Missed Connections Comix: Pizza Schmizza
New Father strip by TVD from last month’s Dune drawing night at Cafe Racer! Sorta nsfw? I dunno, it’s got nipples.
TVD the one and only Tom Van Deusen interviewed by the one true Max Clotfelter
-Tom is it true you’ve only been making comics for three years? How old were you and what made you decide to devote the majority of your creative output into drawing comics?Aside from a strip I briefly did for my college newspaper and a few other odds and sods, that’s true. My first real stab at writing a comic book was A Matter of Life and Death, but that wasn’t originally going to be a comic book. I hadn’t found a lot of work in the medium that really spoke to me at that point, and I was doing these Powerpoint presentations where I read a story along with projected images.
For AMOLAD I decided to draw all the images, but everyone who saw it as I was working on it called it a comic book, which honestly pissed me off. I was a true artisté, not some man-child playing out their male power fantasies. But my girlfriend at the time introduced me to a few contemporary comics I didn’t hate, and from there I discovered Ivan Brunetti, Gabrielle Belle, John Porcellino, Peter Bagge, Julie Doucet, Joe Matt, Chester Brown and scores of others all at once. I just inhaled it. That got me serious about printing it as a comic book, and when I brought it to the Olympia Comics Fest it was well-received. Everyone was just so nice to me.
TVD interviewed by MC
Awn the road again
INTRUDER #6 release party and art show at 112 Printworks with Broken Press and friends. May 3rd.
guest include - Dash Shaw, Eric Reynolds, Jacq Cohen, Blair Wilson, and Kelly Froh.
INTRUDER X 112 Printworks/Broken Press
4 color limited edition silk screened print by Kazimir Strzepek
Freak Mini Comic Book YAY! on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
The Fantagraphics Bookstore presents: Freak Mini Comic Book YAY!
100 of these 16 page mini comics will be available at the Fantagraphics Bookstore on May 4th to go along with FREE COMIC BOOK DAY festivities.
Larry Reid who runs the store asked me to edit this booklet and I was happy to include some of the best cartoonists in the Seattle area.
“Fantagraphics Bookstore will issue an exclusive 16-page Freak Comic Book mini featuring a stellar cast of local alternative artists. Edited by Intruder contributor Marc Palm, the book includes new works by Max Clotfelter, Kelly Froh, Eroyn Franklin, Tom Van Deusen, Ben Horak, Darin Shuler, David Lasky, Aidan Fitzgerald, Pat Moriarity, John Ohannesian, Max Badger, and James Stanton. As May 4 is also Star Wars Day – (“May the Fourth Be With You”) – the mini concludes with touching tributes to Yoda by Peter Bagge, Ellen Forney, Jim Woodring, and Kazimir Stzrepek. Freak Comic Book is limited to 100 copies. Many of the contributing artists will be in attendance to sign their work.” - FBI informant
Howdy! Welcome to our news tumblr! This is the best place to get the skinny on our new and upcoming releases.. The news today is… we launched! Aside from some cool Poochie promo stuff like buttons and a slick t-shirt (100% of profits are dumped into new titles) we have exactly one title under our belts so far:# PPP0001 - Scorched Earth (and Other Stories) Volume 1
By Tom Van Deusen
A slapstick portrait of human puerility. Follow Tom Van Deusen’s despicable doppelgänger (also named Tom) through his tumultuous dating life in the first 4 parts of Scorched Earth, originally run in the Seattle newspaper collection Intruder. Also included are bonus comic strips, one of which is exclusive to this collection and will not be printed again.
24 b&w pages
full color cover
$5.00 + $2.50 shipping (USA)
BIG NEWS! I’m finally launching my tiny imprint Poochie Press Publications with exactly one title, Scorched Earth Volume 1! This includes all of the comics I did for the first five Intruders, some bonus comics and a strip that is exclusive to this book and won’t be printed again! Book by Joel Brenden. Available for purchase TODAY! Also available are Poochie Press t-shirts and buttons. Please “like” our Facebook page Poochie Press Publications and check out the website I built (I hope it’s not too obvious…) Anyhoo, thanks! http://poochiepress.net/
TVD’s started a press! Buy his new book Scorched Earth Volume 1 today!
