You're Gonna Burn in Hell

If you're in Portland, you may wanna drop by the Pony Club Gallery on Thursday night. I've got some stuff in the show "Satan is Real: images from the age of hysteria." The show's theme is like, the Eighties and back when people were freaked out about lyrics and imagery in heavy metal and movies and stuff. And backmasking. What was all that about? So the show will have a couple of unpublished comics pages (original art) from a new story that I'm working on with Jeff Wilson. What? Eighties and heavy metal? Yeah. Also on display will be an Iron Maiden scene I did for Electric Ant magazine. So yeah, if you meet the criteria (a. are in Portland; b. feel like it), swing by and check it out.

Hair of the Blog

ITEM. "Hair of the Dog," the fan-favorite strip from Injury Comics #2 by Jeff Wilson and me is now posted over at What Things Do. Lemme know what you think.

Sad News

Sad to report, the publisher of my book, Injury Comics has shut down. You can read Alvin's post here. Even before we started working together, I really enjoyed what Alvin was doing with the press and I feel grateful and lucky to have been a part of it. Knowing Alvin, I'm sure this won't keep him from doing more awesome work whatever that ends up being.

I've got three stories in progress for the next issue(s) of Injury (working with Jason, Mike and Jeff). I'll release that stuff in one form or another once we get it wrapped up.

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Beast hot links

Remember that Beast Biplane print I was talking about? Mad Mike Reddy has 'em for sale. Details on his blog. I'll have some up for sale myself soon. If you want to get a print from me (along with your Injury Comics order or whatever), just email me and I can send you the price.
Also - if you wanna read the Beast Biplane story from Injury #3, it is online in its entirety at What Things Do. Conversely, if you read that and wanna get it in it's original pulpy format, scroll over to my online shop and order said comic.
While I'm at it, here's what's on the old Injury Comics clawing board: new autobio collab with Jeff Wilson; new Beast Biplane madness with Mike Reddy; and more Manleau with Jason Robards.

Smells Bells

Here's a strip I did for this week's Riverfront Times as part of a big USS Catastrophe Leon Beyond comics feature. Click the art to read the full strip. The entire feature can be found at the Leon blog.

Movie Poster

Here's an illustration I did in October of last year for the film "Old Dog, New Trick," a biopic about St. Louis musician Steve Scorfina directed by Mike Steinberg and Thomas Crone. This image was used for the poster and also serves as the DVD cover. The film tracks his life as a musician thru 60's garage bands, his time with REO Speedwagon and Pavlov's Dog and what he's up to currently. And a lot more I'm probably forgetting. So if you're interested in rock-umentaries (subset blues, garage and PROG), the history of the St. Louis music scene, or indie documentaries in general, give it a go.

Here are a couple early concept sketches:

Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival: What to Buy?

Fans of Beast Biplane, this blog entry's for YOU. Mike Reddy will be at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on December 4th selling copies of Injury 3 along with a wild new Beast Biplane silk-screened poster. It's a picture of Beast Biplane in combat with a modern barbarian who has snake powers and the ability to communicate with his dead brothers. Mike did the art based on a sketch from me. Anyway, you can grab one at this comic show. I don't know how much it will be but I'm sure it will be a good deal. Especially considering how many man hours went into it.
So, go to the show, buy yourself this awesome print, make sure Reddy signs it, and then go home and slap it up on your favorite wall. We'll have some available after the show. Details to follow. But if you want one, email me and I'll let you know once they become more widely available.

Sale at Buenaventura Press

Everything 20% off now thru the end of November. Lotsa stuff well worth getting and now it's a little cheaper than it was before. So maybe rather than going out and getting wasted tonight, spend some of that boozin' money on a different kind of intoxicant. The comic book. Or print or whatever.

Remembrance of 3-Packs Past

From my sketchbook. Sorry for the low fidelity. This was gonna be a promo for our 3-pack. Also, Injury 3 is for sale at from my shop.

Ants Invasion - Electric Ant #2

Just wanted to drop some quick promotional consideration to the hot-off-press Electric Ant #2. I haven't seen it yet, but you can follow the above link to get all the particulars. I really enjoyed the first issue - a straight-up zine in this hyper age of tweeting and blogging - so I highly recommend the new one. Also, I did a chunk of art based on an old Iron Maiden video -FWAUGHH- for one of the sections, so you KNOW it's a high class affair.

