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July 26, 2011
Steakfist's Escape Into Gallery Nucleus!
First, my Steakfist's Escape Into Dimension 10 giclee print is now up on Gallery Nucleus's webstore. Thanks to everyone who showed up for my signing at their booth to get pick one up. I like to see what sort of people are attracted to the work I do, and that signing made me pretty certain that I don't like ANY OF YOUR FACES. Thanks! Buy prints, you horrible-headed bastards.
Second, The Bolt Cougher giclee print is now cheaper. I had been hearing stories from people who were buying prints and not having money left over to feed their children, and was feeling pretty bad about that.
July 25, 2011
Comic re-prints.
This is a terrible photograph, yeah?
I don't usually make any mention of re-prints of my comics. In fact, I don't recall ever mentioning in in the history of my having done comics, but over the past year, increasingly so, people've been asking me as to where they could find an issue of this or that particular series, mainly due to the fact that said issues were out of print and that much harder to locate.
The guys at SLG tell me a couple of those books are now back in print, and I saw the proof at Comicon as I watched people slowly walk up to, say, the hardbound Director's Cut of JTHM, arms held just in front of them like Indiana Jones trying to figure out if the idol he sees before him is an invitation to glory or a trap. by the fifth time a fan was felled by a fury of poison darts, I asked Dan Vado if the books being on display at all meant they had been republished and he said yes, so there ya go.
Of the stuff I know that has been re-printed, The trade paperbacks for JTHM, SQUEE!, and the two individual issues of I Feel Sick are among them.
July 21, 2011
Mini Print for Comicon 2011!`
Here's the print! I'll be exchanging 30 of these for shady favors (or $35) at Comicon starting on Friday. Same deal as previous cons, I don't sell this to anyone unless they utter a particular phrase, in this case "I SHORE WUHD LAHK ONE'A DEM PRINTS." I'd be glad to hear it in a really nice southern drawl.
Each 8″x 11″ print is signed and has a hand-drawn knife on it, each of them unique to the print. They are hand printed in that I used my hand to turn on the printer.
These little test prints generally sell out at the conventions in a day or two, so they'll probably not be available afterwards unless some filthy type puts them on ebay for more than I'd wanna pay. This is a trial image for a larger screen print I'll do, though the image itself will likely be altered a bit for the final version and won't have the customized aspect.
If you need more info on my comicon doings, read this older post and understand everything!
July 11, 2011
Know my San Diego Comicon plans.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAACLICKMEAAAHHHH!!
It's that time of year again, a time when a man's fancy turns to bitching about how sweaty everyone around him is and wearing sandwich bags on his hands before shaking anyone's hand.
Comicon 2011 is upon us once again, people, and that's just bizarre, isn't it? How is it possible for the same year's comicon to just keep repeating itself? I don't know, but that's not my problem. Here's what's going on there as far as my involvement goes.
1. Professionally (I'm a professional, ya see) I'll be attending from Friday the 22nd to Sunday the 24th. For the most part I'll be at the Slave Labor Graphics booth (Booth 1815), but I might be signing at the Gallery Nucleus booth (Booth 2235) on Friday or Sunday as well. Non-professionally, I am at the convention center year round, as I live in the walls like a stinking rat person, hoarding garbage and eating the end cap pieces of hot dogs.
2. NEW JTHM SHIRT.
This one's just in time for Comicon, so if you're not there to get one from Slave Labor Graphic's booth, there's something just wrong with you and I'm not even sure why I'm still talking to you. This shirt uses the J's Not J print image, only in shirt form with a modified color palette. These are on a truck heading to San Diego and I haven't even seen them yet, so I hope they're alright. Even if they're not alright, you should probably bring a garbage bag to fill up with all the shirts you're gonna buy.
