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May24

GUEST STRIP – THE SUIZ AND HUSTLERTWO

May 24th, 2006 | by Tom
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GUEST STRIP – THE SUIZ AND HUSTLERTWO

I gotta give it up to The SuiZ and Hustlertwo from Nuclear Powered Toaster. The sheer volume of references from Theater Hopper’s past in their comic reflects a familiarity with my work that I only share casual knowledge of! The Cult of Sandler and that paper-plate girl being impressive throwbacks! Good on ya, guys! And by the way, I think I want that third panel to become my new avatar. Great close up!

If you want more of that kind of exaggerated action, be sure to check out Nuclear Powered Toaster. The artwork is top-notch and it has a great continuing storyline!

I haven’t mentioned it for about a week, so I want to remind everyone that the deadline for book pre-orders is closing in! Remember, June 11 will be your last chance to submit your pre-order. There’s still a bunch of orders that we need in order to meet the minimum print run, so I hope all of you guys out there thinking about buying a book can help me out! Please pre-order your book today!

By the way, did you know I have another guest strip for you on Friday? Because I do and it’s really good!

I think all of the guest strips so far have been really good, don’t you? I gotta admit, I really lucked out!

Thanks again to The SuiZ and Hustlertwo!

└ Tags: Big Momma's House 2, choice, Guest Strip, Hustlertwo, kidnapping, Nuclear Powered Toast, The Cult of Sandler, The SuiZ, Vertigo
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Jul25

HE’S PROBABLY WATERING DOWN THE DRINKS

July 25th, 2007 | by Tom
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HE’S PROBABLY WATERING DOWN THE DRINKS

By now it’s old news that the marketing geniuses at 20th Century Fox reconfigured a handful of high-traffic 7-11 convienience stores into Kwik-E-Marts to promote the upcoming Simpsons Movie. That doesn’t make it any less of an accomplishment.

As you know, I’m pretty sensitive to how I’m marketed to, but I felt this effort was very genuine and in keeping with the tone of The Simpsons. Frankly, it’s a bit of a no-brainer. I wonder why someone didn’t think of it sooner. But, you know… they kind of have all their eggs in a basket with this movie. So if you’re going to call attention to it, better pull out all the stops.

The fact of the matter is that Fox is keeping such a tight lid over The Simpsons Movie, there wouldn’t be anything else to talk about if we weren’t talking about their marketing efforts. No one knows for sure what it’s about and any potential spoilers are being kept under wraps.

Things have gotten to the point where fans are making THEIR OWN MERCHANDISE based only on what’s hinted at in the trailers. Spider-Pig, anyone? Now you can buy a t-shirt inspired by it!

Speaking of t-shirts, I thought you guys might get a kick out of this picture:

That's alotta shirts!

I’m getting ready for Wizard World Chicago August 9 – 12 and trying to take care as much as I can as early as I can so I’m not rushing out of the house having forgotten anything. I started folding up all of my shirts so they would take up less space in my Tupperwares and I thought this little layout was kind of interesting. (You can see the Spoiler I shirts stuffed into a Tupperware in the background)

I guess I never really mentioned that the Movie Law #948 shirts had been delivered to me. Everyone that pre-ordered one should have theirs in-hand by now. If you want to order one for yourself (or any other design, for that matter) feel free. I don’t know how much stock I’ll have left after Chicago. Hopefully none. So it would be a good idea to pick a shirt up now before they’re gone.

I’m really interested in burning off the inventory of shirts that I have. As you can see from the picture, they take up a lot of space. What I’ve captured there isn’t even all of my inventory. I still have a bunch of baby-doll t-shirts left over from back in the day that haven’t sold. There aren’t links for them on the site right now. I’m thinking of giving them away as freebies for people who buy maybe $25 or more. Most of the people who buy my stuff are guys, so I don’t know if that will be an incentive or not. But maybe they can pick up a weird shirt for their little sister or girlfriend or something.

I’m also going to have a stack of DVDs that I’m giving away to people who buy more than $75 worth of stuff – which is a tall order. But I have a few movies that have been given to me by promotion houses that I’m ready to unload and I figured Wizard World Chicago would be the place to do it.

What I’m really hoping for is to whittle down my inventory on the two books. I debuted Theater Hopper: Year One at Wizard World Chicago last summer and it sold really well. Well enough that it prompted me to fast-track Theater Hopper: Year Two for Wizard World Texas a few months later. What I want to have happen is to sell enough books that I can start production on Theater Hopper: Year Three and have it ready by Christmas. Having Henry kind of put the breaks on the whole book thing for a while. So if I can self-finance with the sales of the books I have, that’s really going to go a long way toward helping me with my goal.

In addition to all of this, I’ll be giving away buttons and sampler booklets that include the most popular strips based on YOUR votes from the Top 50 Comics page. So if you haven’t voted on your favorite strip, use the search function in the archive and let me know what you think is my best work! I appreciate the feedback!

So if you’re in the Chicago area around August 9 to 12, look me up. I’ll be on Artist’s Alley with my good friends Joe Dunn and Zach Miller. I look forward to this event all year. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

└ Tags: 7-Eleven, bound and gagged, Hank Azaria, kidnapping, Moe Szyslak, promotion, The Simpsons
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Mar26

BRINGING YOUR A-GAME

March 26th, 2008 | by Tom
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BRINGING YOUR A-GAME

Apologies for the lack of a news post on this comic. I stayed up late Tuesday night producing it and had to crash before writing the blog. I planed on completing it when I got back from work Wednesday night, but crashed out because I was really sick with chills and everything. I slept something like 13 hours last night. Crazy.

Things are a little nutty right now because of the new job I started on Monday, so I appreciate your patience while things fall into place.

About the comic, I know that I did a Shia LaBeouf comic a couple of days ago, but the kid keeps screwing up in such unspectacular ways, he makes it too easy not to comment on it. If you click on that link and read the story about his parking mishap, be sure and check out the note someone taped to his car. Perhaps a candidate for PassiveAggressiveNotes.com?

Not much else to add. Like I said, I’m a little scattered this week. But thanks for your patience. I hope to see you here Friday!

Later!

└ Tags: impounded, kidnapping, parking, Shia LaBeouf, talent
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