DID YOU SEE THE NEW SUPERFOGEYS ORIGIN? Two days ago, a brand new SuperFogeys Origin started with art by Steve “Moon Town” Ogden, featuring none other than The Thrice Evil. Many of you went over the moon for Steve’s artwork and requested wallpapers for your desktops. Well, Steve is such a nice guy that he went ahead [...]
MR. CROOK IS BACK…AND SO IS STEVE OGDEN! Seems like we just said farewell to Mr. Crook, but this story takes place a little over 50 years before that one, so all is well. This is the second, amazing page from Steve Ogden. Do him a favor and check out his wonderful webcomic,Moon Town. ONE WEEK [...]
TODAY’S STRIP There’s a lot to be said about today’s strip, but I’m gonna let you guys say it below. But, for the record: Sexiest. Shoulder. Pop. Ever. DICTATOR TOT – LOCAL HERO?!? As some of you may recall, the villain that menaced our heroes through chapters 3-5, Dictator Tot, was loosely based on my daughter, [...]
ARTISTS! YOUR GUEST STRIPPIN’ XMAS SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE NOW! Guest Strippin’ Xmas begins next week and if you want to see your work featured here then now’s the time to get your entry in to me. Deadline is tonight (December 21st) 11:59pm PST (although I’ll accept submissions for as long as 12 hours after that–but [...]
SKIN! Who says I don’t give the people what they want? A VERY, MERRY GUEST STRIPPIN’ XMAS STARTS NEXT WEEK! It’s that time of year again when I take a little breather and you take over! I received many wonderful, out-of-the-box submissions this year and I can’t wait for you guys to see them all. [...]
WELCOME TO GUEST STRIPPIN’ XMAS! For the next two weeks, other artists and writers will be taking over the SuperFogeys while I take a short break to catch my breath. 2010 was a whirlwind year for SF and I need it! THE MYSTERIOUS CRYSTAL MURPHY RETURNS! Crystal Murphy doesn’t have a webcomic that I know [...]
CRYSTAL MURPHY DOES IT AGAIN! I admit that I actually laughed out loud when I read this page. I hope you dig it too. Click “previous” to see the first page of this very fun Spy Gal tale. Thanks, Crystal. I hope we can make this an annual thing! See you tomorrow!
JAVIER DEL VILLAR REVEALS THE FINAL TWIST! Javier is one of the more stalwart commenters here at SuperFogeys Central, which I very much appreciate. Submissions for Guest Strippin’ Xmas were down a little this year and Javier was concerned that I wouldn’t have enough so he produced this extra gag to help me out. Thanks, [...]
SCOTT GALLATIN AND THE TANTRUM TITAN RETURN! In what has now become an annual tradition, Scott Gallatin has once again menaced Valhalla with his own creation–the Tantrum Titan! Man, do I love the Tantrum Titan. Thanks so much, Scott. And I love that it’s double-sized! Be sure and check out Scott at his blog here! [...]
JAVIER DEL VILLAR TAKES ON JERRY! Is this how Jerry came to be? We’ll find out soon enough as the Jerry origin is currently in production. For now, we have Javier’s Christmas-themed take and I think you’ll agree that it’s a lot of fun. Thanks, Javier! Great cliffhanger at the end of the page there. [...]
JAVIER DEL VILLAR SUGGESTS MANY THINGS WITH THIS FAKE ORIGIN I love how many questions this origin brings up, which is my favorite kind of storytelling to do. I promise more answers than questions when the real Jerry origin hits, but for now I hope you enjoyed this alternative take. I know I did. Thanks [...]
GREG BULMASH PULLS BACK THE CURTAIN Greg Bulmash is a class act, regularly commenting on SF and being supportive of my various creative efforts in general. So, given the chance to do a guest strip, Greg decides to take the piss out of me. I love it. Greg, by his own admission, isn’t an artist [...]
MARJORIE RESHEL BREAKS IT ALL DOWN IN HILARIOUS FASHION! Only a true blue SuperFogeys fan could have crafted this. This is a knowing, detailed, mythology and character-rich guest strip that had me laughing out loud for quite a while. Marj is a semi-regular commenter in these parts, but she’s clearly ALWAYS paying attention. She’s a [...]
