First off there's a new interview with me up on the Newsarama:
[link]I think life is good.
1. Cancer--I only got a week and a half more radiation. It's really not been as bad as I thought it might be. I feel like I'm gonna puke a lot but I almost never do.
Coffin' but not dead.
2. comic books--
I haven't read it but that new spider man as an old dude book looks cool.
The Dammed from Oni is good solid demon noir comics.
I got the new Empowered Adam Warren book and It's so rad to see that dude making comix again. It breaks my heart when a good writer artist
becomes just a writer. I'm so glad he's back . Going from Dirty pair to gen 13 would be like trying to listen to a mase song after you just heard a whole Public enemy album. serious. God i hope he does more DP.
I just wrote a huge tirade on dudes I hate in comix. Then deleted it.
Things are actually looking pretty good in comix so I'm going to ignore the crap and talk about the gold.
Man, there's some books on the way out that I've read that make me so happy to be a comic reader.
Marian Churchlands Beast book that I'm lettering is really what I expect from the best of french comics in the 80's.
this is just her fucking around but read this:
[link]and this:
[link]and tell me comix aint doing good.
James (elspiko) Stokoe's Won Ton soup (oni) is
also gold. James is too close to home for me to reasonably talk about but I love him dearly.
Then there's this Meathaus SOS book that I'm doin stuff with and
That makes me feel pretty good about the world.
Farel Darymple, Tom Herpich, Tomer Hanuka, James Jean, Chris McD Becky cloonan ect ect ect.
Also ross Campbell makes me happy about comix.
There's so much I can't even go into it all here.
I read that Drew Hayes died wich sucks, I was so into his early Poison elves books when I was a kid. I stopped reading around the time it went to Sirus. but he was good and that's too bad.
3. Work.
King city 2 is a skelliton of a book now. I know how it ends and how it starts but there's lots in the middle to do.
I wish it didn't have to end so soon. 2 TP books is big but the city is bigger.
Multiple Warhedz. is puttering along. im stilll somewhere in the middle of it.
SOS. my 14 page color thing that I haven't started coloring. I was stuck on the title page then in he hospital I saw a microsoft ad I'm gonna rip off. --gold.
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Here's where Tokyo pop keeps my book:
[link]
I wonder who could have been on it.......
An speaking of King City, when were you going to be in Portland?
I still needs me a copy...
I miss that place.
Give me a telephone call, won't you?
I have sent you a note.
cordially,
~Spools
Also I read the book. I want to read more of the story with the demonic phone.
I'll be back among the living when I meet some deadlines.
Does the radiation cut into your comic-making time much? I imagine it would, especially with the nausea.
Yeah it wasn't always fun. I'm still a little bit out of it.
It's over now.
lemme know how stuff goes with you. Is radiation something you think you might have to do?
I'll let you know as I find out more.