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That's because Livejournal is a suck.
Last year I moved all of my blogs to Blogger and now I've moved all my blogs from there to my Wordpress site.
If you want to keep up with my blogs you will have to go here
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So anyway, here’s what happened over the weekend and last week. BBQ2 We found a place to have the Happy Drunk BBQ2 , but then after they did some research they decided we would have too many people for them to handle (seriously, we have TV shows interested in filming at it). It’s outta control. But unfortunately we once again don’t have a venue. Fuck it, I might just have a few small ones in a local park again like I used to. Atomicon We did the tiny Atomicon in Manahawkin and I was surprised, I made some money and considering I got the table for free it was a pretty good thing. Mike Diana We will be publishing Mike’s new comic book. It will be the first Angry Drunk Graphics book without my crappy artwork in it. I am very happy. Hopefully we will have it soon. And maybe Rich Hillen JR. will get off his ass and send me his book. Who knows. Press We are getting tons of Press lately (thanks to Kim) but unfortunately our books aren’t in many stores anymore. Angry Drunk Plush The people who publish Edward Gorey and Dreary and Naughty have contacted me, they want to make plush some of my characters from my books. I’m down with that, I don’t know how far it will go or if you will ever actually get to own one but a plush Devilboy is on the way. Spaztic Colon #6 Was finally put up for sale on the website, It is my favorite book so far. It’s odd I got tons of emails from people who couldn’t wait for it to come out , but since I put it up for sale online I only sold one. I sold copies at Comicon and local cons but I figured I would sell some online too. Oh well guess not. Maybe restarting Spaztic Colon wasn’t such a great idea after all. Diamond won’t take ‘em and the people who bugged me for ‘em online don’t actually want ‘em either. I wish I could stop drawing and writing these but I can’t, I think that’s the difference between real comics and the crap that actually sells. The people who make the popular crap are just art school trained uncreative hacks who are just doing a job (like landscaping) and can stop whenever they want but people like me can’t rest if they don’t get the stories and drawings out. If I have an idea and I don’t do something with it , it bothers the fuck outta me, I can’t sleep I get grumpy I get all kinds of miserable.I know I can’t draw all that well but I don’t think I can stop making this shit. But since no one is buying them, I might just make Spaztic Colon #7 available for my friends. It would save me money on printing. Bullshit I read Ann Coulters book “Godless” .Someone told me to read it because I hated that pathetic Al Gore global warming movie. I guess they figured I was conservative because I mentioned how much of a piece of crap Al Gore is for making such a whiny “please call me a hero” joke of a movie. I mean c’mon did you see it? what an asshole. So anyway, I read the stupid book, HOLY SHIT! She is a fucking idiot. I can’t believe that someone who knows how to write and spell (something I have trouble with) can be that fucking stupid. I can see people watching that dumb movie and agreeing with him that global warming causes MERSA (an antibiotic resistant bacteria) and somehow it causes people in Florida to vote badly (the hanging chad was a huge global warming dilemma). And I understand how people might want to take his advice and help stop global warming by going to the website he shows at the end of the movie (a website that offers the DVD but not much else) and I can understand him telling people to help stop global warming by using mass transportation and then taking taxi’s, private jets and driving himself all over the place in the movie.. I can understand all of that because people who see movies are idiots. I mean Christ, that dumb ass “Loose Change” movie was the #1 movie on you tube for like a month. If you put a good beat to something and you have good narration movie goers will eat it up. But “Godless” by Ann Coulter is a fucking book. People who can read and retain thoughts for more than a few hours actually bought this. And they must have liked it because it was a #1 best seller. I can’t even repeat the shit this woman said because it will make me so angry I’ll pop a vein in my head or something. I have never heard of this woman, but friends of mine say she’s on TV a lot and that she’s an asshole. The book is utter shit, I am embarrassed to be a human because it exists.
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Here are some of the post I've gotten shit for on myspace
Christians ask the silliest questions
Some religious idiot sent me these questions to think about. I thought about them then answered them, then sent them back, then posted them as a bulletin, then posted them here
Why do we sleep in church, but when the ceremony is over we suddenly wake up? Most churches are designed to make you relax, make you more susceptible to suggestion, to lull you into a hypnotic state. That is also why most cults use repetitive activities (kneeling, singing the same songs over and over) it's simple human training. Also every one doing the same thing at the same time gives you a false sense of unity that in days of old would make people more relaxed. But these days with technology advancing and people's attention spans dwindling, most people find the old school methods of brainwashing to be boring, that's why you fall asleep.
Why is it so hard to talk about God, but so easy to talk about sex? Because sex is a natural activity that is a proven 100% real thing , that every one can agree exists, whereas god is not.
Why are we so bored when we look at a Christian magazine, but find it easy to read Playboy? See the last answer.
Why is it so easy to ignore a Godly myspace message, Yet we repost the nasty ones? Godly web pages are usually self righteous, preachy and boring, designed to make you feel inferior and to seek help from whatever greater being they are pimping and nasty myspace pages are usually just plain funny.
Why are churches getting smaller, But bars and clubs are growing? Because of the internet and easy access to books and knowledge people are becoming a lot less ignorant of reality, and when you become less ignorant you realize that things aren't so great. A lot of people use alcohol to bring back that pleasant "ignorance is bliss" feeling.
