This and the next three WebSpace Pages were intended for Chapter 3 proper, but I couldn’t fit them in and still make the big Third Man reveal be #100–which was important to me. The Captain isn’t the most popular SuperFogey, but he is the most important. All the clues to why are here in his [...]
Had a lot of fun drawing Spy Gal in her civvies. Just makes sense to me that she’d be into firearms. Originally, her profile pic was completely different. She was leaning on a pillow and it was nice, but…I hated it. So I’ve switched it out for the one you see above. Matches the other [...]
That profile pic of Jerry is my most favorite drawing of him that I’ve done. It just captures him so perfectly. The first mission of the Society of Heroes is a tale I want to tell. It should appear as a backup story in a future SuperFogeys book. Watch for that.
This has the worst SuperFogeys drawing I’ve ever done or likely will do. That photo of young Swifty and his car is just atrocious. The less said here the better.
The Space Pig’s a minister. Why not? I did it as a setup for something later in the chapter, but I don’t think anyone ever made the connection. I debated for a long time whether “High on the Hog” was blasphemous. I guess I decided it wasn’t!
I wish I had never done the WebSpace pages. Originally, I thought they would be a great change of pace. A fun way to get to know characters better that the readers would enjoy. Well, that all happened. To an extent. But then I kept doing it. And doing it. I felt some reader fatigue [...]
Captain Supermarket is actually a real person. Sort of. The real Captain Supermarket is Justin Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of Th3rd World Studios. “The Rant Aisle” is his sometimes blog on pop culture that can be found on the Th3rd World site. I liked the idea of a person thinking themselves a superhero simply for trolling message [...]
Full disclosure: I’m not a gambler. In fact, it’s very much against my personal, religious beliefs to gamble. Still, the idea popped into my head for these characters and I had to do it. Besides, I know the Fogeys are going to Vegas one day. Guess who they’re gonna find there?
Mega Matt was done as a favor to Th3rd World publisher Michael DeVito. He has a friend, Matt, who is pretty much as you see above. Well, not exactly. But pretty close. I had a lot of fun doing this page and drew on a couple of my own friends for inspiration. In fact, I [...]
Captain Emo was the winning entry in the first SuperFogeys “Create-A-Character” contest. He was created by William Sharpe, III and will reappear in a future chapter. Had so much fun with the song lyrics. I can’t write lyrics, which made it all the more perfect, I think.
Here’s the cover to the first printed edition of the SuperFogeys, collecting both chapters 1 and 2.
This is the cover to Book 2, which collected both all of Chapter 3 and the backup story, “Captain Spectacular and Star Maiden in the Inevitable Dimension.”
With Chapter 4 complete, it’s time to roll out Book #3! This cover was a collaboration between me and the artist known only as Jorzac. He generously provided pencils and then those are my sloppy inks slapped on top. Colors byMADConk. Thanks, Jorzac! Collection #3 of course contains the entirety of Chapter 4, along with a [...]
UPDATE! COLLECTION #4 NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! This is it! The cover to the fourth collection of the SuperFogeys. Dare I say it’s our best one yet? Didn’t start out that way though. Th3rd World Publisher Michael DeVito deserves all the credit in the world for the stellar job he did on the coloring for [...]
THE TEASER FOR CHAPTER 7, “VISITING DAY” Chapter 6, “Funeral for a Frenemy” is over! The Dr. Rocket we knew was really the impostor Herman! The real Dr. Rocket is back! So…now what? What happens in “Visiting Day?” I cannot tell, but I can tease… Spoiler Alert! Skip to the next section of the post [...]
Yes, that is my wife in the comic up above. I suppose this deserves a bit of explanation. We just got our new Mac a couple week ago. Macs are new to Erin and she was playing with the photo booth feature. She sent me one photo of herself (the one that constitutes the sixth [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Nice to see a little color around here, isn’t it? The only things that should black and white at Christmastime is “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Miracle on 34th St.” Next Week: Guest Strip Week is upon us! Next week you’ll get not two but four posts, one each on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Merry Christmas to everybody out there. Unlike Swifty, I actually mean it. INKS Every once in a while, I really like how something I draw looks in black and white. This is one of those times, so I thought I’d share it with you since I know at least some of you are [...]
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the creation of the SuperFogeys. Can you believe that? Why, it seems like only yesterday… wait, not it doesn’t. It’s been a long freakin’ time and I can feel it in my bones. To celebrate, I drew up the above image (and inked and colored it meself) to [...]
Weather happens. And sometimes it knocks out Marc Lapierre’s power and he has no way to create the strip, much less post it. Apologies! Marc is one of the more dedicated artists I’ve ever worked with and believe you me–the strip would be done if it were possible. In fact, even the midst of this [...]
This week is the big launch of the Kickstarter Campaign for the SuperFogeys Sourcebook and Adventure Game. Follow this link to check out the campaign, and here’s my blog post on the whole thing with details on how this whole thing got started and what it means for SuperFogeys fans. This is big and it’s [...]
Hi there. Can we talk for a second? Cool. It’s funny. The sixth anniversary of the SuperFogeys flew by last month and I barely noticed it. I have so much fun working on the strip that I forget about stuff like that. Just creating the SuperFogeys is its own reward, one I’m only too happy [...]
Hey all, Well, it’s been a week since my last “Call to Arms” and in that time the needle on the SuperFogeys Sourcebook & Adventure Game Kickstarter has been moved in a big way! As of this writing, we’re 123% funded with $3,678! That’s incredible. Many of you really stepped up over the last week [...]
