The Committee Building

A collective presenting fine digital comics three days a week and counting.

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UPDATE, Fowlonious Monks:

We've got The Private Files of the Fowl (dot com) de-loused and ready for reading. We'll have that Quarduple Update up on Friday -- a day notable for some other reason, which escapes me. 

We'll give you a shout when we've got the rest of it scrubbed. Ta. 

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When you write a comic about birds for two years and change, you're eventually gonna end up with some egg on your face. Thecommitteebuilding.com has been straight up no excuses HACKED by a design-challenged fool called techno bludgeon or something. It's been happening to various Wordpress sites for years, and now we've caught the internet vandalism beach ball. We've been assured our content is intact, just slathered under a thick layer of digital graffiti (minus the artistic ability), and we're working as soon as we can to solve the issue. And when we do, we'll have a QUADRUPLE UPDATE for you long-suffering fowlfans. Be excellent to each other and see you soon, Jess, Dan, et al

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As we (well, Dan, let's not dilute the blame here) get our forces marshaled, take a breeze through four of our most Octoberal Fowl segments -- ranging from the horrifying to the spooky to the existentially troublesome. Featuring crack detective work, ghosts, and a suprising amount of casual meal dates.  Links and credits below. 

THE PLAGUE WARD - Jesse Snavlin & Dan Schkade

SIGN/THEORY - Jesse Snavlin & Dan Schkade

STARVE RATHER SURRENDER - Jesse Snavlin & Adam Hurley

THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN THE DESERT I THINK - Jesse Snavlin & Dan Schkade

Stay tuned...

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Are you receiving me?

Are you receiving me?

Contractor, separated from my company. Civilians in need of medical attention. I feel strange. The sun is very bright. Are you receiving me?

Alright. Okay. I lied. I wasn't separated. They're all here. Okay? I'm sorry. It's too late for them. They were ambushed. I don't know what happened. Please, I have civilians. Women. Girls. I need support. I need help.

Can you help me?

Please. Please, I don't think I'm right. I've done something. It just happened. It had to happen. I made it happen. It's the civilians. Please. They need medical attention.

I've got civilians and I've killed all my company and there are these birds. They're everywhere. There's thousands of them. There's millions. I can't see the sun. There's birds everywhere. Black birds. I know they're here. They're here always. 

Are you receiving me?

Hello?

Over.

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Read the full comic at The Committee Building dot com.

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Hey sports fans (and by sports I obviously mean vigilante comix)

Rose City Comic Con was astounding. You guys really blew our tiny little minds with all your flattering attention and support. Speaking purely in numbers, this year’s Rose City beat out last year by a 2/1 ratio, and that’s BONKERS. You guys stun.

For those who did not make it out to Portland this weekend, our apologies for leaving you Fowlless! We had to use our usual production time for selfish indulgences, like sleep. But we’ll be back in action lickety split. Stat tuned.

(Conventions, hey? I want to thank all our radiant Patreon patrons — your support is getting us closer and closer to our goal of getting so freakishly far ahead that missing updates becomes a thing of the past, like hand powered cars and Night Court.)

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Words by Jesse Snavlin, pictures by Dan Schkade

The strange autobiography of Stephen DeMoge continues. Here he recounts his consideration of a change in career.

You can get caught up on this terrifying narrative at our temporary new Committee Building website. You can also start at the very beginning of the Fowl's private files and see how things end up for the bloodied mercenary with the deteriorating mental state. How the two points in his peculiar life are bridged, well, that's what the rest of this story is for.

And if you like what you see, pop on over to our Patreon! It's an easy way to show your support, which we measure not in quantity but in-- well, participation, really. We're that sort of school. 

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Our latest Fowl serial continues in a customarily serial fashion, as the man in the mask recounts firsthand the ins and outs of who he is -- and, if you read between the lines a bit, how he came to be. 

Check it out on our mighty new website. We've got all the content shifted over, and are struggling heroically to get a working archive... working. 

Dig it? Want some extra content? Check out our Patreon! Even a monthly contribution of one slim buck goes a long way towards us keeping the lights on. 

