My editor at the New Yorker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUkQ3fcwI00
And Dan Clowes… ha. I bet he’s glad this never aired.
http://fuckyeahdanielclowes.tumblr.com/post/731534545/never-aired-dan-clowes-apple-ad-by-errol-morris-in
I have not figured out a good graphic for this cartoon…. it has potential but isn’t there yet.
ps. my book is selling for $299
http://www.amazon.com/dp/ASIN/1885418183/?tag=toomuchcoffeeman
Here’s my latest comic. It works reading from the inside outward too – and it’s more optimistic that way too.
The Too Much Coffee Man Opera in Astoria went great. I need to do a proper write up of the event. It was amazing. We played to a sold out house and brought it down. I couldn’t have asked for better.
Printed up some posters for Wednesday’s Too Much Coffee Man opera in Astoria. It’s great to see the old crew together again. Rehearsals are pleasure. Everyone is in top form.
And this week’s cartoon.
A friend of mine is having a hard time. Not only is he a great cartoonist he started the Stumptown Comic Fest. His 8-bit tarot card set is worth checking out. He’s selling his creations at cost to pay off debts. Help him out if you can.
http://www.lunarbistro.com/2010/06/liquidating-my-life.php
And a recent cartoon….
I just started a facebook event page for the TMCM opera in Astoria. I can’t believe it’s happening in a little over a week. Yikes.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127234340643636&ref=mf
Just finished this week’s cartoon. Sort of. When I’m feeling dry on ideas it’s an easy cheat to grab one of my New Yorker cartoon rejects and drop it in as a weekly. Matt Bors even helped write the dialog. Yep. Sometimes I’m lazy. Last night I was at Chris Onstad’s birthday and a few days before that I went to Robert Crumb’s Genesis museum art opening. The bible book that I’m working on is getting close to finished. It’s nothing like Crumb’s.
It’s frustrating to see a cartoon of mine done by someone else…. or maybe it’s the other way around. 
I was doing my daily procrastination shit-shuffle dance (ie. moving stuff around as a way to avoid doing real work) and I found this old post card. What happened to this thing? Is it still around? Did they ever release test shots?
I’m thinking a lot about clowns because I’m reading Clown Girl (and enjoying it). I’ve been cranking out a ton of clown cartoons myself.
• the cop/clown thing in Shortcuts
• Shakes the Clown
• Yummy Fur (obviously)
• Killer Clowns from Outer Space (doesn’t count – not the clown stuff I’m thinking of)
• I almost worked with Ducky Doolittle on a Sex in the Animal Kingdom book. She had a whole clown/sex thing that got her on talk shows (long story)
I went to the Crumb exhibit of his Bible stuff. It was the pre-opening of his show here in Portland. We have the originals to the whole bible book of his. His art is amazingly tight. There’s a lot of correctional white-out but it still has the feel of being laid down perfect on the page. Every comic book person in Portland was there.
I just posted a new set of comics on http://www.act-i-vate.com. Love to have people check them out and leave comics.
Also – got some sample books of my “I Thought You Would Be Funnier.” I’m proud of the book. BOOM was great. Check it out.
http://www.amazon.com/Thought-You-Would-Be-Funnier/dp/1608860345/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276251038&sr=1-1
Finished the weird little run of this story. I hope it’s ok.
The first hit of the story I thought would be TMCM getting big – symbolic in some way that if one does start a coffee shop it takes over your life. Then, the multiple TMCMs are similar to chain shops taking over cities…. mostly it’s that I like drawing a bloated Too Much Coffee Man. I’d like to do more surrealist stories. I don’t know if an audience will tolerate it.
