Paper Pusher

Last night I ran into Robert Vendetti at the release party for Van Jensen’s new book, Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer. Rob mentioned that nobody in the comic world had noticed his cameo in the recent Surrogates film, which is, of course, based on his comic series. We were shocked! None of us had noticed it! I thought for a second that Rob might have been joking about his cameo, but this is “Hollywood Rob” we’re talking about! I leaped over the hot wings buffet and dashed to the door. I HAD TO SEE THIS FOR MYSELF! After 17 full viewings of the film I finally located his moment of stardom. Turns out it was in the trailer the entire time! Go figure. Prepare to be starstruck beyond belief internet peoples!

Did you catch it? Crazy huh? Not even Stan Lee gets cameos like that!

Nice work rob!

Food for thought: do you think he met Bruce Willis????!!!!!!!  (I do!!!1)

-B

I like Batman. He looks cool. He can be a fun kid-friendly thing, like the super cool Brave and the Bold series. Or he can be a pretty decent serious character, like in that R rated Dark Knight movie, that still has merchandise stocked at Toys R Us for some reason.

The Batman is not too hot, but the Mr Freeze is decent. I didn’t have a lot of time to knock this out, and I actually would not have posted if it weren’t for good ol’ pal Shannon Smith’s nice email. Speaking of Shannon, you should go buy his bible comic. Everyone thinks it’s better than R Crumb’s!

-B

Hey! Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow (May 2nd) that means that you can finally check out my new 12 page story in the annual WAP FCBD dowload at

www.wideawakepress.com  It’s got over 80 pages this year and it looks like an awesome book! Here’s a preview page from my story:

It’s kind of a retelling of the minotaur story… Kind of. Just go check it out already!

Oh and while you’re there pick up a copy of my newest FULL COLOR book; Tobey Maguire’s comics and stories

it’s awesome. And if you buy a copy from WAP and send me your address I’ll mail you a copy of my newest mini comic; Bread and Cake

for absolutely nuthin’! Holy crap I must be losing my mind that’s like a $400 dollar value or something!

Buy it now before I regain my sanity!

-B

Who’s ready for FLUKE 2009 in scenic Athens Ga? Not me! But I will be on Saturday April 4th 2009

at 11:00 AM! I’ll be there sporting a brand new comic put out by the fine folks at Wide Awake Press!

Take a gander at the not quite final cover (missing some price stuffs and logo craps)

WOW! In case you were wondering it’s a full color collection of all of my web comics that you’ve been reading here for the past couple of months.

I’m super excited about it. BUt don’t think that’s the only reason to git yer fine looking ass down to FLUKE!

J Chris and I edited the free anthology you receive at the door! It’s 80 pages of self published comics galore! It’s got a new 6 pager by me, as

well as comics from a whole load of great cartoonists from all over the World! You can find the entire contributor list here. And you can watch

the magic of comic production happen right before your eyes below:

Big shout out to Adam at the dollar bin for putting that video together with the quickness!

I’ll also have some copies of another new comic called “Bread and Cake” which is a cutie pie relationship comic drawn by myself and the

lovely Cate Bosserman. It’s all about how in love we are and junk….or is it?

I guess you’ll have to get yer ass down to FLUKE!

Thanks for reading and the web comics will return with a vengeance next week!

-B

I love ugly comics!

Thanks for reading!

-B

Bam! 8 minutes to color!

Have a happy halloween!

-B

Yep, You heard it here last, Heroes con 2008 happened! And to document this event, the awesome guys over at the Indie Spinner Rack have released a “party line” style group interview with Josh Latta, Duane Balenger, J Chris Campbell, and myself. It’s full of all sorts of comic con nonsense. It came out much better than the “too drunk for the Internet” podcast I did (but later had removed) at Fluke for the guys over at the Dollar Bin.

Click here to hear it.

-B

Another reason I have dropped the “blog ball” the past two months is because I’ve been gearing up for the greatest comic experience around: Heroes Con! This is where I’ll be appearing as a guest on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the unreal indie island section. This convention is the absolute best. It’s the perfect mix of mainstream and small press. And this year (thanks to the mad pimping skills of the mighty Dustin Harbin) is going to be the biggest and best to date. Yeah, I know people say that kinda thing all the time about every single convention under the sun, but how can you even peek at this guest list and not have your comic boner turned to up to eleven? It’s impossible! Try it!

Now I know a lot of you are asking yourself “sure, Heroes con 2008 at the Charlotte convention center this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday sounds fine and all, but is it really worth me getting in my car(sigh), driving (double sigh), getting out of my car again (big ass sigh), just to have an amazing life changing experience? I mean come on. Gas and stuff man, gas and stuff!” And while I could spend the rest of my life telling you all of the reasons to go to heroes con 08 in painfully crazy-awesome stereophonic detail, I’d much rather let my good pal, J Chris Campbell do the dirty work for me! He’s actually done a nice job of condensing the 1000’s of reasons to go to heroes con (like hanging out with me!), down into 8 readable posts (like #5: getting drunk with me!) for you to peruse at your leisure. That guy is one class act.

Alright no more f’ing around. Here are some of the goods I’ll have with me at heroes this year:

This is the cover to my pin up book. Its 24 pages of girls (some naked, some not) It’s black and white, with an 8 page color section in the middle. It would be a good thing to buy if you like naked chicks, or were… maybe going to jail? I dunno. Just come buy it from me and I’ll tell you how much you like it.

I’ll have a new run of Tub Flub with me, with an all new, all different extra page! That’s right; if you bought this from me at SPX you got screwed! This edition has a big fat bonus page that I drew and totally forgot to include in the book the first time! You’ll be amazed at what little difference it actually makes to the story. Which is probably forgot it in the first place.

Plus I’ll have a new little mini about a squirrel who wins a car wash.

I’ll also be signing My SOTU comics and doing sketches again this year. So come on down and hang out with Josh Latta and I at the fabulous Heroes con in beautiful Charlotte North Carolina!

Don’t puss out!