Lookit me! I’m on another podcast! Yippee!
This time it is the Synthaholics podcast! Listen to me describe Kobayashi Maru (I actually get asked the classic question “where do you get your ideas?” SQUEEE!), and then rip Scott Bakula a new one as me and the hosts discuss one of the worst episodes of Enterprise ever: “Extinction”!
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If you pledged to my Death Ray 2020 Kickstarter, there is a good chance you received both a print and digital edition of the first printing the pilot issue of Kobayashi Maru’s (with this snappy cover!)
I will be publishing the mass-market edition of this issue soon, with a new cover (for the rubes… for that is all that you are to me! HAHAHAHAHA!) In the meantime, if you have already read this issue, let me know what you thought!
Here’s the sketch for the special-edition cover of Kobayashi Maru #1, which will be going to my Death Ray 2020 Kickstarter pledgers. If you didn’t pledge, you will NEVER receive this edition! NEVER! WHO’S LAUGHING NOW, YOU SMELLY APES?!??
(Whoa… easy Jason! the people who didn’t pledge to your campaign aren’t animals. They aren’t human, but they aren’t animals. They are more like plankton, and plankton has a place in our eco-system too.)

My subscribers have ‘tude!

My subscribers get a feast for the eyes!

Don’t cry! If you subscribe you can see the complete picture, and lots more!

The moment you have all been waiting for– the end of this blog post– is a mere sentence away! But before you go, enjoy the video I have created to promote my new Kickstarter, which launches November 25th December 2nd! Please share!!
My subscribers enjoy rare flora and fauna!

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Okay… this doesn’t look like much YET. But soon enough this sketch will become the cover art promoting my next Kickstarter!
Death Ray 2020 it shall be called! And it will be an opportunity for you all to earn some new exclusive goodies while helping me stay afloat in 2020 so I can pass up genuine paying work and really devote my time to creating the projects I hope you are all looking forward to, including Weapon Brown: Aftershock and the finale of The Hero’s Journey!
I anticipate launching this campaign on November 1st, so stay tuned!
My subscribers get good grub!

My subscribers have skin in the game (of thrones!)

The salons of Paris never boasted such a display of wine-sipping snobbery as took place at Rochester’s glamorous Creativ Framing gallery yesterday, where my artwork was the toast of the town!
A big “thanks” to all the friends and fans who stopped by to enjoy my work and nibble tiny carrots (although as you can see, my inner circle of hoity-toity aestheticians were lukewarm on my growth over the past couple of years).
The show will be up for the next two weeks. If you live in or near Rochester, NY, stop on by!


After 67 years, MAD magazine is packing it in.
As a client, MAD was the crown jewel of my very thin resume, and cartooning for them has definitely been the high-water mark of my career. I am proud of the features I created for them, and especially proud of the ones that seemed to really hit the public’s funny bone, such as Scooby Don’t and Detective Slow-On-The-Draw.
I’ve also had the rare distinction of helping pull the plug of both of MAD’s ventilators: appearing in the last New York-era issue published out of their Mad-ison Avenue offices, as well as in the eighth and nearly-final issue of the Burbank, CA relaunch that began last year when parent company Warner Bros. moved the operation across the country (a move which did not include almost any of the editorial talent that had steered the ship for decades.)
But even as MAD kicks the bucket, I still managed to scratch one goal off my own bucket list: dropping cameos of my favorite Internet personalities– Mike, Jay and Rich of Red Letter Media— into the background of “The Preposterous Palpatine Plothole” comic that I crafted with my friend and fellow NY MAD alum Jon Bresman. Talk about good timing!
Now, some might say that the common factor in MAD‘s repeated morbidity was my appearing in it, but we all know who really staked the magazine through the heart: Pete Buttigieg.
Just recently, Mayor Pete, in an effort to zing Donald Trump for comparing him to Alfred E. Neuman, told the press that he didn’t get the reference. “I’ll be honest. I had to Google that,” he said, in what was probably number three of the five daily salats he performs to prove his hipster bona fides to the kids. (The guy is nearly 40– he knows who fucking Alfred E. Neuman is.)
Did Buttigieg hand-wave MAD out of existence? If so, the joke is on him. The only thing worse than being in MAD was not being in it. And for a guy who is so earnest about appealing to the youngins, you’d think he’d have been more interested in showing up in MAD. It might have given his run for the White House some much needed traction.
MAD, you cracked Cracked, whacked Wacko, sicked-up on Sick, and, in a rare moment of generosity, helped Crazy get on the meds that have turned their life around. You were the Alpha and Omega of childhood bad taste. We shall not see your like again.
But by the grace of the Neuman, the Kaputnik and the Holy Klutz, I can say honestly and with pride (plus a little dyspepsia): ME NOT WORRIED!!