I was in San Francisco last weekend and bumped into my pal Kevin, of whom I'm also a fan: he published Chin Music, a zine that covered rock & roll and baseball. That's like shooting me in a barrel. Anyway, I had sent him some "Comics Made Out Of Baseball Cards" and he forwarded them on to the editor of a baseball humor blog. Apparently there was some interest in carrying them, but I hadn't been contacted about it. When I saw Kevin last weekend, the powers that be were still interested. So I dropped the editors a line. Good news: some of the strips will start appearing soon, and I'll have some new ones to start doing, to appear once a week.
So, yay!
Hopefully I haven't jinxed it.
-paul
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Welcome to the pooper-dome.
So I have been posting few updates, mostly the strips I do with the occasional band update. Since I haven't been drawing much, there have been no updates.
I have another blog on the live-journal thing, but for the last year I have just posted about the Transformers figures I've been buying. That's pretty boring and I don't plan to do that here.
But I should post something here occasionally. I love drawing my strips but I haven't had the time to even when the inspiration has been hot. I can blame the Wii (Damn you, Metroid Prime! Damn you to hell!), I can blame Netflix streaming (The Larry Sanders Show? I don't have anywhere to go!), I can blame the return of baseball, but I should just blame myself in the end. Shame. Shame on me.
I did write a script, however, and it is being produced as a play this fall (2011). Some projects I worked on through 2010 are coming to fruition finally in 2011. These projects have also taken me away from the drawing stuff.
And these projects could, I guess, fall under the King Vermin banner. The script is clearly a King Vermin product, it just so happens that a theater group is putting it on. So I will announce and update those things here.
I will post some here beyond what is on the twitter and the face-book. I will try to NOT write about my day or my feelings. Perhaps there is a short story in there. Perhaps there is a command to my legion of followers who worship me. Perhaps not. But if making a strip these days is lower on my priority, then I should find something to do with this space given to me by the blogger google gods.
UP & COMING PROJECTS
-The new HIRED GOONS album is called BIGGER THAN JEBUS. We hope to have it finished soon, and for realz. We are doing some final touches on it. It has been a long time coming and we're kinda mad at ourselves for taking so long. Various factors have been factored in. Did you know the first album took only five days to record and mix? Of course, this time around we jumped into the studio to record songs the band hadn't played live. Nearly half the album. So that was kind of rough on our schedule. Hopefully it will be worth it. Thirteen songs. Should be fun.
-Hired Goons will be opening for The Flaming Dames at Finn McCool's on Saturday, May 28th.
-I'm board op for CUBICLE, a play being put on by the same people who will be producing my script in the fall.
-I will soon be putting together The Paul Show #3.
-Free Comic Book Day: Saturday, May 7th. G-Mart Comics (2641 N. Kedzie Ave.). Stop on by.
Okay, that's it for now. We'll see how this actual blog use for my formerly strictly comics blog site goes.
I have another blog on the live-journal thing, but for the last year I have just posted about the Transformers figures I've been buying. That's pretty boring and I don't plan to do that here.
But I should post something here occasionally. I love drawing my strips but I haven't had the time to even when the inspiration has been hot. I can blame the Wii (Damn you, Metroid Prime! Damn you to hell!), I can blame Netflix streaming (The Larry Sanders Show? I don't have anywhere to go!), I can blame the return of baseball, but I should just blame myself in the end. Shame. Shame on me.
I did write a script, however, and it is being produced as a play this fall (2011). Some projects I worked on through 2010 are coming to fruition finally in 2011. These projects have also taken me away from the drawing stuff.
And these projects could, I guess, fall under the King Vermin banner. The script is clearly a King Vermin product, it just so happens that a theater group is putting it on. So I will announce and update those things here.
I will post some here beyond what is on the twitter and the face-book. I will try to NOT write about my day or my feelings. Perhaps there is a short story in there. Perhaps there is a command to my legion of followers who worship me. Perhaps not. But if making a strip these days is lower on my priority, then I should find something to do with this space given to me by the blogger google gods.
