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 Tommy Doyles Pub in Harvard Sq went well and all in attendance had a good time. Books and beers were bought and lots of great costumes were in attendance. Keep checking the BCR website. Hellbound isn’t up for sale yet but it should be soon and if your just too impatient I’ll bet we’ll be getting some in at The good old Million Year Picnic before too long so keep your eyes peeled. Happy Halloween everybody!

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 Danny the Dung Beetle, hard copies of my web comic The Box, postcard prints of some of my illustrations, and we’ll premiering our latest Gastronaut related collaboration. It’s sure to be a sweet show and you’ll find alotta awesome local stuff you can’t find anywhere else so check it out tomorrow if you get the chance. The best part is admissions free so you don’t have an excuse!

The Art Institute of Boston
700 Beacon Street
Boston MA 02215
(Green line to Kenmore T-stop)

Free admission!

Saturday September 25th
10-6pm

In honor of my twenty-third year of being on this planet yesterday, July the 17th, I decided to incorporate my favorite color into Katrina and I’s breakfast. Now blue isn’t a color often seen during breakfast unless your eating some sugary kids’ cereal or a pop tart or something. You don’t usually see blue scrambled eggs. I had no idea if this was even going to work, but I did it anyway cause it was my birthday gosh darnit! So I scrambled up four eggs and added a ton of blue food coloring. We had the dyes left over from making frosting for a cake last week so I figured I might as well use it cause there was a ton left. Now the sight of the blue eggs wasn’t that strange for me but according to Katrina it did make her gag a little at first. I had no problem with them until I went to add the cheese. This week when went shopping  we got the neon orange American singles slices. When you add orange to blue you usually get a brownish color but then with the milk I added brown turned gray and that’s what got me to gag a little cause it started to look like I was frying up some fresh brains. The cheese eventually cooked down into the eggs and it miraculously turned back to bright blue. I don’t know how that works, but I’m glad it did. For anyone wondering the eggs tasted fine. If anything they tasted better than normal eggs cause they were blue. Anyway we brought our blue breakfast back up to our room to eat in bed only to find that our eggs matched the sheets almost perfectly. It was an awesome start to my birthday indeed!

For anyone looking to make Blue Birthday Eggs I’ve attached the recipe below:

EGGS + BLUE FOOD DYE = BLUE BIRTHDAY EGGS

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 fancy one of a kind variants when actually its just us foolin around geekin out and being all artsy fartsy. This super fine variant is sitting on the rack at the Million Year Picnic comic shop in Harvard Sq, where coincidentally I work, and is available for cover price at $3.99 (what a deal!!) It features Hulk Hogan and the Incredible Hulk solving a case of mistaken identity! I have a copy of the scanned pencils but the actual finished inks on the bag are a lot nicer, but I put together a little mock-up so you get an idea of what it kinda looks like! I was very pleased with the finished product!

In other news if you haven’t noticed I updated the site the other day and was actually able to fix it after it was down for a little while because of a mishap with a mis-labled folder throwing off all the links and files. So everythings back to normal and there’s even some new stuff on there including my new “Kahnyay” piece! So if you haven’t already check it out, and there should be some super awesome new stuff on the way soon so check back periodically!

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 you might just win the chance to be featured in one of these books. Just for the heck of it I tossed my photo in the pot to see what would happen and BAM there I am! Tony and I decided that as an Avenger my power would be using my shifty eyed glance to make bad guys feel uneasy. It’d be a I’d set em up, they’d knock em down kinda deal. Dr. Doom better look out cause here comes The Abbs Man!!!

(…I’ll also gladly sign any copies of Avengers issue #2 “year book” style if asked Nicely ^_~)