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Matt Janz's comic today made me a FAN-FOR-LIFE.

If you've been reading this dccblog for a bit, you'll remember that I have a soapbox rant about comics that are ghosted (aren't drawn by their creators even though the name at the byline is still there). My last post about this was here regarding Boondocks, whose original creator phones in the gag or words to another artist who draws it for him. Mostly it involves the little kid character sitting in front of the television making an obvious comment about current events. Ugh. Don't get me started. But I think Janz is on to the rest of the comics page, really...
Obviously, the comics are part of the selling point of a lifestyle section of a major newspaper, so I understand that staying conservative when choosing strips that will appeal to the most people would be a sound business decision...but there's a lot of regurgitated drek on the funny pages---it seems that the editors think that the public mindset is one that craves pablum.

Here's another preview (sans text) from the intro pages of Malingerers. Now that I'm hand-lettering all of the text, the project is taking what I think is its final shape. Man, I never realized how draining lettering could be until I started this...hope you enjoy...the page's text (not shown here) pretty much talks about how the "bartender pours [...] but what happens next is all up to fate."

Been a bit since I posted pages from the ol' Malingers book. Here's a glimpse---click to see the words that go with it. It leads into another page with this character Eva.

Special delivery......ewwwwww....

Here's another preview from the Dating Lexicon.