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New temporary website. You can't go to first yet, but you can certainly see the pages without it telling you we're broke.

http://www.theprivatefilesofthefowl.com/?p=578

And page one of September's new tale, of course. Apologies for lateness: we had a website to fix. It's still under renovations. Special thanks to someone not on tumblr so it's hard to link her, but Special thanks to SA for her hard work. There'll be a few more bumps and glitches, but expect a permanent awesome come October.

For patreon subscribers, we'll have November's story available October 1st, and you'll experience September and October in real time. :)

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SAN HANNIBAL #3 hits stores a week early—Wednesday, Aug. 13 to be precise—so we figured we’d celebrate by posting previews for all you fabulous Tumblr followers. You DID pre-order your copy, right?

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For those who didn't, enjoy this rich, lemony preview. 

We've had to delay this month's Fowl story, we're sorry to say! Lots of R&D goes into this next one, and our San Hannibal commitments (and misc. other commitments) have just elbowed it out of our August schedules. But we'll be back in force come September, ramping up to our appearance at Rose City Comic Con here in the Land of Port! So stay tuned.

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Be thou aware: we're finishing up our website updates, and there's a chance service on The Committee Building (dot com) will be interrupted over the next few days. This may take the form of pages not posting or previous pages being unavailable, it's difficult to say. So if you encounter any trouble, Fear. Not. Our tireless team of crackerjack web designers are on the case.

Regardless, for those who came in late: we're going to be running an extended preview of SAN HANNIBAL #3 during the first half of this month, followed by a brand new FOWL serial by Jesse Snavlin and Dan Schkade in the second. It's a comics-filled month on this, the 2014th August of this peculiar post-christian calendar. We do hope you'll be joining us.

Support us on Patreon!

Buy San Hannibal on Pop! Goes the Icon!

That's it!

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Dan Schkade and Matt Bogart are back with Jesse Snavlin on the letters, all to bring you the conclusion of their two-part Madeline Cross mystery, FINGERNAIL CUTS! Refresh your memory on the first part here and enjoy it's living end.

Did this month's story treat you right? Good, 'cause we're taking the first half of next month off. Well, I say "off." I really mean we're running a special preview of SAN HANNIBAL #3 for the first two weeks, followed by a brand new Fowl story by Jesse Snavlin with art by Dan Schkade hisself. It doesn't stop, folks, it CAN'T. There's just too much at stake. 

start at the beginning of arc 2

start at the very beginning

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SAN DIEGO COMIC CON, you were [CHOOSE AS APPLICABLE: resplendent/great/mostly yes/only the best I ever had/fine]! We're [looking forward to seeing you next year/glad we came/dead]. Back to the drizzly north go we. 

Citizens, consider contributing to our Patreon!

Even just a dollar helps us keep the lights on. And please, if you like this page, reblog that thing! The more eyes on our project, the more potential we have to gleam like the jewels in the pitch we are.

We're close to finishing our new site, and with it, the new Private Files of the Fowl Little Black Book, containing the past year's segments. So Stay tuned.

And do see if you can order San Hannibal #3, diamond code STK646580, won't you? It's be best one yet. Four out of five Dans agree. 

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Hey kids!

Dan Schkade and Matt Bogart are back with Jesse Snavlin on the letters, all to bring you the conclusion of their two-part Madeline Cross mystery, FINGERNAIL CUTS! Refresh your memory on the first part here and stab back in.

start at the beginning of arc 2

start at the very beginning

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Now. You're at San Diego Comic Con, right? You're there now, reading this on your phone? Friend, we're there right now too! Jesse and Dan are both manning the POP! GOES THE ICON booth with San Hannibal publisher PJ Perez. Come by small press table M-03 and let us know we're loved. 

Citizens, consider contributing to our Patreon!

Even just a dollar helps us keep the lights on. And please, if you like this page, reblog that thing! The more eyes on our project, the more potential we have to gleam like the jewels in the pitch we are.

We're close to finishing our new site, and with it, the new Private Files of the Fowl Little Black Book, containing the past year's segments. So Stay tuned.

