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New things!

It's been a long time.  Hello from the woods of Hancock.

Things:  Charles Forsman is starting to print some more one-dollar black and white comics under the imprint "Oily Comics".   This includes his series TEOTFW (of which he just finished the lastest issue!), Max de Radigués's Moose (so good), and my new series that I've just started, called "Lou".

Lou is a 9 year old tomboy (surprise surprise) who lives in a rural area with her slightly dysfunctional but loving family, including an older brother named Eddie Jr, and her little brother John.  I'm drawing a lot on my own childhood for this one, even more than for Freddy Stories.  It's going to include a lot of 90's nostalgia, if you're into that sort of thing.

Here's the cover:


And a sample page:


And the back cover:


You can buy this comic here from my store, or at the Oily Boutique!


ANOTHER NEW THING ABOUT OLD THINGS:

I made this print about some things I remember from being a kid.  We are living in the house I grew up in right now, and I'm pretty much surrounded by nostalgia all day every day.  As you can probably see from this, I was a weird kid and so was my sister.  I loved that Beetlejuice figurine so much that I slept with it under my pillow.





You can buy this print here!

And last but not least, Foreword Reviews reviewed Freddy Stories!!! So exciting.  All of the books they review are independently published, and they print an actual real life magazine with all of the reviews in it.  You can read my review here.



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There's no way Freddy would ever do Ballet unless she got to wear her hoodie while she did it.

Also, I've always been obsessed with old National Geographics, and I've been finding some real gems of photos in some that I got recently at the ol' Salvation Army for 35 cents each. I've been putting them on my Tumblr.

In friend news, My buddy Alec is getting SO CLOSE to finishing his epic comic, Basewood. He has been growing his hair since he started. He looks like this now, and only has ten pages left!!! Go Alec! You can do it!!!

And in boyfriend news, my amazing Charles Forsman just finished part 2 of his minicomic The End of the Fucking World. It's so good, he's amazing, just read it. It's only a dollar! He's been doing this while he's working on a book for Fantagraphics, which I've been seeing the pages for, and they are BEAUTIFUL.

Summah

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This image just came to me suddenly while I was sitting at my desk...as a kid I collected images from magazines and stuff that I liked in a journal, and there was this one from Smithsonian Magazine, a portrait of the Wyeth family, that I absolutely loved. It's one of those images that stays with you forever and pops up occasionally. I was able to find it on the internet. Hopefully someday I can find that journal again...

I can't post the photo here because it's stealing, but here's a link to it.

How awesome is Andy's face? Don't they all look so wild and wonderful? It's the family of my dreams.

In other news, Charles Forsman is working next to me on some new Wolf pages that are unbelievable. Look at this.

That has been inspiring me, and also a recent visit from Max de Radigues and his girlfriend Thalie, and Joseph Lambert and his wife Becca, really inspired me to try working on something new and longer. So that's happening. I bought a new sketchbook and everything!