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So first off, all late Snack Comix have been sent off, so if you haven't received yours yet, expect it soon! Sorry for the long wait, but hopefully all the extra goodies I packed in 'em will make up for it.

SECONDLY, my book WONTON SOUP is up for 2 motherbitchin' Eisner Awards this year. It's good to know that you can still be nominated for a prestigious literary award for 200 pages of dick jokes. My mocha-slave :iconroyalboiler: is up for one too, so cheers all around.

I probably had something else to add, but I forgot. PEACE.
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RE-MANIMATED!

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I'm alive, somewhat. Me and the internet haven't been talking much lately, but I bought it some flowers, so we should be cool.

Lots of lots has happened since.... November? I've been in Baltimore for the last while, the Big Apples Core. The East coast is so completely different to someone whose spent their entire left in the West. There's difibrilators everywhere and I've heard of police call-buttons on some streets that you press if you're getting mugged. Everyone is in such a hurry to get a heart attack around here... it's hectic but still fun.

I found myself at the Ocean a couple weeks ago too. Got hammered with my kinda-motherinlaw at a tiki bar, absolutely lobster-burnt by the sun (it's my cold north mountain man genes), and lost my front tooth to the ocean. Somewhere out there, a shark is sporting a 1/8 James grill. All that and I actually managed to relax and sip fruity drinks with tiny umbrellas, while writing my cool island jam comic.

Wonton Soup is getting pushed back a couple of months cus I'm a slow, horrible bastard. It should still be out this year though, I think.

Right now the only two things that matter to me are finishing my book with Rick Spears (it's called HARDCORE now) and working on my new diehard project, MURDERBULLETS. It's about a comic artist who goes around the world collecting stories for the gods, who of course love comics. It'll be full of dolphin knife fights, 1000 toed moose, pistol shrimp and a fishman junta arms race. I've got the first four books pretty much all written out now, and they'll be about 70-100 pages each.

My wrist has been horribly fucked up lately, which kinda scares the piss out of me. The 'moneymaker' is in danger! This, coupled with a massive art slump, have made me a complete comic slob lately... All back of the bus and shit.

I'll be going across the country again in a week or two. Brief stop at Otakon, then to SDCC, then to San Francisco to meet up with a bud, then to Chicago for Wizard World, back to Baltimore for another week or two, then finally back to Seattle to settle down and make a family.

I'll be going through the million and three notes and messages people have sent me, too. You look away for a year and you've got 79 pounds of e-smegma...


It's a gravy train with bisquit wheels
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::::deviantart hates me today:::::::



hey, wow. i got tagged by :iconshortfury: . i never do these things, but im bored, it's cold, and my drawing hand hurts so WHY NOT!

"Here's how this goes:

Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 Weird Habits/Things About Yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 Weird Habits/Things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "You are tagged" in their devPage comments and tell them to read yours..."

READYSTEADYGO


1) one of my front teeth is removable. when i was but a wee lad, my friend chucked a large piece of ice down a tubeslide i was climbing up, and i did a full face plant. i remember seeing my two front teeth go completely verticle and touch the tip of my nose, right before i spat out a mouthful of blood. in the confusion, i managed to grab one of my teef (y'know teeth are pretty fucking LARGE with the root and everything?) and put it in a minicarton of milk so they could put it back in later. so now, i got this rad denture that i can pop out at anytime and freak people out!

2) i've been told that when i draw (write, whatever) i hold my pen totally wierd. i think it was gabe who said "it's like a robot with cerebreal paulsy trying to draw".

3) my musical tastes are really (reallyreallyREALLY) small... i think there's only like 4 or 5 bands that i actually like, though i do enjoy almost every reggae song i've heard on itunes radio (but i only count that as one band, cus it all sounds the same HOHOHO!). music has to have unbelievable SWAGGER, or else i will never get into it.

4) i can't stand listening to people eat. i can barely even stand listening to MYSELF eat. it just grates me in such a bad way that i have to leave the room if anybody is eating in it.

5) i have an insane, somewhat supernatural, biological alarm clock. if, say, i really need to get up at 6:00am i will just DO IT. on the dot, or a minute or so off. it kind of only works if the need to get up is great, though.

6) i have only worked ACTUAL jobs for 6 days in my entire life, the rest i have gotten by doing comics or what have you. i worked one day at a pie factory, 2 days at a pizza parlour, and 3 days in demolition/kitchen building. that being said, i am almost constantly broke.


NOW FOR PEOPLES I PICK.

KEVIN :iconmechatoast:
MICKEY :iconneoranga:
JACK :iconthe-wolf-boy-jack:
JAMIE :iconpowerz:
INKTHINKER :iconinkthinker:
RAD GERMAN DUDE WHO'S BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY FOR MY BOOK :iconataripunk633:
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HUNGRY?

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wahoo! my new fancy SNACK COMIX VOL 1 spikes.redcarp.com/snack/snack… came in the other day, and they printed 1234x better than i thought they would.

i've reopened the site for orders, and anybody who has ordered one of the older ones and hasnt received it, then expect one very soon

spikes.redcarp.com/snack BUY ONE HERE!!!


oh, and i redesigned my site spikes.redcarp.com


PUREANDUTTER EXCITEMENT!!!!!!!1
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um wow. long time no journal.

well, ive been out of seattle for like 4 months or something now. yosh house semi-exploded into millions of fun little comix atoms, but new seeds are planted.

im probably going to end up moving to vancouver or something (FUCKYOURPORTLANDBRANDONGRAHAM!!!) but right now im far too poor. im gonna import my australian doll SHELDON :iconshelde5000: and others to fill the huge, gaping, stinking, barbeque flavoured hole that is my chums from seattle. OR i just might ending up breaking under severe pressure and just move to portland. WHO KNOWS!!!

my excellent e-friend evan :icondevilevn: just got the proof for his first wonderful book RICEBOY BOOK ONE, and if it reads anything like it does online then everybody should buy it. its definitely one of the better things i have read all year  www.lulu.com/content/484018


as for shits that ive been working on, i got a lot and may die at any moment from stress. right now its:

1) new meathaus comic shit, which is an indy comix dream to do.
2) a graphic novel with RICK SPEARS!!!!!!(c)  which i am just starting on now.
3) image book #1 starting mid next year
4) incredibly huge potential image book #2
5) wonton soup graphic novel for oni, which i am wrapping up now. itll be out in early april (debuting at the emerald city comiccon i believe) and look! its even up for preorder on amazon! amazing! www.amazon.com/Wonton-Soup-Jam…

FOR THOSE THAT ORDERED A SNACK COMIX:::: i have run out of the OLDER ones, and since all my proofs and files are locked up in storage back in seattle i have had no way of making more. BUT, snack comix got published a while ago by some convention company in maryland, so i am expecting the new 40 page, color cover batch to come in any day now. i've been waiting for a while to get them, but apparently the convention company was holding out the copies from my editor, just to be dicks, but all that has been resolved and they are on their way to me now. thanks for the patience, hopefully all the added material will be compensation for the wait.

i have also discovered a new love for crispy chicken sammiches and mel brooks spoof movies.

THEEND.
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