UP & COMING PROJECTS
-The new HIRED GOONS album is called BIGGER THAN JEBUS. We hope to have it finished soon, and for realz. We are doing some final touches on it. It has been a long time coming and we're kinda mad at ourselves for taking so long. Various factors have been factored in. Did you know the first album took only five days to record and mix? Of course, this time around we jumped into the studio to record songs the band hadn't played live. Nearly half the album. So that was kind of rough on our schedule. Hopefully it will be worth it. Thirteen songs. Should be fun.
-Hired Goons will be opening for The Flaming Dames at Finn McCool's on Saturday, May 28th.
-I'm board op for CUBICLE, a play being put on by the same people who will be producing my script in the fall.
-I will soon be putting together The Paul Show #3.
-Free Comic Book Day: Saturday, May 7th. G-Mart Comics (2641 N. Kedzie Ave.). Stop on by.
Okay, that's it for now. We'll see how this actual blog use for my formerly strictly comics blog site goes.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
#82 - Awards show.
Yes, I started drawing this during the Academy Awards. And I just got finished inking it now. Hey, I'm tryin' here. More strips hopefully soon.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Chug-Chug Inaction strips
I'm in the middle of the 2nd Hired Goons album (well, past the middle, I guess we'll be done in a few weeks) and inking a Ron & Andy strip. So I've been busy. I also draw strips for The Heckler, which are now starting to appear on www.theheckler.com, so I'd appreciate if you visited their site and looked at my strips and did the "like" thing. Um, these are baseball related, so if you don't care about sports, nevermind. Click on the title of this post to see the latest one.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Monday, December 20, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Hey, I'm drawing again.
General updates:
-pencilled part of a new Paul Show comic. Whee. It's been MONTHS since the last one.
-Going into the studio with Krusty aka John Beavers of Hired Goons on Saturday to get some guitar down on tape.
That's it for now.
-pencilled part of a new Paul Show comic. Whee. It's been MONTHS since the last one.
-Going into the studio with Krusty aka John Beavers of Hired Goons on Saturday to get some guitar down on tape.
That's it for now.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thanksgiving 2010 - a little late.
Here's the annual Thanksgiving message.
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Thanksgiving is a special time…if you’re an American. Specifically if you’re not one bothered by the historical inaccuracies regarding Thanksgiving and just exactly who was there and the brotherly love that supposedly was supposed to carry over from that event. If you’re queasy about bloodshed, genocide, hypocrisy and the systematic lies sold as a national holiday, then maybe the story of Thanksgiving isn’t for you.
For the rest of us, happy Turkey day! Enjoy some football.
If you’ve been keeping track, you all know how much I love Thanksgiving, and the perceived notion that we’re required, by law, to spend time with extended family that we would rarely invite on our nights on the town. “Sure, Aunt Ethel, you’d LOVE Deicide,” you rarely say on the phone. “Yeah, I guarantee you’ll dig them so much that you’ll get a matching upside down cross burnt into your forehead. Come check them out with me.” I personally have only had this conversation about six times and at no point did any of these relatives join me (proof in the lack of upside down crosses burned into their foreheads).
Perhaps, like you, most of my afterwork activities aren’t suited for these extended family members. Perhaps, like you, I’m so busy that I can’t guarantee a holiday appearance. I have to save those for weddings that I forget to send the reply card to. Perhaps, like you, I’ve considered faking my death to avoid the holiday. Not because I don’t want to hang out with my extended family, oh no!
Also, faking your death is REALLY hard.
I have this feeling these days that most of us don’t care about Thanksgiving. I think Christmas decorations up earlier than usual ever year is a sign that, aside from the day off of work, we’re pretty much skipping over this holiday.
I know what you’re thinking: “Paul, that band Pelican is AWESOME.” And it’s true. But, regarding the holidays, YES, you’re probably right, there are many people out there, I call them LAME-O’s, who are frothing at the mouth to remove their Halloween decorations so as to put up Christmas decorations. Usually this happens around July 4th.
And why are celebrating this “revisionist” holiday? Face it, the more emphasis in our history books about Thanksgiving than the genocide that followed afterward should tell you something. While we’re at it: yes, I’m one of THOSE people and YES, I’m declaring a war on ALL HOLIDAYS. (Except the 4th of July and Halloween.) Christmas, for example. The holiday is SO winter weather and forest themed, to celebrate the birth of our savior in the barren desert/cradle of civilization? Don’t like it? Call Bill O’Reilly to complain, maybe he’ll start talking dirty to you to make you feel better.
