Hello all,

The guest comics continue until I get set up with my gear again. Today’s gracious contribution was by thisisrabbit. This piece actually wasn’t intended as a guest comic, but rather as a continuation of thisisrabbit’s doodle a day project. I’m just very fortunate it went up last weekend. The timing is uncanny, it’s as though he knew I would be burgled…waitaminute!!

In all seriousness though, it was unexpected, but awesome, and thisisrabbit very kindly let me use it here for the site so you could all enjoy a comic this week.

Thank you, kind sir.

Thanks for reading,
Marc

Hello all,

So this is the guest comic I promised last week. My friend Matt kindly contributed so I could have a break for a week and get back into the drawing when I came back from Australia.

What a fantastic job he has done! I was stoked when I saw this in my inbox. Thanks so much Matt. Please go visit Matt’s website and check out his artwork there.

Unfortunately, I came home, and my house had been burgled. The computers, TV – all gone. It’s a frustrating and terrible position to find yourself in. I now have no way of drawing or uploading my comics. Thank god for Matt’s comic this week. I’ll try and get a couple more guest comics lined up until I get on my feet, and can start drawing my own comics again. It’s a real pain in the ass. Hopefully I get my stuff replaced soon, and I can get back to doing what I love, which is making comics.

I’ll do a blog post later in the week about Christchurch. The city the comic is set in. I might even have a comic to contribute around the devastating event that happened there.

Hope you enjoy this guest comic by Matt!

Thanks for reading
Marc

You know what happens when you spend too much time on Twitter? You end up meeting awesome, talented people. One such person is Celina Hernandez. Celina and I got talking through Twitter and she is such a great artist! Celina graciously accepted my offer of free stickers, however I was not expecting her to take the time to do her own take on Adam as a response to my sending the stickers!

I could never draw anything this cute. Maybe I should hire Celina to start drawing ActionMan Adam? I think if Adam looked like this, he would have no lady troubles at all. Who can resist those eyes? Seriously.

Thank you so much Celina, I can’t wait to get it framed and on my wall. Celina has a website, you should go have a look!

Also: if you’d like to add me on Twitter, then please do so, you can find me here.

Thanks for reading!
Marc

Saturday was just miserable, it was raining and awful outside. Even though I knew the Zinefest was being held in a good under cover venue, at the back of my mind I was a little concerned that all the rain might force people to stay home instead coming down to see those of us who were exhibiting at the Auckland Zinefest.

Thankfully, I was quickly proven wrong. In fact it was the total opposite. People not only came out, but there was a lot of them!

I arrived with a bit of time to spare before the 11am begin time. My table buddy was thisisrabbit, and between us, we divided up the share of the table we needed for our wares. Not long after setup and even before the official start time we had people coming around all the tables having a look and striking up conversation.

Generally I find selling my own stuff a very weird experience. You have to be enthusiastic, but not pushy because people that bully sales, suck. Trying to get people interested in content they know nothing about is not an easy task. Thankfully, with an event like the Zinefest you tend to be with other creative people and selling to an audience of like-minded people. It makes everything a whole bunch easier.

Things got manic around lunchtime. Thisisrabbit had a workshop he had to host, and I was left in sole charge of the table for both of our wares. It wasn’t an issue when he left, I was happily sketching for a cool six year old who was asking me questions like “how do you draw so good?” – however it changed fast.

From there the day was busy. I spoke to a lot of very cool people. Young and old. Locals and some from abroad. The whole day was such a good experience. Everyone I spoke to was very interested, encouraging, and the vibe of the show felt very community driven. During the down times I was even interviewed for an Internet TV thing, and for Radio New Zealand. No idea when either of those might show up, but it was an interesting experience!

The day was just too much fun. If you came out and stopped by, thanks! Much love to the organisers for putting on a great show!

Finally, go check out this collaboration doodle over at thisisrabbit‘s Doodle a day Flickr. It was worked on by thisisrabbit, PodgyPanda and myself.

Thanks for reading!
Marc

Hey all,

How are things? So it was Comic-Con International this weekend just past. Did anyone go? If so, what secrets did you learn while you were in sunny San Diego? Please tell me, I must know! It’s been a while since I have been to Comic-Con. I miss it a lot. I have made friends there, and had some of the best experiences. It’s like nothing else. If you did go, I hope you had a great time of it!

