Apr 25, 2019
Smash Pages Q&A: Lin Visel and Joseph Bergin III
The creators of ‘How Do You Smoke a Weed?: A Comics Guide to a Responsible High’ discuss their approach to helping people learn to smoke.
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Smash Pages Q&A: Lin Visel and Joseph Bergin III
The creators of ‘How Do You Smoke a Weed?: A Comics Guide to a Responsible High’ discuss their approach to helping people learn to smoke.
Chapter 2 of Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery is up on the Stela app!
Reader mail with Dot McSodden
The hat mystery deepens, confusingly and painfully
Meet Aloysius Jumpylegs! (from the hit song)
Bath time with Tobias and Jube
Leroy the moon wizard tests his new potion
BONUS COW
Truly a packed chapter! Packed with wordplay and visual gags, characters new and old, and some of colourist Lin Visel’s most gorgeous panels. Miss it if you’re a dadgummed fool, consarn it!
And don’t forget to listen to the album and watch the cute-as-heck new video!
Taking an appreciative look at movies in which a toilet is used as a weapon or for other non-evacuatory purposes (a comic-sized book)
Well, would you look at that?! Them “Propheteers” are at it again. This time they’ve got a Kickstarter campaign to fund a book called “Hot Commode-ity”
I say it’s worth checking out, I mean, it has: @popgunwar, @sandra-lanz, @sayunclecomics, @chipperwhale, @simon-roy, and @royalboiler involved in it, AND it has @ramonvillalobos, @wookjinclark and @effalope, so it sounds beautiful to me.
Check it out, give it a buck, share it with friends, see what happens. I think you’re going to like what you see.
Thank you!
That Kickstarter I mentioned earlier? There’s the book with @popgunwar, @sandra-lanz, @ramonvillalobos, @wookjinclark, @sayunclecomics, @chipperwhale, @simon-roy, and @effalope and there is an enamel pin by @royalboiler. That design, up there. We call it “Bowl&Crossbones”. Check that #Kickstarter and join together with the crowd-FUN-ding!
"Hot Commode-ity”
This isn't late. It's still Christmas until January 5th! Fuck you! Merry Christmas!
I thought, "I'll just do a simple little Christmas picture, since I have the afternoon free," some days ago, and as usual things got out of hand. NO REGRETS.
On the whole I take my Christmas thoroughly Anglo, with as many pre-Christian rituals and ornaments as possible bleeding through, but of course also with proper carols, joyful and mysterious, about magic baby God, born to be sacrificed to himself, or, alternatively and ideally, about Wenceslas, a nice king with hot feet. No Santy Claus, no holly jolly jingle dingle, no crooners, no divas. But these are mostly aesthetic preferences; religion and spirituality have something but not so very much to do with it — consequently I'm happy to incorportate whatever ideas and symbols and activities happen to catch my fancy into my personal concept and practice of Yuletide, which is really the only way to do it nowadays, isn't it?
So what have we got here. We've got some carolers who are a bit Peanuts and a bit Dickens. We've got some Japanese-style winter illuminations. We've got some holly wrapped around an old-as-fuck stone monument of the kind that dot the landscape of Tobias and Jube's little world. What does it mean? Does anyone remember? And perhaps candles always burn with blue flame at Christmas, which is why no-one's FREAKED OUT about that. Perhaps it's got something to do with the Ghost of Christmas Present, or Father Christmas, or whoever it is, lurking in the background there, inspecting the scene with what we should hope is an approving eye. (Or maybe Leroy, the wizard, did it.) The ginkgo tree, like the ones here in Tokyo, is nearly bare at just this time of year. And I wonder if El Bobba, down the front there, is on his way to plop that yuzu into a hot bath, in line with the Japanese winter solstice tradition.
By the way, you can meet all of the carolers pictured here in my new, five-chapter Tobias and Jube comic, published on the Stela app in 2017. Folks, this comic is gonna make you sneeze your brains out, it’s so good. You’re gonna love it; everyone is. And for extra excellence, the colours are being done by Lin Visel, the mayor of Good Cartooning Town.
And as it happens, right now would be a good time to download Stela in preparation, ‘cause they’re doing an end-of-year thing where, until the 30th, you can read all the comics on there for free, free, free, in their entirety. It’s a nice chance to check it out and get used to the future of comics. Great for reading in bed!
Image Comics’ anthology, Island. Covers By Johnnie Christmas; Michael Deforge; Lin Visel; Simon Roy; and Brandon Graham
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ISLAND #9 cover by Lin Visel (with colors by Joseph Bergin III) Out in July.