Captain Spaz #16

Here we started using a lot of covers by guest artists. Doug Holverson was different from most small-press cartoonists because he sent us copies of his art instead of the originals and did it a bigger size. I think he used real pens and paper too. He did the Pert Herman story a few issues ago.

We got a script from Randy Paske, a person our age from Minnesota who published his own xerox comics and was a fan of our stuff. I think this came from a conversation about how we were big Letterman fans. This was before he did his show for tourists and old ladies.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen

Here's a piece I did for Robert Goodin's 'Covered' blog yesterday (link to your right), different cartoonists' interpretations of mainstream comics covers.

The Rest Is Up To You

I just did a couple pages for a book called The Rest Is Up To You, collaborations between professional artists and a nine-year-old (I think he was 2 or 3 when I did mine) named Cohen Morano. In addition to current cartoonists like Johnny Ryan, Jim Woodring, and Chris Ware; there are older cartoonists like Jack Davis and Mort Drucker; and fine artists like Tim Biskup, Mark Ryden, and Shephard Fairey.

Nancy

Here are some Nancys. You can never get too much of them. Normally I try not to post something I know is or will be in print, but these are in color so that doesn't count. I think these come from the newspaper strips and are reformatted to fit comic book proportions. If either of the Bushmiller scholars I know are reading this (for some reason, when I make a link I already have, their URL shows up as magicwhistle.blogspot.com.their site), they can confirm it for me.

More Nancy to come on Thursday.

This is my door, man

I'm not sure how this came into my possession. Back in college, we had only one payphone in the hall for 100 of us, so we all had pieces of paper on our doors for people to write down messages. These were on the door of my friend John. It became so we all did doodles on each others' boards that had nothing to do with phone messages and for some reason a lot of us picked John's door to do them. Most were by this guy Koji Kaiya who wasn't very fluent in English, and we used his drawings here for a minicomic called COWS HAVE THEIR OWN FACES. Sorry if you can't see everything. I had to scan each page in 6 times to get everything and reduce the dpi in order to upload them. The things I do for you.


The lower right corner of this is blank so I didn't feel the need to scan it.

Miss Peach

I really need to go back in time to find work.

Captain Spaz #15

I think this was the only issue I did myself. Bobby Weiss couldn't keep up or had a life or some excuse like that.








The first page was on the back of this. I don't know where it came from. I wasn't even in the AV group in high school. Even they were too cool for me.

Northwestern Profile

Here are more cartoons and art that show I was born 30 years too late.

Here's one for the "before they were famous" file.

Judo Lessons II

Sure, we've all been attacked by shirtless guys with sledgehammers, but here you can learn how to protect yourself against them.