Stands for Work in Progress and Water Is Pouring*.
Sometimes I have trouble drawing my own characters, which absolutely drives me nuts. I've drawn Bill Dickey hundreds of times. SO why am I unable to nail down his face and head for this cover? I've erased enough attempts that I took him off the board and worked on trac...
2024-09-04 06:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm depressed and amazed at how much time I spent making notes for potential Milk & Cheeses comics back in the 90s and whatever we call that hazy decade that was 2000-2010. The files I have on these things are about two inches thick. I guess the files add some to that, but still. I crapped out on making Milk & Cheese ...
2024-09-01 01:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
An old page from Dork. About stuff.
I still enjoy or admire most of these things, some thirty years on, at least in theory. I don't have a whiffle ball or a Dapper Dan magnetic drawing set anymore, or a drinking bird. But they're nifty bits of ephemera. I think I still have a Devo energy dome in a box somewhere. Most ...
2024-08-30 22:32:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The original art is missing the word "They" in panel three, second sentence. It was fixed for publication.
The strip was printed in color, which helps sell the gag a bit. Because those shorts are something. Although the outer underwear wasn't always colored in yellow, to be fair. But the joke works less well if yo...
2024-08-28 22:17:54 +0000 UTC View Post
A public service announcement.
2024-08-27 21:13:23 +0000 UTC View Post
There really is no point to office Hi-Jinx. Sometimes it's okay to just make four panels of nonsense and not worry about whether anyone enjoys it other than yourself. That's not a passive-aggressive maneuver, I worry about 95% of these strips going over. The 5% are the ones like this, where the point is to have no real point ...
2024-08-26 21:50:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Another meta Fun Strip featuring some of my characters in a "behind the scenes" bit.
I really did make a hundred dollars that day. I did a mock-celebration dance in the studio as if I won the lottery, and that bit of performative idiocy led to the strip.
It was fun drawing the characters hanging out together. I...
2024-08-25 21:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Phil the Disco Skinhead was always a limited character, a one-joke bit that I managed to spin out a few times more than originally conceived (much like most of my concepts that were meant to be one-shots). At a certain point I realized that that I didn't want to use him anymore -- satirizing white supremacists isn't the same ...
2024-08-24 21:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This fucking guy. He's got a point, but he really needs to shut up about it. I stopped taking his calls a long time ago.
2024-08-23 18:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Old art is new if you haven't seen it before.
Feeling better but not well. Not thinking of slicing my hand off, thankfully. What a weird thing to think. It was true for the time, though. An intrusive thought it took me a while to shake, although I haven't had a bagel in some time. Hopefully posting this won't bring it b...
2024-08-22 20:38:33 +0000 UTC View Posthey. Just a quick pop-in update. I've been doin a lot of sleeping and coughing since Saturday night, came down with some kind of summer bug. Likely caught something from a nephew who was coughing up a storm at his brother's birthday dinner Saturday. It's not Covid, for which I'm grateful, I can't afford to lose that many days...
2024-08-21 18:18:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Rooting through the files to try to find something, pulled a few things to scan/post.
These are some character heads used for the endpapers of the DORK hardcover. You can see the faint pencil marks from two or three failed attempts at the Devil Puppet and the unnamed bird creature that pops up a few times in the Fun Str...
2024-08-17 02:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Nosing this along as much as possible.
Penciling tight because my hand wavers a bit when I ink. Frustrating. Tight pencils can kill some of the liveliness on the page, especially since my inks tend to stiffen things up some. But it's what I'm used to and what I have to do if I want the finished art to be decent. I'm st...
2024-08-13 22:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I have two more production art auctions up on eBay, these are the production model drawings for "Sir Pete" DiNunzio and Josh "Axel Skullpunisher" Levy. Both come with a companion drawing, Josh's axe and Pete's frozen body after Lord Atrocity blasted him with a freeze spell.
You can find the auctions here:
Team Pet...
