Yeah....

Hope Christmas New Year's was good for you!

40 50 below zero sucks.

That is all.

NEW YEARS EVE!!

40 below zero, ice fog, nowhere to go and nothing to do (nothing fun at any rate), kitchen sink drain frozen and backed up so that water has been dripping under the sink and seeped thru the flooring (under the tile) all the way under the kitchen counter and out into the carpet in the dining area which is really my work area and if I hadn't been barefoot and freezing my toes off and felt the water squish up when I went to sit at the desk and start working who knows how long it would have gone on or how bad it would have gotten. Good times.  Good times. 

And yes, I am most terribly proud of that run-on sentence.

Hope you New Years Eve is safe and fun and devoid of arctic temperatures and wet carpets. And I hope to heck I have more to report in 2009!  Hopefully more of my own books coming out in print, on the web and maybe even for the iPhone... as well as more lettering for others as well.

Yeah...

Hope Christmas was good for you!

40 below zero sucks.

That s all.

As Christmas approaches...

So, finished up E-Man the other day. And then did a quick Trailer Park of Terror lettering job. It seems the classy lads putting out the UK edition of the DVD have seen fit to commission a comic to go with the DVD! Hopefully I'll at least be able to get a copy of the comic if not the whole UK comic/DVD package... which would be cool to have even if I can't play the disc. ;)

Our "lovely" Norma hops 'cross the pond!

I've also just taken a little writing assignment. I don't usually do much writing for others where they pick the topic and give an editorial push toward what they want told but this looks to be great fun. I'm writing an... I guess you'd call it an adaptation... of a Hawaiian folk tale. Revenge and Shark-Gods and blood! How can that not be fun?!

STATUS REPORT: CHRISTMAS

• Christmas tunes...playing (my new iPod Touch connects to the surround sound. How cool is that?)
• Lights...flashing
• Scented candles...burning
• All presents bought
• None wrapped
• Christmas baking and candy making... not even begun but it's all sitting there ready to go
• Contributions to Christmas dinner... shopping not done

Thought about doing 12 Babes of Christmas again this year... if I could even find 12 new holiday themes hotties... but so few people check this poor neglected blog anymore it's probably not even worth it. :D Haha! Maybe I'll do 12 Days of the Best Christmas Presents I Ever or Never Got! I always REALLY wanted a Millennium Falcon... you know, the big one like came out in '77 or '78 or whenever. I had X-Wings and Tie Fighters and action figures but I really wanted the Falcon. Never got one... and yet somehow I've survived mostly undamaged.

E-MAN!

Long time no post! Again.

I just finished up some lettering. Ed over at Digital Webbing Press asked if I could help him out on an issue of the legendary indie book E-Man and i was glad to do it. Nice to be part of the DWPress crew again. The bulk of my published writing has come out under the DWP banner so it's like a homecoming. (Oh, shut up! It's the holidays, Christmas music is playing, and I'm feeling sentimental!)

Make with the clicky for a closer look...


Black Watch trudges along defiantly, refusing to remain incomplete. Darryl is putting in a lot of work and time on the colors and really his learning curve has been pretty impressive.

Speaking of impressive learning curves, I started a new horror one-shot with a new artist looking to get some work under his belt and it's kind of fun watching someone's art develop from page to page. As we get more done I'll talk about it more and toss up some art.

Another newer project was moving along quite nicely but has hit a lull. It may be the season or other things but my co-creator/artist has been MIA for a couple weeks. He has some BIG "life stuff" going on so ya can't really blame him.

I have a new Nothingface one-shot written and ready to go... if I could find someone to draw the damned thing! :D

And finally... for now... When Drive-Ins Attack is alive and well! Project organizer Rich Stahnke has found a lot of the creative work falling into his lap... from writing and illustrating his own story to coloring and drawing for others. (And hopefully finding time to ink MY story in time for inclusion in the book.) Rich is just really pouring himself into this and I wish I could help more than just lettering.

Bless you, Amazon.com!

Last Xmas I bought a huge cool Transformers Bumble Bee figure for my nephew... I literally spent at least 20 minutes trying to extract the thing from the package with a pair of needle nose pliers and a razor knife. The poor kids rushing back up to me every 72 seconds to ask if I was done yet.

Amazon is introducing "Frustration Free" packaging! Same products, different packaging. It's generic packaging and comes without all the plastic straps and metal twist ties and bulletproof plastic crap.

An example (click to zoom)....

It even costs a few bucks less... but it's the hassle free opening on Xmas that drew me in. Hell, I'd pay a couple MORE bucks for that. They only have a limited number of items set up like this but lets hope the program expands.

Go HERE to check out the Trailer Park of Terror DVD commercial!

Go buy it! Help keep the comic going and my paycheck coming in! ;)

Coming October 21st!

Nuff said.

Taking the Fall....

Man, this has been the coldest summer in forever. And it's aready over! By mid-August the leaves were changing and now only a week into September I step outside and it feels like we're at the end of September. All the tree leaves are yellow, the cranberry bushes have turned bright red... hell, they're already moving past the red stage into the dull orange stage. We saw the first migrating geese at least a month ago.

Fall is my favorite time of year, but not this early! I'm hoping it will mean a long fall and NOT an early winter. We get enough winter in Alaska, mother nature screwing us out of weeks of non-winter would be entirely BS! ;)

Just a quick check-in....

Finally getting some nibbles as I fish for an inker for my WHEN DRIVE-INS ATTACK! story. Hopefully that will move forward soon.

Black Watch moves ever slowly forward.

Starting a new project with an artist friend I've wanted to work with for years. Our initial plan is to release it online as we go and then look to put it in print with extra story pages, behind the scenes stuff, etc.

Trying to work on some prose for an online pulp "magazine" and will have to look for artists to do some spot illustrations eventually.

Seem to have hit a summer slowdown as far as lettering gigs. Of course, everything will come crashing in at once as always instead of now while I have lots of room in the ol' schedule.