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Tonight I’m finishing off my art book while listening to some...

Tonight I’m finishing off my art book while listening to some Cordwainer Smith audio bookery. 

Thoughts on the impending MST3K resurrection? You got a favorite episode? Will you ever draw any TV's Frank fanart?

 Something I really liked about the old Mystery science theatre was that they made jokes about things that I didn’t always understand.It got me wanting to investigate what they were talking about. They’s make a jack Perkins jokes and it was still funny even if I didn’t get who Perkins was until years later. 

- it felt like they were on their own kick and not trying to impress anyone else.

My impression of the new stuff was that every joke was explained and it kind of stinks of being modern surface level nerd culture.

–not really weird or subversive as much as just slicker version of something someone else already did. I tend to like patton oswalt‘s work but maybe it’s that I have a hard time thinking of him as evil. 

Some of my favourites episodes of the old stuff were Mitchel and Fugitive alien 

Here’s a quick sketch of the Mads– I’m sketching in a series of Inkstuds sketchbooks now to mail off soooon

and some other ones I did tonight

Several years ago you mentioned wanting to eventually collect Universe So Big (with the 3rd issue) in an Escalator-like collection, if I recall correctly. Was that a hopeful dream that I had, or is that something that may see the light of day eventually? Y

Thanks for asking! I made a thing to show my current plans: 

So Warheads 2 is out and the Royalboiler art book is about a day or two from being sent off to the nice production people at Image. (sup Shanna!!) 

I’m working on Rain like Hammers that’ll be one or 2 trades depending on how the mood and the market go. and then I want to collect Escalator and Universe so big. (including the 3rd issue) into a 200something page book called UNIVERSE – I like Stairs tho.

Also (I need to conform this with Image still– but I might collect the diary comics I’ve done this year into one book. 

and then next next year hopefully a 2nd book of Rain like Hammers and a collection of my porn books into one book. I’d love to call it FUCK COMICS– but I dunno if that would mess up distribution. 

I’m finishing Kiem with Xurxo and then I’m just going to make my own books at least until Rain like hammers is done. I’m aiming to be more productive and build a library of my work at Image. 

What about the masterpiece known as...Teeside Tintin?

I like the part in this one where he yells SNEEZE when he sneezses 

spaceshiprocket:Appleseed by Masamune Shirow Shirow is so...

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Appleseed by Masamune Shirow

Shirow is so weird in that he is still producing work, but as a cartoonist (and in my mind one of the best to ever do it) he seems long retired. 

It’s unfortunate that someone so great at comics just moved on. I understand it somedays but I would love to see old man Shirow comics 

While putting together my art book I found this postcard for...

While putting together my art book I found this postcard for DOWN TIME– that was a comic that never got off the ground years ago.

On the back of the post card was one of the women from my Pillow fight book– seen on that PF back cover there. (look there’s Corey’s SHARKNIFE too)

The post card came out of a job where Heavy metal magazine wanted me to draw a Suicide girls issue of the magazine. it seemed like a dream gig back then in pre Image days that could pay my rent and also get a HM issue with more than a short by me in it– (I had a couple stories in HM’s sci fi special before that)

If I remember right the Suicide girls people wanted Jhonen Vasquez instead of me (which I assume wasn’t in the budget if they were trying for 29 year old – unknown me on the book) & it fell through and never happened– but the writer on the thing wanted to still do something– Downtime was one of his ideas. 

It probably died because, truth me told I prefer to write my own stuff- with exceptions of the Wicked and Divine or Empowered issues I did. but those were chances for me to get paid to draw fan art on books I already loved. 

I dunno what happened to Gagnon but I hope he’s doing good. 

Adam Warren has been one of my favorite artists since I was a...

Adam Warren has been one of my favorite artists since I was a kid– I got to work with him on his Empowered –drawing a one shot that he wrote and me him and Simon Roy collaborated on a 2 pager for the Emerald city comic con a couple years back– (with 

Rob “Robaato” Porter colors on Adam’s part) 

“Russ got bored drawing Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander and the...

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Russ got bored drawing Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander and the other G.I. Joe character designs for the 1987 animated Hasbro/Marvel GI JOE: THE MOVIE, so he created G.I. WHOA!

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Russ Heath was one of the artists who sometimes assisted Kurtzman and Will Elder on their regular Playboy strip “Little Annie Fanny”.[23] Writer Mark Evanier described Heath making the most of one such assignment:

One time when deadlines were nearing meltdown, Harvey Kurtzman called Heath in to assist in a marathon work session at the Playboy Mansion in Chicago. Russ flew in and was given a room there, and spent many days aiding Kurtzman and artist Will Elder in getting one installment done of the strip. When it was completed, Kurtzman and Elder left…but Heath just stayed. And stayed. And stayed some more. He had a free room as well as free meals whenever he wanted them from Hef’s 24-hour kitchen. He also had access to whatever young ladies were lounging about…so he thought, ‘Why leave?’ He decided to live there until someone told him to get out…and for months, no one did. Everyone just kind of assumed he belonged there. It took quite a while before someone realized he didn’t and threw him and his drawing table out.[23]

Did you ever watch Exo Squad? It only lasted 2 seasons. I managed to acquire them online. Its great. The target audience was kids, but watching it again, I can see why kids couldnt keep up. Of all the things that deserve a reboot, this is it.

I know it. I remember really enjoying it. 

The internet tells me that Will Meugniot designed work on Exo-squad. He’s a comic guy who did Vanity & DNAgents in the 80′s– 

I first saw DNAgents when Dave Stevens did a cover for it

Also one of my favorite artists when I was a teenager Robert Dejesus (who did a couple Ninja high school issues and some other Antarctic press work in the early 90′s

 Dejesus storyboarded some Exo-squad (that he posted on his deviantart here)

And a Cammy from SF2 drawing Dejesus did that I like. 

There was also an Exosquad comic that Michael Golden (of Bucky Ohare & GI Joe Yearbook fame) did a cover for

And more Will Meugniot

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