Anonymous asked: Is there anyway for me to buy from you so more of the money goes to you? Maybe I'm missing the point
This is the easiest way for me to start making books again at this point in time. I don’t have the money or means to mail out orders in a timely fashion. Lulu solves that. This costs me far less, and by buying from Lulu, no matter how weird or evil they may seem, you are doing me a great favor. It’s just an experiment, and I hope to make real books with my hands again in the future. Making physical books is a deeply painful process for me, and this lets me focus on drawing duck heads and dog snouts without breaking staplers and creasing 500 printed pages in the wrong place.
1:21 pm • 10 January 2014 • 25 notes
DEBBIE #1 is now available to order! This is the first of many in a series. In this issue, Debbie works in a Campbell’s soup factory and has a night walk. 12 pages, 5.83 x 8.26 in. Color covers, black-and-white interiors. $6.00. Orders will be shipped to you directly from Lulu.com in 3-5 business days. CLICK HERE to purchase!
12:51 pm • 10 January 2014 • 171 notes
Back cover of Debbie #1, releasing tomorrow.
10:41 pm • 9 January 2014 • 442 notes
Announcing Dane Martin Comic Books
I’m excited to announce a new publishing endeavor. I am going to be starting a series of 12-page books offered through the on-demand publishing service Lulu. DEBBIE #1 will be available soon, possibly by tomorrow. It will be followed by a CHANCELLOR COP series, a series of collections of color HORROR OF THE GAG strips, a series called CERAMIC COMICS, and the “flagship anthology title,” SALT MINES COMIC BOOK, among other experiments like books of drawings and whatever seems right. It is my own Harvey Comics. This is what I’ve always wanted to do ever since I was young and dumber, and I’m slowly figuring out how to do it. Titles will unfortunately be $6 each, but you are getting a full-color cover and back cover and a substantial hold-in-your-hands product. That is leaving 99 cents profit for myself. I am trying to figure out a way to make it cheaper. Ordering details soon. Something for everybody. This is beyond my comfort wheelhouse, but I’m ready. I’m typing this out so it’s real.
6:49 pm • 9 January 2014 • 108 notes
Horror of the Gag #Guest01: “Benjamin Urkowitz”
I asked a few of my favorite cartoonsts to draw “Horror of the Gag” strips. This one was drawn by Benjamin Urkowitz. Please buy his important “Real Rap” series, published by Oily, here.
Tumblr despises horizontal comic strips, so please click here to read the strip as it was intended.
2:42 pm • 6 January 2014 • 127 notes
Anonymous asked: any desire to draw on celluloid?
Yes, I’d love to be an ink and paint girl! I think about that all the time, painting on the backs of celluloid. But I know very little about the process. Coloring in Photoshop is something that feels wrong to me, and I have to do it quickly before it starts to make me angry. One day I will hand-color in a proper way, when I have the space and brain focus. I have dreams of going to an abandoned animation supply store deep in Los Angeles and purchasing rubber gloves and Blackwings and vats of "tongue red" and huge quantities of pegged paper and carbon.
5:21 pm • 5 January 2014 • 19 notes
Horror of the Gag #337: “Bad Things Come from the Wall’s Good Cracks”
4:52 pm • 5 January 2014 • 36 notes
Horror of the Gag #336: “Autolullaby: A Situation”
(These strips look much better if you browse through them at horrorofthegagcomics.tumblr.com.)
9:05 pm • 4 January 2014 • 70 notes
Today I started working on a new comic about soot abuse.
2:57 pm • 3 January 2014 • 120 notes
