I make comics I hope people like & sell insurance I hope people don't need to use. GO KAMALA & Coach Tim! Let's f'ing go! Check out Pots & Panels Pre-Launch!
There has NEVER been a dictator who rose to power who did not stage a false flag event. It is literally in the dictator playbook. The Reichstag fire was well timed. When is the RNC convention again?
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I remember when my son was in eighth grade. His English teacher said they could do a book report on "any" book they wanted. My son did his. He got an F b/c it was a TPB of a comic. I went in to talk to the teacher who said,
3/3
She apologized. Luke got an A. I have presented to her class about eight times over the years since. I wasn't mean. I educated her on comics and she now 100% agrees... if the kid is reading, fuck it. That's a win.
2/3
"well, Mr. Satterlee... comics aren't real literature. I mean, they aren't real books. I'm sure you can agree."
I asked the teacher if the book report was well done. She said it was. I then asked if she noticed the name of the author who wrote the TPB. I pointed to the cover.
@RealCaptainMaga
You are simply incorrect.
The Nazis were anti LGBTQ+. They were anti-anything not Christian. They were against women having a say in politics.
I'm trying to understand how on planet earth you came to this...
Oh... you guys have a hard time at self-reflection... I get it.
Mayor Pete (I still call him that) focused on his job... even with what happened yesterday. That's how shit rolls in this administration.
Let's F'ing go!
We have received reports of continued disruptions and unacceptable customer service conditions at Delta Air Lines, including hundreds of complaints filed with
@USDOT
.
I have made clear to Delta that we will hold them to all applicable passenger protections.
So far...
One.
ONE person at this show knows who Norm Breyfogle was.
ONE!!!
Really?
This is a sad thing. When I ask people's favorite ever Batman artist, they mention Jim Lee over and over.
Love me some Jim Lee... but also...
NORM.
I see Alec Baldwin trending & it's mainly people angry he isn't locked up for accidentally shooting someone on set. (a tragedy) However, the same people who want the guy who made fun of trump locked up are the same who honor Kyle Rittenhouse. Holy crap do I despise these people.
Steve Garvey, a great baseball player but a fucking terrible human & MAGA trump robot or
@RepAdamSchiff
who fucking fights every day for all Americans.
Go to to donate or volunteer!
Where is the dominion lawsuit gonna be over so Mike Lindell, Rudy, Tucker, Donny and the others can get slapped with a billion dollar fine? Alex Jones can help them learn how to deal with insurmountable debt for evil actions.
I sent a message about comicstwitter wondering about the future of twitter, to founder of
@TribelSocial
,
@OmarRiverosays
& he's willing 2 not only welcome comicstwitter, he's willing to talk to us & build a comics category w/sub categories. He literally answered me back.
Holy crap.
Jussie Smollett is their new plan?
Come on. Really?
I have work to do, I can't sit here laughing hysterically all day at the ineptitude of a really super old morbidly obese convicted felon cry baby.
I'd never call out a project by name if I don't like it, but 1 of the Kickstarter comics I received lately was un-readable.
Folks. You need a proper letterer. If you don't know how to letter a comic, get someone who can.
I really wanted to read it, but it was just too hard.
If SCOTUS says POTUS has absolute immunity, not for nuthin' but Biden could have trump, Gaetz, Rubio, Cruz, MTG, Boebert, Hawley, McConnel, Alex Jones, Lindell, Tucker & all of 'em, imprisoned the next day.
Not gonna lie... if SCOTUS goes there, I'm ok w/it.
#VerdictWatch
I love comics.
Comics have not loved me back. But then again... I feel like 50,000 people would step over their mother to get to what I've done.
That said... I only have so many tries left.
The next 24 months are all I have left.
Running on empty.
So, let's go.
@ColinAllredTX
is a rock star. I wish I could move to Texas to vote for him.... except I'd have to live in Texas. TY, I'm happy in Chicago... an island of women's reproductive rights.
But go Representative Allred!
Please use those LB skills to defend the Republic, sir!
This is how to do it.
Colin Allred on Trump and the insurrection:
"He didn't do it alone. Ted Cruz was one of the chief architects of his attempt to overthrow the last election."
"We're going to prosecute that case and make sure folks know that."
Said it before.
Saying it again...
SOLO was a good movie and I don't get the hate it gets. Glover was a great Lando and Alden Ehrenreich was a perfectly fine Han Solo.
How in the F did I not watch THE CLONE WARS animated series until now?
This is like a ...
Damn. I'm a writer and I can't come up with a word.
It's really neat.
MTG is on the selct committee for the cornoavirus pandemic.
MTG:
“I haven’t been making it public, but I started making it public because it’s such an issue. I’m not vaccinated,”
Gaetz, who is being investigated by the FBI, is on the FBI oversight committee.