Where was I…oh, why are we…okay: So some poor old greeter can get killed at a Walmart the following 4am. It’s certainly not because I want to watch football all day. It’s CERTAINLY not because I have NOTHING BETTER TO DO than hang out with stuffy relatives who sap the fun out of the air like a Fred Phelps impersonator at comic convention. (I dare you to follow my logic on a regular basis. Just try it.)
Really, how important is Thanksgiving in our nation’s history? Let’s look it over, according to the reader edited source of information that we all abide by, Wikipedia:
MONUMENTAL MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
1492 – Amerigo sails the ocean blue and discovers America.
1700’s – George Washington cuts down a tree and makes his teeth out of it.
1812 – America declares “no taxation without representation” and fights a civil war against another country, India. Hence why we have Indians in the first place.
1929 – We bomb Pearl Harbor, winning the Vietnam War.
1969 – President Kennedy is assassinated, paving the way for Aristotle Onassis to become the new president of the United States Of America
2008 – Sarah Palin NOT elected to high national office of any kind.
So why do we need to pretend to have a national anything of anything just so you all can save a few bucks on a new widescreen tv? (“The one we have in the store, not the one we advertised, which was sold out, if we even had THAT one in the first place. Totally legal, by the way. Buy it or I’m calling security.”) Thanksgiving was HUNDREDS of years ago, and if it happened like we SAY it happened, has this huge, terribly ironic statement about what we consider to be ‘togetherness’ and a ‘celebration’ considering how one group at the party were there because they had fled persecution, and then shortly thereafter began persecuting. The Bears winning the Superbowl was almost 25 years ago, where’s the national holiday for THAT?
Some of you have questions about Thanksgiving and its role in American society and culture, especially if the history of it might change the meaning of it. I offered to answer some of these non-coupon-clipping doorbuster questions for you, and here are a few submitted by REAL readers (who may or may not be close friends of mine, and certainly not Bill of Hired Goons, my hetero-lifemate who certainly doesn’t pretend to be other people when asking questions like these so that it appears I’ve got a lot of people asking me these questions…).
Little Chrissy from Pennsylvania asks: “What is squash?”
Chrissy, that’s a great question. Squash is one of those foods that you hear about being eaten at Thanksgiving. Now that we know more about what really went on, I would guess that most squash is poisonous. Possibly explosive. Also, I have very little interest in eating what our ancestors ate. Have you ever seen the anonymous rock hard candy in your oldest relatives’ candy dishes? I mean, seriously. That’s probably squash, petrified.
Steve in Chicago asks: “Can we do this every day?”
If you’re referring to these question and answer sessions, the answer is no, I’ve convinced my employer that I’m a very busy man and he’s already suspicious of my constant market research in MLB scores.
Oh, I think you mean Thanksgiving. Well, you know those imaginary tales of kids who wish that Christmas or their birthday would be EVERY DAY? And they enjoy it for a few days, then it becomes tiresome, and then it becomes a living hell? Imagine that, but with relatives complaining about a black guy being President and with the Detroit Lions. No one wants that. The only holiday you want to repeat itself is Secretaries Day. Or, if you’re Andie McDowell, Groundhog Day, as then you wouldn’t have to get plastic surgery.
Scott W. in Chicago asks: “Will you pardon my turkey? New evidence regarding his case has recently surfaced.”
Scott, DNA evidence can be a double edged sword. The state might not be willing to test this evidence if another suspect can’t be produced, but it can also introduce the theory that the turkey had an accomplice, who left behind the DNA. I would do your best to focus on false confessions, the courts seem to be more lenient on reviewing police misbehavior and incompetence in these kinds of hearings. Keep filing appeals!
Chrissy in Pennsylvania asks: “Do I have to sit at the kids’ table, even though I’m 34?”
Before I answer that, could you ask your daughter to pass the salt? My envy of those at the adult table has decreased, even as I got older. NONE of those people want to go see Deicide with me. The kids can clue me in on what’s going on with cartoons I’m not supposed to be watching at my age, plus explain what “p’wn’d” means. And the people at the older-people table are now even OLDER, and thus crankier, and I can only excuse myself so many times to check on the football score.
