#matty's rocket

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Happy birthday to Tim Fielder!

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Dieselfunk Studios Presents: MATTY’S ROCKET BOOK 1 - Dieselfunk Studios

Greetings Dieselfunkateers! Tim Fielder here. It is my distinct pleasure, and the pleasure of the Dieselfunk Studios team to present MATTY’S ROCKET BOOK ONE. This book has been a labor of love that I have wanted to do for many decades. Each panel has been painstakingly painted and composed. Each line of dialogue and concept …

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HIGH JOHN 1: Dixieland, The Old West & The Dirty Brush

Greetings Dieselfunkateers.  As the Juneteenth launch date of HIGH JOHN CONQUEROR approaches we are feverishly working to get everything in place. Part of this process involves informing the public of the genesis of this project and what the intentions for the future will be. 

Our first post is all about the Art.  I fully concede my work will likely never be in the contemporary style or level of the crosshatching Image guys...sadly.   Hey, we all want to be sexy.  But I have to face facts; I yam what I yam.  Thusly, I LOVE OLD COMICS.  I love the pen and ink work of Harold Raymond, Frank Frazetta, Hal Foster and Burne Hogarth. Those cats had it down.  So my every effort has been to seize control of my brush...albeit digital, and bring as much power and lushness to my work as possible...like those before me.  But in my OWN WAY.   

More specifically, High John Conqueror is a HOMAGE  to my love of Western, Crime and Sci-fi comics. 

Moebius and Charlier’s Blueberry

Corben’s ‘DEN’

Bernet’s ‘Torpedo 1936′

Steranko’s ‘Chandler’

and last, but absolutely NOT LEAST...David Mazzuchelli’s Rubber Blanket

Now I’m not going to even suggest I’ll be as good as those guys are. But for HIGH JOHN CONQUEROR...That’s the standard for the attempt.  

STAND ASIDE.

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CAPTAIN BATTLE:  Dark Defender of Harlem Sector

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  A very quick update on the upcoming release of MATTY’S ROCKET 3:  UNEXPECTED GUESTS.  Work is closing out on the story and I must say, I feel it’s my best work yet.  

EXTRA EXTRA!!  Matty’s Rocket issues 1 and 2 will be REISSUED very shortly with BRAND NEW CONTENT.  Amongst that content I am introducing:

CAPTAIN BATTLE.

Take a bit of Sam Battle, the First Black New York Police Department Officer

Add in a bit of Walter B Gibson’s The Shadow 

Then pop a smidgeon Eugene Bullard, first African-American military pilot. 

Pay your respects to the Character that got you back in the GAME, 

Alexander Simmons’ Blackjack

Finally set it in the same universe as:

And you’ve got:

STANDBY

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MATTY IN BAX 2016

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing Imagine the surprise when approached by BAX 2016 Best American Experimental Writing.  Well it happened, and we’ve just received our copy in the mail.  This literary volume, featuring the best in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction was expertly edited by Seth Abramson, Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris.  Notable participants include President Barack Obama, Myung Mi Kim and Samuel R Delany amongst many others.  I mean, if you’re  gonna keep company, that ain’t bad company.  http://bax.site.wesleyan.edu/

Buy your copy here.  https://www.amazon.com/BAX-2016-American-Experimental-Writing/dp/0819576743/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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MATTY’S ROCKET #3 ON PRE-SALE

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  NOW On PRE-SALE, Matty’s Rocket 3:  Unexpected Guests. 

Order NOW.  http://dieselfunkstore.com/product/mattys-rocket-3/

This project has truly been a labor of love.  CHECK IT!

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THE DIESELFUNK STORE is LIVE

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  The week keeps getting more and more AMAZING.  We are now announcing THE DIESELFUNKSTORE www.dieselfunkstore.com You remember all of those shirts, comics and posters, apps, and toys you jokers been bothering us about all these years...? 

Well It’s Christmas Time and...

They are HERE and AVAILABLE FOR SALE!

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GLOG BATTLEAXE BEYONCE.  

Turns out The Dieselfunk Crew was mentioned in a New York Times article, Afrofuturism: The Next Generation with some HIGH ROLLAS.  And you know we can’t give up the chance to GLOG SOME MUGS with a bit of Scifi Twist.  

FIRST UP.  BEYONCCCCEEE:-)