Think about it, are you going to repost this? Proboably not, it's too silly. Maybe ill put it in my blog though. Actually I will repost it.
Are you going to ignore it, cause you think you'll get laughed at? People I don't know laughing at me doesn't really bother me.
Just remember God is always watching you. …um, okay.
The Lord said: "If you deny me in front of your friends, I will deny you in front of my father". – actually he didn't. that isn't in the bible anywhere, Jesus wasn't too big on guilt tripping people into Christianity.
Then I sent him this comic I did a while back
Then I sent him this comic
Then I got drunk and drew and sent him this comic
I know the last one was a little much, but FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY DO THEY KEEP SENDING ME ALL THESE BULLSHIT EMAILS.
Look, I get it, you are saved, I'm not. You are righteous, I'm not. You are ignorant, I'm not. Just agree to dissagree, stop trying to save me. If I could believe in the shit you believe in I would. I would much rather die and float up to heaven and hang out with all my old junkie friends, fart rainbows and listen DC Talk rock out for the lord all day than die and face what really happens when you die.
what happens ?
nothing.
you are nothing, you are not important or special and you will become dust.
the end.
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Here is a cartoon I did for Mezco and the Living Dead Doll guys Ed and Damien. They really helped us out when we couldnt find beer at various conventions.
It is also in Spaztic Colon 6.
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Holy crap I really got hung up on that myspace site, I can't believe it's been a year since I've written here.
Here is what's happened in the last year.
After the NYC Comicon we came home happy and released the Oyster Creek TPB.
June
We decided to have a book signing for Oyster Creek, it was getting alot of buzz. So many people wanted to come to the signing we decided to have it at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. We asked if any bands out there would mind playing and over 25 bands came out to play. It was one of the biggest events of the summer. Featuring underground comic book creators like MIke Diana and Rich Hillin JR. artists from all over the world (seriously people flew in from as far away as VAncouver , awesome bands, lots of alcohol and a side show. It was called the Happy Drunk BBQ and it will be an annual event.
July
we slept
August
We were asked to make a Living Dead Doll for Mezco
We did Monstermania
We Did Chiller.
Spetember
We had another smaller BBQ in a park by our house over 12 bands showed up to play and once again artists from all over the country came and drank with us. It was aonother good time
October
We went to NYC to talk to some guys from DK publishing about illustrating a book for them.
November
After making friends with a lot of the BBQ bands we started setting up and selling our comics at thier shows.
December
We threw a Christmas Party with more bands and more artists.
January
We went on tour with a great band called the Ray Gradys, we got to see the whole east coast and then some.
February
NYC comcion again, plus we put out all new books Spaztic Colon 5 and 6. Diamond wont touch em but fuck it , we doc pretty good at shows.
March
I updated my live journal.
All and all I ve met a fuck of alot of good people, I've toured the country with kick ass bands and we started a whole new underground movement that mixes extremely offensive comics (like Mike Diana's) with extremely underground bands (like Bitchslicer).
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1. I will be getting a table at a couple upcoming comic book conventions (including the next NYC Comicon). But instead of getting one Table, in the back for $800-$1400(depending on the con) . I am going to get an Island booth (up front) where you have to buy four tables for a little less each $600-$1100 (depending on the con). I don't have enough crap to fill up four tables, I barely have enough crap to fill up one. So I am thinking of renting tables and half tables out to other small press comic book publishers.If you want in let me know, I won't charge you any more than I am being charged, unlike everybody else in this fucking business I am not out to make money off of you. The only way this will work is if I get enough people together to cover the other tables. I need at least three other people to do this (or nine if you want half tables). It wont be cheap but if you have good stuff you'll probably make your money back. And the exposure won't hurt either. If you are interested let me know.
Just so you know,I will be picky about who is at the island with us. I don't want to spend a weekend with a bunch of stuck up artists. And if people sneaking beer in to the booth bothers you then don't even ask.
2.BE WARNED, The Spaztic Colon trade paperback is on it's way. It will have all four of the comics, plus some unused never before published comics,plus some comics from our first ash-cans "Jaded" and "Crap", plus a board game called "Escape from New Jersey", plus whatever else i can fill up pages with.
3. I will be interviewed on some hippy radio station in NYC at 3am next wednesday, so if you are an insomniac hippy who likes to hear drunk people talk about comics tune in to WBAI 99.5 FM - Pacifica Radio in New York City
4. WE WILL HAVE A PARTY AT MONSTERMANIA THIS MAY. If we can't get the room we will party in the lobby or the bar. I can't see myself getting anymore tables there because we just don't make the money back, people only go to check out the celebrities and rarely buy crap from the vendors (not our crap anyway). If you want to buy books off of us either find us in the bar and buy them or wait until we are drunk and send a cute girl to ask us for them (you'll get them free). If you want to sell our books at your table let me know.
5. if anybody knows anybody who does PR or writes for any type of publication that might want to do a story on us or our books. THEN TELL THEM ABOUT US OR OUR BOOKS. christ people help us out.
