UPDATE on 11/2/12 Welcome to SuperFogeys Origins, the rerun edition. Take a little break from new updates for (hopefully) just a bit, and I thought it might be fun to revisit some of my favorite SF: Origins. The Money Man origin is really the one that started it all. Before this, his only appearance was [...]
SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS CONTINUES! THE MONEY MAN’S ORIGIN ENDS! My only regret in having the Money Man’s origin so short is that we never found out his real name. Oh, well. I think you now know what you need to know about him. Astute comic book readers will notice quite a few homages in this page, [...]
UPDATE – THE SCRIPT Below in the comments, Greg Bulmash asked a great question about how exactly TL and I work together. Specifically, he was curious as to how much influence I, as the writer, have over the visuals and how much is TL’s invention. I figure some of you might like to know as [...]
SUPERFOGEYS SUMMIT ’09 Over the weekend, SuperFogeys Summit 09 was held with “the brain trust:” myself and Th3rd World publishers Mike DeVito and Jon Conkling. We talked about the SF publishing schedule, new ways to get SF to the people, how to grow the SF audience, etc. I’m really excited about 09. It’s a lock [...]
SUPERFOGEYS COLLECTIONS PRICE CHANGES …and probably not the ones you’re hoping for. We ran last year’s numbers and did the math twice and…there’s no choice now…we have to raise the prices on the SuperFogeys collections. I hate doing this. I’m determined to make these books affordable so that anyone can pick ‘em up, but, realistically, [...]
TL COLLINS Y’all might be getting sick of me saying it, but TL just keeps knocking it out of the park over and over again and this page is no exception. I’ve got to find a way to script in a challenge for him! THE SUPERFOGEYS ON WEBCOMIC TV! Big thanks to Christopher Schultz for making [...]
MR. CROOK Mr. Crook is one of those guys that gets mentioned from time to time, but that you don’t really know much about. In fact, unless I’m completely wrong, I do believe this is the first time he’s ever spoken a word. It was fun to finally have him do that. His time as [...]
FLASHING BACK Long time fans might find today’s Origins a little familiar. Essentially, what we have here is this little scene done up TL Collins style and given some context. There are some subtle inconsistencies (like Dr. Rocket’s hair), but nothing too imporant. Really like what TL did with the top panel in particular–he showed me [...]
TODAY’S SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS I do try to not be so wordy (not that you can tell) and every time I get out of his way, TL just shows me how its done. This was kind of a tricky layout, but he nailed it. NEW T-SHIRT Over the weekend, on the suggestion of one Mr. Tom [...]
BIG INTERVIEW IN THE OFFING Did an interview yesterday with a big time comics news site. Don’t know how much I can say about it yet, but when it hits it’s gonna put SF in front of a whole bunch more eyeballs. Details here just as soon as I can give ‘em. I won’t wait [...]
UPDATED WITH PIC AND LINK!! THE SUPERFOGEYS ON BIG BANG THEORY!? BIG THANKS to Norm Feuti of the absolutely amazing webcomic Gill for providing this screen shot! You can also check out the clip to this scenehere! So freakin’ cool… Original post: As of this writing The Big Bang Theory hasn’t aired in California yet, but [...]
NEW TALL TALE RADIO INTERVIEW! To celebrate SuperFogeys 200 and a few other things, Tom Racine interviewed me last week and we had a blast. I think this is a good one. I was very careful about inappropriate laughter and even reduced my number of “ums” per minute by 75%! Heck yeah! Tom puts it [...]
“CHARACTERS” PAGE UPDATE! Hey, don’t if everybody know this, but just above the strip is a tab that links to a page with a rundown of all the characters that have graced the pages of the SuperFogeys. I try to keep it as current as possible. I just did a massive update that takes into [...]
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY WRAP-UP! What a whirlwind of a weekend. Not only did my brother get married on Friday, but I was also recovering from food poisoning and attended my first Free Comic Book Day as a comic creator. I arrived with my wife Erin and eldest daughter Elora at 9:40am at Heroes Comics [...]
