Fabtastic Preview

We've been a bit quiet, but it doesn't mean we weren't working on several new projects.

Our new project, Fabtastic, is fully drawn. Now we just need to colour, photoshop and letter it. Here's a preview of the first page in three levels of work:

The original black and white.

A scan of Sally's original colouring.

And here it is after some photoshop cleanup and tweaking.

More about this project very soon!

--Mickey

Spider-Man : Swinging

A full-length Spider-Man/ Venom story I did with Kenric. I love the S&M homoerotic innuendos in the first page. It is utterly and totally intentional. If I was into tattoos (and I'm not) I'd get that image on one of my butt cheeks.

Read it here.

--Mickey

Along Came a Puppy

Sally's take on Spider-Man is undoubtedly unique. I only wish I had the original scans and could re-letter it. Some of the speech bubbles are atrocious. This is vintage 2002 stuff, my very first collaboration with Sally.

Forget the Clone Saga, The Other, Brand New Day, Civil War... This is the most epic Spider-Man story you are ever going to read: Spider-Man teams up with a stray puppy against the obscure villain Speed Demon. 'Nuff said true believers. 

Enjoy!

--Mickey

Spider-Mania

Just before Cheese Comics we did a few Spider-Man submissions. About a decade ago I was very good at pestering Marvel and DC comics editors and getting them to look at my work. I created two stories with Kenric and one with Sally and they'll be added to the website in the next few days.

This 10 pager was my first collaboration with Kenric. It's quite raw, which is part of it's charm. Lots of action, some silly jokes and a twist ending that will Make M. Night Shyamalan retire from film making in shame.

Enjoy!

--Mickey

Whatever 2

I couldn't actually find the original files so I had to scan one of the printed issues. It made the artwork looks extra gritty, which I think actually work in it's favour. 

In Whatever 2 we wanted to explore Beatrix' real life and find out what kind of life can create such a bizarre and demented child. The result was hands down the darkest story I've ever written with some amazing art from Sally. It was so dark that one review tore us apart for being mean spirited and vicious for the sake of it. I stand behind this story, but I doubt we'll go in that direction again any time soon in future installments of Whatever (and yes, a new story is on the way, after over six years!).

Whatever 2 is a triple feature including some more "traditional" Whatever humour for balance.

Enjoy.

--Mickey

Pritty Please

Ah, Pritty Please. An early effort by Kenric and me. I tried cramming too much story into twenty two pages and some of the artwork was rushed due to deadlines, but I'm still quite fond of it. It's a strong concept and the end result isn't all bad. There's lots of action and some silly one-liners to make it worth a read. Lets just say that you learn from your mistakes and that Pritty Please was a great learning experience for us...!

There are plans to reboot the concept from scratch and I hope it'll work out better on round two. Until then, you can read the first effort here.

--Mickey

Dick Taistee

This is one of the few comics I illustrated myself. Jeff Smith (creator of Bone) stopped at our booth in one comics convention and bought a copy of C4 where this story was originally published in black and white. He pointed at the artwork and said he liked it. So I can say, without lying, that Jeff Smith likes my penis. That's OK because I also like his Bone.  Haha.

If you find these penis puns painful, avoid reading this strip at all costs because you'll find it too hard (hahaha) to read.

--Mickey

Jewish Comics!

Digging up through some of our old stuff I found this old submission Sally and I made for the Jewish Chronicles. Just in time for the Jewish holidays!

--Mickey

Vampy the Buffalo Slayer

Vampy the Buffalo Slayer is a short and sweet Buffy the Vampire Slayer parody by Kenric Narbrough and Mickey Blumental.

--Mickey

Chip

A short story by Sally-Anne Hickman and me. It was printed as part of the anthology C4.

You can read it here.

--Mickey