Where are the Wild Things

I did a strip for Vice's tribute to "Where the Wild Things Are." Lotsa great cartoonists featured there. There's a booklet of all the strips in the October issue of Vice, and a downloadable PDF on the site.

You may now purchase Injury 3 / Treehouse

I just posted the latest Injury for purchase via my online shop. If you're going to SPX this weekend, you can pick one up at the Buenaventura Press table.
Also, I've got a creepy comic in the new issue of "Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror" which goes on sale this week. This year, it's ghouly Simpsons stories parlayed by Kramers Ergot artistes. Mine is a collab with Sammy Harkham (who also edited the book). I did the story, layouts, and color and Sammy did the finished art. I've been a big fan of Simpsons for years, and also a fan of Sammy's, so a) drawing Moe Szyslak's face over and over and b) seeing Sammy's take on the characters was great. I haven't seen much else from the book, but I'm sure it will be worth your while.

Injury 3 sneak peek

I just posted a preview PDF of some pages from Injury 3. You can download the PDF by right-clicking the link, or if your browser can read PDF's, just click on it. The book should be for sale soon. I'll post again when it's available.

Injury 3 debut at Comic Con

The third issue of Injury will be debuting at the San Diego Comic Con this year (look for the Buenaventura Press table), and will be available for purchase via this site or from Buenaventura Press soon thereafter (early August). I'll make mention on this blog when we start taking orders. If you'd like notification via email when it's available for purchase, just drop me a line and I'll let you know.

Injury #3 will also be available in comic shops as part of a Buenaventura comics three-pack. The pack will also include comic books from Lisa Hanawalt and Eric Haven. So, if you're one of those people that likes to have your mind blown three times in a row...head down to your local comics shop and reserve your grab bag today!

Our kid

Sacha and I finally had our kid! Veronica Jean May - born this past Thursday. We were relieved she didn't wait til Saturday. I was afraid she'd have to endure a lifetime of "huh-huh, born on the forth of july" comments. We'll give her a couple of weeks to get acclimated, and then we'll sit her down with a sketchbook and some Microns and have her get busy.

Custom Fact Rally

USS Catastrophe is doling out the facts! And the Beyondathon gets you a piece of the ACTION!

Show-stoppers Kevin "The Snake" Huizenga, Ted "Mongoose" May, and "Big Daddy" Dan Zettwoch are makin' it happen - on the STRIP!

High-speed fuel-injected gags! They draw - the rest is up to YOU! Only at the Beyondathon! Be there!

We finished Injury, but...

The third issue of Injury is in the can. Actually, it's been wrapped up for a little while. Unfortunately, our finishing it coincided with Diamond Distributor's new profitability guidelines making the release of the new issue a little uncertain at the moment. For those of you who don't closely follow the idiosyncracies of the US comics market: basically, the 300 pound gorilla of comics distribution has stopped carrying comics that don't net them a certain level of profit. And Injury has never netted anyone anything other than pain and misfortune. WINK.
So, we'll see what happens. I'll post updates here once we get a release date. In the mean time, I at least wanted to post the cover. A cover that you probably will never see on your comic store rack next to Infinity Gauntlet: Smackdown, or Impregnable Fortress of Annihilus.
With no large scale distribution, it's not feasible for Injury to continue in its current format. It was basically engineered for the direct market. I haven't yet decided how we'll proceed. At the moment we're just back to writing new stuff. But please do keep an eye out for the third ish. It's probably the best we've done so far. I'll update this blog regarding future books. The fire of comics will continue to warm (and in some cases melt) peoples' faces. That much I can say with certainty.

May-Mardou collab

Hi folks. Sorry for the lack of news of late. I've got a halfway decent excuse though. Sacha and I are getting ready to have a little girl. She's doing great so far and is due in June. So I've been kinda light on the comics work. Been painting the baby room, visiting relatives, and watching "It's Alive" to brush up on what we're in for. Comics news on the way shortly.

Dream Team

Strip I did for Vice online. Click here.