A MILLION THANKS TO ALL MY KICKSTARTER BACKERS! YOU RULE!
Feel free to enjoy the entire Flabbergast: Science Friction book from the beginning by clicking “first.”
The print version will be available here on the site real soon. I’ve had a blast creating Flabbergast and now it’s on to the next project. I’ll be working with a fellow comic creator, John Graham on a children’s picture book about Christmas, Santa, and pizza. Check back here for updates to the blog and a new Art page coming soon to the site. I’m shooting for the fall to start running The O>Matics and Friends as a weekdaily strip.
It’s always crummy when you can’t do something right the first time. For months, whenever I had free time, I’ve been “remastering” the first two episodes of Flabbergast. I reworked the art to resemble the current “no black ink” style and updated/edited the lettering. I’m proud to say I’ve finished. So now you can go back to the beginning stories and see how they will appear in print! I’m very happy with the outcome, I feel it makes a cleaner crispier comic!
I’m currently scripting the last two episodes and I’m excited to start drawing these!
Flabbergast is just months away from being complete and things are starting to come together for my next projects. 2010 will be the year of the O>Matics. I’m proud to announce that my next comic will be “The O>Matics.” It will be a wacky rock n’ roll comic strip that I plan to do week-daily with double size on Friday. 2010 will also see the long awaited release of the O>Matics’ fifth rockin’ album. The biggest news concerning the O>boys is something we’re calling “O>Matics Project X” and all Ican say is that it will be entertaining. Chris O>Matic and myself met with the major executives yesterday and ”Project X” has been approved. The early stages of planning and preperation have begun. I will release more details in future postings.
Art Clokey, the creative genius behind Gumby and Davey and Goliath has passed away, but his art will never be forgotten. Talk about inspiration! I was a HUGE fan of Gumby growing up. He inspired me to do my own claymations with the family camcorder as a kid. Some of the earlier Gumby stuff was weird, wacky, and bizarre… and I LOVED it! The Gumby Adventures from the eighties was totally cool too. I must say Pokey was my favorite character from the Gumby series. Mr. Clokey provided his voice in the earlier Gumby shows.
Christmas was simply wonderful this year. The biggest gifts I got were U2 tickets, the complete Calvin and Hobbes and my current addiction, A Boy and his Blob.This Wii game is a re-imagining of the 1989 NES classic. It’s a sweet platform/puzzle game about a boy, and his blob who changes into different useful items when fed jelly beans. There’s the tangerine trampoline, apple jack, and the licorice ladder just to name a few. The best things about the game is that it has that “old school” feel and its look was definitely inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Ponyo.) The unlockable behind-the-scene content is fantastic as well. It’s always cool to see the art development of a great video game. I’m not as much of a gamer as I used to be. I just don’t have the time, but I’ll make time for this game. How can you go wrong with a game with infinite lives?
This Wii game is a re-imagining of the 1989 NES classic. It’s a sweet platform/puzzle game about a boy, and his blob who changes into different useful items when fed jelly beans. There’s the tangerine trampoline, apple jack, and the licorice ladder just to name a few. The best things about the game is that it has that “old school” feel and its look was definitely inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Ponyo.) The unlockable behind-the-scene content is fantastic as well. It’s always cool to see the art development of a great video game. I’m not as much of a gamer as I used to be. I just don’t have the time, but I’ll make time for this game. How can you go wrong with a game with infinite lives? 
