NEW BOOK: "88 Hours—Lost and Scared" AVAILABLE NOW!
Hey, all you multimedia mavens! I was interviewed at my table by the folks at Square TV, and they put that bad boy online! Check it out!
It’s almost like being at Comic-Con, but without bespectacled, bearded manchildren plowing into you in hopes to snap a picture of some gal walking by dressed as Vampirella!
As per usual, here’s the SDCCI ’08 recap, complete with photos and linkylinks! It was so fun, I wish it were every weekend! I’d like to say thanks to everyone who came by the table and spent some time checking out the ‘Jerk (yeah, I mean me). There are too many to name but I’d like to do a shout-out to Earthdog, Alex Gamboa, Zachary Simon, James Hicks, Todd, Jamie Lim & Bethany Jordan (the ladies couldn’t make it but each sent an emissary to pick up the new CJ book), Richard Foley, Tucson Richard, Dari, Randy, Erik, Tim O’Connor, Matan, Tara & Chris, Clay, Jay, Lonnie, Duncan, Lacie, Steve Yatson, Marc Mason, John Layman, Eric, Keith Garcia, Armando, David Poller, Arturo, Kim the catgirl (and her mom), Elisa, Mary, Alan and the ever-growing Poway Posse (Ben, Joseph, Barry, Mack & Shay). Also to the “mystery gal” who bought the new book on Saturday when I wasn’t there! And of course it was great to meet/visit with/consume foods with Daniel & Dawna, JustJenn, BeaucoupKevin, SnarkyDork, Sister Mary Shovelface & Superfro, Jose & Naomi, Ryan & Candace and Jacie. And thanks most of all to the other half of Team Cool Jerk: Darlene!
I wish I could name all of you who came by to chat, get sketches, buy t-shirts or just stand and stare at me uncomfortably… but my typing hand just blew a gasket. Thanks to all — mentioned or otherwise — for being part of the best Comic-Con so far!
I’m one of 10 indy cartoonists hand-picked by the charming and delightful Whitney Matheson for her first-ever Pop Candy Twitter Comics! You know her love for pop culture from reading her popular USAToday’s Pop Candy blog, and she had this idea to make comics out of some of her weirder Twitter tweets. Saturday evening she held a San Diego Comic-Con Meetup at the Marriott and unveiled this accordion-style mini-comic to all attendees who RSVP’d.
Didn’t make it? See the comic and all the cartoons here!
San Diego Comic-Con International is this week (July 23-27) and IT SOLD OUT! If you’re one of the lucky quarter-million who’ll be there, here’s the low-down:
• Debuting at SDCCI: the SECOND Cool Jerk collected edition Chickadoowa! OMG! This is the good stuff, Maynard! Fresh off the presses, Chickadoowa contains more than 200 strips, but here’s the kicker: more than A QUARTER of them are ALL NEW and HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BY HUMAN EYEBALLS! It’s true! Plus, it contains all the fun extra stuff you’ve come to expect from Hodabeast (Cool Jerk Vol. 1) like sketches, outtakes, director’s commentary and an index! Each book is $12 for hours upon hours of laughter and enjoyment!
• Also making its San Diego debut is my 24-Hour Comic starring Doc Splatter! It’s the printed version of the comic I created last October (24 pages of comic written & drawn in 24 consecutive hours). What’s extra cool is that it directly ties in with Chickadoowa so you’ll HAVE to get one! It’s a mere $2 — less than .09¢ per page!
• If you’ve been to my table before, good news! Team Cool Jerk is in the exact same spot as the past five years! Here’s a little map I whipped up while you were shaving.
• Team Cool Jerk will also have T-shirts, mini-comics, stickers, button packs, window decals and other effluvia for sale!
• As always, I’m more than happy to junk up your sketchbook with some awesome pencil-and-ink action! Donations to the HornCo Fund are appreciated, of course. =:^)
…but this week’s Cool Jerk will arrive clandestinely sometime this weekend. I spent the better part of today hammering out the minutia of Chickadoowa (Cool Jerk Vol. 2) with the printers. You might be wondering, “Hey! I thought Chickadoowa was at the printers in China for the past month!” Well, that fell through because China didn’t kick down a proper printer’s proof (aka “blue line”). In the time it took for them to get me one, the deadline would be blown. So I’m going local.
RR Donnelley is handling the printing and I’ll have the privilege of being there on-site to check quality pre- and post-press! I’m actually really excited. Yeah it costs more than the China option but the lack of stress is worth it. Thanks to Natasha Lewis (my printing rep) for putting as much importance on this book as I am.
Chickadoowa. San Diego Comic-Con International. Synchronicity.
Our Man Horn has a two-page spread in Wizard Magazine 199 (May, ’08), on sale today!
It’s a street-level map of Manhattan in the Marvel Universe, pointing out all the landmarks found there (Baxter Building, Stark Tower, Avengers Mansion, etc.). It was a lot of fun to do and it reproduced perfectly! The whole thing was done in FreeHand, then converted to Illustrator (blech!) for the Wizard production people.
So be sure to pick up a copy today, and write Wizard and tell them how much you love my graphics!! =:^)
WonderCon! Cool Jerk will be chillin’ in San Francisco’s Moscone Center South Friday through Sunday, February 22-24, 2008. It’s true, these things I say! I’ll be in the Artists’ Alley, surrounded by creative freaks, cartooning miscreants and their ilk. If you’re within a 1,000-mile radius of the Bay Area, drop everything and swing by to say “Hi!” More importantly, surrender some folding money on reasonably priced Cool Jerk merchandise, including my book Hodabeast, T-shirts of many varieties, Cool Jerk button 5-packs, mini-comics and other goods you can’t possibly live without!
Plus, be the first to see the pre-press proof of the second volume of Cool Jerk, “Chickadoowa!” Like its predecessor, it’s 144 pages of comic genius! And — as always — I’ll have some freebee stuff at the table, too. Hook the kids with a free sample, get ’em addicted, make the sale. That’s what I always say.
No, not Japan… someplace much closer (if you live in SoCal, that is).
So, what’re you doing the day before the Super Bowl? Well, if you live within 400-500 miles of San Diego, you OUGHTA be at Rising Sun Creations for an in-store book signing! It’s true! Fellow cartoonist/comics creator Ryan Claytor and I will be hanging with you aficionados Saturday, Feb. 2. Come on by and let me personally sell you a Hodabeast!
Here’s the poster Ryan Claytor and I whipped up to pimp our in-store signing.
There’s only two reasons why you shouldn’t be there, and that’s if you’re dead or in jail. And if you’re in jail, BREAK OUT!
* Rising Sun Creations (1620 Camino de la Reina, suite D, San Diego; 619.291.5264)
Luke Foster of COMICON.com had some nice things to say about my book, Hodabeast. COMICON.com is a great site with lots of reviews, interviews and other features. Thanks to Luke for the insightful review (and to Jennifer M. Contino for helping out behind the scenes).
