MAGIC WHISTLE 3.2 hits stores next month and I’m pretty proud of the issue. The only thing different is an editorial I wrote. My publisher thought it might be too topical, but I didn’t think so. The version here may be superfluous and its editing has no impact on the other 47 pages, but effectively…

Happy to say I have all the material for Magic Whistle 3.2 in.It will all be assembled by my Alternative owner Marc Arsenault and co-editor Dave Nuss next week at Linework NW in Portland, OR and presuming all goes well it will be ready for C.A.K.E. in Chicago next month. This issue has work by…

My comic that was supposed to be my big comeback and reboot was released today, but without the inside covers. It’s only the editorial, you might be saying to yourself. The real meat is the work inside, says this straw man I just made up. While this may be true, I wanted it all to…

That’s right. I printed one display copy on my computer printer last night. What, you didn’t think there were copies available yet, did you? Yeah, I’ve been hyping the shit out of it and copies will come to stores next month. We finished it and sent it off, so we should be getting copies very…

I know I keep changing the format of Magic Whistle every few years. This newest incarnation will be sort of a full-on anthology. It was evolving into that. It’s going to have the same usual 20-something page count of my work plus the same page count of work by other artists. I feel lots of…

Fantagraphics will be reprinting a translation of Valentina next year, an Italian series of erotic adventure comics from the 60s and 70s. There will be some background information and guest pinups, including artists you would expect such as Gilbert Hernandez, Katie Skelly, Paul Pope, and dozens of European comics artists. For some reason, I was…

All week long I’ll be doing the A Cartoonist’s Diary feature about my experiences teaching an after-school PTA-sponsored cartooning class over at The Comics Journal

Don’t forget to go to The MOCCA Festival in a couple weeks. We’ll be at table 308 where I’ll have copies of issues of Magic Whistle #s 12-15, and on Sunday I’ll be part of the Carousel for Kids program.

There’s something about being a cartoonist that makes people think you’re the foremost authority on anything cartoon-related. It’s assumed you know how much any particular comic book is worth or any trivia related to anything in the medium, anything a friend or relative sees a news item about, as if everything with words and pictures…

I did the back cover to the newest issue of SpongeBob Comics, #40. I have a few stories coming up, some I’ve just written, some both written and drawn. Got a two-pager I’m working on right now.

Now that the new year’s started, I can now say some things we’ve been sitting on for a while: -My publisher, Alternative Comics is now being distributed by Consortium Books, which should give more presence in bookstores. –Magic Whistle will re-relaunch this summer as an anthology. It will still have at least 20 pages by…

In 2008, I did illustrations for a book called Well-Defined: Vocabulary In Rhyme by Michael Salinger. He is a poet and teacher who does speaking engagements at schools and libraries performing his work. The book was a series of poems about SAT words, and as with most books it went nowhere. The publisher, Wordsong Press,…

While #14 hits stores this week I’m starting to work on the 15th issue which should be available in November or December. There are also back-up strips by Meghan Turbitt and Steven Kraan. I’m not sure who’s doing the back cover yet, but you’ll be the first to know. This won’t be the finished cover.…

There are two new events New York I’m doing next week. Another Carousel and another convention. Instead of additional hyperlinks and dates I’ll post cards about the events themselves which contain all the information you need. If all goes well (I’m talking to you, Ronald’s) the newest Magic Whistle I’ve been talking about on this…

It started with a Tweet I got earlier today. That and the Donald Sterling story reminded me of something I printed in a mini in 1992 that I don’t have anymore. A doodle a co-worker did for a dubiously legal telemarketing place I worked at for a few months after college. It could be best…

Next Saturday, May 3, will be Free Comic Book Day and you’ll have plenty of comics too choose from, and you should take them all, because they’re free. I mention it because I have a page in SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies. Even though I was a writer for the show and frequently did a strip for…

The 14th issue of Magic Whistle won’t even come out for another couple months and I’ve already started work on the 15th issue. Here are thumbnails for a story. Now that I look at it I should lose the shadow in the third panel on the last page so it’s not mistaken for the menstrual…

Like most years, I’ll be at this year’s annual MOCCA Festival in New York, at the Top Shelf table, signing copies of Scene But Not Heard April 5 and 6th. When I’m not at the table I’ll be wandering around. I won’t be at the Linework NW Festival in Portland, OR the following Saturday but…