I read comics WEEKLY I don't dig. I get comics from Kickstarters that aren't (IMHO) ready 4 prime time. I don't talk about them, ever, publically.
I said b4, talk UP stuff you like. Don't publically knock something you don't like if you're a creator.
Unsolicited advice. :)
people saying comics shouldn't be political...
Then there's:
Literally the KING of comics, Jack Kirby:
"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it."
ALWAYS... punch facists.
If you RT CG...
You are CG.
You just can't have your cake and eat it too. That's just the way it is.
You're either on the side of empathy, love, decency and tolerance or you are simply not.
The co. w/whom I interviewed called me a 2nd time 2day. They're sending an offer letter & onboarding papers!
They're offering a lesser role starting Sept (& said hopefully sooner) for 3 months. If I do well, they're offering larger role!
The lesser is slightly less than major!
Our 20 year old cat, HAPPY... passed away last night.
She was the most poorly named cat in history as she was always mean, never friendly... did not like to be pet, bit people... and was generally always crabby.
But we loved her anyway.
RIP, Happy.
:(
Found Civil War, bagged & boarded and in pristine condition, and the Epilogue, at a thrift store today on my way to a lunch appointment.
Total price?
$1.75
Not each.
Total.
@Bakkila
@StephenKing
Mr. King is correct. It's like, people who say, "I could care less", when they really mean the opposite. Let's take you for example. The proper way to express my feeling about you is, "I couldn't care less", as in, I care the least amount for you or your opinions as is possible.
@mikemurray01001
Granted, it made the discussion far easier. The look on her face, I will embarrassingly admit... was satisfying. But the good news is that she was open enough to listen. She was simply ignorant. She wasn't stupid. She's great these days and reads TPBs often.
A creator apparently acted quite inappropriately w/a number of marginalized folks... especially w/someone w/whom I work closely. The publisher w/which the creator had a book, dropped the creator immediatly. That's a publisher I'd be proud to be at. Oh... I am!
I'm a newsie & even I'm exhausted by the GOP yesterday...
* Santos & other Magafraks seated on committees
* GOP loser hiring and firing shots into Dem homes in NM
* Santos defrauding diabled vets
* Homeland Security chief bullshit
These people.
Damn it feels good to have a well known publisher say yes. Can't wait until I get to announce these books' new home! If you've been in or around comics for a while, you probably own books published by them. :)
If I had a smart phone back in the day, I could've recorded a certain CG asshat treatment of Norm Breyfogle.
It was abhorrent.
That CG guy who's initials V & S & E... was ridiculously disrepectful to Norm.
It was sick. It was awful.
I HATED him then, & now? Yeah. POS
I follow literally EVERY piece of advice
@jpalmiotti
gives me these days. He told me, without pause or hesitation, DO NOT OFFER international shipping. I did and my campaign suffred greatly for it. I will never ignore his advcie ever again.
Kickstart advice.
$2,800 in failed pledges in my last campaign- Fantasima. One being a retailer package with a large number of books.
People, be careful not to put an order in with the printers till all the $ is collected, it changes your print numbers big time.
When you've been in & around comics for 25 years & 2 of your absolute heroes agree to help you out:
@philhester
pencils &
@jpalmiotti
inks did this piece as a companion to Brian Augustyn's (God rest his soul) short story to the OF BITTER SOULS short stroey IRON GATE.
Damn
I think the 1st thing I'd suggest to anybody making comics at any level... is to stop trashing other people's comics, movies, etc.
It just doesn't look good on creators.
It's fine for a journalist orreader but creators should refrain. We should concentrate on our own stuff. JMHO
My wife is pretty removed from my comic book life. She's just not into comics. So... I showed her all the wonderful messages about Petey.
Comics Twitter... thank you for your kindness.
We're all sad, but it is a nice feeling to know people care.
Thank you.
I won't lie, it has been a while.
(20 years, I think)
Next Wednesday, my 1st comic in that time hits stores.
I am a bit excited.
Thank you,
@bandofbards
If you're an old, cis-gen, white, male, hetero dinosaur like me... but you yearn to understand & be respectful... this book pubbed by
@limerencepress
can help! I'm a better person for reading it & learning from it.
Another cool 2022 thing that happened: I got better at humaning!
@YeboyK
Well... I can't speak to any of that. I am just happy that she is a good person who listened. There are people out there who do not see comics as proper literature to this day.
@LorenBarber23
@surfingwahoo
I'm not going down too far into any rabbit holes. I mean... I hope to fuck I am wrong. I really do. It's just that... he's such a despicable person... it is in my head.
HOLY CRAP!
I just set an appointment with a SIX HUNDRED EMPLOYEE College in Southern Wisconsin!!!!!!!!!!
If I get this one and the one from a couple weeks ago... that would... in two moves, get me back to pre-covid level income!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gonna keep grinding!!!