Jim in central Illinois asks: “Why do they always let the Lions play?”
Jim, someone’s gotta eat those Christians.
And finally, Zach in Australia and Chrissy in Pennsylvania and everyone else reading this and waiting for it collectively asks, “Did you (screw) up the turkey like you (screw)ed up my life?”
…
MOVING ON: So, Chrissy, Jim, Scott, Steve, Zach and myself are sitting at the kids table with the younger kids (some of them OUR OWN) talking about cartoons and waiting for an excuse, any excuse, to excuse ourselves and, if not see a terrible movie released on a holiday because it’s the only weekend that that movie would make any money because bored and restless family members will see ANYTHING just to get out of the house, go stand in line at a Best Buy and hope for a discount on an iPad. (I wouldn’t be surprised if any of those people in line have more meaningful conversations with each other in that moment than they do when feeling trapped with their families earlier in the day. Or at the movie theater.)
Is this really the best we can do? Just have a national Day Of Waiting so we can buy more junk? Granted, COOL junk, but still, just to buy stuff, and in the mindset of buying to express LOVE to each other in just a month later? “Here, I love you. I helped kill an old greeter guy, possibly one of your grandparents who had to leave dinner early to get to that job at Walmart, when I stampeded in to buy you a knock off BlueRay player. Oh, wait, it’s HD. Anyway, Merry Hijacked Solstice. I mean Christmas.”
Not me. Not because I’m beyond all that. Not because I’m above the consumer mindset that we’ve cultivated in this great nation of ours as a way to celebrate our culture.
It’s because…I died, and that’s why I can’t make dinner this afternoon at Nana’s.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Send money,
-Paul
==============================================
Thanksgiving is a special time…if you’re an American. Specifically if you’re not one bothered by the historical inaccuracies regarding Thanksgiving and just exactly who was there and the brotherly love that supposedly was supposed to carry over from that event. If you’re queasy about bloodshed, genocide, hypocrisy and the systematic lies sold as a national holiday, then maybe the story of Thanksgiving isn’t for you.
For the rest of us, happy Turkey day! Enjoy some football.
If you’ve been keeping track, you all know how much I love Thanksgiving, and the perceived notion that we’re required, by law, to spend time with extended family that we would rarely invite on our nights on the town. “Sure, Aunt Ethel, you’d LOVE Deicide,” you rarely say on the phone. “Yeah, I guarantee you’ll dig them so much that you’ll get a matching upside down cross burnt into your forehead. Come check them out with me.” I personally have only had this conversation about six times and at no point did any of these relatives join me (proof in the lack of upside down crosses burned into their foreheads).
Perhaps, like you, most of my afterwork activities aren’t suited for these extended family members. Perhaps, like you, I’m so busy that I can’t guarantee a holiday appearance. I have to save those for weddings that I forget to send the reply card to. Perhaps, like you, I’ve considered faking my death to avoid the holiday. Not because I don’t want to hang out with my extended family, oh no!
Also, faking your death is REALLY hard.
I have this feeling these days that most of us don’t care about Thanksgiving. I think Christmas decorations up earlier than usual ever year is a sign that, aside from the day off of work, we’re pretty much skipping over this holiday.
I know what you’re thinking: “Paul, that band Pelican is AWESOME.” And it’s true. But, regarding the holidays, YES, you’re probably right, there are many people out there, I call them LAME-O’s, who are frothing at the mouth to remove their Halloween decorations so as to put up Christmas decorations. Usually this happens around July 4th.
And why are celebrating this “revisionist” holiday? Face it, the more emphasis in our history books about Thanksgiving than the genocide that followed afterward should tell you something. While we’re at it: yes, I’m one of THOSE people and YES, I’m declaring a war on ALL HOLIDAYS. (Except the 4th of July and Halloween.) Christmas, for example. The holiday is SO winter weather and forest themed, to celebrate the birth of our savior in the barren desert/cradle of civilization? Don’t like it? Call Bill O’Reilly to complain, maybe he’ll start talking dirty to you to make you feel better.
