Several months ago I heard about this relatively new comic called Proof. The whole word-of-mouth thing worked, cuz I picked it up and thoroughly enjoyed it. So much so that I got the artist on the book, Riley Rossmo, to do a commission for me with the characters in a club band. I also picked up the original pencils to a pinup that I thought was particularly rad from issue 11 and sent copies of a few issues up to get signed. He sent me everything back and included an extra piece of art that's just pretty whacky, but also really cool... and I really want to color it in. I might... Maybe I'll do it in photoshop tho. So I got all of that stuff and it was rad... and then the writer, Alex Grecian, offered a this sketchbook for sale that was created for CCI and not offered anywhere else. So I took him up on it and also sent the comics that Riley signed to Alex to sign as well. Just recently got that stuff back along with 3 mini-comics that Alex did (mostly) on his own. And below is all the crazy Proof stuff I've picked up recently. "Snowfall," btw, is my favorite of the mini-comics I think. There's something about things that can make you remember what it was like to feel things as a child that are just impossible to feel now. There's a feeling of remorse at the loss of innocence and naivety, and then it's just kind of confusing b/c why would you want to be able to have feelings like that. But, really, it's the loss of wonder about the world around you that is sad. This comic is like 16 pages and it captures much of that very well.
Proof 11...
Alex Grecian mini-comics...
Proof Sketchbook...
And finally... Riley's artwork!

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Erik Larsen did this on the backing board I'm using for Savage Dragon 2. It's "Hellrazor." When I asked him to do it, he was like, "I have no idea who that is." Which I anticipated. He was surprised to realize that it was his own character. Which was fun. And it, apparently, was the only time he'd been asked to draw Hellrazor. So. Yes, that was fun. :)	And this was done by Peter Laird on the inside back page of the new (FINALLY!) issue of the current TMNT series.

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Erik Larsen did this for me on the backer board of this SD #1 back in June at HeroesCon.

And, just to keep them together... here's the piece from the year before...

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I just now scanned this, which is a shame, but I got Erik Larsen to do a little sketch of that character The Shrew... the one that got eaten up by a pair of chainsaws... on the backer board for SD #1... perhaps of mild interest. Perhaps not.

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Peter Bagge's current series "Apocalypse Nerd" is good.
Really it is. Often outshining the actual comic itself, however, is the backup story that's appeared in each book so far. The coolest one for me, so far, was the "Condensed Biography" of Thomas Paine. It's a hoot. :) And I loved the art that went along with it. I was recently lucky enough to actually pick up all 6 of the original art pages for that story from Peter himself. They just showed up today and here we go: (click the thumbnail for a full-sized image... as usual)
Some other Peter Bagge stuff:
www.peterbagge.com
Peter on myspace
Dark Horse solit for Apocalypse Nerd #1 (and a link to buy)
The Action Suits (Peter's band - he's the drummer)

And in totally unrelated other news... I finally got the new KMFDM album Hau Ruck yesterday. And holy shit. It's WAY better than I hoped for. Definitely a surprise contender for my best albums of 2006. :):) VERY glad Allison and I have tickets for the Friday the 13th show!

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