Hey everybody, surprise update today! Marc got this sweet idea for a Fight Poster after reading some of the scripts for the strips that are just ahead. The Spy Gal-Zurida throw down promises to be EPIC. It all begins on Monday. I can’t wait to see what Marc does with it. And in case you [...]
Hey, Merry Christmas everyone! Can you believe the above piece? I ask Marc very late last week if there was anything he might be able to do for Christmas and he came up with this in record time. I’m so over the moon in love with it. My wife is, too. She’s determined to get [...]
Happy New Year, everybody! As some of you may have noticed, guest strips were a little light this Christmas (thanks again, Crystal Murphy, for steppin’ up!). Marc did a beautiful piece to fill in the gap a bit, and now I thought I’d give it a try with my “guest” strip. How do you do [...]
Welcome to a bit of extra fun. Marc is taking a short vacation from the regular duties and in the mean time I’m taking them back with a short, four-part series that’s a little off from our regular programming. Mostly, these serve to give me a chance to illustrate some characters I’ve never drawn before [...]
Day 2 of Marc’s break means more extra stuff from just me! Believe it or not, this is the first time I’ve drawn Zurida (and Raptor X, but he’s newer). I’ve inked her, but I’ve never pencilled her until now. It helped me to really appreciate the amazing design artist Rossana Bugini came up with. [...]
Week 2 of Marc’s break! I do art on these extra strips and Marc comes back next week! Miss the last regular update on the main story? Check it out right here. I couldn’t resist finding an excuse to draw Captain Spectacular. He’s still my favorite character to draw, even after all this time. I [...]
This is it! The end of our little Q&A side trip. I had a lot of fun making these, though, to be honest, they came about at a really crummy time in my schedule. I got pretty close to turning in this one a day late. This one is probably the meatiest of the four, [...]
Merry Christmas, everybody! (For real this time. If you missed our final regular strip of 2013, then you don’t know just how unmerry things got.) Last year, Marc kicked butt with this classic holiday piece. This year, he does himself one better with a spot-on Dr. Suess impression. “How Dr. Rocket Stole Christmas.” Brilliant. This [...]
There’s a great story behind this one. A few months back, Marc’s wife Stephanie contacted me and several of Marc’s artist friends on Facebook to recruit us for help with an amazing present for Marc’s 40th birthday. Those of you who follow Marc on Twitter and Facebook know he’s a prolific artist. He draws on [...]
Marc here with a look at my design sketch for The Caretaker, a new and important character in the secret history of the SuperFogeys universe. Here’s Brock’s description for The Caretaker in the script for Monday’s strip: The Caretaker—a cosmic god who lives on the Moon (think the Watcher, but actually active)—stands watch at Earthrise [...]
THIRD UPDATE 5/11/15: In case you missed it in the blog, SuperFogeys will be moving to a 3-times-a-week schedule when we return in June to make things a bit easier on our patrons. Also, SuperFogeys issue 3 is now available on Comixology! SECOND UPDATE 5/5/15: Whoa! Just a few hours after we hit our first [...]
Well, it’s finally settled. After six long months SuperFogeys is finally on its way back. With the majority of Chapter 20′s strip in progress or already finished, Marc and I are confident is saying definitively that we will be back with Chapter 20, “Crossing Worlds,” for a three-times-a-week engagement (MWF) starting June 15th! I’ve got [...]
UPDATE 7/13/16: SUPERFOGEYS RETURNS MONDAY, AUG. 1st, 2016. GET ALL THE DETAILS RIGHT HERE! UPDATE! Is the comic dead? No! Full details right here. ORIGINAL POST: Marc and I are about to start work on Chapter 21 and in the meantime we give you this INCREDIBLE poster courtesy of Marc to show off a bit [...]
Welcome to the first of this week’s bonus strips! Each of the two strips will demonstrate a different side of the SuperFogeys, the humor and the serious. Today is humor. This actually constitutes a deleted scene from Chapter 20, and would have come directly after this strip. Looking back, I kind of wish I’d thought [...]
Monday was action. Tuesday was humor. Today is the drama. I didn’t realize it until now, but each of the updates for this week’s 10th Anniversary Celebration represents of the three keys SuperFogeys typically plays in. That’s probably why today’s strip felt so right. So, in case you haven’t noticed, today’s strip marks my return [...]
UPDATE 11/15/18 This is the LAST DAY to pledge your support! We are over 250% funded at this point and there are so many Kickstarter-exclusive goodies available through our stretch goals for all those who pledge $35 and above that it’s insane. The book is done, it only needs to be printed. And now we [...]
THIS IS IT! There is less than 24 hours left to back the SuperFogeys Kickstarter and secure your copy of Volume One: Inaction Heroes, a 300-page book collecting the first SEVENTEEN chapters of the SuperFogeys saga and bunch of SuperFogeys Origins stories besides. We’ve blown past SIX stretch goals, so there’s a bunch of goodies [...]
UPDATE: Great news! After just a day and a half we have met our goal and Marc can officially get what he needs and start drawing again! To say we’re both blown away would be an understatement. I knew the fans would come through for us, but to have it happen so fast is astounding. My [...]
Yes! After more than a YEAR, we are finally coming back with Chapter 23: The Captain and His Father on Monday, August 5, 2019. Not only that, but we are promising TWO chapters before our next significant hiatus, with only a two-week break in between them. We’re so sorry it’s taken us this long to [...]
