FREE Bo holiday card & 30% off all Bo books

As a thank you I’d like to give you a free Bo Nanas greeting card to print out and send to your friends. Just e-mail me.

Need inexpensive gifts? 30% off all Bo Nanas books until December 31, 2009. They come signed with a sketch. More info here.

What I’m reading this week – Comics biz mysteries

Both of these period books are by the writer of Road to Perdition. They have the same main characters and plots built around historical facts like the feud between Al Capp (Li’l Abner) and Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka).

I read the one above first because it was about the comic strip industry, not realizing that it was the second book. The first, below, is more about the comic book biz.

Thursday is the new Sunday – Pop up

 

The Sunday strip rerunning on Gocomics.com today is a version of what is sometimes called a “wallpaper gag” because of the repeating images.

The drop panel above is a literal peek behind the scenes.

It’s beginning to look a lot like… (Part 1)

This year, like last, I did special artwork to count down to Christmas for the Gettysburg Times (the only newspaper in the world where Bo Nanas is still printed). I’ll run them every Wednesday until the big day.

FREE Bo Nanas holiday greeting card

Who says that we’re a paperless society? Not me. And to prove it I’m gonna send you a free Bo greeting card to print out and send to your friends the old fashioned way – non-electronically.

Here’s the front of the card. The inside says, “May the season bring you big, unwieldy boxes of holiday cheer.”

All you have to do is e-mail me and I’ll send you the pdf. It’s as easy as falling off a Christmas tree.

(For personal use only.)

HOLIDAY SALE – 30% off all Bo Nanas books

Got people on your gift list that you have no idea what to get? Why not give the gift of monkey? Both Bo Nanas books are 30% off until December 31, 2009 …and are signed with a sketch, too. Click here. (Payment is by PayPal, then 30% will be refunded. Please contact me about shipping outside the US.)

What I’m reading this week – Southern scariness

 

I do love southern horror/western/thriller Joe R. Lansdale (creator of Bubba Ho-tep where nursing-home Elvis and black JFK fight a redneck mummy), but less so in comics format.

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Inspired by my friends’ one-year old son’s “hand turkey” I figured I’d give it a try.

I traced my hand on my Wacom tablet, which I mostly use for coloring, not drawing – and you can see why.

MADly rejected – 007 version 6.0

When Daniel Craig was first taking over James Bond I wrote this proposed piece. (I sketched it veeeery simply figuring a better caricaturist than I would do the art.) I do like this, but the lack of teen relatability to George Lazenby probably did me in.

What I’m reading this week – Naughtiness

Dan DeCarlo did decades of art for Archie comics…but he also did girly cartoons. I knew him and his wife Josette from the National Cartoonists Society and they were always tremendously sweet to me. (Dan named the lead character in “Josie and the Pussycats” after his wife.)