6.Our original TPB Devilboy in the Land of Love is officially out of print. I got the Email from Barnes and Nobles today.You should have bought it when you had the chance.
7.I will be signing books at Steve's Comic Relief in Toms River soon, I'm not sure when yet. We wail also be having a book release partys in NYC and Asbury Park NJ.this spring keep checking back for dates.
8. eight, I forgot what eight was for...
9.I will actually be sitting down to draw some new stuff as soon as I post this. for real this time I promise,no beer, no video games,just new comics for you. All for you.
Later, comment on some for these blogs dammit, let me feel loved.
Mar. 7th, 2006 @ 06:56 pm
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Ok, here it goes.
NYC comicon
Getting ready,
Since we didn't have anything new to offer,we decided at the last minute to print up some "Forked River" samplers and some "Spaztic Colon #4" minis.
There's a boring video of it coming soon.
Comicon Day 1
We got to the Javits center at 10am, and set up our stuff. There was a billion and an half people outside, luckily we had our badges,they let us right through.
It was FUCKING COLD OUT THERE !
Once we were inside we set up our crappy little table, the only thing that made us stand out was the pure cheese of our comics.If you walked down the small press isle and took in all the tables it would be like this anime,anime,anime,anime,anime,anime,anime,anime,anime,anime, us ,anime,anime,anime.
We made friends with the guys next to us from AmericanAnime. They are good people so check em out if you get a chance. If we snuck you in on Saturday chances are one of the badges you used was theirs. So use some of the money you saved on your ticket and buy a comic off them.
We got to hear two hip hop songs played over and over for three days straight, from the guys at Vexed comics (who were also really cool).By the afternoon we realized that comicons are really,really fucking boring. The only beer we could find was downstairs in the salad bar and it cost $30 for 5 fuckin beers!
We are used to Horror Cons they are way better in my book, less pretentious people and more alcohol.
The best part of Friday was definitely when Doc (Venture Bro's) Hammer stopped by our table .Awesome!
Meeting Noel was pretty fuckin cool too, her and her boyfriend drove all the way from Georgia. They had to hate the cold.
We also met this really hot chick, here she is with Dee.That cleavage got her lots of free stuff.
I'm sure we met allot of other noteworthy people, but I don't know enough about comics to know who they were.
After the con was over, we went out to a small Irish pub and got drunk. Here we are with the bartender and Dee.
Saturday-
We got to the con late (Fucking Irish pubs). And started setting up our table.
I met some more good people my buddy Serg and his girlfriend stopped by the table (even though he was sick) and invited us out drinking after the con.
Then Damien from Living Dead Dolls stopped by our table, to say hey, and asked us where the beer was.
Around 4pm Mike left to meet some friends at the Hotel and sneak them in (along with a fresh keg of beer).
around 5pm we was drinking the booze and we became a very popular table among the other vendors.
Sneaking the beer into the comicon was a definite high point.
We tried going to the same Irish pub afterwords but they were closed Saturday night. After walking around a freezing city we finally found a bar called the Public House. We went in there and there was Serg again. My friends decided the bar was to clean and shiny for their tastes and headed out to the lower east side to find a better place.
Mike and I stayed and hung out with Serge, his girlfriend ,his friend and his friends girlfriend. If you wnt to see more pics check out Serg's blog.
After a little while we realized there was a comicon party going on upstairs. If you read my other blogs you know how much I hate artists, they are so fuckin fake. I went upstairs to see if these artists were any different. They weren't.There was so much ass kissing goin on upstairs I'm surprised they even needed toilet paper in the bathrooms.
by the way, This bar wasn't one of Serg's hangouts. He was just staying close to the con, waiting to meet me at a cooler bar. I don't want you to think Serg is a yuppie.
Sunday-
we were very hung over. we sold allot of stuff. met allot of people. went home.
Next year we are going to get a bigger table and we are going to split the cost with other underground anti-artists. If you want in, kiss my ass for a while ( i learned that from the Public House) and I might let you in.
or just fork up the loot and ask me.
later Steve
Feb. 28th, 2006 @ 04:09 pm
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someone actually gave us a good review
Sinfernal greetings, Cruel Believers! It’s nice to be here to give one last shout out to all peeps before the illustrious XD takes a lil’ break from it’s paper form. And oooooh how I’ll miss the smell of fresh copy ink printed across hand folded and stapled pages. I love the Net, but it will never ‘taste’ like a REAL zine! But all good things must come to an end….or a hiatus at least, eh? It’s been a fun ride to be sure. So until XD takes on another PHYSICAL manifestation, beast witches to one and all. And most especially to Lady Davidatrix and P’Daddy on their new ‘endeavor’!
I’ll begin and end my reviews with the work of ANGRY DRUNK GRAPHICS. ADG is Steven Vincent & Mike Mclaughlin. I typically am not compelled to focus so much space to one publisher as I am going to here. But the fact is, I really like their work and feel they are deserving of a few extra accolades than I’d normally give (don’t forget what a jaded wanker I am;-). Their humor can be easily branded way lowbrow, but this is one of the rare cases where it works very well in this reviewer’s three eyes. I was introduced to ADG thru a promo zine that featured snippets of their stuff, and reviewed just that piece in a past XD. So to all you indie peeps, yes, those little flyers do work sometimes! Well here now, I have reviews of WHOLE issues to report on. Needless to say, I was not disappointed in what I read. Some of you will think I’m nucking futs for laughing it up with these issues. So know this: ADG’s work is not for every taste.
