Updated Reliablecomics.com

I made a lot of changes to Reliable Comics to make it more of a blog/e-comics deal. For the next month or so there'll be daily postings of all the past Danny Dutch comic strips (I renamed the strip to Reliable Comics' Laugh Menu because there's a dude on flickr named Danny Dutch now and his updates are screwing with my Google Alerts, and the strip's more of an ensemble thing anyhow *making a smug Hollywood face*) and I'm going to put as much of my other comics and drawing junk on there as I can get around to. So check it out and post some comments and subscribe to the RSS feed and buy comics from Sparkplug. From now on I'll only use this site to share Hulu clips and lettering samples.

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APE Stuff

I brought home a bunch of stuff from APE last weekend and I am starting to read through it. Here's the good stuff so far:

LOSE by Michael Deforge
This is a crazy comic with funny JLA satire strips, famous comic characters who are in hell, and great single-panel dog comics. The drawing is also very beautiful. It looks like this guy also did the cover for the issue #4 of Diamond Comics that was also new at APE, but I haven't read it yet. I think this dude will be as famous as Chris Ware.

STAY AWAY FROM OTHER PEOPLE by Lisa Hanawalt
I got this mini-comic and Lisa's other new regular comic but have only read the mini. There are some real solid laughs in here and good drawings. I guess it won a Ignatz award? That's pretty good. The dude at the table I bought it from told me I could get Lisa Hanawalt to sign it for me, but she was talking to some other people and I am shy around everyone and really unpleasant in general, so I just left. I predict she will be as famous as Chris Ware, too, if it's possible for three people be that famous at the same time.

DOOKIE-BALL JONES by Al Frank
Tim Goodyear gave me this thing and it's pretty good. But it's also extremely dirty and mean. There is poop-eating and Craigslist "encounters" and racism and pedophilia, but it's all in good fun/satire. Tim said people give it back to him after they buy it and don't even want their money back. Rated X for eXtraordinary, and because it's very disgusting and offensive--AND IT REALLY MAKES YOU THINK.

HENRY & GLENN FOREVER #1 & #2 by Igloo Tornado
I actually got these from Tom Neely at San Diego Comic-Con Int'l this summer and I think they were new two years ago, but still funny. Issue one posits that Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig are best buds/lovers/roomies and milks that situation for what it's worth. Number two is more of the same, but now they live next door to Hall & Oates.

That's it for now.

APE This Weekend

I'll be in San Franciso this weekend for the Alternative Press Expo. Above is the cover of a new mini-comic I did, Crime World. It's 12 pages of action-packed fun about a life of crime. Pick one up at the Sparkplug Comics table, along with one of everything else and make all of us really wondrously wealthy and powerful. Click here for more details from Sparkplug's blog.

Danny Dutch #41 & #42

Two new comic strips in my horrid Flickr set!

Henry Boltinoff

Henry Boltinoff from Adventure Comics #330, 1964

The Covered Blog

A Jimmy Olsen cover I redrew is on Robert Goodin's Covered blog today.

Comic-Con is Finally Over

Take a gander at my Flickr set of con pics and our comic-con blog, Funny Town Humor Pump.

The Shortest Promo Blog Post

My new comic, The Shortest Interval, is now available! Order today from Sparkplug Comics Books! If you're unsure, take a look at the preview that Jason L. at Arthur Magazine posted the other day.

San Diego Comic-Con Int'l

Beginning this Wednesday night through Sunday evening I will be at San Diego's Comic-Con International. In addition to the continued availablility of the Danny Dutch Comic Book, I have this brand new comic ready to go, The Shortest Interval. I'll be working the crowds at the Sparkplug Comics Books booth (1531) with my pals Dylan Williams, Tom Neely, Chris Cilla, Julia Wertz, Tim Goodyear, Austin English, Damien Jay, Ben Catmull, Minty Lewis, Andrew Smith and maybe more!

Sparkplug's got two other new books, too: Sausage Hand by Andrew Smith and Neptune by Aaron Nels Steinke. All three new books will also be for sale at the Sparkplug table at the Portland Zine Symposium this selfsame weekend!!?! Get the lowdown on the books and shows here. All the new comics should also be for sale on the Sparkplug website sometime soon.