Where was I…oh, why are we…okay: So some poor old greeter can get killed at a Walmart the following 4am. It’s certainly not because I want to watch football all day. It’s CERTAINLY not because I have NOTHING BETTER TO DO than hang out with stuffy relatives who sap the fun out of the air like a Fred Phelps impersonator at comic convention. (I dare you to follow my logic on a regular basis. Just try it.)
Really, how important is Thanksgiving in our nation’s history? Let’s look it over, according to the reader edited source of information that we all abide by, Wikipedia:
MONUMENTAL MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
1492 – Amerigo sails the ocean blue and discovers America.
1700’s – George Washington cuts down a tree and makes his teeth out of it.
1812 – America declares “no taxation without representation” and fights a civil war against another country, India. Hence why we have Indians in the first place.
1929 – We bomb Pearl Harbor, winning the Vietnam War.
1969 – President Kennedy is assassinated, paving the way for Aristotle Onassis to become the new president of the United States Of America
2008 – Sarah Palin NOT elected to high national office of any kind.
So why do we need to pretend to have a national anything of anything just so you all can save a few bucks on a new widescreen tv? (“The one we have in the store, not the one we advertised, which was sold out, if we even had THAT one in the first place. Totally legal, by the way. Buy it or I’m calling security.”) Thanksgiving was HUNDREDS of years ago, and if it happened like we SAY it happened, has this huge, terribly ironic statement about what we consider to be ‘togetherness’ and a ‘celebration’ considering how one group at the party were there because they had fled persecution, and then shortly thereafter began persecuting. The Bears winning the Superbowl was almost 25 years ago, where’s the national holiday for THAT?
Some of you have questions about Thanksgiving and its role in American society and culture, especially if the history of it might change the meaning of it. I offered to answer some of these non-coupon-clipping doorbuster questions for you, and here are a few submitted by REAL readers (who may or may not be close friends of mine, and certainly not Bill of Hired Goons, my hetero-lifemate who certainly doesn’t pretend to be other people when asking questions like these so that it appears I’ve got a lot of people asking me these questions…).
Little Chrissy from Pennsylvania asks: “What is squash?”
Chrissy, that’s a great question. Squash is one of those foods that you hear about being eaten at Thanksgiving. Now that we know more about what really went on, I would guess that most squash is poisonous. Possibly explosive. Also, I have very little interest in eating what our ancestors ate. Have you ever seen the anonymous rock hard candy in your oldest relatives’ candy dishes? I mean, seriously. That’s probably squash, petrified.
Steve in Chicago asks: “Can we do this every day?”
If you’re referring to these question and answer sessions, the answer is no, I’ve convinced my employer that I’m a very busy man and he’s already suspicious of my constant market research in MLB scores.
Oh, I think you mean Thanksgiving. Well, you know those imaginary tales of kids who wish that Christmas or their birthday would be EVERY DAY? And they enjoy it for a few days, then it becomes tiresome, and then it becomes a living hell? Imagine that, but with relatives complaining about a black guy being President and with the Detroit Lions. No one wants that. The only holiday you want to repeat itself is Secretaries Day. Or, if you’re Andie McDowell, Groundhog Day, as then you wouldn’t have to get plastic surgery.
Scott W. in Chicago asks: “Will you pardon my turkey? New evidence regarding his case has recently surfaced.”
Scott, DNA evidence can be a double edged sword. The state might not be willing to test this evidence if another suspect can’t be produced, but it can also introduce the theory that the turkey had an accomplice, who left behind the DNA. I would do your best to focus on false confessions, the courts seem to be more lenient on reviewing police misbehavior and incompetence in these kinds of hearings. Keep filing appeals!
Chrissy in Pennsylvania asks: “Do I have to sit at the kids’ table, even though I’m 34?”
Before I answer that, could you ask your daughter to pass the salt? My envy of those at the adult table has decreased, even as I got older. NONE of those people want to go see Deicide with me. The kids can clue me in on what’s going on with cartoons I’m not supposed to be watching at my age, plus explain what “p’wn’d” means. And the people at the older-people table are now even OLDER, and thus crankier, and I can only excuse myself so many times to check on the football score.