That said, ADG’s following goods can be acquired here:
ANGRY DRUNK GRAPHICS
PO Box 179
Forked River, NJ 08731
Website: Angrydrunkgraphics.com
Email: steve@angrydrunkgraphics.com
NOTE: Send a SASE and get cool stickers of the characters featured in their comix!
THE SNOW PRINCE
28 pp one shot; comic book sized; color covers
Price: 3.95
According to the introduction for this issue, SP was created because creator Steven Vincent had written a ‘book’ for his litte niece. The piece itself didn’t warrant its own true publication (it was quickly scratched out onto 9 pages of folded paper). Which I didn’t see the problem with myself, since that sounds like a number of ‘real’ zines I’ve seen. So Vincent created SP to have an excuse to put out “A Book For Nicole” in published form (it’s now a ‘backup’ feature of sorts). And here it all is. What we the readers end up with is what feels like a crudely drawn, twisted kids comic/story book. Think in terms of if ‘Golden Books’ put out tweeked, Tim Burtonesque, funkily drawn comics, it just might look like this. And if my kid books were this subtly warped when I was a child, I might have done a little bit more reading and became that Serial Killer I’d always wanted to be instead of this boring Brayn Surgeon that I am. The opening line will give you an idea: “Not long ago in the frozen arctic tundra, there lived a royal family of snowmen. Five Snow Princes and a Snow King. And every year when the New Year arrived a Snow Fairy would come from the sky to grant a wish to one of the Princes”. As text, none of this might sound particularly exciting. But if you are already familiar with Vincent’s bent on things, you’ll know that nothing is going to end up very nice in the end. With the premise in mind, we follow SP Peter, who’d already made a wish the previous year. But this year he wanted another to make up for the stupid one he’d already asked for. But when he goes to his father the Snow King to see if he could wish again (it was his brother John’s turn, who always wished for a head of cabbage), he was denied. Thus, after an epiphany of sorts, begins the exterminations of his siblings to move up the wish line. And being literal snow people, he tricks his brothers in different ways. In one instance, he tricks one brother who was always willing to do favors for people, into holding a heated rock for him until he m,elts away. In another, he gets a brother to look at how beautiful the sun is in the morning….with a magnifying glass. Sound stupid? Yea…probably. But the simply done, borderline ‘not right’ feel of it all just seems to work for me. I chuckled more than a few times reading these pages. It’s the stuff I’ve always wanted to read to kids but couldn’t. In the end, there’s a cool lil’ twist for the mischievous Snow Prince, who BTW, all this time wished to be a REAL boy. But you’ll hafta see how that’s part is handled. I should have seen it coming, but the charm of the previous pages kept the obvious from hitting me in the face. In “Book For Nicole” we get to see what spawned this whole book. In this scant two pages (remember, it was drawn for a little kid), Nicole, having just moved from New Jersey to Uncle Vincent’s neck of the woods, comes with ‘super powers’ that would make fellow school kids pay for picking on her. This super power being the ability to make them fart uncontrollably on command. It’s interesting to see where SP spawned. Matched together, they would almost make a fun little gift for the wicked kids in your life…really. And for all of the surface level goofiness, it’s easy to see there’s really a bit more thought that goes into this and other work by ADG than meets the immediate eye.
FUN WAYS TO KILL YOUR CHILDREN
32pp one shot; comic book sized; color covers
Price: 3.00
I suppose by the title, one would expect some really low brow...poor taste ways of killing kids for laughs all done with some scratchy-arse drawings depicting such hideous scenes. Well….they are. But before I get tossed in the blender, let me remind you…this stuff ain’t for all tastes. And even for the tastes it’s geared towards, it might be a mood thing that dictates whether or not these one panel comix are funny, down right dumb or just not right in that mentally unstable kinda way. With that disclaimer said, I must admit, I STILL get a chuckle reading these comix now. The illo for ‘Let Them Bungie Jump With A Chain’ still cracks me the heck up. I had briefly mentioned my like for the sampled strips in ADG’s promo sampler. But here, I get to wallow in the entire filth. And boils & ghouls, I enjoyed every minute of it. If I didn’t keep my copy in my zine comix ‘keeper’ files, I’d have it happily sitting on my coffee table for my guests (not that I have a coffee table…nor any guests that can read with their hands bound and gags in their mouths with masks over their heads, but I digress). But anyhow, what we have here are over eighty one-panel strips of kids in varying states of dismemberment. Think Garbage Pail Kids for Serial Killers or really bad parents. Vincent began creating these in 1997 when he first put up his webpage to entice people to keep coming back. It’d be interesting to see who was attracted to them. Amongst the chuckle inducing fodder, there’s FUN WAYS TO KILL YOUR CHILDREN: Take Them Camping (picture a bear walking away after mauling lil’ Junior in his tent); Use Them As A Bumper…Buy Them A Tick Farm…Microwave Them…Make Them A Mask Out Of Plastic Wrap…Let Them Run With Scissors. I think you get the picture. Vincent’s illustrations are always in this kind of scratchy style. The characters are always in some state of bug-eyedness minus pupils. In lesser hands I don’t know if the whole thing could come off as anything more than clunky attempts at bad comix. But in Vincent’s hands, the style works almost perfectly for what it needs to convey. I freakin’ love this compilation, and I definitely don’t hand out the ‘L’ word too often. This has such a MAD Magazine or Far Side kind of feel to it ..well, that is if they were just a little bit grosser and more disturbed. I’d love to see one giant compilation of these strips in TB form cuz they deserve to get out to even more twisted peeps to appreciate.
