Links, News, Updates, Everything

I got linked/recommended by Rick Bradford/Poopsheet and Steve Stwalley/Stwallskull in the last couple of days. Thanks fellas! And hello to visitors from there.

The weekly comic strip is lagging as usual, I'll probably have something by the weekend, or maybe next week? I really only started working on it tonight. Once I get 25 or 30 done i'll make a mini-comic of the best ones. Look for it at SPX or APE, I suppose, if it gets done.

I will also be a COMICON INT'L next week, Thursday thru Sunday. I'll be creeping around the Sparkplug Comic Books table. Also there will be Dylan Williams, Trevor Alixopolous, Jeff LeVine, Tom Neely, Tim Goodyear, Jason Shiga, more ! I'll be wearing this t-shirt:

Gluyaswilliams.com Update

I added three daily strips from 1924 to gluyaswilliams.com. In an effort to get more strips up faster, I didn't go to any trouble cleaning these up, or making black-line versions. They look good either way. With luck there'll be more to come!

For more info on Gluyas Williams don't hesitate to checkout the latest issue of Comic Art Magazine, which includes a nice article by Jeet Heer and published by the estimable Buenaventura Press. This issue also features a cover by pal Tim Hensley and a additional book by other pal Ivan Brunetti. It's been on the stands for over a year, so you've probably bought one already.

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Links to Me

I've gotten a little bit of new traffic in the last few days from Tom Spurgeon and Newsarama's blog--I hope you guys like what I've got here. Unfortunately I don't have anything very new up and I took this week off from my comic strip because I moved. SO check out the old strips here or at my Flickr page, and bookmark, because something new will show up eventually...

Shopping, Prints, BFFs

I took a look in the Family store this past Saturday in L.A. I saw that they have a couple of the litho prints (titled Stamina) that John Hankiewicz made to commemorate our SPX '06 experience. John, Onsmith, Ivan Brunetti and I each did a little drawing and John did the prints, it came out nice!

Up above is the drawing that I contributed, scanned from my sketchbook. The four of us also made a mini-comic for the show that we were handing out free. I'm not sure where you might be able to find one of them now; I don't know if I even have one. But they were neat! Four new drawings apiece, very small size.

Anyway, the print was priced at $20 at Family. They also had more of John's prints for sale, and dozens of other things. Check it out and tell them I sent you. And then tell me that I sent you.

And don't forget to bookmark Hankiewicz's and Onsmith's blogs for a heaping helping of their naive artwork. Hankiewicz is in the new Mome #10; Onsmith is in the new Hotwire Comics #2. If you need help finding Ivan Brunetti comics, you're stupid.

Supertrash: Venus In Furs Poster Redo

I did this for the Supertrash Film Fest / Art Show that's upcoming on February 1-3 in Portland, Ore. I'm not sure if they automatically accept whatever's sent in or if it's juried somehow, but we'll see. Pals Tom Neely, Chris Cilla, Alex Holden and Jim Rugg have also done one, probably others I don't know about.

Anyway, I did Venus in Furs, a terrible movie from the late 60's about a horny jazz musician and a hot naked ghost(?) lady, and a hot jazz singer lady who never gets naked and three murderous jerks. Don't bother watching it.

This is also my excuse for not having a new weekly strip for today. Not the real reason, but it's good enough. I may have a strip for tomorrow. Sorry!

New Gocco Print

Printed on a 4¾" x 2⅜" paper tag, it may be hung from a Christmas tree, rearview mirror, suitcase, or wherever your imagination might suspend it; string included. This particular print is a bit off register so it looks a little blurry. Others are even worse! I dunno, how about $2? Final price TBD.

It's a print gocco print and I made a few of them today to sell at super*MARKET Los Angeles, this Saturday at Meltdown Comics. I'll be at Tom Neely's table, trying to sell these prints and my currently in-print mini-comics.

See you on Saturday.

UPDATE (12/16/07): I DID NOT see you on Saturday

New Mini-Comics for SPX

I won't be there, but my new mini-comic will probably be at SPX in MD, USA. Find it at the Sparkplug Comics table, #F1. It's 24 pages of fun and is called Danny Dutch and the King of Aliens part 1. Sparkplug also had the whole line of David King's Reliable Comics back at Comicon, but may have sold out or discarded them by now.

It's For You

This is a discard print from the batch I made for the Gocco Set, a set of prints made with the Print Gocco pocket silkscreening toy, put together a couple years ago by my friends, and powerful cartoonists, Onsmith and Ivan Brunetti. This particular print suffers from being way off-register and there's some weak spots that didn't get any ink. It was also printed on mylar, which is a little too slick and not porous enough for the ink, so the prints took a week to dry. I'm also interested to see what'll happen, if anything, to these over time if the mylar starts out-gassing or degrading somehow. So far they look the same...

I'm planning another gocco print since I have a lot of time on my hands lately (I'm new in town and unemployed--won't you please help?). And I still have a couple of the Gocco Sets for sale, contact me at david @ reliablecomics . com

Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning

Steve Worth over at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive blog has begun posting pages from Gene Byrnes' Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning! My pal Marc Crisafulli has loaned the Archive his copy of the book. I posted a few pages from the same book in the last couple weeks, but Steve looks like he's able to put them up at a much faster clip than I ever could. So, go over there and check them out, but don't stop looking here!!!

Links to pages I posted:
page 150: F.G. Cooper
page 151: Gluyas Williams
pages 240-249: Fred Quimby / MGM Animation

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