Oh, one more thing: a few of us are going to try to post exciting blog entries during the San Diego show at the highly experimental Funny Town Humor Pump blog. Add it to your feed reader and find out how we're feeling this very second.

I will see you there!

Printing Blog

I came across a new blog the other day, Quality In Print, that has lots of info on professional printing, of course. There's a lot of stuff about the business of printing and calibrating your workflow and saving ink and stuff like that that I don't know anything about, but there's also lots of useful info that people like me and you who make comic books can learn and use to do a better job and get better looking printed books. Specifically, check out these five posts on dot gain that I found very interesting, and another five about LPI and DPI. Even if you only make mini-comics on the sly at work, this stuff is good if one day you hit the "big time" and it's also interesting if you are a production nerd like Sparkplug Comics' Dylan Williams.

Claptrap #2 by Onsmith

Old pal Onsmith sent me a copy of his new mini-comic, Claptrap #2, got it on Friday. If you can get your hands on one you will be impressed. People just don't make mini-comics like this anymore, or if they attempt it they fail in comparison. Production value is off the chart with a nice two color silkscreen cover (I already got a spot of coffee or something on mine, unfortunately--goodbye collectible value), and he must've found the cleanest photocopier drum in town to do the guts of the comic; nice dense black, hi-res scans.

The quality of the cartooning in here is the usual grade of wonderful. Dirty gags, confounding doodles, comments on the miserable human condition--all in all a load of laffs. Also a color centerfold, and mine has an original small drawing taped in the back cover. Try to find a copy if you're near Chicago.

Anyhow, he's a good buddy of mine from way back, and it was real nice of him to send me one of these. It's nice to know I have such friends out there.

Sparkplug at Olympia

Sparkplug Comics will be at the Olympia Comics Festival—TOMORROW ONLY. Also in attendance will be Chris Cilla, Champion of Comics. I'm not going to this show, in fact I didn't even know about it, but I bet it will be a wonderful antidote to the big shows like TCAF and MOCCA. Next up is COMICON INT'L 2009. I'm trying to get a comic finished this weekend for that very show called The Shortest Interval.

In the Pipeline

I'm working on a new mini-comic to have a grand unveiling at San Diego COMICON INT'L this summer, published by my friends, the team at Sparkplug Comic Books and Books and Distributors. It'll be an historical essay in comics form. I have to get it turned around pretty fast, it looks like (I might give up, too).

Henry Boltinoff

Here's a few strips by Henry Boltinoff! They're dumb, but the guy can cartoon astonishingly. I get old comics now and then, I'll try to post these here and on Flickr as I come across them. Boltinoff did comics to fill space in DC magazines for 150 years.

More Boltinoff
My Previous Boltinoff Post

Danny Dutch #40

TCAF Finds

The Shadow #8, 1975

Legion of Super-Heroes #1, 1989

Above are the covers of the two best comics I brought back from my TCAF trip last weekend. Do they tell you how to make comics like this at CCS?

Free Comic Book Day: Bird Hurdler

HOTT cover by Andrice Arp

Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow! My publisher and pals have produced a a nice looking free comic for the event:

Teenage Dinosaur, Tugboat Press and Sparkplug present the release of Bird Hurdler by Andrice Arp, Theo Ellsworth, Farel Dalrymple, Zack Soto, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg [doesn't have a website ??] & Julia Gfrörer and printed at Brown Printing.

Follow the link to see the list of participating comic shops where you can score a copy. My guess is that Bird Hurdler will also be offered at convention appearances until all the copies have been given away (with purchase ???). That's what happened with last year's now-classic Nerd Burglar, anyhow

Seattle Stranger Reviews Danny Dutch

The Danny Dutch comic book got a favorable review in the Seattle Stranger.

"New Portland-based comics publisher Sparkplug has produced some exciting work in its short existence, but the most fully formed and hypnotic of all of them is Danny Dutch..."

Take that, Bookhunter!

Stumptown Comics Fest

This weekend in Portland, Oregon is the Stumptown Comics Fest! Sparkplug Comic Books, publisher of the Danny Dutch comic book, will be in attendance. In addition to all their usual great comics they will have three brand new comics releases -- check them out. The Sparkplug blog also lists some other exciting weekend events.