WELCOME BACK TO REGULAR UPDATES! I hope you guys enjoyed Guest Strippin’ Xmas as much as I did. Really inventive crop of guest strips this year, some of which had me literally laughing out loud. If you missed ‘em and would like to check ‘em all out at once, start here. How’d everybody’s Christmas/Holiday season go? [...]
IT’S A NEW YEAR! But the same old story. Which is no bad thing! If you need a refresher on what’s going on this chapter of the SuperFogeys so far, this link will take you back to the beginning of Chapter 10, Bubbles of Light so you can get caught back up to now. Enjoy! STEVE OGDEN [...]
LATE ENTRY! That’s right, I’ve got one more guest strip to share with you all, this one from Gabe Altomare who got this one to me just as Guest Strippin’ Xmas was ending. In truth, I’ll accept guest strips at any time of the year, so I was happy to have it! This guest strip [...]
STEVE OGDEN GOES THE EXTRA MILE I don’t think there’s a single page of this little story that was more labored over than this one. Steve made the decision to add a page to the original 5-page story and it really helps things tremendously. The exact look and pace and number of panels on this [...]
ON THIS DAY 34 YEARS AGO… I was born. So now you know that. Here is what I have learned in my three plus decades on this Earth: nothing beats a good pair of socks and you can’t change the minds of people in the moment, but don’t discount the power your words have to [...]
HE THRICE EVIL ORIGIN CONCLUDES! Man, what a finish. This Thrice Evil origin was a real labor of love for both Steve Ogden and I and we sincerely hope you enjoyed it. Steve busted his butt to make this thing as perfect a short story as he could–adding a full page to its length and [...]
CHAPTER TWO I caved in to pressure and went ahead and posted Chapter Two-Shooting from the book I’ve written–Raised By a Dead Man. I know some of your enjoy my prose stuff (but not everyone–move along if that’s you), so here’s a preview and a link: At the end of each workday, Dad would remove [...]
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, CHRIS WATKINS! I have nothing but good things to say about my collaboration with Chris Watkins. Not only has he been a dream to work with, but the storytelling choices he makes and the very defined, cartoony spin he puts on things leaves me a bit jealous. And those colors! Chris’s [...]
THIS IS A BIG WEEK FOR ME I put the finishing touches on the second draft of me memoir this week. It’s done and ready to be sent off to agents and publishers. That’s a crazy feeling, but sad. I think I enjoy the actual process of writing more than I do having done it. [...]
BOOM. ACTION. Chris Watkins turns it out in fine style today. Looking solely at his work on Odori Park, I don’t think you’d ever guess that Chris could handle action like he does at the end of this page. It’s just so, so great. MY BOOK HAS PASSED ITS BIGGEST TEST SO FAR There’s one person [...]
THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 295 …or, The Spiritual Journey of Tangerine. Take a trip with me, won’t you? You’ll recall that when Tangerine first came to Valhalla, things didn’t go so well for one of its residents. Soon afterwards, Big T was incarcerated in the Valhalla dungeon. He was not the least bit repentant. His sons then came to visit [...]
COLORS Man, I love Chris’s colors on this one. So bright and perfect for the time period (late 1960′s). Be sure and check out his webcomic, Odori Park! BIG THINGS IN THE WORKS I’ve got some HUGE stuff in the works for SF right now and that leaves me with little time to compose a post [...]
TOMORROW IS A VERY BIG DAY FOR MY FAMILY I’m gonna be a father the third time tomorrow morning and I could not be more excited. It was a long road getting to this point. Elora, our first daughter, lights up rooms and the world. Cami, our second, is the most purely innocent thing I’ve even seen, [...]
I’M A FATHER! (AGAIN!) Those of you that follow me on Facebook know good and well by now that my third daughter, Violet, was born without a hitch last Friday morning. Things truly could not have gone better and her mother and I are so, so relieved. A lot of people asked me in the [...]
THE JOURNEY OF JERRY I’ve mentioned it before, but the origin of Jerry is currently in production. I know it’s something you guys have been anticipating ever since it was revealed that Jerry is both Dr. Klein and the Third Man. I do think the wait will be worth it. The artist working on it, [...]
CONTINUALLY IMPRESSED I’m still amazed that with each new page of this story Chris Watkins continues to top himself. This page rocks and serves as a perfect lead-in to the major revelations in store for next week. But, like most things in SuperFogeys, I’ll bet many of you have figured it out already from the trail [...]