SPAZTIC COLON 1-3
Issues 1-2: 28pp/ comic book sized; #3 32pp digest
Price: 3.50 each
Here we have what amounts to the continuing strip for ADG (so far as I can tell). There are ashcans available that beef up these issues, but I don’t have them for review. In issue #1 we are introduced to Vincent’s (as you might already be able to tell,) ‘obsession’ with warped kids, but we meet and find out about Jade; the multi-pigtailed 15 yr. old waif whose mother separated from her Dad and became weirder and weirder following their seperation (read: she became an activist Lesbian, then jezuz freak). Jade got shuffled to foster homes, then after a stint with a perve ‘Uncle’, she makes her way back to New Jersey where this is based. We also meet Billy, her friend, who can’t tell the difference between a Mormon, a Merman or Ethel Merman. Both are alchoholics it seems, so all is forgiven. In one ‘episode’, Billy (a devout carnivore) encounters a vegetarian and the vegetarian gets munched on in a goofy three pager. In another, Jade goes looking for a job so she can pay her electricity bill, but being underage doesn’t help matters. And all she wants is to have light, not eat chunky spoiled milk on her cereal or raw macaroni for dinner. In ‘Billy and Cow’, which I thought was some sillazz funny stuff, Billy proceeds to create himself a new friend, a cow. So off to the grocery store he goes and after purchasing meats there, he comes home and plays Dr. Frankenstein. But after Cow comes to life, they begin to talk. Cow wants to know why one of his legs is so small. Billy tells him the butcher ran out of cow legs, so he substituted a piece of veal for the leg. He also used chopped beef and duct tape for his tail. Yet another instance where the description (even as I write it) sounds just dumb). But in reading this, it’s just ridiculously humorous. Especially the look on Cow’s face when it’s explained to him that veal is a ‘baby cow’. What follows is pretty funny, as Cow becomes a lil’ political and decides he must do the right thing and set himself on fire, but since he has no thumbs he must ask Billy to work the lighter. In issue #2 we get more of the two. This issue is decidedly Hell bent. In the beginning (hehe;-) Tim, a Devil from below is trying to get to the surface to rescue his other Devil buddy Balfor who was a victim of an excorcism and is now trapped in a potatoe in New Jersey. The potato belongs to Jade who has given it to Billy. So without giving away too much, the Devil Tim, with the help of Satan’s Son, comes to the surface from the pits of Hell to get Balfor free. But the disturbed duo aren’t so hot to give up their little prize potatoe and work out a little deal for themselves in exchange. There are a couple short strips padding out this issue. One involves the woes of poor Teen Jesus, where he finds out thru the help of Holy Ghost (is that what he looks like ….wow!;-) , but he finds out that no one wants to be his friends and that everyone’s using him. You know, to do stuff like turn water into wine…..clear acne on chicks before the Prom. You know, typical teen drama. In ‘One Night In The City’ we encounter a little girl and her cat waiting at a bus stop during the wee hours of the morning. She almost falls victim to a predator, you know, the molesting kind. But this is a Vincent strip, and that wee girl and cat ain’t all that wee.
In issue #3 Billy dies and and goes to Limbo where he meets up with Cow once again. Cow is there because ‘they’ can’t figure out where to send him after he killed himself because he was not one of the ‘creator’s’ factory jobs. So together they decide to go see God because Billy wants to be alive again. So to the diner that God lives in they go. God looks a tad bit like a bowling ball BTW. God eventually sends them both back. In the second part of the story, Cow and Billy hook up with Santa, who has literally landed on Billy’s doorstep after being beat up by one of his Elves and left for dead. Santa recounts the origins of all the Elves, when they were child eating monsters, that he finally tamed with candy canes (apparently it’s a low blood sugar issue they had). The one Elf that beat down poh Santa is headed back to the North Pole (low blood sugar and all) to wreak havoc and turn the other Elves back to their former nasty selves (hey that kinda rhymed!). Santa has enlisted Cow and Billy’s help. Together they go to Bob’s house…Bob, who has an Ewok imprisoned, captured after the filming of the Jedi movie, (the Ewok, Bob claims was really an alien bent on taking over the Earth), Bob also has a paintball gun that shoots jawbreakers. Santa wants this weapong to regain control of his Elf population and make sure Xmas keeps coming.
Ridiculous? It is. To be taken seriously? Of course not. And that’s what I dug about all of these SC issues. They’re just all light hearted goofy fun that obviously took some effort and thinking to get to the printed page (i.e., these weren’t just spit out in two seconds). I had wondered how much longer strips would play out with Vincent’s work. And here, I was able to see there was noticeable flow going on. Nothing felt forced and it all works together as a cohesive unit, but separately, they stand on their own as well.