Also, my pal Tom Neely notes on his blog that he contributed the cover to this week's Portland Mercury newspaper which has an article about the comics fest (links are in his blog post). He will have a table at Stumptown, too.

I'm not going to be there, but I'll be thinking of you being there.

Rough Comics Pages

Some pages from my sketchbook for a mini-comic I've been working on since 2006. I get about two pages done a year and they look like this. Caution: bad language

Danny Dutch #39

Danny Dutch #38

I think the lettering is pretty good on this one.

Danny Dutch and Jin & Jam Reviewed

Rob Clough posted a nice review of Danny Dutch and fellow Sparkplug bullpenner Hellen Jo's Jin & Jam #1.

Danny Dutch #37

The Comics Explained: Adventure Comics #368

Adventure Comics #368, Mutiny of the Super-Heroines

So the ambassador from a matriarchal planet crash lands on Earth. She uses malevolent "voodoo dolls" to boost the powers of the girl Legionnaires and then manipulate them to do her bidding! The events of this comic occur 960 years in the future.

The ambassador from the matriarchal planet is a dykey, short-haired (like a guy?? *shudder*) ice queen and it only makes sense that she plays with dolls--only they're evil dolls that can control people! She's sneaky and mean like any woman who gets to be the boss. Earth society was historically patriarchal but they now believe in the equality of the sexes, and oh, all the kids are real nice! The president of Earth is a great guy!

Ambassador Thora uses her dolls to increase the girls' powers and slowly subjugate their wills. The girl Legionnaires start to really get stuff done with their amplified powers and the boys are all like "Yesterday all you could do is brush your hair and decorate! But now we feel threatened!!" The girls soon take over the Legion, throw out the boys. The boys are surprised and want the girls to come to their senses because tomorrow is cookie day, and dudes can't make cookies!

But don't worry, fellows, because by the end everything is back to normal. The evil lady boss from outer space is defeated by the man-fearing, knows-her-place Supergirl, and after defeat, Ambassador Thora promptly commits suicide (head in the oven).

Current value in this condition: $1.00

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #36

I didn't do anything for a month! Anyhow, I'm a step away from just killing this blog since I never post much of anything anymore...You should bookmark the Danny Dutch Strip RSS Feed or my Flickr photostream since that seems to be where all the big action is. Also keep an eye on reliablecomics.com since I just renewed the domain for another year. And don't forget to buy Danny Dutch's Illiterate Yellow Funny Book from my inestimable pooblisher Sparkplug Comic Books and Stories. That's it, I guess.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #35

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #34

It's hard to get these done! I complained to a friend about the ungodly amount of drawing that goes into doing train tracks.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #33

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #32

COMIC BOOKS FOR APE

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #31

For next week

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #30

For this week, whenever it is.

Some of my best lettering in this one.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #29

For the week of September 29-October 5.

I guess I'll use the thumbnail Flickr provides, but it's pretty small so you have to click through, sorry.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #28

Strip #28

This is the last one that'll go into my Danny Dutch comic book, coming soon. I'll probably take a week or two off from drawing the strips to mess around with cover coloring and complicated junk like that. Please keep checking back, though.

Also, congratulations to the other cartoonists who were nominated for the Ignatz award in the Oustanding Online Comic category (Chris Onstad, Jesse Reklaw, Joey Sayers, Tracy White), one of which will win.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #27

Strip #27 first panel, all finished! Congratulations!

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #27

Strip #27. i'm really making some headway lately! I just have one more strip to do to complete enough for my upcoming comic book. I drew the cover over the weekend. I think it'll look pretty good, I guess.

Busts!

I'm going to use these as part of the design on the inside covers of my upcoming comic book. With luck it'll be in color, with some additional designey junk.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #26

First panel of #26

I like the way that small lettering at the bottom came out.

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Weekly Strip #25

This is the first panel to strip #25

Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon linked to the strip today which was pretty neighborly of him. If you came from there thanks for the interest. I've only posted the first panel of the last few strips as a tease for the eventual mini-comic version that I'm planning for APE in November.

You may also want to look at the Flickr set of the strips for an easier reading experience ( I think so, anyway). I tend to get stuff posted there before I put it here--gotta get my money's worth!