Retailers who shun a solicited comic book simply because it was first a crowdfunder by using the idea that the title has already hit a saturation point are... respectfully... incorrect. With all due respect... that is simply unrealistic.
In NOVEMBER'S Previews...
F
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A
L
L
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From the amazing
@bandofbards
It's been a long road, al couple of different series titles... but we're here.
I hope people enjoy it.
In 1995, George Perez was at Chicago Comic Con w/a huge line. I had a Ashcan for AGONY ACRES (my first comic). I handed it to him. He read it. (right there!)
He looked up and said, "This is good. I'll ink your covers, free of charge so you can say I'm on the team."
Miss George.
Oh... one last reveal...
RINGO nominated creator... and thanks to
@illaurastrates
, who intoduced me...
@FellHound_
's variant to issue
#5
of THE CLAIMS ADJUSTER... coming in '23 from
@DevilsDue
Can't wait.
We are so lucky to have this.
@neilvantwerpen
How it started and how it's going.
Granted, this is 11 years, but still it feels good.
410-186= 224 lbs lost.
24 since I stopped drinking beer & soda and started walking every day July 1st.
Steve Bannon calling the Southern Poverty Law center "haters" is perhaps one of the most ironic tweets/posts I've ever seen.
They were created because of hate, to fight hate and so, yeah... I guess they're haters... of hate.
Every GOP accusation is a GOP admission.
Indy Comics should be high quality. Readers should demand it. They should be professional with great production values, art, writing... all of it. To say otherwise is just odd. Indy creators who care are not sell outs. They're simply pros.
My son's athletic career is over. He had a bone scan yesterday & it had multiple stress fractures & yeah he's not hitting any pro teams anytime soon. So, today... on a random day in march... he ended organized sports.
Play like it is your last game. No matter what you're doing.
I saw Mark Waid is trending.
This is a line for me.
Mark Waid is a generous, helpful, humble, supremely talented writer who gives of his time freely, helps those who need it, stands for principles and is one of the nicest/best people I have ever met.
Murderer Kyle Rittenhouse is trending again. I hate when murderer Kyle Rittenhouse trends b/c a murderer like Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't be trending after the murderer murdered 2 innocent people. By the way, I hear murderer Kyle Rittenhouse doesn't like being called a murderer.
My pronouns are He/Him... and because I am not an absloute asshat, I don't abuse pronouns and by using them cheapen people who are fighting for respect... as an insult to a man who has given everything to public service.
F Elon.
I know everybody has issues & I'm no different, so sorry about all the posts about Petey. It's Monday & I still miss him. It's been one of the worst deaths I've ever experienced. We measure years in dog years so we should measure grief in dog-grief.
Humans do not deserve dogs.
Holy shit,
@bandofbards
&
@jesterlou
You were not f'ing kidding when you guys talked about wanting covers that will eat your soul!
COINS OF JUDAS is one of my most anticpated series of 2023!
This cover... damn.
I was able to have a phone consultation with a health pro... and they've suggested I head to the ER. They think I had something called a TIA. (Transient Ischemic Attack) AKA ministroke... and could be a pre-cursor to more stuff... so I am heading out right now. :)
Just saying...
Best Graphic Album reprint...
Let' all put our collective praying, good thoughts, etc... togther... and get Norm Breyfogle a posthumous Eisner.
He never got one while he was alive and let's just be honest... he absolutely deserves one.
Am I wrong?
Who wants to do either a variant cover for one of my four series in 2023...
or who wants to work with me on an entire series in '23 or '24 for a Western?
or maybe a heist comic... set in modern times... with cosplay?
For years, I'd take the kid to build-a-bear where he'd make a bear for mom and record the year and a XMas greeting. He got older. We stopped.
This year, 20 year old kid went on his own, made a bear for mom and made the recording... & said "Mommy".
I called it.
She bawled. :)
OF BITTER SOULS Omnibus is live! 400 pages. Norm Breyfogle's largest body of work outside of Bats & Prime. Foreword by Alan Grant. 30+ guest pin-ups & stories (Augustyn, Oeming, Stegman, Williams, Giordano) Please consider backing!
@jpalmiotti
@philhester
Hey,
@JeremyMegertArt
!! My bad. I know I called you that night that
@SalAbbinanti
/
@comics_mercury
did the signing at
@Challengers
and you wanted me to go back to pick up that print. I finally got back and picked it up for you. On the way, buddy!!! :) sorry for delay!!!
I've spoken w/many creators who are a bit younger than me who truly... in their souls... think that in small press comics, the publisher is supposed to do everything. Uh uh... this is the front lines. Everybody gets in the effort as partners or it doesn't work.
Tomorrow is a big day.
30 years ago, on August 20, 1994. I married Chris and seven years later, we had our son. And years after that, we welcomed our kindason into the family.
Been quite a ride. I don't think any "adult" at our wedding even gave us a year.
Fuck 'em.
30!