Page 63!

All right, so after a far-too-long absence, we're up and running with new pages again! The reason for the delays, as previously stated, was that I was preparing honest-to-goodness PRINT versions of SLAM-A-RAMA #1 and 2 for this weekend's Halifax Pop Explosion 'Zine Fair, as well as a compilation of my early-2000s minicomic, SCENESTER (check out some preview pages here and here). If you're in town this Saturday, come on by and buy some comics from me! If you can't make it, they'll be available at all three Strange Adventures locations as well. So yeah, we're back on a twice-weekly schedule for new pages here, let's see how long I can maintain it! I may take a hiatus between what constitutes issues 3 and 4, but I hope it won't be as long as this one was.

Hot Off The Presses!

ust a quick reminder, folks--new pages of SLAM-A-RAMA resume next Tuesday. In the meantime, though, I signed off on the colour proofs of issues 1 and 2 on Tuesday--they should be ready in time to debut at the Halifax Pop Explosion 'Zine Fair on Saturday, October 23! Check 'em out...




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New Fan Art!

Wow, that was a much longer-than-expected absence! My excuse is that I've been busy prepping print versions of the first two issues of Slam-A-Rama for the Halifax Pop Explosion's Zine Fair at the end of the month (Oct. 23, to be exact), as well as a compilation of my old minicomic, Scenester (for a preview, check out my other blog at tucocomics.blogspot.com). I've also been stockpiling colour pages to begin running them here again...I'm going to post at least until the end of issue three (or page 72, going by this numbering scheme), and then I may suspend posting pages for awhile, since I'm going to do a print version of the whole series. Or I may keep posting pages anyway. We'll see how I feel when we get there. In any event, new pages will resume NEXT TUESDAY, come hell or high water. But in the meantime, here's some new fan art from my friend and co-worker at Strange Adventures, Nathan Boone!

Bonus Back Cover Art

This is the back cover that appeared on the mini-comic version of SLAM-A-RAMA #1, back when it was still called THE SQUARED CIRCLE. It provides a look at Andy Reddick in happier times. Part of the fun of publishing single issues (which I may still do with all this stuff one day, who knows) is coming up with fake ads like this; it immerses you a bit more in the comic's fictional world, and is far less distracting than real ads. Plus, it allows you to sit around dreaming up names for characters you'll never have to draw, like "Velvet Elvis", for instance.

Grunt! The Movie

My buddy Jason Eisener (if you haven't seen his awesome Hobo With A Shotgun trailer--soon to be a major motion picture starring Rutger Hauer--go here and check it out before you do anything else today! Be careful, though, it's most definitely NSFW) recently brought this movie to my attention. I've never seen it or even heard of it before, but it looks pretty fantastic. Here's a link to the trailer on YouTube. Has anyone ever seen this thing? I'm all kinds of intrigued.

And yes, I'm still working on some new pages, I just want to get a few stockpiled before I start publishing again! Just give me a couple of weeks and we'll be back on track.

A Bit Of Inspiration...The SHOCKMASTER!

A few readers spotted this one as the inspiration for Andar The Berserker's ill-fated debut...in a lot of ways, when my buddy Alex Kennedy first showed it to me, it was the seed that grew into the whole idea for SLAM-A-RAMA many years back. Go here to check out video of the debut of The Shockmaster! It's shocking, but for all the wrong reasons.

Bride of Fan Art

This newest piece of awesome SLAM-A-RAMA fan art comes from Graeme Partridge-David, or as I like to call him, GPD (see, GPD can stand for stuff other than Geriatric Profanity Disorder!). Its arrival in my inbox was followed by a worried question that the piece's claim that "Susanna Hoffs is hot" might not be era-appropriate enough--would "Susanna Hoffs is a babe" be more likely for the time period? I replied that either would have worked for me in 1988. What do you, the readers at home, think? Thanks, GPD!