Jim in central Illinois asks: “Why do they always let the Lions play?”
Jim, someone’s gotta eat those Christians.
And finally, Zach in Australia and Chrissy in Pennsylvania and everyone else reading this and waiting for it collectively asks, “Did you (screw) up the turkey like you (screw)ed up my life?”
…
MOVING ON: So, Chrissy, Jim, Scott, Steve, Zach and myself are sitting at the kids table with the younger kids (some of them OUR OWN) talking about cartoons and waiting for an excuse, any excuse, to excuse ourselves and, if not see a terrible movie released on a holiday because it’s the only weekend that that movie would make any money because bored and restless family members will see ANYTHING just to get out of the house, go stand in line at a Best Buy and hope for a discount on an iPad. (I wouldn’t be surprised if any of those people in line have more meaningful conversations with each other in that moment than they do when feeling trapped with their families earlier in the day. Or at the movie theater.)
Is this really the best we can do? Just have a national Day Of Waiting so we can buy more junk? Granted, COOL junk, but still, just to buy stuff, and in the mindset of buying to express LOVE to each other in just a month later? “Here, I love you. I helped kill an old greeter guy, possibly one of your grandparents who had to leave dinner early to get to that job at Walmart, when I stampeded in to buy you a knock off BlueRay player. Oh, wait, it’s HD. Anyway, Merry Hijacked Solstice. I mean Christmas.”
Not me. Not because I’m beyond all that. Not because I’m above the consumer mindset that we’ve cultivated in this great nation of ours as a way to celebrate our culture.
It’s because…I died, and that’s why I can’t make dinner this afternoon at Nana’s.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Send money,
-Paul
Friday, November 12, 2010
The Paul Show #2: Paul vs. The Silverfish
The latest Paul Show comic is available at:
G-mart Comics
Chicago comics
Graham Crackers (downtown, lakeview)
Challengers Comics
-Paul
G-mart Comics
Chicago comics
Graham Crackers (downtown, lakeview)
Challengers Comics
-Paul
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Hired Goons update.
Various projects are underway.
-"Bigger Than Jeebus" is the 2nd album by Hired Goons. We resumed recording after a 6 month hiatus (that included one show and several aborted shows) with Mike T. Homer (me) is redoing bass tracks, and then Beav and Bill (Krusty, Monty) will finish up the rest. It's been so long, I forgot we were a band.
-The script project was submitted and will be undergoing a re-write. Also researching for next script, based on factual stuff. Which is funny that I'm researching, considering that for the first one, I couldn't be bothered to look up what year power tools (the plugged in kind) were invented. I still haven't. Anyway, first script was surprisingly well received and New Millennium does a good job with silly things, so I'm looking forward to the next steps...
-I can't believe "Vs. The Blind Date" took, like, 3 years to do. Holy schmoly.
-Oh, "The Paul Show #2" should finally be out in mid-late-October. It's "Paul Vs. The Silverfish" and about 18 other strips.
I finished up Texas Chainsaw Musical for Fringefest last month, that was a while ago, got a few strips in since as you've seen, I have a one-off with TCM next month and that'll be swell.
-"Bigger Than Jeebus" is the 2nd album by Hired Goons. We resumed recording after a 6 month hiatus (that included one show and several aborted shows) with Mike T. Homer (me) is redoing bass tracks, and then Beav and Bill (Krusty, Monty) will finish up the rest. It's been so long, I forgot we were a band.
-The script project was submitted and will be undergoing a re-write. Also researching for next script, based on factual stuff. Which is funny that I'm researching, considering that for the first one, I couldn't be bothered to look up what year power tools (the plugged in kind) were invented. I still haven't. Anyway, first script was surprisingly well received and New Millennium does a good job with silly things, so I'm looking forward to the next steps...
-I can't believe "Vs. The Blind Date" took, like, 3 years to do. Holy schmoly.
-Oh, "The Paul Show #2" should finally be out in mid-late-October. It's "Paul Vs. The Silverfish" and about 18 other strips.
I finished up Texas Chainsaw Musical for Fringefest last month, that was a while ago, got a few strips in since as you've seen, I have a one-off with TCM next month and that'll be swell.
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