Slob-oids "Book & Record Set" video

Planet Of The Slob-Oids from King Power Cinema on Vimeo.

This is a faux book & record set, or basically, a comic with audio and video effects. My pal David M. Smith suggested the adaptation.

Story and art by me
Film & audio production by David M. Smith
Voices by me, David, Eric Hawley, Brian Collins and Pip May

In the (Dead) Zone

It's weird, people think of Stephen King as a guilty pleasure.. I almost feel guilty that I never enjoyed him as a guilty pleasure as much as some people do. I want/wanted to be one of those people who read his books as a guilty pleasure, you see. They loomed up on my horizon, as a little kid, as a fascinating teenage thing to be into, those massive well-worn tomes, full of edgy, slightly illicit material. And I did read his short story collections, and a nonfiction book of his about the horror genre. But somehow I never made it to the books that he's known for, especially the early ones. In high school I got _Needful Things_ from the library, and it was okay, maybe, but I never felt like I was in that Stephen King "zone" that I imagined the teenagers of my imagination had been in. I almost read it like a chore, like a book on a school reading list. It was on my guilty pleasure curriculum I guess, and thus not much of a guilty pleasure after all.

GoldBug #1 cover

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Peak Fun Comics presents "GoldBug - the Man with the 24-Karat Kick"

A 12-page Superhero Comic in Lush, Feathery Black & White Brush-strokes, Just the Way You Like It

Peak Fun is pleased to announce that our somewhat lengthy publishing hiatus will be undergoing a temporary reprieve as we release pages from the Goldbug's sterling new adventure, "The Bug Keeps Cool" (which joins such obscure and long-forgotten classic tales as "The Bug Maintains His Composure," "The Bug Holds Up with Aplomb" and "The Bug Never Sweats.")

Many readers perhaps missed Goldbug's original adventures, which were published in obscure periodicals during the 70s, and then faded from the scene as his creator, Ed Skeets, descended into a personal hell of unimaginable depths. Now with Ed's return to the ol' cartoon biz, we find he's thankfully none the worse for wear, and the Bug is just as besotted with all that glitters as he ever was.

Please SCROLL DOWN to read the first page, and click the "read more" link to see the whole story!

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post #50

 I think my numbering is off somewhere, but I think this is #50...

Art for "Turkey Trot 5k" t-shirt and "Halloween 5k" (unfinished.)

Staedtler Brush Pen Tip

I saw in comments where some guy talked about extending the life of his Staedtler Mars Graphic Duo 2000 brush pen ("The brush pen with more names than any other") by removing the plain tip with a pliers and somehow switching the ink supplies. He gave no details so I wasn't sure how that would work. But I pulled of the plain tip end (the pens have a plain tip on one end and a brush tip on the other) with pliers and, indeed, it had a little foam ink supply, fat and juicy with ink.

The brush tip end pulled off easily as well, and it was bone dry of course since that's mainly all I use. It's a simple matter then to switch the foam stick things. And re-insert the tips. It worked brilliantly, the brush tip was instantly back in fine fettle. What a boon this will be to humanity (or at least cartoonists.)

ps. Chris Garrison (who writes/draws "Our Heroes" on dummcomics.com) put me onto these great pens, that you can't buy in your local art store, for the most part, at least if you live where I do.

"Slob-oids" (now with color)

I wasn't going to color this, but then my pal DMS suggested we make it into a "book & record" style comic, with an audio soundtrack and camera pans from panel to panel (the way some book & record comics are presented on YouTube.)

I still wasn't going to color it even then, because we have many ambitious plans that don't all come to fruition. However, now, it looks like this one may actually happen since we're at least 90-95% done with the audio. (And it sounds really good! Mr. Smith has done a fantastic job mixing the voices, music and sound effects together.)

So, with all that going on, I felt it should definitely be in color to make a better presentation. Some of the b&w panels were a bit muddy, so hopefully the color helps clarify things somewhat.