Hi, Folks! I’m actually ahead of schedule this week! I got next week’s episodes penciled, inked, and colored already! I rock! They just need lettering, and they are ready to head out into the world. I’ve got a Zen Cart store installed, so we are almost ready to start selling stuff again. I’ve got to do some [...]

Over at www.typealyzer.com, I checked out Johnny Saturn to see what personality type this site belongs to. I find this sort of interesting, because I have to imagine that this tells us more about the personalities of Comicpress theme author (Tyler Martin), and Phil Hofer, who has done a lot of work on this site, [...]

That’s a good question, one that Benita and I’ve bantered back and forth. My position is that this comic is noir or at least nourish because of its moral ambiguity, urban setting, crime and criminals, and its celebration of doomed and/or fatalistic characters. We also have femme fatales, police, hard-luck heroes, brutal action, [...]

    

Hi, Folks! This last Saturday night, I watched the Incredible Hulk, the re-launch of the series starring Ed Norton as Bruce Banner, Liv Tyler as Betty Ross, William Hurt as General Thunderbolt Ross, and Tim Roth as the Abomination. It should also be noted that Tim Blake Nelson as Dr. Sterns was delightful, and he stole [...]

Good Morning, Folks-Welcome to December 08. Recently, I requested a critique for “Johnny Saturn” on a certain forum, and several of my webcartooning peers were kind enough to offer their opinions.  One such critique set me to thinking, though: It stated that many of our “Johnny Saturn” villains were evil for evil’s sake, and that we [...]

    

Hi, Folks: Good friend John Wilson has made “Johnny Saturn” today’s Sketchmag Spotlight over at the Sketch Magazine site.  We are, of course, quite honored.  Plus, he mentions Benita’s spinning wheel, which is a long-standing presence when we do comic shows. You may have noticed that there is no Johnny Saturn store up.  I’ve had technical difficulties, [...]

    

Good Morning, Folks!

Something occurred to me Saturday night-on the web, the distinction between the comic strip cartoonist and the long-form comic artist has just about faded away. It feels like we’re all in the same boat again, and two disciplines that broke apart decades ago are finally spiraling back together. On the web, cartoonists produce sequential art to be distributed one episode at a time. Some comics are funny, some are individual story beats in a greater tale; some have continuity and character development, and some don’t. I for one think this is all tremendously cool.