Cartoonists Crash Comic Boom! Heapin’ Halloween Helpings of Horror, Part 2! Help yourself to a slice of MONSTER PIE! Stephen R. Bissette/Denis St. John’s wraparound collaboration cover art for Monster Pie™ #1, debuting TOMORROW at Comic Boom! in Keene, NH! Artwork ©2012 Stephen R. Bissette and Denis St. John, all rights reserved; Monster Pie™ is [...]
Happy Birthday, Son! Dancing Through Life With Daniel & Digging Every Second of It Portrait of Daniel by Marlene O’Connor, December 2011; ©2011 Marlene O’Connor, all rights reserved; image below, portrait of father and son (me and Daniel) by Marlene O’Connor, a panel from her collaboration with Neil Gaiman, “Blood Monster,” Taboo 7, 1990, reprinted [...]
Swamp Thing Book 3 Between the Covers, Part 1 Yesterday, I received my copies of Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 3 from DC Comics/Vertigo. As I mentioned here yesterday, this is the first-ever US edition sporting an introduction by yours truly, and I promised you some additional material, background, insights and such that didn’t [...]
Houma Haunts Or: The Road Trip to Swamp Thing Country Also found this weekend: my sketchbooks from the Swamp Thing years. Here’s two pages of sketches from my family road trip (with my first wife Nancy – now Marlene — O’Connor, our daughter Maia Rose at about six or seven months, my Dad and my [...]
See yesterday’s post — Remember: by now, everyone was taking all this very personally — even folks who weren’t involved were taking all this very personally. So you can imagine, perhaps, how those directly involved were feeling. So, now, see, because of the time lag between actual event and press coverage of said event, and [...]
