Biff Bam Pow #1, the latest comic from the H.O.F. and SLG publishing, is now available through better comic shops and the . This most-ages comic features the humorous, action -filled adventures of One Punch Goldberg, Kid Blastoff, Super Rad (and his sibling nemesis, Billy), as well as a Nutsy Monkey strip from the pages of Nickelodeon Magazine. Biff Bam Pow #1 is a 24 page standard comic in b&w, and is cover priced at $2.95.
The Badger paper and pin toy designed by Sarah and I is now available at Toydigger. As I posted earlier, these are extremely limited, only 15 of each design will be made available for purchase at this site. The designers were given the remaining 10 of each run of 25 to do with what they will. We may sell a few at shows, but for the time being we're holding onto them. So, if you want one, now is the time.
The Dark Horse Book of Monsters, the fourth and final entry in DHC's horror anthology series, is now available at more well-rounded comic shops and bookstores. It features a twenty-page story painted by Jill Thompson and written by Sarah and I, "A Dog and His Boy", which continues the adventures of the supernatural-battling canines (and feline) seen in the previous three volumes. Two of these stories, "Stray", and "The Unfamiliar", have won Eisner awards, the former for Best Painted/Multimedia Interior Art, the latter for Best Short Story.
Other contributors to the Book of Monsters include Mike Mignola (who offers up a new Hellboy story), Kurt Busiek, Keith Giffen, Scott Allie and Gary Giann, who provides illustrations for a prose short story by long-dead English horror writer William Hope Hodgson.
The Dark Horse Book of Monsters is a 96-page hardcover which retails for $15.95, and is from the fine folks at Dark Horse Comics (duh).
The Simpsons Winter Wingding holiday special from Bongo Comics was released last Wednesday to comic shops. This 48-page special features "The Gift of the Maccabee", a 9-page Krusty the Clown Hannukah story written by Sarah and I, with art by John Constanza and Phyllis Novin. The story concerns Krusty's 1963 holiday romance with a Vegas showgirl, which turns into a fifty car pile up replete with booze, gambling and vehicular violence. Oy! The Winter Wingding also features Simpsons stories written by Paul Dini, Tony Digerolamo and Eric Rogers. Happy Holidays!
The latest issue of Dork is now available at select comic book shops (i.e., those that ordered it) as well as from SLG Publishing. This "all-gag" issue runs 26 pages -- counting the inside covers -- and contains a whopping 216 gag strips and panels. That comes to less than two cents a joke. Yikes! We work cheap here at the H.O.F., so the least you can do is find it in your hearts and wallets to pick up a copy of Dork #11, the first slab of solo cartooning from Evan Dorkin in four long years.
Sarah and I contributed three spot illos to the November issue of Nickelodeon Magazine (#116). The artcile is a play for kids to act out, taking turns as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Storm, the Human Torch, Sue Storm and Alfred having Thanksgiving dinner in the Bat-Cave. Other contributors from comic-land include Eric Shanower, Tim Truman, Johnny Ryan, Pat Moriarty, Rick Altergott, Mark Martin, Jay Stephens, Mark Zingarelli and Bill Wray.
The most recent issue of Mad (#459, featuring a King Kong cover), contains a two-page article entitled "Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Reality Show Press Release", illustrated by me and written by Mad vet Frank Jacobs. Other contributors include Keith Knight, Ruben Bolling, and Rick Geary along with Mad regulars Drew Friedman Peter Kuper and Bill Wray.
The third volume of Space Ghost Coast to Coast has been released on DVD, featuring a number of epsiodes written by Sarah and I: Anniversary, Pilot(featuring an early, non-lawyer Harvey Birdman), Hipster, Telethon and Zorak (including the longer, alternate ending). This came out a while ago but we've been out of the loop.
Two HOF-related publications have recently shipped to comic shops and newsstands:
Mad Magazine #454 features two pages of color illustrations by Evan and Sarah for a Star Wars-related article. Other contributors familiar to comic readers include Sergio Aragones and Drew Friedman.
The Dark Horse Book of the Dead features a 16-page story by Evan and Jill Thompson called "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie". This story is a sequel to the Eisner-nominated "The Unfamiliar" from the Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft. The Dark Horse Book of the Dead is the third volume in the Scott Allie-edited series of horror hardcover books, with contributers including Mike Mignola (with a new Hellboy story), Gary Gianni (illustrating a Robert E. Howard prose piece), Pat McKeown, Bob Fingerman, Roger Langridge, Kelley Jones, Scott Allie, Jamie S. Rich and Guy Davis, among others.
Both Bizarro World and Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventures vol 1 will ship to comic shops tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb 3rd.
Bizarro World is the long-awaited sequel to DC's Bizarro Comics anthology, featuring alternative and small press cartoonists, screenwriters, novelists, musicians and comedians contributing their oddball takes on the DC superhero universe. I drew a Kamandi script by Onion writer John Krewson, and wrote scripts for M. Wartella (Batman), Andi Watson (The Legion of Super-Heroes), Ivan Brunetti (Two-Face), and a page of newspaper-style gags and fake ads by R. Sikoryak. Other contributors include Dave Cooper, Dupuy and Berberian, Johnny Ryan, Bob Fingerman, Maggie Estep, James Kochalka, M. Doughty, Jaime Hernandez, Peter Bagge, Gilbert Hernandez, Chip Kidd, Tony Millionaire, Carol Lay, Craig Thompson, Roger Langridge, Dylan Horrocks, Ariel Bourdeaux, Rick Altergott, and Hunt Emerson. ($29.95 from DC Comics)
Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventures is the long-delayed first volume in a two-volume set reprinting all of the Bill and Ted's comics I did for Marvel in the early 90's. Volume 1 features the Bogus Journey film adaptation along with issues 1-4 of the spin-off series. I wrote and penciled the stories, which were inked by Stephen DeStefano (Instant Piano, "Mazing Man, storyboard artist on Welcome to Eltingville) and Marie Severin (artist on Marvel's Not Brand Ecch, Hulk and King Kull and house colorist for the legendary EC comics line). David Mazzucchelli (Rubber Blanket, City of Glass, Batman: Year One) pitches in as guest-inker on one page, believe it or not. The art has been toned to emulate the coloring of the original series and add depth to the line work, and the first volume features a cover gallery and an introduction by the author. Meaning, me. ($13.95 from Amaze Ink/SLG)