I'M AN ADULT NOW AND I CAN DO WHAT I WANT

OH HELLO.  I didn't see you there.  Welcome to this blog.

GUESS WHAT:  I have finished Lou #4, and it is available at the Oily Boutique.  Guess what else.  The brand new issues of Chuck's TEOTFW and Max's Moose are also there!!!   GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT.

A bit about Lou:  Lou Number 4 takes place on Halloween.  As I'm writing these issues,  I've noticed how bits from movies I loved as a kid come through, like E.T., the Sandlot, Flight of the Navigator, Homeward Bound...  And I am falling in love more and more with Lou's family.  I was originally just going to be focusing on Lou and her relationship with the dog, Sammy (who is based on my own dog I had as a child, of the same name, the greatest dog in the world).  But Eddie, Lou's big brother, has taken on all of these stories I've heard from Chuck about his teenage life, and her little brother John has his own funny personality now too.  Lou's parents are based on adult couples that I've admired throughout my life, and my relationship with Chuck as well.   I feel like I'm trying to learn how to write convincing, heartfelt adult characters without taking away from the attention that I pay to the younger ones.  MAYBE I AM GROWING UP??

Some samples of from Lou #4:

AND AN ADDED BONUS!!!!

My good friend and classmate from CCS, Matt Aucoin, did a whole comic featuring Freddy and Uncle Sully!  It's so awesome.  He knows Freddy so well!  Check out Matt's work here!

NEW

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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School Sux!

Also, I read some really great things on the internet today.

An interview with the wonderful Steve Bissette. I miss that guy.

this comic by Max de Radigués that I missed a while ago in 7Days weekly

This comic by Vanessa Davis for Tablet magazine (all of her comics are amazing! I especially like this one because it's about Zumba, and I'm one of the 12 million or whatever people that are doing Zumba right now)

And this! My best bud, also known as Chef Zoe, has brought her place of work, Cafe Xoho, into the best new restaurants in Tel Aviv of 2011! GOD I wish it were easier for me to get over there.

Summah

Hi

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!

Missing Max

The wonderful Max de Radigues, the fellow at CCS this year and an amazing cartoonist and friend (he also rules at skateboarding), just left Sunday to go back to Belgium. We miss him so much already. Check out his comics if you haven't already. He understands teenagers better than most people I know.

He drew this strip about his last couple days with us in Vermont. There I am giving him hugs...

(click on it for the english translation)

Caboose Cover!

By Chuck Forsman and Max de Radigues. Isn't it beautiful!?

Caboodle!

I mean Caboose! A free newspaper full of comics! Edited by Chuck Forsman and Max de Radigues, it's going to be at Mocca, and it's all about this wonderful weird town where the Center for Cartoon Studies is, White River Junction, VT.

Here's a lil preview of my page in it.