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More Mesa madness...

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Carl and Juan Carlos. Together Again!!

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Onward and upward for Carl.

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Carl climbs for the business.

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Ooof. So much work to do.

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Vamp Scurvy for you.

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More Vampire Tom Jones!

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208 for you.

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Apologize for lateness!!

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Watch as Tom squeezes the tube.

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Tuesday page.

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What up '10? New page, New year!

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Last page of '09. On Friday begins the last year of Carl's Large Story!

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Whoops! I forgot to post yesterday. Blame the holidays.

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201! Holidaze!

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Big page two hundred!

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I'm selling the above watercolor in the store. Check it out!

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AHH. This is so late. I'll blame the holidays! and Avatar.

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BLAH BLAH BLAH, PAGE!!!

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I'm looking for web comics recommendations! C'mon people! Save me from doing more legwork!

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Ah, these two. Fighting like old ladies. Who writes this stuff!!??

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Back to business day!

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The large scroll for chapter 6 is UP HERE!

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!

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The beginning of Chapter 7! Beginning big!!

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That's it. The end of Chapter 6. Two chapters to go.

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Almost done with chapter 6!

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Biggest Bruce yet!

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Early delivery!!! FRIDAY!!

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Early posting to guarantee Tuesday updates!

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Latest Friday update ever! 2:03 on Saturday!!

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Earliest Tuesday update ever! 12:18!

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Sorry this is so late. I'm planning a trip and forgot the day. Speaking of, my internet connection for the next three weeks is undetermined do to the trip. I expect to get pages up regardless, but I can barely get it up on time when I'm home!

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New pages for your faces!

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I'm excited because I feel as though I've achieved the final breakthrough for the rest of the story. Now I just have to draw it all. This will definitely be done next year sometime. Especially if I can keep up the two posts a week. As long as I don't start drawing something else like I usually do.

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I couldn't resist a Fastball special.

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Carl is going back to TWICE A WEEK!! At least for the immediate future. Also I made a Cliff-Face comics fan page. Celebrate our five-year anniversary and fan us!

Cliff-Face Comics

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SPX was a bunch of fun. Thanks to everyone who stopped by. There will be some extra posting here starting soon. Stay tuned...

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SPX is this Saturday and Sunday! Cliff Face comics will be at table G-12! I will have one new comic. Tear-Stained Makeup #8!

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The Philadelphia Alternative Comic-Con on Sunday was a lot of fun. Thanks to Pat Aulisio for putting on a great show with a bright future, and for making cool comics!

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Hope everyone had a thrilling labor day! Now get back to school you brats!

Remember: Cliff-face comics will be at the first ever Philadelphia Alternative Comic-Con on September 13th.

Go Ouidin!

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Cliff-face comics will be at the first ever Philadelphia Alternative Comic-Con on September 13th. That also happens to be the THIRD anniversary of Car's Large Story. Crazy.

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Forgive me for the weird numbering here. It's to retain my sanity. WEB SPLASH PAGE!

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Oh, the suspants!

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Keeping my promise, here is a new page!

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I think I'll post an extra page this week, to make up for that one a couple months back. Y not! Expect it Friday morning.

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I just clear forgot to post this yesterday. Unemployed summer makes the days blend.

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Hi. The long scroll for Chapter 5 is up! Chapter Six is going to be the longest chapter of CLS ever! Then we start winding our way down the hill, so to speak.

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SORRY! I am posting so late. I just forgot. It's SUMMERTIME!

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163!!! So, I've been working on finalizing the rest of the story. I initially thought I'd take hardcore advantage of unemployment and get a bunch of work done, but the weather is nice. Who wants to stay indoors all day? That said, I'm still getting more done then I would if I was working. I'm getting a little ahead of myself so I'll try to start posting an extra page here and there.

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Just got back from Ohio. Back to life as usual for a little bit. Some webpage updates to come soon. Nothing major!

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The plot has thickened, and now it will BOIL!

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MoCCA was fun! Hot, but WIDE AISLES! I'd do an in depth report, but I was lacking a lot of energy at the show and haven't quite gone through all the stuff I got yet. But goos times were had by most if not all!

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MoCCA is this weekend! I don't know where I'll be but I'll be somewhere. I will have all issues of Tear-Stained Makeup 1-7, (didn't quite get done with 8) Carl's Large Story 1-5, and the Carl collection.

ALSO debuting this weekend is AWESOME 2: AWESOMER THE INDIE SPINNER RACK ANTHOLOGY from Top Shelf. It has a brand new CARL STORY! Here, for the first time, is a preview panel! Go visit the Top Shelf and ISR tables!



ALSO Kevin Church and Benjamin Birdie are putting out the first collection of their webcomic, THE RACK! I did a pinup for it! Go visit their table!

