For once, a MySpace page that isn't visually and/or aurally assaulting – MySpace Dark Horse Presents. The same series of online comics which has brought you works by Joss Whedon, Tony Milionaire, Bob Fingerman and Mike Mignola brings you a tale illustrated by Truth Serum author Jon Adams.
Please join us (and other people with internet access) in reading the eight-page Matt Parkinson and Jeremy Atkins-penned Hobo Fet. It's guaranteed to make you have an emotional reaction! Apathy counts as an emotion. So does sleepiness.
Read Hobo Fet online right now.
Posted Wednesday, 5.07.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
If You Like Free Comics, Get Ready to Like Something
As part of Free Comic Book Day, Wideawake Press has created Piltdown, a downloadable comic available to anybody with an internet connection (that's you!). Contributors include some fantastic talent like J. Chris Campbell, Andy Runton, Joe Lambert and so forth. Also included is some less fantastic talent. Here's a sample image from our story.
If you're not totally turned off by that, download your copy today, or just view it online!
Posted Saturday, 5.03.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
Each day we're inundated with mail from our adoring public. Most of what we receive is either burned or donated to the local homeless shelter. On occassion something arrives that's so special, we give it to one of our iterns to file away wherever interns file stuff away.
Here's one such item – some fan art sent in by what appears to be a mentally disabled foreigner, or perhaps some kind of infant. There was no time to read the signature, other than glancing at it peripherally, but we think it was drawn by somebody named Fibry. Thanks, Fibry!
Send us your fan art and if we actually look at it, maybe we'll post it here!
Posted Thursday, 5.01.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
Probably Even Your Uncle Loves Us
Our new weekly strip has become the proverbial talk of the town. Not only did The Wall Street Journal recently do a write-up about Truth Serum, but we've also received the following praise:
"If this strip were for sale, I would totally shoplift it. Even if it was free."
- Gerry (a guy who appears to live in our parking lot)
"This is far superior to my own strip in every regard. Oh. Wait. This is my strip. Well now I'm just confused."
- Jon Adams
"I love this comic so much that I've started a fan club for it. We meet every night under my bed. It's just us and a copy of the strip. And a flashlight. And a bottle of shampoo. So far I'm the only member, but I've posted flyers around town."
- Stan Walters (via email)
In other news, we've added an RSS feed for the strip, for anybody who's so lazy they can't be bothered to bookmark us.
Posted Wednesday, 4.09.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
Eager for a venue to tell short, mostly plotless jokes that otherwise wouldn't fit into lengthier stories, Truth Serum is no longer just an irregularly published series of graphic novels. Now it's also a classic three-panel strip, a la Momma or Garfield! Beginning today, Truth Serum will appear weekly (every Wednesday), in full color and for FREE! And nobody can stop us. Not even you.
Posted Tuesday, 4.01.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
Our good friend Ted Wilson recently sponsored an episode of the popular comics podcast Indie Spinner Rack. It was a great opportunity to learn all sorts of interesting facts about Ted. Listen for yourself.
Monday, 3.31.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
In mostly boring, but potentially perplexing news, we've changed our URL from the lengthy theuniversityofmyopia.com to the succinct, and more apt citycyclops.com. Please tell all your friends.
Saturday, 1.01.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
Who Likes Well-Dressed Animals?
We recently completed a series of eight illustrations for an upcoming issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. They'll be accompanying a short story by author Arthur Bradford. Here's what this series of illustrations would look like if it were only one illustration.
Posted Saturday, 3.01.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
The Make Out with Don Sequitur Contest on Facebook
For those of you who are into the whole social networking scene, we've just created a Truth Serum Facebook Group. So head on over and do whatever one does at one of these things. You'll also notice that we're running a contest related to making out with Don Sequitur. If you win, it may be that moment in your life where everything changes. Everything.
Posted Thursday, 1.24.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
There's a new comic creator in town! Budding artist Lucas, a four-year-old Brookline resident has created his first super villain – a man who shoots lasers and push-pins out of his hands. From his elbows he can shoot poison pretzels. They just shoot out and land on the ground. Superheroes pick them up and eat them (because who can resist a pretzel?) and then, presumably, die.
We like to believe Lucas' inspiration comes from the issue of Wizard Magazine he's been carrying around. The issue which features Truth Serum's Don Sequitur on the cover.
As Lucas' father explains,"We've talked abou Don several times. Being four, most of his questions are centered on who's good and who's bad. He's very confused about Don. I asked him what he thought. He said that on the cover Don looked like a bad guy, but inside you could plainly see he wasn't bad. He decided he was probably okay."
Posted Tuesday, 1.22.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
As another year passes us by, you may begin to wonder where it all went. There was probably a lot of TV watching, some time with friends, a little stealing of your neighbor's mail just because you were bored and if you were lucky, you may have even made out with somebody (and unlike the year before, you actually wanted to make out with this person). But what do you have to show for it all? Well if you're like us, then you also published a book called Truth Serum: The Lonely Parade, and you're terrified to let a year go by without whiling away countless hours on another project. That's why we're hard at work on our newest book – Your Only Enemy.
Taking a daring leap, Your Only Enemy is both stylistically and thematically different from our Truth Serum books. For instance, where Truth Serum had occasional references to sexual acts, Your Only Enemy has explicit depictions of such acts. Truth Serum was black and white, but Your Only Enemy will be full-color. Most importantly Truth Serum was nominated for two Eisner Awards, but Your Only Enemy is likely to be an esoteric venture, completely incapable of mass appeal! Here's a little of what you can expect.
Our tiny protagonist was conceived on a scrap piece of paper in a supermarket over three years ago, and this is the first finished illustration we did of him.
Posted Tuesday, 1.01.08 | digg | stumbleupon | del.icio.us
