May 28 2006
I can’t believe this is a real comic book:
In the near future, the United States is ruled by bloodsucking vampire hordes. Only one man can end their reign of terror: JESUS H. CHRIST. A tale of war, love, religion and severed heads, the controversial LOADED BIBLE answers an age-old question: “What Would Jesus Do?” Answer: He’d kick vampire ass.
May 27 2006
Well, it’s not technically Memorial Day yet, but it really doesn’t matter around the venerable Crackhouse since renovation work is going on unfettered. Today Dennis, the drywall finisher wrapped up the third pulling of the drywall mud, thus completing that end of things. Tomorrow the dried mud gets sanded, and on monday the painter comes in to prime the walls and ceilings and the carpenters return to get rolling on various things.
So, anyhoo, here’s the current status:
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Living room
Looking into the dining room
Our newly formed hallway, running through what was once a weird little anteroom and a closet
The bedroom, featuring six big double-hung windows
Here’s the view looking from the bedroom into the newly formed walk-in closet and master bath–previously a small bathroom and the other half of the weird anteroom respectively
And finally, here’s our shower enclosure in-progress. The inside will be tiled and that borded up window opening will be filled in with brick glass
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If this sort of progress continues, I may have to stop calling it “The Crackhouse.”
May 26 2006
X3, otherwise known as “X-Men: The Last Stand” comes out today. In celebration/anticipation here’s a Wolverine by J. Chris Campbell:
May 24 2006
There’s apparently some kind of big multi-book crossover event going on at Marvel at the moment called “Civil War,” and the Newsarama Art Group has selected as its drawing topic this week Captain America and Iron Man in some sort of a “Civil War” context. I’m guessing that Cap and Iron Man wind up on opposite sides in this deal—hence the choice of these particular characters.
Anyway, I’m not an official member of the group, but CCCG member Adam Casey is and usually posts his drawings for the group on our message board… and every once in a while I’ll get inspired and do one and post it as well. In this case, the whole “Civil War” theme gave me a good excuse to draw my absolute favorite b-list Marvel hero, Razorback. He’s a 70s-era good guy—first appeared in a Spider-Man book—and his “superpower” is that he can fix stuff. He’s also from the South, drives a big rig, and wears an enormous razorback hog skin on his head that he can shock you with (is if this whole character’s premise isn’t shocking enough in itself). I believe his real name is Buford Hollis and the name of his semi is “The Big Pig.”
Put simply, RAZORBACK TOTALLY RULZ!!!!
So, here it is:
May 21 2006
Check out this The Comics Reporter preview of Dan Nadel’s forthcoming book Art Out of Time. I’m really looking forward to this book since it features a look at two of my very favorite–and often neglected–cartoonists: Dick Briefer and Ogden Whitney. Briefer did a great humorous take on Frankenstein’s monster and Whitney was the artist on the great book Herbie, the hero of which was also known as “The Fat Fury!”
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