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One of the best!!! Page up!!

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So! I'm back from Maui, and I KNOW I promised two pages when I got back, It's just it won't be this week. Surprise page will come soon enough! MoCCA in two weeks almost!

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Because of honymoon's I will post another page on friday. Then nothing for two weeks. Then two pages the week of May 18th. There will be internet where I'm going but I'm not planning on remembering to do anything.

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This be the END of chapter 5!!!!

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So! In briefest news, I lost my job! Can't say I didn't see it coming. It won't really make a difference as far as scheduling here goes. I've got a lot of stuff going on so I won't be posting more just yet.

But hey! It's never been a better time to order a SHOUTOUT!! I gots the time and I could use laundry money. Dirt cheap! 5 for black and white 10 for color! Craziness.

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150. Is that a milestone? Y not.

I've been re-upping Tear-Stained Makeup online for the interested.

Chapters 1-4 are up.

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Getting fairly close to the end of Chapter 5!

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It's never too soon to pimp this!



There's an ALL NEW Carl story in it!

Pre-order it here or here!

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EXTREME SPLASH! Check out those crotches!

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BAM! Yes.

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JAILED AND PINSTRIPED!!! I'm amidst some fun little side-drawing projects now for breaks. Which is good because my allergies are killing me and I'm being lazy. More info on fun sides later!

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TUESDAY=NEW PAGE!!!

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There is little I love more then drawing Carl or L'rac attempting to sit down. HAHAH.

Justin gave me a buncha Kane comics by Paul Grist. I recommend! The man can cartoon for serious.

Some may notice the header change on Carl. I'm attempting to make things a bit more unified amongst all my sites, Justin's sites, and the Cliff-Face sites. 2009 is the year of more web unity! Needless to say I have more work to do. I'm looking at a revamped approach to putting Tear-Stained Makeup online. Third times the charm I guess.

Oh, I made a bit of a change on the SHOUTOUTS!! page. Color shoutouts now available! I'll pimp this more at some point I'm sure. Take advantage now before I decide it's a terrible idea!

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LEAGUES!

Now for NOT CARL NEWS!

I've started laying out Tear-Stained Makeup #8! I'm not sure what I'll do when I'm done. I might soldier forth and finish laying out the rest of the story. Or not. It just feels good to work on it again! I'm also unsure as to what the fate of the book will be. I'm considering web-releasing the rest of it until its finished. Save a tree and burn your eyes!

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Woot! That Mort Gage is the evils! Way more the evils than Ozymandias!

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Delayed for Big O related Inaugural Fever!

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Ha. Sometimes I'm not even sure if Carl is joking. I think he is in that last panel, but you know, that guy is terrible at comedy!

So we are nearly half way through the month and I am thrilled. I've changed my procedures and its made me very productive! When I started CLS I had the first fifty or so pages laid out almost exactly as they are here, the rest outlined. After I drew those I started making very loose layouts about 6 or seven pages in advance which devolved into almost no layouts. This is what I've been doing lately and it has been crazy stress. Everytime I finish a page I'm in the wilderness and end up doing a lot of staring. So this month I started working on eight pages simultaneously, no layouts, as a modest goal for the month ( I usually can do ten to twelve if I'm doing nothing else which is rare, but this year I plan on being Carl focused). Anyway its almost halfway through the month and I'll be done in about two days!

Remarkable. It's kind of a combination of my old way of working and how I've been doing things more recently.

I used to draw everything, then ink everything, then letter everything, up until I laid out the beginning of CLS. It was then I decided I wanted to do one page at a time, to avoid going months without inking, and I figured my pages would benefit from lettering first. So it became, light drawing, lettering, finished drawing, inking, then the next page. This was ok as long as I had detailed layouts. Problem is my layouts have been devolving lately. Truth is I kinda hate doing them. So now I'm trying to draw everything like the old way, but only for a chunk of pages. It's a small enough set that I can bounce around from page to page, doing whatever I feel without hitting any snags. A little inking here, a little lettering here, it's the new style! This makes for a lot less staring at the page. If there's something I can't figure out I move on. Less frustration, less procrastinating, less fear.

On another note I've been taking a buddy's advice and doing my best to free myself of any goal other then finishing the book. I haven't been all that interested in promoting it or even doing long posts like this. But I want to thank everyone who does come here, I plan on putting some secret contests up soon for the faithful! Ya'll are crazy. If I get ahead of myself the schedule may increase at some point. We will see!

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I hope everyone had a good start to the race that is 2009. I started it learning how to crochet! Check out Boscoe! Eventually I'll make a Carl one, perhaps.

