You didn’t really think Spy Gal was done with Zurida already? Not by a long shot! Be sure to tune in on Wednesday to see how Spy Gal handles that incoming Space Monkey ambush!
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I gotta admit I struggled with this one. Remember, Marc and I are doing the end of this chapter Stan and Jack style–he’s drawing from a basic plot, and I’m adding in the dialogue after the fact. It’s definitely fun, but also stressful. I don’t want to take anything away from Marc’s great illustrations. I [...]
A lot of you have been commenting lately that you’re enjoying one of the newer additions to the cast, Fly Guy. Actually, his name is Atomic Fly, but you’re forgiven since his name has only been mentioned once or twice. Hopefully we’ll get see a few more newbies in the strips ahead. Fun fact! I [...]
End Chapter 15! This one was fun for us for a number of reasons. New characters… family reunions… fights! Marc and I got to try some new stuff and you guys were really good about being open to it. It’s interesting to me how the comments tapered off during the fight stuff. I mean, it [...]
Hey all, I know you’ve been patiently waiting for your Sourcebook & Adventure Game and we’re working real hard behind the scenes to get it out to you as quickly as possible, but I thought you’d like to see a little something Paul Lidberg over at Team Frog Studios posted this past week–The Spy Gal [...]
I don’t know when we’ve ever fit so many characters into a panel so small. I’m not even sure who all of those guys are! That’s exciting. Cami Fans: The real life Cami had her eighth birthday on Monday. On Saturday, we held our 4th Annual Birthday Ball Party in her honor–a half hour party [...]
Okay, I kind of love how Marc draws Spy Gal when she’s in bad@$$ mode. That door never saw it coming. Last week was basically Cami week at my house as we celebrated her 8th birthday. My wife and daughter spoke at a school assembly about the damage the R-Word does and why it’s a [...]
I think I mentioned that I’ve been rereading SF lately as I prepare files for Comixology. In the course of that, I’ve noticed that one thing I have a tendency to do is cut rapidly between simultaneously occurring scenes, jumping from character to character sometimes after only one or two strips. That’s fun and it [...]
I’ve been much encouraged by the way Soviet Sam has been accepted by the majority of you since his proper introduction to the strip in SF 322. In a story with A LOT of characters (seriously, the cast is getting too big. I gotta kill a few off), he’s managed to come in fairly late [...]
This is it! The Penultimate strip of Chapter 16 – Invasion, Pt. 3: Secrets, Secrets are No Fun. It’s all been building to what happens on Wednesday. There was a seed planted a long, long time ago that is finally gonna pay off–one I don’t think anyone has ever noticed. My mind has already turned [...]
UPDATE! Have some fun and read Chapter 16 from the beginning all the way through right here! Secrets, secrets are no fun Secrets, secrets hurt someone Here’s the deal, the title of this chapter is a lie. Secrets are really fun. It’s fun to have them, it’s fun to keep them and, in storytelling, they’re [...]
Okay, so the site didn’t quite get as fixed last week as we thought. Some people are still having much difficulty loading it. A more full explanation can be found of what to do in this new blog, but basically it comes down to you need to reset your bookmark to superfogeys.com. You shouldn’t see [...]
I try to go pretty easy on the artists I work with. I play to their strengths, I think about how tricky a page or a panel might be and make the next one a little easier to balance things out, etc. But if there’s one thing I ask to be just right every time [...]
Many of you have been commenting on how calm Spy Gal has been so far in this chapter and how scary that makes her. I think whenever someone is behaving in a manner contrary to how we expect, that can be a little concerning. If a child knows he’s done wrong and he knows his [...]
In addition to the usual miracles Marc does with the art in each strip, in this one he went a little further and chose much better angles than I originally scripted. Sometimes I try to think of the version of SuperFogeys that would exist if I was still drawing it and it’s… better that didn’t [...]
Have ever been in trouble–and I mean big time–and you thought there was still a way out of it? I mean, there’s caught and then there’s caught. If your sin is big enough, you might deny, deny, deny–even to the point of convincing yourself. You’ve done nothing wrong. They must just be mistaken. Maybe you [...]