ADG OVERALL: With all of ADG’s pubs, some fine tuning could be had in a number of areas. But, Vincent’s work is stylized enough that it doesn’t need to follow convention too closely. If it did, I’d guess it wouldn’t be as effective and feel forced. I’ve seen other comic creators ‘try’ to be disturbing and funny and it doesn’t work sometimes, in fact, most of the times for some. Here, it’s not in your face, and feels like the work develops its own unbalanced, warped vibe when it needs to and doesn’t seem like its trying to meet some kind of shock quota. ADG’s work is recommended to anyone with more darkly tuned senses of humor. ADG proudly makes claim to their ‘shitty’ artwork, but this reviewer is happy to say he/it thinks it works pretty damn well. Check out their website . There’s some cool work there too.
And that Peeps, is it. May the farce be with you. And may yer stapler keep stapling, and m,ay yer copier keep copying. And remember…nothing is forever. But it ain’t ever over till the robust lady sings! Botda, signing off!
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cami
Friends at christmas
more christmas at angry drunk studios
my dog after destroying his present
Rich and Cheryl
Bob
Jan. 15th, 2006 @ 01:42 pm
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Mike and I with Dana and Kyle in Port St. Lucie Florida
Gary and Vicki in Gainesville Fl
Gary smoking the Bible (it's got more uses than promoting ignorance and fear)
LAdies of GAinesville lovin our books
Vicki
A real shitty hotel in VA
Mike and I wasted
Shooting spiders
the coolest flea market i've been to
new art
my cousin Lisa in Orlando
The Bartender atCheers in Altamonte Springs
Tracy and Dave in Coral Springs
A naked fat guy with a hammer
Jan. 15th, 2006 @ 12:42 pm
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Man, it's only a couple weeks away. Our first real comicon. I hope its fun,I really don't like artsy people. I am trying real hard to get Forked River done in time, but I don't think iot will be. I should at least have a sampler/mini comic version of it for sale. All this DIY crap sucks, I know it's punk rock and all but seriously, It really sucks.It's easy for little art school drop outs to do, but try having a real job and doing this crap, it blows. I might try to get myself a proper publisher,maybe i can get one at the con. A nice small press publisher who doesnt demand much from thier artists would be nice.
As you can see I also need a spell checking editor as well.
Hopefully I'll see you all at the NYC comicon.
Here are some of the things we will have for sale
Shotglasses
all of our old comics
redone Odd Tales books
T-shirts
Stickers
buttons
and maybe
maybe
Forked River will be done.
Jan. 15th, 2006 @ 12:09 pm
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Hey Fuckers check out the newsletter from the NYC comicon
They actually mention us, and Roman Dirge will be there too. Fuckin awesome.
The countdown to New York Comic-Con has begun...
As part of our effort to provide the highest level of value to our attendees and exhibitors, we are proud to announce the "Countdown to New York Comic-Con" e-newsletter service. This campaign, sent bi-weekly between now and the Show, will not only provide you with news and updates from the show team, but will deliver announcements from the exhibiting companies regarding:
- New products that will be launched at the show
- Special attendee promotions
- Invitations to events
- Press releases
New items premiering at the show
Angry Drunk Studios | Booth: 463
All New Comic and Book Series
Angry Drunk Graphics will be premiering an all new comic book called "Forked River" featuring some of the characters from their popular "Spaztic Colon" comic book series. The first three books of their 14 part "Odd Tales" books will also be making their debut. for more info: steve@angrydrunkgraphics.com
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Guest Appearances & Autographing
SLG Publishing | Booth: 525
Roman Dirge to make first Eastern US appearence at New York Comic-con
Roman Dirge, the creator of the cult hit comic book series Lenore and cover artist of the SLG Publishing The Haunted Mansion series will be making his first ever appearence on the east coast at the New York Comic-Con. Roman will be appearing all three days of the convention at the SLG Publishing booth. Please see booth staff for Roman's signing times. Also in attendence for SLG will be Evan Dorkin, Landry Walker and many others. Please see our web site for a complete list www.slgpublishing.com
Jan. 15th, 2006 @ 12:07 pm
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Hey, It's been a while since I've written anything in here (myspace is alot easier to manage).
So let me start by re-posting a few of my myspace posts:
Florida
So anyway,
we just got back from Florida. We had a good time meeting all the new people and hanging out with old friends. We pretty much went all over the state stopping in Gainesville,Bronson,Coral Springs,Fort Lauderdale,Port Saint Lucie, Altamont Springs and Orlando.
From bar to hotel to friends house to bar to hotel, over and over again.
I don't remember much of the trip but I think It was fun.
Here are some things I remember about Florida
bad things
Drivers- I don't know if its because of all the seniors, but driving sucks in florida. You either go 10mph or 160mph, nothing in between. I also think blinkers are optional in most Florida cars. Six different traffic lights at each intersection don't help either. Look people, I live in fuckin New Jersey and I have never seen driving like that. Nascar mixed with Geritol. It was scary.