3. STEAKFIST'S ESCAPE INTO DIMENSION TEN giclee print.
Gallery Nucleus is going to doing a new print of mine, and thought it would be nice to have me sign it at its premier at the San Diego Comicon. I'll probably make them regret thinking anything will ever be nice ever again, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't stop by on Friday the 22nd, 1PM (for now) and grab one to get signed. Or just grab one, really, and don't get it signed. Just buy it, don't make eye contact with anyone, and just sorta skulk off without a word. That'd be pretty good too.
Signing these for Gallery Nucleus at their booth (2235) on Friday at 1-2 PM. It's a fast signing, so try to make it! Might add another signing for these on Sunday, but not sure yet.
4. STRANGE TALES PANEL: FRIDAY the 22nd.
This is just a panel with a few of the artists that did work on Marvel's Strange Tales anthologies. I'll be there mumbling incoherently about my experience working on the MODOK and Wolverine stories I did for them. I will have some SHOCKING revelations (psst: no I won't), so don't miss it! This is the official blurb from the program guide:
6:00-7:00 A Strange Tale of a Panel: Indie Creators on Marvel's Strange Tales— Excelsior! Show up early and stay late as some of comics' best indie creators come out of the closet, revealing themselves as maniacal Marvel madmen. Witness twisted love for some of mainstream comics' best characters! Forbidden fantasies fulfilled! Shannon "Too Much Coffee Man" Wheeler comes clean about his eco-terrorist Red Skull; Jhonen "The Homicidal Maniac"Vasquez mulls over M.O.D.O.K.; and Jeffrey "Incredible Change-bots" Brownmesses with the Merry Mutants. And more major terrific talents join this core crew, spilling secret stories from Marvel's Strange Tales. Room 9
It's going to be amazing, and if it isn't I was probably just lying about it being amazing.
5. SEEECRET PRINT!
Not so secret, really, but I can't say just now what it'll be as I'm not sure. If it's what I think I'm thinking it will be, it'll be pretty fantastic. I hope it's not something awful, really. Either way, more on this as I get more information out of myself. This'll be the usual deal I've been doing at conventions for the last year or so where I do a very small run of prints to sell to people who know a particular password that binds them to the print in question. It's like a Lord of the Rings situation, only it ends up with the buyer's (the not very attractive ones anyhow) having to wash my car.
The password to buy this print will be: "AH SHORE WUD LAHK ONE'A DEM PRINTS"
If you could speak this in a real thick southern accent that would be awesome. Please try. As always, these will be going for $35 and all proceeds will go to too much pie in my stomach.
Anyhow, here's a tiny sliver of a peek in case you're that: impatient:
June 25, 2011
KILLERBUNNY screen prints on sale now
This post is a bit on the late side, but that doesn't make it a liar as the KILLERBUNNY prints are indeed on sale over at $Z.99.
130 went up a little late yesterday, and there are, as of the writing this post, around 20 of them left.
June 20, 2011
Just sos ya knows: QuestionSleep update
Stop yelling at me to sell you stuff! Wait...no...forget I said that.
Hi.
You're looking great! You were looking pretty terrible last couple of times, and I was actually having reservations about asking you here because it's been getting harder to just look at you without feeling a bit sick but I feel silly now because you just look fantastic.
Now shut up! I have some serious stuff to tell you and even though you're looking pretty good, your voice makes me angry.
Getting right to it, I wanna address a few things people have been asking on pieces of paper tied to rocks thrown through my windows at all hours of the night.
First off, the Killerbunny screen prints look like they're actually about ready to put up for sale, probably by this very Friday. I had hoped to have them done by the end of last month, but even I can't bend EVERY aspect of reality to my will, so they took a longer than my hopes would have preferred. I still have to sign each and every one of them, but I think they look pretty amazing for a thing I've been pulling my hair out for over the past month.
I'll give them their own dedicated post once I've taken some decent photos of them, all signed and numbered, but I can tell you this: I'm terrified to touch them! They're printed on this nice 10pt silver paper, meaning the surface is very reflective, making the image change depending on how you're looking at it.
Seriously…check these things OUT!
