The Abbs Man’s Abblog | I’ve never had anything important to say……….. Why would I need a blog?!

As part of my New Years Resolution I need to get better at updating both the site and blog as often as possible. I mean I have so much time on my hands nowadays I don’t really have any kind of excuse. So today I put up some new art in the gallery pages and [...]

Just in time for Halloween! Che and I’s new work in the Boston Comics Roundtable’s latest anthology “Hellbound” hit the streets this past Thursday. A smaller more affordable version at $4 is now available in contrast to the humongous fancy pants screenprinted glow in the dark version that was released previously. The release party at [...]

So MICE went really well! We sold a good lotta books and got to meet a whole lot of interesting people. Most of whom Ché already knew cause let me tell you that guy knows people! And starting this week our new mini comic based on the adventures of the Boston Gastronauts will hopefully be [...]

Tomorrow Ché and I will be peddling our wares at the Mass Indy Comics Expo being held at the Art Institute of Boston in Kenmore Sq from 10 to 6. You should all come on by and see us and check out the sweet stuff we’re pushin’! I’ll be selling copies of my children’s book [...]

So I’ve been all over the place recently. Been figuring alot of stuff out and getting alot of stuff together. Recently my buddy Steve who sometimes writes for Comic Book Resources managed to hook me up with a job reporting for them at the 2010 Baltimore Comic-Con. He knew I was going down to visit [...]

So in honor of my beautiful face being featured in Avengers issue #2 I made my very own variant cover for New Avengers #1 that came out this past week! Every once in a while when they come out with blank sketch covers we’ll draw on comic bags so it looks like we have some [...]

That’s right if you look hard enough I made the cut and got dropped into this weeks new issue of The Avengers from Marvel Comics, Issue #2. Since they re-launched all the Avengers books after the whole Siege dealy-o they’ve had this “I Am An Avenger!” marketing campaign. If you submitted a photo at iamanavenger.com [...]

(Illustration by Andrew Abbott)
Most recently topping Christmas as the best holiday all year Free Comic Book Day or FCBD is happening tomorrow! So if you aren’t in the know you should head out to your nearest comic shop and pick up some goodies. Most stores also have awesome sales and events going on to coincide [...]

Recovering from a turkey induced coma I return to the blogosphere. Not that anyone reads this regularly anyways… The holidays have been uber busy between working at the comic shop, getting stuff together for Christmas (ie presents/shopping and travel arrangements), and being sick off and on I haven’t had much time to breathe, but here’s [...]

A few weeks back I started my new job at the comic shop in town. I go in real early on wednesday mornings and help to open the store and start sorting all the new books that are delivered that morning. Wednesday of course as you may or may not know is new comic book day [...]