Coffee- I've never had coffee this bad before, not just in one place, EVERYPLACE, hotels,Denny's,cafes',diners and bars. I even tried makling it myself and it was awful. It must be the water.
Pizza- There is no such thing as pizza in Florida. I tried a few places that boasted "NY style pizza" they are liars. It is awful, terrible, the most disgusting stuff I have ever had in my mouth. We picked up one of those "Best in Town" magazines in Gainesville. The best Itallian food winner was...are you ready....it was Dominos.
Dominos! The best Itallian food in a pretty decent size city in Florida was fuckin Dominos. The whole city voted on it!
Oh yeah, don't order a philly cheesesteak either, from anywhere in Florida unless you want a big mouth full of mayonaisse.
Good things
People- the people where very friendly and non threatening. something I'm not used to living here in Jersey.
Here's an example- I was drinking in a bar getting loud and Jersey like. I looked up and noticed that people where staring at me and my friends. I found my self making eye contact with poeple. people who I assumed didn't like the way I was acting. So I stared them down. You know what happend next ? They smiled and came over and talked to me, became friends. No fight, no cops it was very odd making friends instead of enemies.
Lizards- They're everywhere in houses, outside houses, on cars,in cars everywhere. Some people might think thats not a good thing. Fuck those people lizards are cool.
Guns- Guns are very easy to get a hold of legally. I like that. I like guns.
Any way that's all for now. I'm glad I'm home. I love New Jersey and I'm not afraid to say it.
Fuckin' Jersey rules!
i'm out
fuckers
And here is another one:
Old blogs
first PLEASE HELP US OUT.
E-mail this guy and and tell him you'd like to see angry drunk graphics at his convention.
dhag@comcast.net
It's easy and it will really help us out.
second
i found these old blogs of mine on someones website. I like em so here they are again. They where from almost exactly a year ago.
The CIA
There a bunch of children called the CIA "Christians In Action" down at the food store bagging groceries. If you tip them an ugly old fat lady comes over and takes the money away from them. It pisses me off, I don't know if it was because I was subjected to brainwashed children or if I was subjected to ugly old fat ladies. I just know it bothered me. It should be against the law to teach children about any religion until they are atleast 18. -steve
The only differences between Pat Robertson's christian right and Osama Bin Laden's Al Quada are 1. training facilities and 2. beards.
If the World Trade center was an abortion clinic christians would probably be the ones cheering and dancing on rooftops. -steve
and another one:
About my comic "Forked River"
Don't mind the spelling im drunk.
Here's a little inside info,
The town I live in "Forked River" used to be a pretty cool town to live in.
Lots of parties, we had woods parties,house parties,fighting parties,we even had skate ramps in the woods. Then one day a bunch of terrorists flew some planes into the Trade center. This is what started the great yuppie migration of 2001. These cowardly yuppies where now too scared to live in the city anymore so they started buying up land left and right all over my town. Knocking down tiny run down houses like mine and building big psuedo mansions in thier places.The cars on the streets changed from Oldsmobiles to BMWs.
It wasn't long before the pussy yuppie kids heard about the woods. All the little cunts started buying expensive dirtbikes and quads. It also wasn't long before they started crashing all thier dirtbikes and quads and it also wasn't long before they started suing everything in sight. The woods got closed down or knocked down to make way for Walmarts and Home Depots.
Most of my friends are gone because the houses they were renting got sold to yuppies and rebuilt, or they kept getting hassled by the overpaid underworked cops around here that don't seem to have anything better to do than to keep skateboarders of the streets.
Even though my town is dead, I'm still here. I work for the town and I've been working here for too many years to quit and move now (benifits people). My only saving grace is that I remember the way it was. I remember the swamps and the landfills that most of these houses are built on. I rmemeber the DDT spill in the 70's and the gas leak in the 80's that killed all the animals on the property where the new schools now sit.
Hopefully when this comic comes out it will piss off most of the people in my town. I will make sureit is heavily advertised in local papers . Check out the tower in the backround, that is the oldest "still operational" nuclear power plant in the U.S..
One cool thing about the Yuppie migration. I got to refinance my house and start Angry Drunk Graphics. You can thank Bin Laden for that.
-later
Jan. 15th, 2006 @ 12:01 pm
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Well, I just got back from SPX. What is SPX you ask? Why, it's the small press expo in Bethesda MD.
We got into town around 11am, After unloading the crap that we brought with us. I got a call from Rhett from Counter Culture Comics (some funny shit). We headed down to the parking lot to meet him and collect our SPX guest passes.
Then we went in, this was my first real comic book convention, up till now I'd only ever done Horror conventions.
Here is what I learned
1. comic book conventions are pretty lame. I was used to the drunken debauchery-loud-fun-plenty of beer-super party atmosphere of horror conventions, not the smooth jazz-pastel colored-way more artsy than I'm used to- cash mini bar-8 bucks for a half a cup of Captain and Coke atmosphere of comic conventions.
2. The guys from Counter Culture comics and their friends are pretty cool.
Rhett and his posse of friends were the only saving grace at the convention. They knew where to get booze and other party tools.
Ryan Jones is one talented motherfucker keep your eye out for him.
3.. Most comic book artists are pretentious sissies (not the counter culture folks they’ll kick your ass).