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #24

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #23

Just to tease anyone who's reading these, for the next few I'm just going to post the first panel and then force you to buy the printed version if you want to read the whole thing. Coming in November '08.

It might also save me some time which I can devote to drawing more comics, or drawing the same amount of comics, but faster. Or better. Or merely maintaining the same lax schedule as always...the sky's the limit!

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #22

For the week of July 28-Aug 3.

I finished this yesterday, but forgot to post it here. I've been putting them on Flickr first lately, then forgetting all about it.

COMICON Int'l

My photos from San Diego Comic-con Int'l are here.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #21

For the week of July 7-13.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #20

For the week of June 23-29.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #19

For the week of June 9-15.

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Gluyaswilliams.com Update

Tonight I added fifteen daily strips from 1929 to gluyaswilliams.com. How did you spend your Friday night??

This batch of scans was kind of a slapdash affair, as I was just plowing through my huge backlog of unscanned strips. While I uploaded fifteen strips tonight, I still have around 50 more from 1929, and a big stack I just bought from '45/'46, and still more from '24, '31, '27 and who knows what else.

Now and then I'll get a nice email from somebody who just discovered the site.

Danny Dutch Weekly Comic Strip #18

For the week of May 26 thru June 1.

I guess I'm going to have to stop calling these weekly strips, since I never get them done on time. I'm working on a 60-70 page story in my sketchbook, but it's going to be in my boring style and not my funny style, coming in 2009!

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #17

For the week of May 12-18.

Part 2 of 2, continued from last week.

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Links: Henry Boltinoff

I saw this post at Pappy's Golden Age and was reminded of how nice Henry Boltinoff's cartooning is. I don't have any scans of my own to show or anything, but here's a LINK ROUND UP: Gorilla Daze: some one- and half-pagers from DC Comics Dial B for Blog: A selection of Super-Turtles Stripper's Guide: Woody Forest Toonopedia: Boltinoff bio Mania Dos Quadradinhos: Info and Woody Forest(Google Translation) DC Indexes: Mother Lode of Boltinoff DC Filler Strips

I really like this smarmy "publicity man" from Alan Ladd #8.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #16

For the week of May 5-11

This is a two-parter, concluded next week.

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X-9 by Mel Graff

click for larger version

I discovered today that I like the look of Mel Graff's 40's-50's cartooning, so I tracked down some strips at Heritage Auctions. I turned them into line art and put them into one page as a fun comic strip continuity project! Thrill to the adventures of Corrigan (aka X-9), Corrigan's double, Joe Otterfoot, and the handling of illegal venison. Strips are from 1944, 1949 and 1955.

Also make note of Graff's special lettering for the caption boxes--good stuff!

Graff promo art and bio at Joakim Gunnarsson's blog

Secret Agent X-9 wikipedia entry

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Chinese Comics: Peng Di (aka 朋弟), A Molin 2

Here's another batch of strips scanned from a book I brought back from China in 2004. This stuff is by cartoonist 朋弟 (aka Peng Di, Feng Di, Peer Di), and I'd say these examples are from the 30's/40's, but I can't say for sure. The title seems to be A Molin 2, which, according this this guy is a funny tranlation:

"I found a better dictionary and noticed that the word 阿木林 can mean someone who is easily decieved or a fool. I think that is what the name 阿摩林 should be translated as. Perhaps this is a way to say the same thing in Shanghai. From now on Ah Molin will be known as Suckah."

Maybe "A. Dupe" would be a good name.

Anyway, this is from a series of reprints published in 2003; I bought three different ones, but gave the other two to friends. This book is all four-panel strips, while the others I saw looked like longer stories. The strips from this book deal with class struggle, the male/female dynamic, and hygiene, I guess.

Title Translations:
pg 1: Eat Well
pg 2: The Suction Kiss
pg 3: Standard Table Lamp.

That's about all I can figure out. I found these on the Google-translated page here. I'll make up unfunny but jokey fake titles from here on.

