too close for comfort?...

soooooo.... everyone remember this image? it was one of the images that was submitted and accepted into spectrum 14 a couple of years ago. very proud of it. still sell a ton of posters of it.


i just popped over to the spectrum site to see when the deadline was for this year and was met with this lovely painting by one of my personal artistic heroes, peter de seve:


gosh.

to be absolutely clear here: i'm not accusing peter de seve, the fenners, or anyone associated with spectrum of anything. i will say only that i guess great minds really do think alike.

and, peter, i got there first. (winking sideways smiley face)

UPDATE: i guess charles addams got there first. (see comments)

UPDATE, THE SECOND: de Sève speaks! ... and says some very nice things. thanks for being a good sport, peter.

mysterius #2!!!

the mcguinness wore tennis shoes...


solicit blurb here

more mysterius activity...

jeff and i did an interview(?) over at cbr about the creative process (or at least our creative process, which is mostly paper-mâché and thumb wrestling). so if you're a fan of me babbling like an idiot (and i know you are) then swing on over.

here's some of the mysterius prep stuff we talk about...

mysterius (pt. 3)...

jeff parker speaks!


but not if you use firefox...

(seriously. what he hell is up with the new newsarama?)

also go here.




all latin and/or greek in this post has been reviewed by a retired anglican priest.

mysterius... (or whoring it up pt. 2)...

this month's previews catalogue features three pages of mysterius in fabulous mccaigorama! go bug your comic store guy if he doesn't order it by the crate full that the waves of your bodies will crash upon his store front!

say it just like that.

he'll have to order it... because eventually that would get hard to step over.

anyway, here are the pages in glorious and silent black and white...



the same coloured pages are also available here on this fancy french website (thanks marv).

mysterius...

what he said...


the mysteri(o)us after school job is revealed... finally.

mad monkeys...

a few months back MAD did a theme issue: MAD by monkeys, for monkeys. as a result i was informed that monroe wouldn't run that month. luckily for me fearless art director ryan "sexy" flanders had my back. the result was "great monkeys in american history"...





the layout also featured headshots to go along with the illos and blurb. never let it be said that i don't know how to make extra work for myself for the sake of an in-house joke...




as much as i enjoyed the job i still think with a decent heads up i could have come up with an awesome "monroe vs. the planet of the apes"...