2024-08-12 22:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Need to try to sell some stuff as I've been having a lot of trouble working and so it goes. Not a plea for help, honest, just letting folks know there's an auction up now for one of the rmeaning Welcome to Eltingville production sketches I still have. I wish I knew that there'd be more interest in the pilot, because I sold sc...
2024-08-05 20:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Our variant cover for OPERATION SUNSHINE: ALREADY DEAD #4 shipped to comic shops today (Wednesday). I was at the dentist and forgot to post about it earlier, so I'm playing catch up.
Lines by me, colors by Sarah Dyer.
The clean up drawing by Eric Keyes based on my design.
I gave Pete a good chunk of dialog in the D&D sequence because I figured his accent would sound funny while spouting terrible "thee" and "thou" stuff. I played with the idea of Pete, Bill and Josh using put-on role-playing voices for their D&D characters, bu...
2024-08-01 01:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Only one scripted and boarded scene was cut from the Welcome to Eltingville pilot. It's a bit of business from the opening D&D sequence where Bill, Josh and Pete's characters face the villainous Lord Atrocity. Atrocity first unleashes a magical arrow attack to wipe out their goblin minions, and then uses a freeze spell t...
2024-07-30 23:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing with some of the original production art from the Welcome to Eltingville pilot.
Up top is the clean up version of "Axel Skullpunisher", Josh's D&D character (by Eric Keyes, over my sketch). Next up is an early rough for Axel/Josh, which I cleaned up for the sketch that was posted previously. The last imag...
2024-07-30 00:35:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Scanning more of the remaining pilot production art I have for the Adult Swim pilot.
Most of the original production art was sold time ago, but I believe I have copies of my designs somewhere (I hope), and possibly the clean-up designs (which, if I understand correctly, was done by an artist named Eric Keyes at the C...
2024-07-27 01:15:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The first six book orders are in the mail and I've e-mailed tracking numbers to the recipients. I'll be working on signing, sketching and packing up the next batch of orders to get those out asap.
Thanks to everyone who ordered books. Almost everything sold, I appreciate it very much.
Pictured above: Dark Ho...
2024-07-26 05:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Signing, sketching copies of Beasts of Burden for Patreon customers (thank you all!).
Packing up book orders. First batch should be going out tomorrow before I go to therapy.
Very happy to be able to talk about the Beasts of Burden Omnibus after the recent announcement.
Not supposed to talk about "the oth...
2024-07-25 02:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Those of you who have followed my work for any stretch of time probably knows that when I do an interview, I take it pretty seriously and I take my time and I answer questions thoroughly. Partly because I always feel like I'm not making myself clear, partly because I have a tendency to talk (or type) a lot. Anyway, I don't ca...
2024-07-17 04:18:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Very glad that this has finally been announced: All the BEASTS OF BURDEN stories done so far will be collected in a nearly 600-page omnibus edition from Dark Horse Comics. It's scheduled for February, 2025 and features new cover art by series co-creator Jill Thompson.
Now I really need to get cranking so I can get the...
2024-07-11 17:47:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The interview I did about Fight-Man was used for this video...about Fight-Man (duh). It was weird seeing an old, obscure comic (three old, obscure comics, actually) being discussed in some detail.
The video jumps to a few conclusions -- the main one being that Fight-Man's low sales ruined my chances at a Marvel superhe...
2024-07-09 20:48:30 +0000 UTC View Post
There's something in the air.
Breathe in.
Enjoy the trip.
2024-07-04 22:41:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Still going through old files from the closet.
The blue pencil rough above was done for a full-page splash for a superhero strip I was thinking of doing for Milk & Cheese #Hate (which was what the eighth issue was going to be called).
I sometimes draw or write all over the files the notes were put in, as you...
2024-07-02 06:42:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone on Twitter asked me if they could send me some questions about Fight-Man. I said, "sure", and sent them my e-mail and now I have a few questions to answer about Fight-Man.
I was also asked about World's Funnest, which boiled down to "How the hell did someone like you get to work with people like Dave Gibbons, ...
2024-06-30 20:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
