Have a Happy Nude Ear

Nothing special happened this week except I took two days off and promptly caught the biggest cold I've had in a while. It's something my body seems to do whenever I take off more than a single afternoon - it treats my inactivity as an excuse to stop fighting whatever viruses have been hovering around me and get really, really sick. So, atchoo. There's something to be said for working through Christmas...

Here's another of those Disney Adventures credit boxes, vaguely topical if you're watching a lot of telly over the hols. Happy New Year!

The Christmas Clown

Here's that Fred the Clown Futurama cameo mentioned last week, which Chris Reilly was kind enough to send me. What an odd feeling... in a nice way.


Nate Cosby at Marvel has suggested the extremely talented and wonderful Sonny Liew as an artist for my Spider-Man story, which is so great I could sceam. He's a fabulous artist, and I really hope he says yes, particularly as my entire story pitch is now based around the idea that he'll be drawing it.

And since this will be the last update before Christmas, let me just wish everyone a very merry one.

We all live in the future now

Weirdness Department: I was informed yesterday by Chris Reilly that Fred the Clown makes a cameo appearance in Futurama Issue #39. I haven't seen it myself, but I'm dying to.

Working on writing the third issue of the Muppet comic and pencilling the first issue and, er, that's about it. Nate Cosby at Marvel asked me to write eight pages for an upcoming Spider-Man comic, which I can just about work into my hour-and-a-half per day writing schedule if I move some stuff around. Now all I need is an idea. Eek.


For no reason at all, except for a glancing Marvel Comics connection, here's a strip I did for a convention booklet many moons ago. It's scanned from the printed page and doesn't look too pretty as a result, but I think the gags sort of stand up nonetheless. It's a page I should probably redraw one day.

Squarwick

My colleague, friend and fellow Kiwi expatriate Scott Gray was involved in a car accident yesterday and was quite badly hurt, so I'm not feeling too clever this morning. I believe he's going home today after a night in hospital, with some broken bones and "a black eye the size of a rugby ball". I'm relieved it wasn't worse -- as, I'm sure, is he. Merry Christmas, eh? Anyway, this one's for him.

The Sincerest Form

This week I've been doing a two-pager for Boom Studios' Cthulhu Tales anthology (#11, if you're curious). So tempting to post it here, but I should probably wait until it's been out a while. So instead here's another of those Disney Adventures credit mastheads I did last year.


Observant readers will notice that I completely stole my own idea from the back cover of Fred the Clown #1. Which in turn was stolen from the radio panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

As to where they stole it from, I'm afraid you're on your own there.