Midnight Sun GN in October Previews

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Hey, all you good-looking, popular, lacrosse-playin’, rich ass daddy’s BMW-driving jerks I went to high school with who thought I wasn’t “cool,” you’re wrong–dead wrong, I tell’s ya! And for proof, I offer this. Midnight Sun has been “certified cool” by the folks at Diamond Previews. Thanks, Diamond people! (Also certified cool is Rick Geary’s latest installment of his great Treasury of Victorian Murder series. Might as well get a copy of that too, while you’re at it.)

You can find Midnight Sun on page 215. I haven’t seen the new Previews in person yet, but I’m guessing there’ll be a little picture of the cover art next to it. The order number for the book is OCT07 3222, so be sure to demand–don’t ask–your local comics shop to make sure to get you a copy, dammit!

The book’s already gotten some nice shout-outs from Johanna Draper Carlson over at Comics Worth Reading and from Greg Burgas at Comics Should be Good. Big ups to them for the mentions!

The above potential cover reworking, by the way, is courtesy of designer extraordinaire Scott Saavedra, who’s responsible for the design work on a lot of the great-looking books that have been coming out of SLG of late.

Sketchbook 10/01

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Lyle Lovett

I just think this is really funny.

Sketchbook 10/14

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Score! Original “Andy Capp” for $45.00

So, today I was looking for baby furniture (I’ve heard they can just sleep in a dresser drawer, but my wife isn’t hip to this idea for whatever reason) at a consignment store around the corner from my house and, as I walked by a display case full of gewgaws I did a classic double take and had to bite my tongue lest I have shouted out, “Holy $#@*! Is that an original Reg Smythe Andy Capp strip there?!”

It was indeed–and a really early one no less: December 16th, 1962. Asking price: $45.00. Needless to say, I now own this item. Why do we need a bassinet anyway?  I have no intention of letting my child even own a rifle until she’s at least 12, at which point she can buy her own night vision scope or bassinet or whatever else she wants to hook onto it…

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