2 made just for people with hearts, people like you.  Give the gift of giving this year, and get the getting of greatness, it’s that simple!

Click the link below to be sure I’m not scamming you.

Oh, and Happy Christmas!

So Dec 30th, they aren’t shipping new comics. Although, from what I hear from my local shop, there will be new comics from the Big Two. They will ship the the week before, but they just won’t release until Dec 30th. But there is another comic coming out that day*…

That’s right, yours truly just received them in the mail today. It’s a very strange experience to hold your own self-published comics in your own hands for the first time. Something seems… forbidden…

—-* in select locations around Indianapolis, details to follow.

It’s a work in progress. I know, I know, sparce on the backgrounds, but just give me some more time, I’ll work it out.