#project1919

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the writing is done. the art is done. the lettering is done. the test printing is done. the ever-elusive #project1919 is upon us. stay tuned.

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new business cards :O featuring some classic neon noir art AND some new art from the upcoming #project1919 :OO

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In honor of #LettererAppreciationDay, here're some lettered panels from the upcoming #Project1919, lettered by Haley Rose-Lyon :0

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Buy Johnathon O. Rose-Lyon a Coffee. ko-fi.com/roselyon

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Soooooo sometimes a big bag of life-garbage falls on your head and is all “Wassup! Hope you didn’t have anything else to do for, like, the next 48 hours and have a ton of expendable cash from writing free comics, bud!” 

And it says the “Wassup” like that old Budweiser commercial because it’s just all around the worst.

That particular bag of life-garbage on this particular day is someone deciding to give my car a real fuckin’ intense breeze:

Why they didn’t want my jazz CDs is truly, truly perplexing.

But hey! I’m alive. And not stabbed. So, like... yay!! I guess!! 

Here’s the thing though: car repair stuff costs, invariably, one trillion dollars. And I apparently have the car insurance with the one trillion dollar deductible?

So what better time to kick off this super duper dope way for people to help me out a bit!!

Ko-fi is a cool-ass site where you can donate “cups of coffee” ($3 increments) to artist-types (like me!) to help fuel their work. And considering literally everything I’ve ever written was written in various local cafés – like the one I’m sitting in right now :0 *waves at all of coffee shop* – this is pretttttty perf.

As you gals, guys, and otherwise know, I love making free comics for you cool peeps to enjoy – comics like NEON NOIR and SUPER HUMAN. As well as my two blog post series: SEQUENTIAL MOMENTS, where I talk about hyper-personal comics-related junk (like this one about my history with weight gain and Bitch Planet’s Penny Rolle) and TIME TO MAKE THE COMICS, where I get wayyyyyyyy too in-depth about making comics (like this one about how struggling to write sure as shit doesn’t mean you’re not a writer).

So here’s the deal: 

•For every 3 [three] coffee donations, I’ll write either a Sequential Moments or Time to Make the Comics! And donors can even request a specific topic/send a Q for me to A for a TtMtC post!!

•For every 100 [one hunnid] coffee donations, I’ll post another free comic!! Forreal!! This is kind of huge for me!! And maybe I’ll even set up a cool behind-the-scenes thing for donors??

So yeah! Cool stuff! I appreciate any support you can toss my way SOOOOOOOO DANG MUCH. And if you can’t afford to donate? (Aka if your ass is as broke as mine.) Then your sharing this post, or your sharing my comics, or your just staying super awesome works for me, too :] 

Cuz I love you bunches. Forever and always. 

AND OH SHIT THOUGH!! ALMOST FORGOT!! I posted the first page of the new comic I’m making with the absurdly-and-honestly-sorta-upsettingly-talented Kellye Perdue – currently known as #Project1919 – EXCLUSIVELY ON MY KO-FI PAGE!!!!!!! So go check that sweetness out RIGHT HERE: 

ko-fi.com/roselyon

(But here’s a low-key, real-hush-hush sneaky peek of the page don’t tell no one shhhhhh)

No, forreal tho, I love you all. Let’s get hitched and freeze-frame high-five each other forever.

-John

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working abroad. #project1919

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totally candid pic of us trudging toward finishing #project1919 🥂

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Just a cute lil panel from #project1919.

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The Year of the Rose-Lyon.

Hey, you!

How ya been? Hopefully good. Hopefully surviving the End Times. Hopefully kicking all the ass.

Me? Ohhhhh I’ve been up to some shit.

So I thought I’d give ya an update. And just like real quick notify you of the beginning of

THE YEAR OF THE ROSE-LYON.

Narcissistic, sure. Obvs. But ‘tis justified. Big shit is ahead, friend.

For example! I’m sure some of you have spotted my intermittent teases of something called #Project1919. But what is it? Is it a comic book? Or an ambitious concept album about a weirdly specific year? Or a socially hyper-relevant art installation involving Shia LaBeouf? Who knows?!

I do. It’s a comic. A really, really dope comic.

The way-too-fucking-talented Kellye Perdue aka @peroro is on art duty and hooooooooooooolllyyyyyyy shhhHHHHIIIIIiiIIiTTtttTTtTT is her art for this thing bonkers-next-level-fantastic.

Don’t believe me? Seriously? Check this shit:

See?? I fucking told you. And that shit’s just a background.

Plus, we’ve got my editor/letterer/wife Haley Rose-Lyon in the mix aka I’m the least talented person attached to this comic book. Which I’m a hundred percent cool with cuz this thing makes me look real good at comics.

But, again, what is it? What’s it about? Is it another short? A webcomic? Graphic novel? Does it involve Shia LaBeouf? Is it even called #Project1919?!

And to that I say: Wait for it. So, so, so much more to come. And it’s a’comin’ real soon-like.

But that alone does not justify the existence of The Year of the Rose-Lyon. If there’s one thing I learned from the Year of Luigi (although I’d like to think I learned many things from the Year of Luigi), it’s that there’s gotta be way more than that. And oh sheesh is there way more than that.

Like how I’m currently attached to a stupidly exciting film project. A film project that fans of my older work will be quite hyped about.

BUT I CAN SAY NO MORE. DESPITE MY WANTING TO SAY ALL THE MORE.

And then there’re like four other things at various levels of done-ness that I also can’t say shit about that you gals, guys, and otherwise are gonna dig so hard.

In other words, lots of cool junk that I can’t talk about but maybe, like, message me and I’ll whisper all the cool junk to you real quite so all the people that’d get mad at me for talking about it can’t hear it. Foolproof.

So mark your calendars. And by “mark” I mean “scribble out all the ‘2017′s and write ‘YEAR OF THE ROSE-LYON’ real big over them.” Cuz this shit’s gon’ be hype.

All the love and high-fives forever and ever xoxoxo and all that,

–John