T.L. COLLINS AND THE AIDS WALK/RUN Hey all, just wanted to let you know about this great thing SuperFogeys Origins Artist T.L. Collins is doing. Show him some support, won’t you? (UPDATED WITH LINKS!) BUBBLES OF LIGHT A SuperFogeys Origins/SuperFogeys crossover? Yep. Wondering how they sync up? Well, the Bubbles of Light have shown up before. [...]
PACING Pacing is an important aspect of the art form that is comics, thought not heavily examined. How do you get a reader to slow down or speed up when they can pretty much take things in as quickly or as slowly as they desire? I don’t pretend to really know the answer to that [...]
THE SUPERFOGEYS – NOW THE NEWEST APP ON THE iPHONE! This has been in the works for a little while now, so I couldn’t be more pleased to finally be able to tell you about it. The SuperFogeys is now on the iPhone/iPod Touch! If you head on over to this link you’ll be able to [...]
A PEACOCK NAMED ARISTOTLE Okay, this is just too weird not to share. There I am, just minding my own business at work and taking a brief break to check out Facebook. I notice that my wife has posted something new. I look closely. I can’t be seeing what I’m actually seeing, can I? I click [...]
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SITE UPDATE Recently updated: The “STORY” page with new summaries for SF Chapter 6 and SuperFogeys Origins. Also now including links! Also updated: The “CHARACTERS” page with new info on many characters and new ones added in from SuperFogeys Origins. Worth a read! WIZARD WORLD PHILLY Over the weekend, Th3rd World made the trek over to Philadelphia [...]
ORDER YOUR BULLFINCH COMIC BOOK TODAY! Anyone who reads SuperFogeys Origins knows very well how incredible talented TL Collins is. As the artist, TL brings it week in a week out, even tweaking the pages when I go all diva on him and demand that Spy Gal’s hairy back be erased! (Okay, that’s never happened, [...]
SWIFTY’S NEW COSTUME This went mostly unaddressed last week, but chances are a few more of you will notice it today. Yes, it’s true that Swifty’s costume has suffered a mid-story change out of nowhere. It’s similar enough to the old one that Swifty in the Valhalla continuity won’t need changing, but it looks pretty [...]
END OF SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS BOOK ONE How about a big round of applause for T.L. Collins! Week in and week out, his work has both excited and inspired me. His art got better and better as we went along and he never missed a deadline. Not once. You gotta give it up to him for [...]
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, ELDON COWGUR! Much anticipated and eagerly awaited, here now is Eldon Cowgur’s “Tangerine!” Oh, sure, I wrote it, but let’s face it–you’re here for Eldon. Well, over the next five weeks you’re gonna get him. Eldon’s mastery of ink line is something I stand in awe of. I wish I was [...]
WORKIN’ HARD I’ve been working so hard on getting SuperFogeys Vol. 1 into the best possible shape (among other things–see below) that I just have not had time to write up my San Diego Comic Con report, so apologies for that. I do have some additional bullet points on the trade however. Check it out: [...]
EXHAUSTED I’ve been working so friggin’ hard on the SuperFogeys Vol. 1 book that I don’t think I have anything left in my brain to talk about here. If you’ve ordered it already, I thank you. If you haven’t…I’m telling you, if you’re a fan, you don’t want to miss this. If the amount of [...]
TANGERINE’S ORIGIN COMES TO A CLOSE Big, big, big thanks go out again to Eldon Cowgur for the stellar job he did on bringing this story to life. What an amazing piece of work, right? Do yourself a favor and go back to the beginning to read it as a whole to see just what Eldon [...]
UPDATE! LOOK BACK AND LINK BACK! Just realized that today’s strip isn’t very reader friendly. By way of explanation, Herman is a character that died not too long ago, though this is our first look at this true guise. Who Herman is and what role he played in the first five chapters of the SuperFogeys was [...]
AN EXPLANATION UPDATED This page was originally posted in black and white, but now you should be seeing color. Sorry for that wait! All-in-all, however, another stellar page from T.L. SEIZURE Those of you that follow my twitter feed know that this past Thursday my youngest daughter Cami had a seizure and was rushed to [...]
A STUNNING PAGE I just want to make special note of the amazing work T.L. has done on this page. I had some last minute ideas, AFTER T.L. had drawn it, and then again AFTER he had colored it and he was good sport and carried through will all of my multiple revisions without so [...]
