Out of curiosity, I figured out when I decided cartoonist was the job for me. It was shortly after reading Spider-Man #18 [https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/10776/spider-man_1990_18], which Marvel published in January of 1992. Time from then till now: 28 years.
Last December I left the job I’d been at for a decade, to give one final go at my lifelong dream of being a full time cartoonist. I set a date to review my progress, to decide if I should keep going or retreat: July 1st. Low and behold,
Last night I took a page from Spider-Man Blue [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Blue] by Tim Sale and stripped the color out of it. This, by itself, is a fun hobby [https://twitter.com/MatthewBogart/status/1262820475404783623/photo/1]. Inspired by how beautifully Sale lights his scene I
Incredible Doom
I just wrote a post on my Patreon about the logistics of printing Incredible Doom [http://incredibledoom.com] season 1, how we planed to improve our process with Season 2, and how things have changed for us in recent weeks. If you’re interested in the behind the scenes nitty
I just received these Incredible Doom [http://incredibledoom.com] postcards I’d had printed to thank my wonderful patrons [http://patreon.com/matthewbogart] for their support. Thing is, I’ve got about 100 extra, so I thought we could try something fun. Starting today, the first 100 people who send
I did some fan art from readers suggestions. There’s Hector and Ari from Bloom [https://www.powells.com/book/bloom-9781250196910?partnerid=33241], The Tick [http://www.necpress.com/Tick.aspx], Ralph from The Mouse and the Motorcycle [https://www.harpercollins.com/9780380709243/the-mouse-and-the-motorcycle/], Amy Racecar from Stray Bullets [https:
comics
> It would be easy to just make this blog about [Trumps reaction to Covid-19] but this feels to me like a good time to be an alternative. If you want what’s on the news channels, it’s there on the news channels. Here, I’m more inclined to
I’ve been using the same profile picture everywhere online since 2008. But I broke my glasses a couple months ago and wear a mask when I’m outside now, so …
music
Six year old Miumiu sings “I Wish You Love” Her cover of “Fly Me to the Moon” is beautiful as well.
Have some time to go down a weird internet habit hole? The Internet Archive [https://archive.org/], has for years been archiving VHS tapes and putting online [https://archive.org/details/vhsvault]. On one end of the spectrum there’s this collection of Nickelodeon Commercial Breaks from April 1998 [https:
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I found this, long, unreleased Bob Dylan song that came out the other day surprisingly affecting.