THE INNER LIFE OF DR. ROCKET You’ll recall that the Dr. Rocket we knew in the first five chapters was not really Dr. Rocket. This new Dr. Rocket (really, the old one finally come to Valhalla) has been here for a few chapters now, but there’s still a lot about him that we don’t know. That’s [...]
MONICA RETURNS Read the Spy Gal Origin lately? Now’s a good time to go back and review! Come on back here after you’re done and we’ll discuss. Ready? Here we go. Fun and pointless fact: Operation: C.O.W. was always intended to be a sequel of sorts to Spy Gal’s origin, though it was, in fact, written first! [...]
SUPERFOGEYS 299? BUT THAT MEANS… Yep, SuperFogeys 300 lands next week. You know what that means…milestone! In SuperFogeys 100 we found out that Dr. Klein and the Third Man were one and the same. In SuperFogeys 200 we found out that the Dr. Rocket we thought we knew wasn’t really Dr. Rocket at all. While I don’t [...]
THE ANNOTATED OPERATION: C.O.W. PAGE 7 Poor, poor Barry. But then, you all knew where this was headed, didn’t you? You heard about this incident a long time ago…right here. I hope we get to know Barry better some day. You’ve now met both of Spy Gal’s husbands, but clearly there’s more to Barry’s story. [...]
WARNING: Don’t freak out. Read this entire post. To the end. You’ll see. MY LAST SUPERFOGEYS A couple of months ago I decided to stop doing the SuperFogeys. It wasn’t an easy decision, believe me. Every part of me didn’t want to do it and I fought it like crazy. But, in the back of [...]
MARC’S FIRST OFFICIAL STRIP! This is it! Your first official look at Marc Lapierre on SF art duties. This is Marc penciling, inking and coloring. Now, part of the challenge of these first strips is that Marc is having to wrap up a chapter. Which means drawing a lot of things that I’ve already drawn. [...]
WHO SAYS I’M WORDY? I can be a wordy sonuvagun, it’s true. But one thing I’ve been working on a lot lately is trying to pare down my word counts in the comics (not here in my comments though–I’m not that merciful). Comics are very much the interplay between words and pictures (not strictly speaking, [...]
A GOOD CAUSE My fellow webcomicker and SuperFogeys SuperFan Dawn Griffin sent me an email last week about a charity project she’s involved with for relief in Japan. It’s a good cause and a great chance to get your hands on some sweet art, so I wanted to be sure and post what Dawn’s up [...]
AND THE WINNERS OF A SIGNED COPY OF SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1 ARE… MATTHEW NEW and MARJ! You both get a free, signed copy of SuperFogeys Vol. 1 with a sketch of your favorite character on the inside cover. Please send me your name and address to bwhheasley (at) gmail (dot) com! And don’t forget to [...]
AN APOLOGY You may have noticed the today’s SFO page looks a little different than the ones that have come before it. What you’re looking at is what’s called flats–just the very basic colors have been laid into the art. What’s missing is the rendering, which is what really makes art like this sing. Click [...]
IN CASE YOU DON’T REMEMBER… When last we left Jerry and the Spy Gals, this happened. And then this. BACK FROM FUNERAL I’m back from my grandfather’s funeral and there’s some things I’d like to say about it, but a crying baby demands my attention. Perhaps more on Wednesday. LATER TODAY… The last page of Spy Gal [...]
UPDATE! You can now see the completed version of Spy Gal & Friends vs. C.O.W. with the full color treatment by Chris Watkins! Go see! MY ARIZONA TRIP Going back to Arizona always feels a bit like coming home to me. I lived there for two years while serving as a missionary. It has changed a [...]
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, JOHN JETT! John is one of those guys whose style just screams “classic.” He reminds me a lot of George Perez–and that’s a very good thing. His style is just absolutely perfect for the Jerry origin since, during the course of the next 12(!) weeks, we’re gonna be covering a lot of [...]
DR. ROCKET DYING? A ROBOT? Points for you if you get the meta joke that is Spy Gal wondering if Dr. Rocket is a robot now. I’ll admit I had some trepidation about going down this path with Dr. Rocket. Him dying is something we’ve sort ofalready seen. This strip seemed like a good chance [...]
BEAUTIFUL COLORS For me, this is the first strip of Marc’s where I feel like he’s really coming into his own on SF and making it his own thing. The way he treated Gina in the first panel is just so cool and so right and so different from how I would have done it. [...]