SUPERFOGEYS VOLUME ONE UPDATEI’m happy to report that the first SuperFogey Trade Paperback–Volume One collecting Chapters 1-5 is off to the printers and they have confirmed that it will be done in time for its debut at the Baltimore Comic-con on October 10th. I’ll be there personally to sell and sign copies. I’m so glad [...]
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, SUPERFOGEYS So…I was so up in my own chili last week that I completely missed the boat on acknowledging the anniversary of the SuperFogeys. It was three years ago last week, on September 25th, 2006, that I showed the first SuperFogeys strip to the world (well, MySpace). This is what it looked [...]
WHAT IS JETPACKS ANONYMOUS? This particular SuperFogeys Origins is a bit of a time warp for me. Before there was the SuperFogeys, there was Jetpacks Anonymous. A month or two before I created SF, I was doing some experiments in comicking (having never really tried before) and one of the results of those experiments was [...]
BACK FROM BALTIMORE! Oh man, was my weekend great. I’m completely wiped out, but I WILL be filing a full Con report on Thursday with whatever pics I can scare up. Had a ton of fun meeting and hanging out with the Th3rd World crew and meeting some old and new fans. Lots to say! [...]
SUPERFOGEYS VOLUME ONE NOW OFFICIALLY SHIPPING! Hey, just wanted to let everyone know that the first pre-orders for 105 page SuperFogeys Volume One started shipping out last week. Some of you may already have your copies. Would love to hear from you if you do. My hope is that the book meets you expectations, but [...]
BYE BYE T.L. COLLINS With today’s page we bid a fond farewell to T.L. Collins, who is sick of me and my “Oops, forgot about this in the script…think you can redraw that panel?” Thanks for the memories, T.L. You were a good sport while it lasted. Kidding. Of course T.L. is just taking a [...]
UPDATE! KRISHNA POSTS THE ROUGH THUMBNAILS TO THIS PAGE! Over at his PC Weenies site, Krishna has posted the thumbnails to this very page. Krishna’s thumbs are better than a lot of people’s finished art and I think I probably could have gotten away with just posting those and a lot of you might not [...]
UPDATED! SEE THE ROUGHS TO THIS PAGE! Over on his own site, Krishna has posted the roughs for the page you see above. There’s so much energy to Krishna’s original ideas. Definitely worth a look. THE FIGHT IS ON! If you dig the art above as much as I do, be sure and check out more [...]
UPDATE – KRISHNA POSTS THUMBNAILS TO THIS PAGE (BOTH VERSIONS!) AND TALKS ABOUT WORKING ON SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS IN A “MICROCAST!” And you can check it all out right here! THANK YOU, KRISHNA SADASIVAM! A big round of applause, please, for the fantastic job Krishna Sadasivam did on the art for this story. He came in to [...]
THE SUPERFOGEYS HOLIDAY BUNDLE! FOR A LIMITED TIME! Just in time for the Christmas is the SuperFogeys Holiday bundle. For one discounted price you get first SuperFogeys Graphic Novel, Volume One, and the brand new Space Pig T-Shirt in the size of your choice. A great gift for the SuperFogeys fan in your house, or for the [...]
A SHORT, SHORT STORY I know this one was quick, but I hope enjoyed this little peek into the beginnings of the relationship between Tom and Ms. Missile. Really, this serves as a direct sequel to this story. In my mind, this is exactly what happened as soon as Tom left that room. In case you [...]
T.L. COLLINS RETURNS FOR THE STORY YOU’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! Seriously. I’ve gotten more requests for this origin than for perhaps any other. Can’t say as to why, exactly. Harvey is a rabbit. An evil rabbit, sure, but just a rabbit. Or…is he? I suppose we’re about to find out. Really pleased that T.L. was [...]
SIIIIIIICK… Bummer of a day yesterday as for the first time in a long time I was sick enough so that I couldn’t even go in to work. Since I letter comics during my breaks on my work computer (don’t have Photoshop and Illustrator at home), this meant I couldn’t get the lettering done for [...]
