Our boy Jason Howard has decided to join the world of blogging. He started a blog to announce any upcoming projects that he may or may not be working on.

Jason is an incredible artist and I’ve had the pleasure of watching him grow better at what he does. I’ve known him for quite a few years now and he’s just gotten better by “leaps and bounds”. He’s a really nice guy too, so if you ever get the chance to talk to him, do so. He always has much to say and share with others.

Well as Jason himself says, “[If] you’re bored, or just looking for another way to waste some time when you should be working, here you go.”

Check it out and enjoy.

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Rapid City is a fictional version of Kalamazoo, Michigan, where I lived for about ten years. While I was there, I attended Western Michigan University.

For a short time, I drew a weekly comic strip called “Josho Adventures” for the Western Herald. It was poorly drawn, and mainly featured lame inside jokes and references. Some people liked it, and the amazingly talented Paul Sizer once described it using the word “intelligent”.

Anyway, last week, the Herald ran a column about us and our comic book. It was pretty cool, but they got the web address wrong.

They were cool enough, however, to run a correction. So, welcome to all of my K-zoo homies who heard about us through the Herald and are checking us out for the first time.

Please, enjoy. And if you happen by The Rocketstar, tell Evil Bill that I said “hi”.

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Well we’re upon the eve of our trek to the “Windy City” for the “Wizard World Chicago” convention. I’m quite excited to get to Chicago again. It’s one of my favorite places to visit (San Diego being number one). So we’ll be heading out in the morning and should be there early afternoon. Most likely won’t be at the show for the “Premiere Night” on thursday, but will definitely be there the rest of the weekend. I’m really pumped up to be at this show. It’s been 8 years I think since the last time I went. Should be a lot of fun. So stop by our table (#3250 B) in Artist Alley to talk with Micah or I and pick up a “Con Sketch Edition” of the Teaser Ashcan and get a sketch done by either one of us.

Hope to see you there!

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As I have been telling anyone who will listen, the story in Rapid City is based on the years I spent in and out of the music scene in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Kalamazoo is a really great town, exactly half-way between Detroit and Chicago. It seems to have a very special allure for those who have spent time there. If you pay close attention to Rapid City, you will see my own theory as to just what that allure is.

Bryan  Charles, one of my K-town homies and a brillinat writer, just published his first novel. It is called “Grab Onto Me Tightly As If I Knew The Way“, and it is just fantastic.  Go read a review for the details, or just trust me that it is incredible.

There are several Kalamazoos. Readers of super-hero comic books should be familiar with this kind of thing.

There is the real one. The one that is actually on the ground in Michigan. Then there is the romanicized, slightly fictional, one that exists in memory. Then there is the one that Bryan has written about, where the street names of the streets and the places are the same, and the people and events are just one or two details removed from the actual.

Then, a few steps down the ladder, is Rapid City. My very fictional version of Kalamazoo.

It is really cool for me to see the differences and similarities all of these versions.

And this is the part that I thought was really cool. One of the big revealing moments in his book is a confrontation with a certain character at a rock club in downtown Kalamazoo. The big climax of issue one of Rapid City is based on a confrontation that I had in a rock club in downtown Kalamazoo. It’s the same club. And, I suspect, that antagonists in each version are based on the same person.

Wierd how things work.

And, congratulations Bryan

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Josh will be attending the “New York City Comic Book Spectacular 3 Summer Blast!” this coming Sunday, July 30th. Be sure to stop by and talk with Josh, he might even do a sketch for you! How about that a writer willing to do a sketch, that doesn’t happen often. A real treat.

Micah and I will be at Wizard World Chicago, starting August 4th (I might be there on the 3rd, not a 100% sure yet) through the 6th. So be sure to drop by and say hi and ask either Micah or I for a sketch or just to talk about the Rapid City project.

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Hello, and welcome to those of you finding your way in through Newsarama.

Big props to all of those guys for giving us a chance to show off for you like this.

Please take a look around. Roll through the pages of this blog to see some great artwork and get a feel for what we are doing and where we are going.

Click on the “preview” button to get a taste of what our comic is going to be like.

All we ask is that you sign up for our mailing list.

Don’t want to sign up? Ok, fine with me. All I ask then is that you ask me for the password on your favorite message board. You may have to send me a message here to let me know about it, but I will be more than happy to post the passwords there.

Micah, Jason, and I are all very proud of the work that is going on here and are looking forward to sharing it with you.

Enjoy 

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Today, my new column appears for the very first time over at Stumblebum Studios.

It is called Don’t Call It A Comeback and I am very proud of it.

Check it out, and let the good people at Stumblebum know what you think of it.

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