JERRY’S ORIGIN BEGINS…NOW! "Tom?" I hear you say. "Who the heck is Tom?" It’s been a while since we’ve seen him, but for those of you who need to get up to speed, let’s look back a little, shall we? Tom’s Origin Story When Tom Met Ms. Missile Tom in Chapter 7, Visiting Day The [...]
WHAT THE HECK!?!? I don’t know what the deal is with all the blank panels today. I promise you Marc is a better artist than this. We’re gonna have words, believe you me. UPDATE ON BOOK PROGRESS For those of your that don’t know, I’ve been writing a memoir (a personal, true history written more [...]
CHAPTER 10, BUBBLES OF LIGHT IS OVER! Today marks the very last strip of Chapter 10, Bubbles of Light. Have some fun and read the whole thing from the beginning by clicking here. For me, this chapter was about answering questions. After upsetting the apple cart at the end of the previous chapter, I knew there was some splainin’ [...]
JOHN JETT TAKES THINGS TO ANOTHER LEVEL There’s the way I write it…and then there’s the way John draws the snot out of it! I’m always impressed by the the number of details and the unique take John has on all of the characters. Really inspiring stuff. See more of John’s work at his site! [...]
WELCOME TO CHAPTER 11, THE DOCTOR AND THE DOCTOR This chapter, like Chapter 8, The Captain and the Spy, will be quite short and primarily consist of a conversation between two people. However, my prediction is that the response to this version of that plot will be much more positive. I hope. I like little [...]
CANCER ISN’T FUNNY Most of us will lose or have already lost someone close to us because of cancer. Personally, I’ve lost more than one. Introducing this storyline was something I had to really consider before going ahead with it. There’s lots of ways to do this sort of thing wrong and I can’t honestly [...]
MAKING LIFE HARD FOR JOHN JETT The Jerry origin is ambitious in its scope, but even pages like this can pose quite a challenge for an artist. All those heads and expressions and a house on fire and a destroyed room and…man, there’s just a lot going on here. And John rises to the occasion [...]
THE PROCESS OF MARC LAPIERRE If you’re like me, you’re a sucker for these. This is your first look at the incredible amount of heart and soul SF artist Marc Lapierre pours into each and every strip. From design to the finishing details, Marc gives it everything he’s got. But first, let’s look at what [...]
DOWN DRUNK You ever seen this show What Would You Do? It’s not great art, but I do believe it performs a great service. They stage these scenarios—boyfriend publically abusing girlfriend, racist store clerk giving some darker than hims a hard time, bottom rung human being spiking a girl’s drink in a bar and then trying to take her [...]
THE ANNOTATED JERRY, PAGE 4 When Dr. Klein first appeared waaaaay back in Chapter 2, a lot of the readers at the time assumed he was evil. A couple of them even suggested that he must be evil because of his German name. I didn’t cop to anything either way at the time, but this [...]
UPDATE! MY mini-REVIEW OF THOR! Marvel has done a great job with their "in universe" movies Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2. I’ve loved each of them to one degree or another, but a fair argument could be made that we’ve been getting slightly diminishing returns the more they keep doing it. [...]
SPACE PIG HOMEWORLD! Those of you who own the SuperFogeys Vol. 1 Trade have already seen the Space Pig Homeworld, but for most of you I imagine this is the first time. Marc has rendered it in fine style. Anyone wanna take a guess as to why color has leaked into our flashbacks? MOTHER’S DAY [...]
THIS PAGE, COURTESY OF JOHN JETT This is another one of those treats you guys get because of the artist and not so much me. Originally, what you see on this page was going to be the last panel on the previous page. But John felt like it was a big moment and had an [...]
THE GREEN HORNET I watched The Green Hornet with my wife over the weekend. I have no idea why she wanted to see it. Usually, she’s not much for the superhero stuff. But something about the trailers sparked her interest and we both laughed our way through it while agreeing that it doesn’t really come together [...]
AT LAST A QUESTION IS ANSWERED I bet until this chapter you thought I’d forgotten about the robot, didn’t you? I know a bunch of you did. Admit it! Big shout-out to SuperStar SuperFogeys artist Marc Lapierre for just NAILING it with Dr. Klein’s expression in the last panel. Kudos, my friend. FRUSTRATION I’ve made [...]