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Happy New Year, earlies! Today I got my license renewed. I probably should of gone with a new picture but I've never before been given the option (I think I'm getting senior benefits) so me with the fro-mullet and Mankind shirt will stay with me for four more years. The really annoying thing was walking uptown to the DMV carrying this sail of a book, Kramer's Ergot 7. I had to bring it back to manhattan today so I could return it. My copy has a misprint! Aside from that it looks interesting. I haven't actually read any of it. I just enjoy carrying it every where I go!

Ok, that's the end of 08' for Carl's Large Story. IT WILL FINISH IN 2009!!! But don't quote me on that! Now back to Guitar Hero! It gives me worse hand pain then the real thing. Obviously not designed for humans! But a fun, addictive, Christmas gift anyway.

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Happy Holidays! Drink it up!

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Tonight I go to see Neil's Young. Jill got me tickets for my birthday.
Excelsior!

And here's an Iron Man drawing I did for my soon-to-be-nephews bedroom.



The kids love Ironman.

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I plug!

If you like swashbuckling pick up Crogan's Vengeance by Chris Schweizer. I just read it the other day and it was the high seas of entertainment!

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My loyal ibook g3 appears to have bitten the dust. I am putting it out on the raft with torches tonight for her loyal service. They attempted to sway me with their fancy "G4's" and "G5's" and "Intels" and "Mac os X 10.3 thru 5's", but I always stayed true. I knew she was due to go anytime, so for the last couple years I've backed up everything regularly. Her soul will live on though her body returns to the dirt and minerals from whence she came. I expect your brother, 2nd generation ipod to soon follow, as well as your sister, old ass phone. I will be dragged kicking and screaming into the '10s. Goodbye ibook g3!

Here's hoping you resurrect in three days time.

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Happy Thanksgivings!!

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Dah! There is never enough time to do comics! Bah!

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Congratulations to Big 0! Welcome to the era of LARGE POLITICS! I've updated the archives and added links to the large scroll versions of chapter 3 and 4!
So for yall that are behind and hate clicking through pages, get yourself a cup of Irish breakfast tea and a hard piece of bread, cause its time to rock and scroll!

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I dunno. Something is going on today. I think Fringe is on? No, that's not it.

Congrats to the Phillies and today is Election day! So vote for large politics!

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Now all ya'll know by the cap on Bill$ brow that he is a devout Phillies fan. So right now he is going batshit that the game did not finish last night! Carl on the other hand just likes dressing up as mascots and making weird signs. (Carl says: "It's not BOOB (though that is cool if you think so), its '80 '08, as in Phillies last and only world series, and the hope of this year!")

I dunno Carl, you are stretching. I mean you got a hyphen in there! I call you out on a single entendre!

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Sorry this is late! I'm overworked!

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Go Phillies!

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Heyo. SPX 2008 was a soul-saving blast. I have to say it's been an odd year of cons for me. NYCC tested my limits for reals, and I felt like a fish out of water. MoCCA one he other hand was "my people", and hotly anticipated. Unfortunately it was also balls-hot and had me in a low mood for most of it. Despite record sales, I wasn't that interested in looking at people's work, trading and BUYING. ENTER SPX! I was way not in the mood for it actually, but figured I'd come around, and I had much fun. I have a load of goodies to go through, and spent more than I sold. Gotta get that economy rolling! The new Saturday schedule gets thumbs up. It certainly felt like there was more people than ever before. I didn't really do much in the way of after-parties, but I found my way to the Ignatz which was buzzing. It was cool. A great advertisement for the nominees. Many of whom I went and purchased their books the next day. Nothing like big slide projections of comic covers and seeing some of the winners faces to help navigate myself to the tables for winning purchase! PURCHASE! The floor was awesome. I met many new people. I'm excited to finish my books and have some COLLECTIONS for 09!

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Hi everyone. I'm busy getting ready for SPX this weekend, where I will have limited copies of Carl's Large Story #4, plus all other comics by me! WOOT!

Now! Here's a Nausicaa drawing. Click for much bigger.

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Next Carl Story: Carl's Large Stimulus Package!
Next week: More lame jokes!

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I'm seriously waiting for John McJeans to opposite beam Big O! This is the most entertaining politics has been since that one time.

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It's the second week of September so that makes it an official TWO YEARS of Carl's Large Story. Geez. I feel like this must be the slowest read ever, so I thank all of you awesome people who come here regularly. I'll try not to push it past three. Looking it over though, at first I felt like it's taking forever, but on the other hand being a mother of five, it's amazing I get anything done!

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No post next Tuesday! So I post today! Carl enjoyed Big O's speech last night. Those were some large politics! GO BIG O!

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I'm off to Ohio on Friday for a long weekend of BBQ, perch, and euchre at Lake Erie. That means on Friday I will post page 120, instead of next Tuesday. Easy enough!