So what did I do since I wasn’t at Comic-Con? Nothing exciting I’m afraid. I looked after my wife, who had touch up iLasik surgery on her eyes. She had to go in again for a minor correction. Then, to test them out, just three days later I took her to see Inception at the IMAX. Ha ha! I should have thought that decision through before hand. However, she survived with only a little fatigue and dehydration (it was a long flick).

It was enjoyable. That is all I will say, as enough has been talked of it on the internet already.

Finally, did everyone see this latest homage of Adam by my friend Matt? Matt has a new website full of art up, please go have a look see.

How was your weekend?

Thanks for reading
Marc

Last week, unexpectedly, I was lucky enough to see two different art pieces from two different artists doing an homage to Adam! Now before you suggest that I paid both of these guys to do so, I will let you know that it’s not in my budget to do so. Ha ha! I will however buy them both a beer because it was awesome in both cases. Let me break it down for you.

Robin Hotter – Monday, I get word from Robin (a frequent commenter on this site and a super nice guy) that he was inspired on a trip home from work, and just had to draw something. Amazingly, in this spur of the moment – his art mission turned to Adam. You can read about it here, at his website. The result was cool, like a Dan Hipp infused piece of work, and I’m digging the colours on it. Spontaneous art is the best!

That segways perfectly into the other artist:

thisisrabbit – thisisrabbit I have known for some time. He pretty much has a hand in everything. On the web or on the streets, you can find his special brand of unique art all over the place. To the point where it even showed up in a popular video game! Often introspective and mostly hilarious, thisisrabbit is dedicating his time to a new “doodle-a-day” project over on his Flickr page. If you have a Flickr account or a twitter account, I highly recommend you add him as a contact so you can keep up with the project. I check it out daily. Last Thursday, thisisrabbit was kind enough to feature Adam as one of the daily subjects, and I was stoked to see what he’d done!

Thanks to both those guys, if either of you catch me at the pub, I’ll buy you that beer. Cheers!

Thanks for reading
Marc

Hello June!

We are basically reaching that halfway mark of the year now. That just seems amazing to me. What wondrous things have 2010 promised and delivered to you? For myself looking back it has been a year of change so far. The day job is changing day to day, and that certainly keeps it all interesting. Then I come home and work on my comic whenever I can.

I started in February which means this week I have been running the comic online for five months. That went fast! It’s been fun. Thank you very much if you came by and read the comic. Thanks to those that also left comments – the feedback is welcome and appreciated.

If you are reading and would like to leave a comment, please do so below. It’d be great to hear from you.

Thanks for reading,
Marc

Here you go, a new comic!

What a fast weekend that was. Auckland had a very fast reprieve from the rain on Saturday only for it to eventually come back. It was nice to see our old friend the Sun. He was missed, and he left far too soon for most peoples liking.

Managed to finally get around to seeing “Up” by Pixar this weekend. As I’m only a year late to this party most people have probably seen this film. I really enjoyed it. It was very cool, in that heartfelt, “awwwwww” kind of way. It’s amazing that even an animated film about an old man can be awesome.

Thanks for reading,
Marc

Sometimes people can be incredibly cool.

This week has been a good one. A couple of weeks ago, Dan, from Sassy Fortnight informed me he wanted a break from his comic for a week and asked me to draw a page for him so he would have something to run during this week. If you haven’t been over to Sassy Fortnight  yet, go have a look. It’s a really cute and fun comic which has Dinosaurs and a Robot in it. What more do you need from the Internet?

Having never done a guest comic before, I was very aware that by saying “yes” I knew had to come up with the goods – a comic that would hopefully be fun for the creator, but also their readers. Not to mention you’re dealing with their own characters. It’s a unique situation. I know I can do anything with my characters at any time, but playing with someone else’s, and getting one page to tell a story you hope people will like – it’s intimidating. Dan is a really nice dude though, and wanting to lend a helping hand I asked for the deadline, and then worked it into my schedule.

After about 5 hours I had the finished product done. It went live this week – so please, go and check it out, and let me know if you liked it! Thankfully Dan did like it, and had some nice things to say about my own comic in the process. Cheers, dude!

The other nice thing to happen this week was a very kind review of my first comic by Robin Hotter. Robin is another New Zealand based artist, and he contributes his own awesome comic called Rally Mark to DMC Comics, an Anthology series (to which I have contributed to) run here in New Zealand.

Robin’s review was really cool, and totally made my day. Go have a read if you feel so inclined!

Hope the week has treated you just as well,

Thanks for reading!
Marc