AT LAST, a graphic novel to celebrate society's invisible heroes: extremely well-paid corporate executives!
Ooooooh I just bet you thought I was done with Tumblr. But actually... I'm done with everything! Everything except publishing a NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL and promoting it, that is.
Behold the 'pre-launch' page for SONS OF COMTEC, a comic by me and my friend Ben Hutchings. Hey, that's two of the three funniest cartoonists in the world! And what about the third one, Michael Kupperman, creator of Snake 'N' Bacon and Tales Designed to Thrizzle; what does he think about all this?
Sons of Comtec is a very silly comic about businessmen, because that's what the subject deserves. Me and Ben, SEPARATED BY EARTH'S MOST VAST OCEAN, made it together, somehow, over the course of more than a decade. Was that a deliberate "Up yours!" to the poisoned, capitalist notion of 'efficiency'? YES, if that will encourage you to order the book.
It's a series of overlapping vignettes about day-to-day corporate life, featuring a small cast of weird, serious idiots, most of whom are still alive at the end of it. There are two leprechauns in the book but they aren't important. Listen... I can't really describe this book, OK? Can any of my comics, that you love, be 'described', exactly? Come on now.
Oh, you know what else? If you click through to that pre-launch page and scroll down, you can watch a video with some voice-acted excerpts from the comic, and some character profiles, followed by me painting the whole cover illustration and discussing the process! Yes, I also have a YouTube channel. KEEP UP, will you.
This is an exciting time for you. I'll leave you to it.
...FOR NOW. 😎