April 2nd: April Fools’ Boxing Day.
You may remember me mentioning pal Tom Foxmarnick on the site before, like when he gave me this swell SWAMPDOK drawing, or when I featured a couple of the ‘zines from his Kubert School years.
Well, the other day he gave a photocopy of the above drawing he did while at the Kubert School, circa 1979. Well, he did the pencils on it, anyway…the inks were by one of his instructors: Dick Giordano. Tom asked me if I’d put it on my site, since, with Mr. Giordano’s recent passing, folks might be interested in seeing a mostly-unknown sample of his work. So, there you all go. Pretty neat. Thanks, Tom!
In other news:
- As a couple of people have noted here and there…yes, there may have been a bogus item or two in yesterday’s End of Civilization post in honor of April Fools’ Day, the Internet’s Favorite-est Tradition. Most people commented on one, but nobody said anything about the other, which, admittedly, was mostly just for me.
- Adam Knave brings you…a Man-Thing Public Service Announcement.
- Are you reading Awesome Hospital, a comic rejected by some online webcomics initiative because it was, in fact, too awesome? You really should be.
- And speaking of Chris Sims, he and Rusty Shackles have created a thing so great that you will fall to your knees and weep tears of bitter despair that it does not actually exist.
My guess is Shirtless Kirk. Of course, that would mean that Brigade #1 is real, which makes me weep inside.
But, knowing these things are real is what makes them terrifying and awesome. Why make any up?
Wow! Awesome Hospital IS awesome! I don’t know if they can keep up that much awesomeness, but thanks for letting me in on the ground floor! I hate starting a webcomic on day 4,000. With a comic, at least I can say “I can’t afford to go back. I’ll get some key TPBs.” But with a webcomic, it’s free! And so I waste 4,000 minutes or so starting from the beginning and trying to catch up.
And I would so totally buy League ’88. I think they accidentally left out Buckaroo Banzai, though.
I second that. Thanks for the tip on Awesome Hospital Mike. At the moment it’s not a drip shy of perfect.
I am seriously going to be bummed out if the Big Boy Archive is the fake.
C’mon, really? Do some people really think there’s going to be Doom Generation action figures? Nobody caught that?
The Doom Generation figures were my guess. Of course, that’s not because I don’t think someone would make them. I just can’t believe they’d sell the figures that cheaply.
Brian.