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This Is The End of the Eltingville Club (Or At Least Will Be)

An interview I did with Chris Sims at NYCC went up today on the Comics Alliance site, and it's about the end of The Eltingville Comic Book, Science-Fiction, Horror, Fantasy and Role-Playing Club.

In a nutshell, I'm working on two one-shot comics that will wrap up the 20+ year-old series, both issues will be coming out next year from Dark Horse Comics. You can read more about the one-shots in the CA interview and see the first issue cover here.

Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers

Dark Horse handed out the above card at a signing this past Saturday at the New York Comic Con, it features Jill Thompson's cover for a Beasts of Burden one-shot coming out next March. We announced it at the horror panel on Friday but DHC didn't show any art for some reason (the issue's done) and no one there seemed to take notice, anyway. Rough crowd! Anyway, I did a couple of interviews promoting the one-shot
-- as well as another project that we're going to be talking about soon --  so we should have a little more buzz out there soon.

For the time being: Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers is a 22-page one-shot shipping on March, 2014, art and cover by Jill Thompson, story by me. The four-issue mini-series we were working on is now being broken up into two one-shots to be followed by a two-parter, all of those comics should see print next year. Hopefully they'll be worth the wait.

I'm just happy we finally got something scheduled after all this time. Sheesh!

NYCC Schedule (Updated)

Here's my full schedule for NYCC, including signings at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund booth:

Friday, Oct 11th:

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. - DRAWING ON YOUR NIGHTMARES - DARK HORSE HORROR PANEL, Room 1A22
Scott Allie, Alex de Campi, Dan Braun, Tim Seely and others. I'm an "other".

1:00 - 2:00 - CBLDF signing, booth #965

Saturday, Oct 12th:

1:00 - 3:00 CBLDF signing, booth #965

4:30 - DARK HORSE HORROR COMIC SIGNING: Victor Gischler, James Harren, Cameron Stewart, Evan Dorkin, booth #1636

Saturday, Oct 12th:

1:00 - 3:00 - CBLDF signing. Booth #965

4:30 p.m. HORROR COMIC SIGNING: Victor Gischler (Kiss Me, Satan!, Clown Fatale), James Harren (Abe Sapien, B.P.R.D.), Cameron Stewart (Sin Titulo, B.P.R.D.), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden). Dark Horse's booth is located at #1636.

I won't be at Artist's Alley or selling art, if things are slow enough at the signings I will be doing little sketches inside books (based on past experiences the DHC signing might be busy-ish, I expect things to be slow/er at the CBLDF booth and I'll have more time to sketch in books). I'll be happy to sign whatever folks buy and whatever folks bring at either booth, fyi.

NYCC Schedule So Far

Here's what I'm currently scheduled to be doing at NYCC next week --

Friday, Oct. 11th:

11:00 a.m.-12:.00 p.m. DRAWING ON YOUR NIGHTMARES - DARK HORSE HORROR PANEL, Room 1A22
Scott Allie, Alex de Campi, Dan Braun, Tim Seely and others. I'm one of the "and others".

Saturday, Oct 12th:

4:30 p.m. HORROR COMIC SIGNING: Victor Gischler (Kiss Me, Satan!, Clown Fatale), James Harren (Abe Sapien, B.P.R.D.), Cameron Stewart (Sin Titulo, B.P.R.D.), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden). Dark Horse's booth is located at #1636.

Dark Horse's full schedule of signings and panels can be found here. (On Saturday, at 10:00 a.m, Lone Wolf and Cub writer Kazuo Koike signs at the DHC booth. Um. Yeah. Holy shit.) 

DHC will have copies of the Beasts of Burden and Milk and Cheese collections for sale at the event, feel free to bring your own copies to be signed, feel free to bring anything of mine you want signed, for that matter, DHC-published or not. We'll also have a Beasts of Burden signing card featuring new art by Jill Thompson, which will be available at the Saturday horror signing. Jill is listed online as a NYCC guest and I was under the impression she's going but I've had no solid information on her schedule, if she's doing panels, etc. Hopefully that will be figured out and I'm hoping she'll be on the panel and be coming to the signing. (On Saturday, at 10:00 a.m, Lone Wolf and Cub writer Kazuo Koike signs at the DHC booth. Um. Yeah.)

At the panel we'll apparently have an announcement or two about what I'm doing next year with DHC. Maybe even with artwork.

I am probably also going to be doing a signing at the convention for the CBLDF, I should have that nailed down in the next day or so and will update when we're set.

Hope to see some folks at the show.

Tell Me Something I Don't Know Podcast feat. Peter Bagge (and me)

The latest episode of the Tell Me Something I Don't Know podcast is now up on Boing Boing, featuring Peter Bagge and myself speaking with hosts/cartoonists Jim Rugg, Ed Piskor and Jasen Lex. The interview took place at a panel at this year's Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC. I recall discussing fun topics like depression, the decline of humor comics and anthologies, the less-than-glamorous truth about media options and the incredible financial rewards of freelancing in funnybooks.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Thanks for tuning in!

Milk and Cheese Commission

A recreation/reworking of the "Merv Griffin" strip for a man with distinguished taste in comical books. When Mr. Levinson wrote with the commission request he assumed I'd done something like this for other folks. I had most definitely not.  



11" by 17" Pen and ink, rapidograph, white correction ink on bristol.

More Art On The Block

We've put yet another batch of HOF art and stuff up on eBay for folks to check out and possibly bid on. Some sketch cards, some color Milk and Cheese pin-ups of varying sizes, some pages, some odds and ends.  

You can find the new listings here.

Thanks, as always, for any bids anyone might toss our way. Always appreciated, always helps.

We Two...

Batman vs. Clayface Finished Commission

Finally, finally done. 10" by 14" on bristol, pen and ink, Pitt brush pen, rapidograph, Pentel correction pen. 

Fundraisers, Auctions and Drawings

We've got another batch of eBay art auctions up, which you can find here. Sketch cards, pin-ups, a Fun Page from way back in the days of Dork #4, and a couple of recent Mad Magazine illustrations.

There's a pair of Kickstarter projects that I'm slightly involved in that may be of some interest to some of you out there. My Beasts of Burden partner Jill Thompson is trying to meet her goal for a Scary Godmother collector's doll, if that's funded I'll be doing a pin-up for her $5 issue #0 comic incentive.

The other Kickstarter project is for the Cartozia Tales comic series, an all-ages fantasy anthology featuring a round-robin of regular creators exploring a shared world along with a bunch of guest stars and cover artists (including Dylan Horrocks, Eleanor Davis, James Kochalka, Jon Lewis and others). Emily and I enjoyed the first issue, the second is being printed as I type, if they reach their goal and are able to produce all ten issues of the series I'll be doing a guest cover for them.

I've started a Flickr set for posting my animation-related artwork to, and I kicked it off with a small batch of Metal Men sketches and designs done for the DC Nation shorts. You can find them here.

Hope you're having a fine Labor Day Weekend, and you can actually take the day off.