There's a little bit of me on each of them, I was THAT excited when I saw them. Sorry...
Still need to go through the prints and see how many are useable, but there should be around 130 or so by the time they go up for sale. The mis-prints I eat to regain some of my power back, the way some mothers eat their own placenta or, in cooler cases, their own babies.
Speaking of putting them up on sale, it brings me to the other thing I wanted to talk about, and that's just what the hell is up with my lonely, lonely $Z.99 webstore.
To date, the only item ever to go up for sale on $Z.99 was the ol' J's Not J print, and that went great, selling out over the weekend it was released on. After that, it's just been silence, broken only by the steady stream of rocks smashing through the windows, rocks thrown by people asking why the store hasn't been supplied with a steady feed of things for them to spend their money on while their babies are starving.
Just before the store went active, the person I had planned on managing all the store operations moved out of state, or was mauled by a bear or moved to a bear out of state or something catastrophic and it made everyone pretty sad, and rather than find a solution to the void left behind, I just collapsed in a corner and cried while watching television. Before I figured out some solution, things got hectic again and suddenly $Z.99 was this nagging, starving hobo of a project that joined the pile of hungry hungry hobos in my head.
Eventually I figured I'd revise what $Z.99 was going to be used for, as I had things for sale on other webstores that were not my own. Currently those stores are:
TOPATOCO: Here is where a bunch of my internet related stuff goes, often items that result from my Twitter nonsense, things like MEATGHOST or GOATSPLOSION.
SLG: The classic. SLG is the publisher of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and all my other ol' comics. They carry shirts and comics and toys from said comics and a bunch of others stuff, even comics of mine they didn't publish. Hell, they pretty much have a ME store in there, so give them a go.
GALLERY NUCLEUS: So far I've got one print at their store, the Bolt Cougher print. They do really nice prints and posters in general.
So $Z.99 would be focusing on the more personal items, the limited edition stuff, but I also want it to be a hub for getting to the other stores I mentioned. The store is currently in the very drawn out process of being moved to different cart software, too, so it's been a lot of re-design work that I'm terrible at, resulting in me terrorizing friends who are much more capable at it than I could ever dream of being. I want to thank Emma Story, Tyler Hutchison, and Lisa Dahl for their efforts, and for sacrificing their lives to the cause. That's right…all of them dead now. So until the new store goes up, the Killerbunny prints will likely go up in the one you all know for now, and that's fine…FOR NOW.
So that's that for now. I hope the store adjustments come to an end soon, but until they do, you're just gonna have to keep throwing rocks. I've built a golem out of the ones I have already, but he's missing a proper butt, so keep them comin'!
I'll be back with another update of stuff you can expect for around this coming San Diego Comicon. I know only that I'll be there for Friday and Saturday for now, but…ah, hell, I'll just do another post about that and some other terrible things.
June 16, 2011
A pic a day
Thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of myself a day for a while, the way you see people doing on the internet. Not very original, I guess, and I can think of a million other people more interesting to look at than myself for anyone into seeing that sort of thing, but I don't really have that much else to do, so I decided to give it a go.
Knowing me I won't really keep it going. In a way, it's like exercise, and I'm terrible with doing that for more than a few days, too. Three days of photos is actually pretty good compared to other things I eventually give up on, so…go me.
In a lot of ways the idea of a project like this is kind of depressing. The point seems to be to be able to watch the changes your body goes through as time passes, but who ever thinks those changes are good? Getting older is generally a subtle process, the kind of thing you don't see happening, not really see, until someone points it out or you look at old photos of yourself and remember where your hairline used to be or how much thinner you were.
I've never been much of a looker, though, so why the hell not, right? My kids think it's stupid, but they can't really think along the same lines as they need to to understand that time's just ruining everything around them, even their own young little bodies.
Three days in.
God I'm weird looking.
-Mort
May 27, 2011
A Wild Amorphous Horror Appears!