Most of the other “artists” I met were sissies I’m not saying they are sissies in that they were homosexual men, I’m saying they were sissies in that they were the kids who skipped gym class on dodge ball day because they didn’t want to get hurt.
I was pretty bummed out by the impression I got. It was a strange kind of elitist vibe that I haven’t felt since I was in high school.
Disclaimer: I’m also not saying homosexual men are wimps, if you can take a cock up the ass you are a lot tougher than me.
After being sober for an ungodly six minutes Mike and I decided to get some alcohol into our systems. We went to the bar unfortunately for us there was no Yuengling Lager our beer of choice for the last few months. Mike got himself a Long Island iced tea and I had myself a Captain and Coke.
The drinks were expensive but they were also very fucking strong. We each got one more then we decided to go out and get ourselves some beer. We hit the Liquor store and got ourselves some beer.
When Mike and I walked in with our beers we got tons of nasty looks, of course no one would say anything to our faces but I heard plenty of them complaining about us as we passed their tables (see above for sissies).
We walked around, bought some mediocre comics (they were better than mine though) and before we knew it the con was over.
We went up to our room we were gonna go down to the bar, but Rhett called and invited us over to his room. We went over to his room drank, smoked, drank, met some cool people.
Then we went to the Tastee Diner ate, went to bed, woke up went home.
Very exciting, Right? Here’s some pics.
Rhett and Ryan
Rhetts room and some non sissy artists.
The view from my hotel room window.
A view from inside the con.
This pic wasn't from the con but I think it's funny. Mike had a nose bleed and with no tissues to be found anywhere...
My cat Oreo
Sep. 28th, 2005 @ 06:39 pm
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Man it was fun!
I broke my camera so I don't have any pics, but if you were there you know how much fun it was. Thanks for chillin with angry drunk graphics.
If you were one of the people who stopped by in the wee hours and helped us clean up the room, let me know who you are and I will send you free comics.
We are going to try to have the same big ass room again in May, see you all there.
I haven't had that much fun drinkin since I was in High School, If I can pull still photo's off of my camcorder I'll post them soon.
-steve
Sep. 1st, 2005 @ 07:15 pm
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Monstermania is coming,I have no internet. I had to type this on a cell phone. typing stuff on a cell phone really sucks. Come see us saturday night at monstermania in cherry hill.
leave me a comment you fuckers.
-steve
Aug. 23rd, 2005 @ 05:37 pm
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Here are some pages from Spaztic Colon #2. I know they are drawn pretty crappy,that's pnly because I suck.
Aug. 12th, 2005 @ 12:15 pm
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After sitting around the house for way to fuckin long, we all decided to go out for some pizza and a beer or two. We went to seaside Heights,a crappy little resort town across the Bay from my house because it has the best pizza around and there is beer a plenty as well.
We stopped in at the Sawmill,a place who used to have the best pizza. The pizza kinda sucked but the beer was cheap.50 cents a piece for Yuengling ! We were in crappy pizza heaven. We met some cool people too here are the pics.
Here is Amanda our bartender she was pretty cool.
Here she is supporting Angry Drunk Graphics, that's worth us telling you to
give her a good tip if you ever go there.
Here are some ladies we met. We tried to buy them a beer but fifty cent beers make that a pretty crappy gesture.
Either way they didn't walk away from or throw things at us, so that makes them different than most of the women we meet.
The middle finger is the new piece sign.<-- I heard that somewhere
Here is RJ he said he was the king of "Irish Car Bombs" (back off coppers it's a drink, I don't need some Tom Ridge wanna be kicking down my door for writing that)so Mike bought him one, and did one himself.
Here is Thomas he was one of the security.
A good time was had by all, nothing beats Taco bell and Checkers at 1:30 in the morning.
-Later
Aug. 1st, 2005 @ 10:11 pm
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These are the my favorites from the last two weeks, If you Join myspace and make me your friend you will get a new one of these every day in the form of a bulletin
Jul. 28th, 2005 @ 05:21 pm
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Yesterday, even though Sunday is God's day, we blew off going to church to give our friend April(nicknamed Opie because of an Opium incident in the late 80's)and her kick ass daughter Nicole ( if you read Odd Tales 4 the story "A book for Nicole" was for her) a small going away party. After looking for a place to BBQ and swim we ended up at an old abandoned train trestle. This old train trestle is one of the few places in Ocean County where you can drink some beer without being hastled by the man. Unless you stay there too late then the man comes a hastlin'. Here are some pics.
Nicole and MIke
Nicole and some girl who is probably way too young to be drinkin
Nicole and Kim
Cheryl and Mikey
Opie and Kim
Random pics
Rob
A view from the trestle
After we taught Nicole how to Kayak
Nicole throwing rocks at things
Fellow trestle goers, Brian sports an angry drunk graphics sticker on his motorized wheelchair thing. Can you believe the cops in Lacey (my town) actually pulled him over for drunk driving his wheelchair.
Rich and Cheryl kissing (they are always kissing)
Some underage (I assume they are anyway) drinkers up on the trestle
Bill and somebody
That's all the pics for now.
Jul. 25th, 2005 @ 06:25 pm
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