THE SUPER SPECIAL HARVEY PAGE 3 Most of you probably don’t know this, but I tried to break into comics as an inker a couple of years before I created the SuperFogeys (obviously, I was unsuccessful, but I did get some kind notices from the Dark Horse Editors and several of the pro inkers I [...]
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY!!!! DEADLINE FOR GUEST STRIPPIN’ XMAS IS NOW!!! Those of you who are still working on your Guest Strippin’ Xmas Submission, it is now officially time to get worried! You have until midnight tonight to get your submission in to me at heasley (at) th3rdworld (dot) com! You can do it! [...]
Posted on 12/23/09 SECOND APOLOGY So. It’s finally here, page 5 of Harvey’s Origin. Very sorry for the delay, but from the looks of thing a lot of you enjoyed my illustrated apology! Thanks for your patience and kindness. You might notice that this is in black and white. Here’s the skinny: I failed [...]
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, ROSSANA BUGINI! Today’s origin has been a long, long time in coming. I first wrote the script back in June of 2009. Rossana had the art done on the 9-page story a short two months later. Since then, the posting of the story has been delayed for various reasons, not the [...]
THE ANNOTATED “SIX WIVES” PAGE 2 While this is the first we’ve seen of the Captain’s second wife, Betty Hofstadt, we’ve known that Star Maiden was one of Captain Spectacular’s ex -wives for a while. Check out this flashback to see what we know so far. Come on back next for the full look into why [...]
UPDATE! ELORA MAKES A PASSIONATE PLEA FOR HAITI My daughter Elora (the proto Dictator Tot, you’ll recall) just turned 7 a few months ago and has decided to skip her childhood and teen years and move right into the college activist phase. Please take a minute to listen to her impassioned call to help in [...]
THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT I’m gonna cut right to the chase here: I have a shot at a contract with DC Comics. This is it. This is what I’ve been waiting to tell you for months now. This is the “secret comics project.” What is it? It’s the story of a old movie theater [...]
UPDATE! NOW IN COLOR! Thanks, Jon! WHY BLACK AND WHITE? Unfortunately, the colorist of the Six Wives story, Jon Conkling, threw his back out last week and was not able to get the colors for this page done in time. Here’s hoping he feels better and is able to return to us soon. When he [...]
UPDATED! NOW IN FULL COLOR! Thanks, Jon! THE MONSTERPLEX PROMO IN FULL COLOR! MONSTERPLEX is really falling behind this week as the number one ranked comic pulled way ahead in the number of favorites. I know we can still catch up! And we can’t do it without you. I’m asking you call to please register, [...]
SIX WIVES PAGES 6 AND 7 I have to say that with this page and yesterday’s, Rossana really outdid herself. Originally, both of these pages were supposed to be one page, but she saw it a different way and I think the moment depicted above has a different impact because of that. Love that choice. Only [...]
SIX WIVES PAGE 8 The color is back and it’s brought Zurida with it! Big thanks to Jon Conkling for getting back on the SFO horse after his back-breaking ordeal. Jon will also be coloring the past pages that he had to skip over, so be sure and check back to see them when they [...]
‘SIX WIVES’ ENDS I think today’s conclusion to the ‘Six Wives’ storyline is probably more of a whimper than a bang, but I think that’s important. The story isn’t really over, is it? In fact, this story kind of dovetails nicely with the current SuperFogeys chapter, Chapter 8 – The Captain and the Spy. Big, [...]
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, JASON SIGLER! Today begins a brand new Origins tale with art by Jason Sigler. Jason is the co-host of the the Digital Stripspodcast and also the artist of the supremely fun and funny Digital Strip Adventures. Jason has been a friend of the Fogeys for a long time now and I’m super pleased [...]
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, JASON SIGLER! Today begins a brand new Origins tale with art by Jason Sigler. Jason is the co-host of the the Digital Stripspodcast and also the artist of the supremely fun and funny Digital Strip Adventures. Jason has been a friend of the Fogeys for a long time now and I’m super pleased [...]
JASON SIGLER KICKS SERIOUS BUTT I just love the energy of today’s SuperFogeys Origins page. Jason has been topping himself with each new page and doing some of his very best work, in my opinion. Hope you guys are digging it as much as I am. Be sure and check out Jason’s work as both [...]
