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MY SECRET SAN DIEGO COMICON 2015 BATTLE PLAN

 

So this San Diego Comicon is kinda a big one for me, and if you’re planning on attending, lemme clue you in as to how to best enjoy my presense there.

1. DO NOT LOOK ME IN THE EYES.

2. DO NOT HAVE EYES.

Great! Having gotten the big points out of the way, let me now give you the lowdown as to why this convention appearance is a special one for me. Lean in real close so my words are punctuated by the unpleasant sensation of having your ear canals steamed up.

Okay, so why’s this con such a big deal? Lemme tell you:

20th Anniversary of the publishing of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. That’s right, JTHM was publishedby SLG comics before the moon was fully formed!

INVADER ZIM Comic Book! That’s a big deal, I’d say.

So I’ll be split up between two signing spots, walking both worlds at this convention, like Blade, only a Mexican Blade, and no Kris Kristofferson. Here is a handy guide to how to find me, where and when!

SLG BOOTH #1815
ONI PRESS BOOTH #1833

MARVEL AT MY SCHEDULE OF SIGNINGS AND PANELS!

Thursday 7/9

Signing in SLG booth – 2:30 – 4:00

JTHM 20th Anniversary Spotilight Panel – 5:00 pm

Friday 7/10

SLG Signing – 1 – 2:00

ONI PRESS ZIM Signing – 4:00

Saturday 7/11

INVADER ZIM Comics Panel – 2:00 p,

ONI PRESS ZIM Signing – 3:30-4:30

SLG Signing – 6-7

Sunday

Comics/Animation Panel – 1:30-3:00

SLG Signing – 4:00 – 5:00

Okay…holy shit. I just NOW realized what my schedule is like. I’m not kidding about this – I only now read all the shit I’m supposed to do at this con and I don’t think I’ve EVER done this much stuff at any convention. There’s a whole panel I don’t even remember being on and now I’m already tired and dead feeling and the convention hasn’t even begun yet. Sorry, I’m just…oh my god…

Custom JTHM FLOOR DAMAGE mini prints on sale for one month starting NOW!

So yeah, you read the title! you see the image! Unlike the larger, screen print versions, these mini prints are…well..smaller, and each one has a hand drawn knife scrawled right on it, decreasing the value significantly!

Head to $Z.99 and do a thing!

Custom JTHM FLOOR DAMAGE mini prints on sale for one month starting NOW!

So yeah, you read the title! you see the image! Unlike the larger, screen print versions, these mini prints are…well..smaller, and each one has a hand drawn knife scrawled right on it, decreasing the value significantly!

Head to $Z.99 and do a thing!

Very Important House pilot update news (EDIT)

As some of you may know, I’ve been developing an animated pilot in a super secret Disney bunker. Now I dunno how much you do or don’t know about animated pilots, but one of their key features is that they’re animated.

Bad news for traditional thinkers, here: The pilot’s not getting animated.

No, that doesn’t mean things are going badly, it just means I had the misfortune of being in development at a point where the network changed it’s dev process for all their current brewing projects. Not gonna lie, it sucks and it sucks bad for people who want to see some evidence of what Jenny Goldberg and I have been working on for so long now. Sure I’ve got other projects in the works, but as far as things being far enough along that we could soon start proving we’re not full of crap, VIH was pretty far along to where there were just a few more weeks to ship for animation.

So any testing for series pickups is going to be done based on animatics now.

So there’s an update. Hopefully, this speeds up a pickup process so we can get to the series stage sooner.

(EDIT)

Lemme be clear, VERY clear here: The pilot has not been killed. The development process has just been truncated. The end goal now is just an animatic instead of the original plan of animating 11 minutes of pilot. This change in the program is not a sign of things going badly for Very Important House, and, as I said before, it’s more of an across the board move for all pilots in development alongside ours. Surprisingly, the experience overall, aside from this late shift to testing animatics, has been eerily smooth with everyone being hugely supportive of this little thing we’re doing.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t be angry. In fact, be furious, use that anger to build a birdhouse or something constructive like that, but don’t be angry thinking our work has been for nothing. We’re certainly bummed about it on our side, but we still have work to do and, if everything goes according to plan, there’ll be a lot more than just 11 minutes of animation to show for it.

 

 

The Collected Works of Fillerbunny out this week!

The signs all point to one thing – A new dose of Fillerbunny in stores is nigh, this week as a matter of fact, tomorrow even! This is the book nobody’s been waiting for, but everyone should own! Love Fillerbunny? You need this book! Hate Fillerbunny and everything else my name is attached to? You need this book so you can fuel your insane rants to nobody who wants to listen!

In case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t been watching all the trailers in theaters and reading all the informative flyers taped to bricks being thrown through your windows while you sleep, this book collects every issue of Fillerbunny ever made, including a brand new issue 4 that’s not even in stores yet! That’s right, this book collects THE FUTURE. Issue 4 is really sad, guys. Maybe you shouldn’t get this book.

Aw, I’m just kidding with you. You HAVE to buy this book. if you don’t, everything i’ve worked for will be for nothing and I’ll just hate myself for even trying. Why would you do that to me? Seriously, what’s up?

There’s quite a bit of new material in here, not even counting the whole new issue, so here’s just a list of the guests that did pages: Bryan Konietzko, Edmund McMillen, J.R. Goldberg, Tyler Hutchison, Frank and Becky, Pendleton Ward, Alex Pardee and Aaron Alexovich. One of them did a drawing that actually upsets me.

So yeah, go to your local comics purchasing establishment tomorrow, demand the book. I’d be pretty happy if you were all responsible for why they sell out of copies in a single day. No pressure, but if that doesn’t happen, I’m probably gonna just kill myself, man. I’ll do it. I won’t actually do it but I’ll talk about it all day.

SD COMICON 2014: THE POSTENING

Hello again, and welcome to this year’s edition of me talking about going to the San Diego Comicon again until I die!

I’ll make this a short one, so pay attention, yeah? Here’s the pertinent info for you.

WHERE:

The SLG Comics booth (#1815) at the San Diego Comicon in the giant disease dome the CDC built for their annual experiment in crippling contagion!

WHEN:

July 25-27. My signing times are generally 1-2:30PM and then again from 5:30-7:00PM for each day except Sunday where the second signing of that day starts at 4:00 and goes tip 5PM. Thursday is up in the air but if that changes I’ll let you know.

WHAT:

I’m signing copies of the new Fillerbunny trade paperback full of all sorts of new crap including a whole new issue of Fillerbunny! Fillerbunny 4 comes out in a collection before it even exists as an individual issue! Crazy, I know.

I’ll also have a bunch of prints for signing so that I can occasionally afford to escape and gnaw on a sandwich in an alley somewhere like Gollum only with sandwiches.

WHY:

I don’t know. Oh my god I don’t know. I’m going solo to this one because all my other friends are smart enough to avoid con now and oh god…oh my god…

WOO! SEE YOU THERE!

 

 

 

 

Lil’ Fuckup makin’ friends

Checking up on Lil’ Fuckup

Here’s an episode of Bravest Warriors I wrote!

Yep, it’s just like the title of the post says.

Want a little more information on how this came to be? Too bad, I won’t ever tell, unless OKAY I’LL TELL YOU.

But not today.

I hope you guys dig it, daddios.

 

Theeeere…now that’s not so hard, is it, Lil’ Fuckup?

 

Theeeere…now that’s not so hard, is it, Lil’ Fuckup?