Thus,

pg 11: Now He Has One Leg!

pg 19: Sharing Hooker's Bed Bugs
pg 31: Popeye Contest
pg 39: Baby Collector ???
pg 46: Fickle Lady

pg 52: Ass Licker
pg 57: Rickshaw and Severed Head

LINK ROUNDUP

Peng-Di Wikipedia entry, Google translation

Peng Di series on Amazon.cn

Translated Peng-Di Comics on wobumingbai.typepad.com:
The Real Shanghai, introductory post,
The Real Shanghai, subsequent pages
Make Your Fortune and Return Home

Ther was some controversy over characters in the seemingly pretty profitable Old Master Q series being plagiarized from Peng Di's comics (and they are obvious rip-offs). More info on this:
Old Master Q Wikipedia Entry
People.com.cn Article, Google Translation

That's it, have fun!

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #15

For the week of April 21-27.

This is the best comic strip I've ever done.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #14

For the week of Apr 7-13

It took me forever to get this done. I won't be drawing these guys again because it's too hard!

Also take a look at this raw scan, before I added the graytones. (very large size)

There's an RSS feed of my Flickr gallery of weekly strips here, if you are so inclined.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #13

For the week of March 31 - April 6.

I was beginning to think I went overboard with the drawing on this, but it came out ok.

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Penny by Haenigsen

This is a collection of Penny strips by Harry Haenigsen. Haenigsen's a great stylist, his drawing's really something, in spite of all the turned-up Frankenstein noses. I've collected some jpgs of other stuff by him that I'll try to post one of these days, though I have a feeling it's not for everyone. But I think we can all appreciate the beauty of this plain-jane early 50's cover design! RIGHT?

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Little Lulu

From deep in the annals of memory.loc.gov

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Chinese Comics: Sanmao

This will be the first of a few posts with scans of comics I got while I was in China in 2004. They're all old, as I didn't see much of anything contemporary. If I ever go back I'll try to do some legwork beforehand and find out where a comic shop is.

Anyhow, first up is Sanmao, who's a very popular chracter over there with a long running strip. Sanmao literally means "three hairs" or "three whiskers," and he's a put-upon, typically homeless urchin just trying to get by. These comics are from the late 40's during China's cultural revolution, so you see lots of political stuff going on. I'm not sure if the book I have starts with the very first strip or if it's a ways into the story, but here he's just heading to the city and seems pretty naive:

He's taken in by a kindly old fisherman, however:

After being back on his own for a few strips he's taken in by a family, until their house burns down, then he's back on the street alone again. In the book he goes through a series of these kinds of ups and downs, matching wits with other street kids, overfed fat rich people, wild animals, the thoughtless, the greedy, the mean. He dreams of a better life, but not much comes of it, even though he's a good guy.

That's it! Mostly pretty good comics, but maybe a little melodramatic or political in places. They're almost all wordless, too, for easy reading.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #12

For the week of March 24-30.

Take a look at the pencil versions of two of these panels in the previous post.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #11

For the week of March 10-16.

I hope I can stay on schedule from now on, but it's hard to get these done now that I have a job!

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Weekly Strip #10

For the week of Feb 11-17

So much work for so little payoff! I might take off next week...

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Weekly Strip #9

For the week of Feb 4-10

My internet is back, surprisingly

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1906 Atlantic Monthly on Comics

Thanks to Boingboing.net I learned that The Atlantic Monthly now has its archive freely viewable. I just started looking at it and already found this great quote about Sunday comics from 1906:

"Ten or a dozen years ago,—the exact date is here immaterial,—an enterprising newspaper publisher conceived the idea of appealing to what is known as the American "sense of humor" by printing a so-called comic supplement in colors. He chose Sunday as of all days the most lacking in popular amusements, carefully restricted himself to pictures without humor and color without beauty, and presently inaugurated a new era in American journalism. The colored supplement became an institution. No Sunday is complete without it,—not because its pages invariably delight, but because, like flies in suummer, there is no screen that will altogether exclude them."

also, this one's good--these are both in the opener of the story!:

"One and all they unite vigorously, as if driven by a perverse and cynical intention, to prove the American sense of humor a national shame and degredation. Fortunately the public has so little to say about its reading matter that one may fairly suspend judgment."

The author here is Ralph Bergengren, and this article is his indictment of comics, specifcally color comics (apparently the color printing of 1906 wasn't to his liking, as he says the black and white versions look "twice as attractive"), and the simple, cheap humor they dealt in. I'm actually still not sure it isn't satirical, but I'm assuming he's in earnest.

