Return of The Hunter

So busy I forgot to blog!

As threatened, the wing-a-ding-ding whirl of an uncertain future has set my plates to spinning at a mad pitch and in order to keep my world of fine china from shattering into a million billion shards of happy insanity, Gabe Stein himself will be stepping in to resume the tale of bounty-huntin', girl-punchin' Simon Trask in part two of the multi-faceted epic The Hunter. It all starts at the link below.

The Hunter part II

In the meantime, I got lots of comic-booky plates a-flying among all the rest of the housewares. New solo project is making the submission rounds at Zuda this very minute. Here's a sneak peek at a potential player:























Not much extra time for pop-culture babble otherwise. Saw two good movies over the weekend though. Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges as a down and nearly out country singer is absolutely worth a trip to the cinema. Great performances from a whole gang of actors. Bridges himslef coulda been a real country singer if he felt like it says me. Also, someone needs to tell Maggie Gyllenhaal to stop calling me. No means no, girl!

Also checked out Big Fan with Pattton Oswalt. Patton Oswalt might simply be the coolest man alive. I don't quite know how he does it, being short, pudgy, arch-nerdy and all, but he makes it work for him. He does a bit of a dramatic turn in Big Fan as a sad sack slob whose life begins and ends with the New York Giants. He's great in it and it's a cool little film. Track down Oswalt's comedy albums too if you like the funny. Goddamn, does the little dude bring it.

Okay, that's it for now. Seeya!

Stop Smiling

And so another Untrue Tale comes to a crashing conclusion:

Keep Smiling page 12

Hope you managed to hang on to your happy thoughts through that one. :)

Anyhoo, now that I'm living the high-flying life of a freelancer, I'm busier than ever, so your friend and mine Gabe Stein will again be taking over the weekly writer/artist chores on Untrue Tales for the time being.

Tune in next week for part two of The Hunter!

Don't be coy. You know you were just dying to find out how things are going with Simon Trask and the gang.

So another Zuda rejection slip came in this week. This one for a short story I did with Glen Walker called Hungry. You can check out more of Glen's stuff here.

This was supposed to be the kickoff story for a horror anthology written by Gabe Ostley and myself with a bunch of rotating artists. I guess the powers-that-be decided it would be too much of a logistical hassle to deal with paperwork and contracts for a whole passel of artists and individual properties. Who can blame them?

The idea was to have a sort of cryptkeeper character called Mr. Z introduce all the stories. Gabe drew up a bunch of intro pieces for the seven stories we wrote. Here's the one for Hungry:


















And you can read the story here.

Still a few more Zuda pitches with various folks clogging the pipeline. With any luck we'll hit the jackpot with one of 'em. Plans are afoot to start cranking up the ol' promoblitz machine for the latest from Gabe, Steve Steiner and yours untruly.

Keep your eyes on the internetz!

Still Here.

Hello again.

Yeah, not much time for blogging these days. Recently found out I'm getting laid off from my design job, which paradoxically has left me with less, rather than more, time on my hands. Doing that freelance scramble.

Despite my absence from the blogosphere, Keep Smiling has been trundling along with regular updates - you can find the latest page here:

Keep Smiling page 11

Some of you might have noticed the new addition of me and Gabe Ostley's rejected Zuda pitch Iguananauts to the main page.
























We amused ourselves to no end with this one. Perhaps you may find it amusing too. You can check it out at the link below:

Iguananauts!

We've got a bunch of other stuff in the works with various constellations of Zuda folks old and new. So keep your eyes trained on the horizon (actually the Zuda site might be a more logical place to train your eyes) for more crazy crap from the Hammer gang and friends in the near future. Hopefully.

Happy days and sleepy nights, folks!