I have a new printed comic out, ALONE IN THE THRONEROOM MAGAZINE.
In this sequel to last year’s “Unfortunate Horse Magazine,” Sour Cat gets stuck in a strange, unfortunate hell, soda fountains are examined, moons are learned about, Walt Disney has a breakdown, and Chancellor Dog is forced to swallow a banquet of painful childhood memories in THE LOW ROOM. A collection of short stories for the sad, wistful child-age applechewer inside you.
28 pages, 8.5 x 11, color covers with black and white interiors. $5.00.
Self-published on-demand using Lulu.com. Ships directly from Lulu.
It is available to purchase here.
All ten of my other comics from this year and the last are also still available.
Thanks!
10:59 pm • 3 June 2015 • 94 notes
noahvansciver:
Michael Mcmillan from Arcade magazine. Nearly forgotten comic god.
Michael Mcmillan is one of my very favorite cartoonists there is.
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1:45 pm • 27 May 2015 • 488 notes
Anonymous asked: What's next for your comics?
i am still excited to present individual books as things you can buy print-on-demand, or look at on the internet.
“alone in the throneroom magazine” (release 11) is done; i just have to color the cover and back cover. it has a story about walt disney in it, and a story about chancellor dog’s traumatizing grandfathers, and a few other things. it’s kind of the sequel to last year’s “unfortunate horse magazine.” i like the idea of doing a “one-person anthology” every few months with several short stories in it with no obvious thematical or literal connections. a bad EIGHTBALL. may 2015.
i am also finished drawing “dane martin drawing book: no way out” (release 12), but there is a lot of scanning to do. it’s 72 pages or so of drawings. june 2015.
“dane martin’s gunnysack of gags” (release 13), a 32-page book of one-page comics, is also finished, but covers must be drawn and things must be scanned. june 2015.
“one last trip to marcilene #1” (release 14) is something i am particularly excited about. it’s the first “chapter” of what is more or less a “graphic novel,” in the sense that it has a storyline that hopefully gets somewhere and new developments occasionally occur within it. it’s about a wall-to-wall carpeting installer. i am about halfway finished with drawing the first issue. i draw it on 11 x 14 bristol with a nice marker/pen. june 2015.
“horror of the gag #2” (release 15) is drawn completely. it just needs to be assembled and organized. it is part two of three in the “debbie’s farm” storyline, which will hopefully be wrapped up sometime this summer/year. july 2015.
“salt mines comic book #1: rabbit hunting” (release 16) is only about 1/10 of the way finished. it’s about rabbit hunting. it further explores the unhealthy but magically charged relationship (?) between debbie and the wise old bird. this is the beginning of a series of small 100-page books loosely modeled after the harvey comics digests i was so terrified of in my youth. july 2015.
“the boardinghouse reach: the touch” (release 17) is a comic that i have slowly been working on the last couple of months. it’s an idea i’ve had for a long time about a boardinghouse in the 30s. i have 64 pages loosely written and “thumbnailed” but it couldn’t possibly be contained to this volume alone. i will definitely come back to this scenario after this is complete. july 2015.
“debbie’s wish” (release 18) is a full-color children’s book (in format) in which debbie dictates a troubling letter to her male secretary marcus. july 2015.
“a county is a county #2” (release 19) is completely penciled, but needs inked. it further explores ceramic county’s history and several of my characters’ relationship to their location. as the series continues it will evolve into a (nonsensical) political melodrama. i draw it all in a big white sketchbook. august 2015.
“debbie #3” (release 20) is a continuation of the series that attempts to be the “main” debbie series and explain and casually justify her place in the world. this issue is particularly upsetting because things start to crumble. august 2015.
“chancellor cop #3” (release 21) is hopefully when the storyline presented in the first two issues begins to open up and take form. august 2015.
i have lots of ideas to continue my series from oily comics, “gagger,” but it’s strangely difficult to finish something from a few years ago, even though i haven’t particularly evolved in any sort of radical new direction since those days. i have vague plans to redraw the first issue and present it all as a one-shot, since it will flow much better that way, being more or less a morality tale.
books are subject to appear out of order. things may be added as ideas clumsily get fleshed out. months may be lies.
i’ve been working a lot in a retail chain garbage store and it’s a thousand times harder than it used to be to find time to draw, and even harder to find the right sort of magical motivation, but drawing also feels more dire than ever.
as time goes on i want to involve myself in more substantial storylines and get deeper and deeper into understanding what “real” comics are. i want to try new styles-within-styles (subtle and non subtle) and approaches. i want to make a comic even 11% as beautiful and readable as glenn head’s “guttersnipe” or kaz’s “sidetrack stories” or anything by doug allen. laughing through the mist.
i am excited about producing exactly what i want on my own terms.
thank you for inquiring.
12:24 am • 24 May 2015 • 45 notes
Anonymous asked: I had a spooky dream with you in it, you, me, and somebody else were stuck in a house with no power, and the sun had just set. from what i remember there was something in the house that would make you into a stuffed animal if you were by yourself and you kept wandering off, and i was like Dane! stop wandering off!! you are going to be turned into a stuffed animal! so i made the other person come with me to find you b4 you got turned into one. the end.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing. I am genuinely touched.
12:47 pm • 23 May 2015 • 21 notes
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2:25 pm • 19 May 2015 • 70 notes
