The Worst Kind of People

This year’s SPX (Small Press Expo) takes place this weekend in scenic Bethesda MD. TWKOP #2 is finished & printing as we speak! I’m looking forward to folding & stapling a bunch of copies of it over the next few days. It will be available at the Our Friend The Atom table, along w/ comics from my friends Aaron Delarosa, Mark McMurray, Ronnie Casson, Julie Behn & Corey Sauer! I’m so excited to see & hang out w/ everyone! There are a ton of comics I want to check out as well.

We are located at table D8, stop by & say hello!

Ryan Pequin’s Three Word Phrase contains some of the funniest, laugh out loud gags I’ve read in a long time!

MoCCA was hot but tremendous. Met a bunch of people, sold some books (although not as many as Phil) & got to hang out with my friends in NYC for three days. I got about five hours of sleep that weekend, and had to be at work at 8AM on Monday!

Since then I took a break from making comics, concentrating on getting my wrist & foot better for the summer. My wrist healed quickly but my foot was slow going & I was getting worried for a while. It’s at about 90% now & I was able to get back into running a few weeks ago. I had these awful images of me not being able to run or swim all summer. What a freaking relief.

SPX 09 is only two months away, crazy. My story for the postponed OFTA anthology is done (broken wrist & all, I was the only one who finished on time!) & I will be working hard to get the TWKOP mini #2 finished by then. I have a few copies of Giant-Size TWKOP #1 left that I’ll put up in the store soon.

Long story short, I fell off a ladder from about 8′ to the sidewalk a few weeks ago, breaking my wrist, bruising my ribs & spraining my foot. But I am pretty much back to normal. I’m out of my cast and have been working on finishing up all the stuff I’ll need for MoCCA. What can I say, I’m lucky as hell. I am actually combining/updating the material from TWKOP #1 with what was to be #2 into one big compilation. This year’s MoCCA is also going to mark one year since our good friend Mark Griffin passed away after a long battle with cancer. The anthology OFTA is putting out was inspired by one of his strips, and is kind of our tribute to him. I wish my contribution was better but I’d like to think he’d get a laugh or two out of it.

I read the greatest thing in Mark Eitzel’s blog a few months ago: “Shooting the sh1t is I swear the most important human activity. If it was less fun it would be an Olympic sport.” It’s so true. We threw a big bash on Saturday and the best part was the party dwindling down to just a small group of us talking in my backyard into the night, picking up into the next morning right through breakfast and the afternoon. Laughing until our sides hurt, until we couldn’t breathe. To be totally honest, I don’t care if I sell a single book. I’m most looking forward to hanging out with my friends for the weekend, some of whom I never get to see (and all of them I never see enough). 

See you in NYC!

Sorry for the lack of new comics. Been busy laying out pages for Phil’s DD #3 and a story for the upcoming OFTA anthology as well as some non-comic related freelance work in addition to my regular 9-5 and whatever else I can make time for. I do have a backlog of ideas I have to put to paper, 13 strips to go before I hit my goal for TWKOP #2.