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I've launched the Kickstarter campaign in order to raise the needed funds to print MAGIC BULLET #3. For those of you unfamiliar: MAGIC BULLET is a free semi-annually published comic newspaper focused on presenting the work of independent and underground cartoonists, with a bias towards DC artists. Each artist is encouraged to take advantage of the larger canvas to cut loose and experiment and to push themselves and the medium.

Past contributors include: Steve Becker, Carolyn Belefski and Joe Carabeo, Mike Brace, Andrew Cohen, Matt Dembicki, Mal Jones, Evan Keeling, Jeff McComsey, Dale Rawlings, R.M. Rhodes, Rafer Roberts, Jim Rugg, Jake Warrenfeltz, Scott White and JT Wilkins

One of the pledge levels this time out includes having your likeness drawn into a future installment of my NIGHTMARE THE RAT comic, most likely as a victim. Imagine! This could be you!

So, please head on over to the Kickstarter pledge page and give what you can. Thanks!

Over the course of a mere 7 days, a whole bunch of kick-ass comic creators cranked out some comics for the Small Press Commandos' KIRBY CHALLENGE. Here is my entry:

Here's page 1:

So click on over to the Small Press Commando site to read the rest! http://smallpresscommandos.com/2011/05/30/kirby-challenge-team-zulu/ Make sure to keep checking the site so you can read all the different comics too!

No new Bamn updates this week (although we have a deadline of April 6th to complete the bubbling on #3) but I neglected to mention earlier that I recently started a podcast called Menagerie of Kick-Assery.

M.O.K.A. (as it is affectionately called by nobody) is centrally focused on all things "geek." That includes comics, movies, TV shows, and (yep) wrestling.

We are nine episodes in and the ninth episode just went online today.

This episodes we talk to my good friend and wrestling manager Marcus "King Kong" Dowling.

Marcus was there for my fall from grace from professional wrasslin' (it was a short fall) and he gives us tons of industry insight.

Download it, stream it, or Itunes it at the Menagerie of Kick-Assery blog (you might learn something...but no promises):

CLICK HERE to listen to me, co-host Gene Green, and Marcus at the MOKA blog.

...and PLASTIC FARM related things.

Hey everyone,

It was a pretty busy week for me, which is pretty unusual, so I thought I'd take advantage of my posting privileges and totally pimp myself.

First, I had a guest comic go up over at Danielle Corsetto's GIRLS WITH SLINGSHOTS. It's probably the first comic I have ever had published in color. Thanks again to Danielle for letting me do this. You can read the comic here. (Make sure to check out the rest of the strip. It's really good!)

Second, an interview I had done a few months back went online. In it I discuss the origins of the name PLASTIC FARM, how various new electronic devices change the very language of comics, the dwindling presence of mini-comics, and probably poop somewhere in there. Here's an excerpt:

"I think that it's funny that comics are getting classified not by content, but by format. Maybe I'm old and crotchety, but I don't know why webcomics get segregated to their own areas at conventions or even get thought of as a separate artform. It would be like if I published Plastic Farm in a manga format and sat with TokyoPop because, despite our content being in no way similar, our books were both five by seven and a half inches.

So, if people think of me as a webcomic creator, I can't stop them. I like to think that I make comics."

Read the rest here.

Third, Matt Dembicki and I have been nominated for some S.P.A.C.E. Prizes. In the general category, Matt's TRICKSTER got the nomination, and we both got nominations in the minicomic/short story category. Pretty awesome stuff.

Here's a pretty link.

And finally, there's a bunch of work going on for MAGIC BULLET and we've received a bunch of really cool submissions already. If you are interested in drawing something, or advertising, please click on the MAGIC BULLET link in the menu bar, or here.

In the meantime, here's a panels from an upcoming Nightmare the Rat comics which will be in MAGIC BULLET #2.

Thanks!

Once a year, independent comics brightest and grimiest get together to have a two day party called the Small Press Expo...and every year you are invited.
Taking place at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Maryland, SPX is where indies go to be honored, formally introduced, socialize and be discovered.
This year, as an act of solidarity, the DC Conspiracy has confiscated a block party's worth of tables at SPX. There (at tables W3 thru W9) you can find wonderful (and modestly priced) graphic works, such as, the Dr. Dremo's anthology series and the recently released (and totally free) Magic Bullet newspaper.
I think you just ran out of excuses not to join us...

MORE INFO:
The Official Website of the Small Press Expo
Directions to the Bethesda Marriott
A Complete List of Exhibitors at SPX