On some points I agree with him, on others he's crazy. His descriptions of the immoral activities of the color supplement sound better than any turn of the century comic i've ever seen, more lurid, lunatic and wily--he should have been making comics. On the other hand, he makes the point that all the "types" created by the cartoonists dilutes the variety that humor generally has to offer that maybe partly true.

The writing overall here is a lot of fun to read, even though the author is a stuffy traditionalist. If you're interested in old-time comics, take a look here. He cites Winsor McKay as one of the good ones, while rival versions of the Yellow Kid (I think? not specifically named) both stink.

To me, reading this a hundred years later, all he proves is that the more things change, the more they stay the same, and I think that's what happens anytime you read a hundred year old magazine article of any kind. Strangely, I'd really feel good about making a comic composed of "pictures without humor and color without beauty."

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Weekly Strip #8

For the week of Jan 21-27

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Jan 14-20

UPDATE: I've gotten a lot of nice feedback on this one from here and there; thanks a lot for looking, everyone!

I also made a banner that links to the Flickr set of these strips. It's there on the right, or if by some chance you're looking at the RSS, here it is:

Or if you don't like Flickr, you can click the weekly strip label to see them here or if you don't want to do that either, they're all on reliablecomics.com. EASY

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Jan 7-13

New logo, hope you like it.

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 31 thru Jan 6.

I tried some "special effects" for this one.

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 17-23.

There's no new strip next Wednesday, check back on January 2, '08

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 10-16

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of December 3-9, 2007.

Check back next Wednesday and maybe there'll be another one! MAYBE! And tell your friends, please.

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New (Weekly?) Strip

New Projects Dept: Make a weekly comic strip. This is the first one, for the week of November 26 thru December 2, 2007. We'll see if 12/3-12/9 materializes. I got no job, and I wrote three or four strips this morning, just need to draw them--I'd be a real slob if I didn't get a second one done at the very least. Wish me luck!

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Today's Sketchbook

A four-panel strip I was working on last night. Not too sure if it's funny enough, but I'm satisfied with the drawing so far, which may compensate for any lack of laffs

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Today's Sketchbook

This is a panel from Young Romance #128 (1964) that I copied. I should do stuff like this more often, because it wasn't so easy, and I wish the result was better--that's not to say it's really bad or anything!!

Today's Sketchbook

It's been awhile! Here's my sketchbook output for the last couple weeks. I got a few more panels of that comics strip, but haven't scanned em yet. Does anybody even like stuff like this?

Don't forget to click for the big version!

Yogi Yummy Tummy Stories

This is the cover to an oversized comic book I have called Yogi Bear Yummy Tummy Stories from 1961. I added links to larger detail views of each drawing. Pretty artwork, huh??

Stephen DeStefano at Channel Frederator

Check out this interview with Stephen DeStefano. A very amazing cartoonist, and the interview has beautiful gigantic images to look at while you're reading...

Also visit DeStefano's blog

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Gluyaswilliams.com Update

Today I added a little bit of new stuff to gluyaswilliams.com, and put most of the illustrations section back online. There's a new image for the main page, too, that looks kind of snazzy.

Anyhow, this is the first site I've made that uses CSS, so if it doesn't look the same on your browser as it does in the image up above, let me know...

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New Rough Comic Pages

Here's two pages from my continuing Vice-President, Shipping & Distribution, Office Machines Company story. Forgive the occasionally illegible text, and click for a slightly larger version.

Super Duck Comic

This is a 6-page Super Duck comic that was reprinted in Pat the Brat Digest #1 back in 1980. I'm not sure where or when it originally appeared. And since the scans are from a digest, the color dots are big and the whole thing looks kind of lousy. ENJOY

UPDATE: According to this post at The Beat, Joe Edwards, regular artist on Super Duck, passed away last Thursday, 2/8. I presume he did this story, but I'm not sure. Either way, R.I.P. Joe Edwards.

DIABLO

COPS!

The Great Foodini

Donald Duck

How Much of Me is Me?

On the Comics Journal messbo today Chris Lanier posted a link to his article on Abner Dean, and the folowing cartoon has had me thinking over things ever since I saw it at 3:30 this afternoon. Anf if you're reading this, check out the article, which is REAL NICE