And do see if you can order San Hannibal #3, diamond code STK646580, won't you? It's be best one yet. Four out of five Dans agree. 

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Dan Schkade and Matt Bogart are back with Jesse Snavlin on the letters, all to bring you the conclusion of their two-part Madeline Cross mystery, FINGERNAIL CUTS! Refresh your memory on the first part here and lunge back in.

start at the beginning of arc 2

start at the very beginning

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Now. You're going to San Diego Comic Con, yes? Dude, so are we!! Jesse and Dan will both be manning the POP! GOES THE ICON booth with San Hannibal publisher PJ Perez. Come by small press table M-03 and let us know we're loved. 

Citizens, consider contributing to our Patreon!

Even just a dollar helps us keep the lights on. And please, if you like this page, reblog that thing! The more eyes on our project, the more potential we have to gleam like the jewels in the pitch we are.

We're close to finishing our new site, and with it, the new Private Files of the Fowl Little Black Book, containing the past year's segments. So Stay tuned.

And do see if you can order San Hannibal #3, diamond code STK646580, won't you? It's be best one yet. Four out of five Dans agree. 

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SAN DIEGO, WE’RE COMING FOR YOU. THIS IS YOUR ONE-WEEK WARNING.

Photo by Doug Kline via Flickr.

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M-03. Come see we.

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Dan Schkade and Matt Bogart are back with Jesse Snavlin on the letters, all to bring you the conclusion of their two-part Madeline Cross mystery, FINGERNAIL CUTS! Refresh your memory on the first part here and lunge back in. And apologies for the spotty tumblr promotion while we've been setting up our new website-- which is why we've included a whole mess of beautiful unadulterated Matt Bogart Fowl art. Giveth and taketh, that's our bag.

start at the beginning of arc 2

start at the very beginning

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Now. You're going to San Diego Comic Con, yes? Dude, so are we!! Jesse and Dan will both be manning the POP! GOES THE ICON booth with San Hannibal publisher PJ Perez. Come by small press table M-03 and let us know we're loved. 

Citizens, consider contributing to our Patreon!

Even just a dollar helps us keep the lights on. And please, if you like this page, reblog that thing! The more eyes on our project, the more potential we have to gleam like the jewels in the pitch we are.

We're close to finishing our new site, and with it, the new Private Files of the Fowl Little Black Book, containing the past year's segments. So Stay tuned.

And do see if you can order San Hannibal #3, diamond code STK646580, won't you? It's be best one yet. Four out of five Dans agree. 

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Dan Schkade and Matt Bogart are back with Jesse Snavlin on the letters, all to bring you the conclusion of their two-part Madeline Cross mystery, FINGERNAIL CUTS. Refresh your memory on the first part here and dive. Back. In.

start at the beginning of arc 2

start at the very beginning

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Citizens, consider contributing to our Patreon!

Even just a dollar helps us keep the lights on. And please, if you like this page, reblog that thing! The more eyes on our project, the more potential we have to gleam like the jewels in the pitch we are.

We’re close to finishing our new site, and with it, the new Private Files of the Fowl Little Black Book, containing the past year’s segments. So Stay tuned.

And do see if you can order San Hannibal #3, diamond code STK646580, won’t you? It’s be best one yet. Four out of five Dans agree. 

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Get ready for slightly shorter updates, folks! We gonna streamline for the new website coming by the end of the month. :)

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Dan Schkade and Matt Bogart are back with Jesse Snavlin on the letters, all to bring you the conclusion of their two-part Madeline Cross mystery, FINGERNAIL CUTS. Refresh your memory on the first part here and dive. Back. In.

start at the beginning of arc 2

start at the very beginning

——

Citizens, consider contributing to our Patreon!

Even just a dollar helps us keep the lights on. And please, if you like this page, reblog that thing! The more eyes on our project, the more potential we have to gleam like the jewels in the pitch we are.

We're close to finishing our new site, and with it, the new Private Files of the Fowl Little Black Book, containing the past year's segments. So Stay tuned.

And do see if you can order San Hannibal #3, diamond code STK646580, won't you? It's be best one yet. Four out of five Dans agree.