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So, I've been thinking about how I have numerous projects in various forms of near finished-ness. And how if I keep going this way I may have 3-5 booksize books done, possibly all at once. So. I think I need to work out some sort of organization for myself. Maybe I should pretend I'm a real publisher and I'm also 3 different artists. How would I stagger my releases! How would I organize this mammoth exercise! I'm still missing plenty of material, so that should be the priority for the rest of this year. Tear-Stained Makeup Book 1 of 3 is the closest to completion. I just have to finish some re-dos (that shouldv'e been done already). Hell, Tear-Stained Book 2 is already half done. Carl's Large Story is over the halfway mark. I'd like to re-do the old carl collection in a better format. Then there's secret project which should tip in over a hundred pages by the end of the year. That's serious backburner though because I haven't done enough to decide if it will ever see light of day.

Man, the whole idea of one thing a time, does not resonate with me at all.

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So begins chapter 5. Secret project is now up to 14 pages. My South Jersey weekend cut into my page a day, but sometimes you need Ocean City clam strips, custard, and salt water taffy. I also went to the drive-in in Vineland, my hometown. It was never operational when I was growing up, but its been revived! It was much fun, though Jill and I had trouble staying awake thru Pineapple Express. I'm not built for double features! Also, I hit my quota of dick jokes about 3/4 of the way thru Stepbrothers.

Anyway here's another Carlfield! This time from my friend Jeff! I dig Carl screaming colors.

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CHAPTER 4 is done! I guess that's the one new thing I'll have for SPX. Now enjoy more Carlfield, FOR THE WIN!

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Nothing particulary awesome to proclaim this week. I haven't seen Dark Knight yet, but I postulated last week that I believe it has a twist ending revealing that Knox is the true villian.

People keep telling me I'm wrong!

The Dark Knox vs. Bruce Vain.

Next week is the END of Carl's Large Story Chapter 4. Which reminds me I have to update my archives.

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I was cleaning out some of my shelves last night when I discovered this awesome picture of Andrew Jackson swinging bolos (I forgot to scan it), that I drew a couple years back. I had completely forgotten that, originally Tear-Stained Makeup was going to be a series of progressively weirder stories (now I'll be lucky if I get one done.) I believe the idea was to have Tildy and Wilson teams up with the bolo-throwing ghost of Andrew Jackson to enact some sort of vengeance on history.

Man, I used to have good ideas!

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Since finishing TSM #7, I've been struggling with schedules and working and figuring out the best method for finishing CLS. My logic, simply, was that CLS was closer to being done than anything else so i should focus and finish it. My conclusion reached after much soul searching is that the old ways are the best ways. So Tear-Stained #8, (and a secret OTHER project), may come to light before CLS is done. This is because I lack the capacity to work on one thing. Ironically if I only work on one thing, I will never get it done. I read somewhere that Kim Deitch has a lot of books in the works at once. So I'll take after one of my heroes and just be MARCOS CRAZY BOOKS. Swear to god one year I will put out nine hardcovers. That's cool though, the juices thrive best when they are juiced with a variety of my brain fruit at once. It's like a V-8.

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Hi all, hope you had a good holiday weekend! Mine was solid. A couple of days in hot, humid South Jersey. It was righteous, cept for getting bite in the ass by a great dane while riding a bike! Don't worry, no skin was broken. Then I ate ribs.

Last night I watched Nick Fury: Agent of Shield. It wasn't sa bad as I expected. I mean it was crap, but so many comic book movies are anyway. And it did have Arnim Zola in it! Now, I don't now much about Zola cept Kirby made him and Justin likes drawing him celebrating Independence day and dancing. But I appreciated the Zola fanservice. But I don't know where they got off calling that one lady Viper. Someone call Steranko!!!

GAH! When's Labor Day.

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FRIDAYS ARE CANCELED!

Ok. SO. This two pages a week isn't really working out for me. Kinda cutting into my freedom style of making comics. Then I realized I'm my own boss and that at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is doing the book in the best spirits possible.

So Boss Marcos has cut Art Marcos to freelance hours. So he can have more free time to dance amongst the daisies and do other projects.

Sorry for any disappointments! I appreciate everyone who comes here week after week. I love you all, no lies.

I'm off to do my killer daisy dance.

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Up at a somewhat reasonable time! Chapter 4 is almost done! I finally worked out some details, the climax if you will, of Carl's Large Story. Surprisingly, it wasn't where I thought it'd be. I found it in my hand, when I was looking for the trees.

And I am absolutely in love with it! Can't wait to finish this story!

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There! Man, I'll get this train back on the tracks one of these days. No more delays! I

I saw "There Will Be Blood", last weekend. It was really enjoyable, but I have to say while I watched I thought it would make an awesome comic. Not that the film needs improving upon, I just had visions of Jeff Lemire oil fields.