So here's a sketch. Been doing a lot of these, these little glimpses of what is clearly the Wall of Memory. Relaxing as anything can be just drawing this stuff, always has been. Screw-riddled flesh is as good a gateway to a zen state as anything, I figure. Some people have a glass of wine before bed, some people sketch writhing horrors. I've got a few piled up now, and I imagine I'll ink them at some point and then cook them up and eat'em. Not entirely certain. I'm sure if I get enough of these done I'll deposit them somewhere for people to find them, but I'm not quite there yet.
Anyhow, I know I don't usually just put sketches up all willy nilly, but, like the Wall itself, a little peak can't hurt. Maybe I have that completely wrong.
You should probably stop looking.
April 1, 2011
Wondercon Appearance + Custom Killerbunny Prints
So I'm making a surprise appearance at Wondercon this very Saturday, signing at the SLG booth from 2 to 4 PM. Just like the ephemeral McRib I shall come and go, leaving people clutching their stomachs and screaming about how they maybe shouldn't have eaten that McRib.
So there's that.
In addition to simply BEING there, spreading my good cheer and as much of whatever this is growing on my hands as I can before the hazmat guys show up to haul me off, I'll also have a small number of prints hidden in my special sack like I did at the last San Diego Con. That seemed to work out rather nicely and it was fun making people give me a password to initiate the shady exchange of cash for trash. that's right, I rhymed. I have music in me, okay??
Like before, the prints are a practice run for a bigger edition of larger screen-prints or giclees to be done at some point in the future. At San Diego Con I had made printed just 25 Bolt Coughers, customizing them with hand painted ghosts. The final, larger version, is over at Gallery Nucleus, just waiting for you to buy it and eat it or whatever it is people do with my stuff.
This time around it's scary stencil image of Fillerbunny's robotic nemesis Killerbunny. There are 30 of these things, each one of them customized with an inky blob that looks suspiciously like Fillerbunny himself. Like the custom Bolt Coughers, each Killerbunny print is $35, printed on 8in x 11in quality heavy matte, signed and dipped in demon urine.
Okay, I just asked and apparently they're NOT dipped in ANY urine. I asked some friends to do that for me, but they didn't. I guess I wasted thirteen bucks on barrels of demon urine.
Requiring people to say a password might sound like a pain in the ass, but trust me, it's pretty fun. Some of the people would not quite say it right, forgetting a word or just being too embarrassed to say it, and then would get angry or sad about not being able to buy a print. It's adorable.
THE KILLERBUNNY PRINT PASSWORD:
"PIZZAPANTS NEEDS RABBITS."
That's right, that's the password. If you can say it with a kind of caveman voice, too, that'd be pretty good.
So if you see me there at Wondercon, say the password and I'll know you're up for some cyborg rabbit action. If you see me and you say anything else, I'll know you're my enemy.
February 2, 2011
Listen to SquidLid!
That's hardly a squid at all, actually...
My friend James Fisher has been sending me his music ever since I met him when visiting Toronto for a convention. I won't get into just HOW we met, but let's just say I'll never pay for sex ever again.
So I downloaded his latest stuff recently, a new project of his by the name of SquidLid, and haven't been able to get it out of my head. Nothing's better than getting sent other people's work and NOT hating it to where you have to lie and deceive to spare their feelings. I do it all the time, I tell people this or that is the greatest thing I have ever seen or heard or paid to have sex with while knowing, deep in my heart, that it's a terrible thing.
I thought some of you would dig this SquidLid stuff so I asked james if it'd be cool to share some of my favorite bits here on my classy internet place. The email I got back in response was just a huge jpeg of a Panda Bear which I interpreted as a 'yes'.
I'm warning you…these two tracks have been in my head for DAYS now. DAYS. I'm not joking. HELP ME.
Here's a video of the Squid Lid guys reflecting light, allowing themselves to be capture on video.
Support good stuff, yeah?
BUY SQUIDLID! (Best option for buying as you can choose which format to download in)
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