I’ve talked a little bit about Jerry’s “underlying psychology” in the comments to recent strips. Any three dimensional character should really have an underlying psychology to their actions, i.e. motivations that even they themselves may not be aware of. It’s called depth and it can be really tough to create. Every writer tries to instill [...]
Raise of hands who wants to see Marc draw the twisted version of Jerry all day. That’s what I thought. Seriously, Marc has got one heckuva dark side or something because that shot of Jerry cackling is just horrendously terrific. You guys have been great about really digging into Jerry lately and figuring out what [...]
Those of you who follow Marc on Twitter or Facebook know that he likes to try out lots of different art styles. We’d been looking for an excuse for him to incorporate one of those art styles into the strip and today’s seemed like a natural fit. I think it came off beautifully. For you [...]
I was watching The Great Gatsby with my wife the other night (the 2013 version by Baz Luhrmann–incredible movie) and a thought occurred to me that Jerry and Jay Gatsby have more than a little in common. Both of them are hiding their real names and who they really are, and both of them live [...]
When last we left Spy Gal she had found out her husband, Jerry, was living a triple life as the founder of Valhalla and the villainous Third Man. Then she found out a whole bunch of other stuff. It’s been a rough day. One of the things that was extremely important to me in this [...]
Atomic Fly and Raptor X are two of the newer Fogeys introduced during this alien invasion super arc, but I already kind of love them. Atomic Fly in particular. I know introducing new characters to such a long-running story with an established cast can be problematic, but hopefully you guys are enjoying these little peeks [...]
We all have those mementos we hold dear that, when we look at smell or hear or hold them, take us right back to a particular time and place. Usually, those things serve to remind us of good times. Who would want to be reminded of hurt? Not most people, but sometimes you need to. [...]
This is it, the last SuperFogeys of the regular story for a couple of weeks. This strip wasn’t intended to be an extended cliffhanger, but now that we have it serving that purpose I quite like it. What happens immediately following this strip is my favorite stuff in this chapter, so it will be good [...]
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, [...]
Marc is back! But you knew that. And with him he brings the regular narrative back to life. I think this strip was one of the hardest to conceive for this chapter. Spy Gal started this conversation by throwing a punch, and I knew she couldn’t end it with one. You’d take a journey, internally, [...]
Only a little bit of discussion was created by Monday’s strip,but I thought some good points were made about Spy Gal and Jerry. It’s worth checking out. I feel terrible right now (everybody is throwing up in my house and I really want to but can’t), so I’m gonna keep this short. I look forward [...]
My wife and I teach a class at church together called “Strengthening Marriage.” We’ve been doing it for almost three years now and in that time we’ve heard a lot of revealing stories and shared more than a few of our own. We’ve had couples in there that were newly married, couples with young kids, [...]
Okay, this is not going to be immediately apparent upon reading this strip, but believe it or not that last panel is fairly significant. For a few years in a row we posted teaser posters that hinted at upcoming storylines. The last one we did was in April of 2012. I really, really, honestly thought [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, Americans! To everyone else, try eating a lot tomorrow. It’s fun! There was a lot of speculation on Monday as to who is responsible for the fake power crystal. I think this is the fastest solution to a mystery I’ve ever presented! How do you guys feel about this? Does this redeem Jerry [...]
Happy December, everybody! I was really hoping this chapter would finish up before the first of the year, but the finale ballooned a bit and it’s safe to say that’s not going to happen. However… I think you’ll be glad that it doesn’t. Sometimes how long it takes to complete a chapter is a pain [...]
Greetings, Fogeys Fans! Marc here taking posting duties while Brock attends to some family business. Could this be Jerry’s final fate? Is this how the Jerry/ Spay Gal romance ends once and for all? HOLIDAY SHOPPING FOR THE SUPERFOGEYS FANS IN YOUR LIFE! What was previously thought to be out of stock and out of [...]
Happy New Year! Dang, 2014. Crystal! Again! Marc and I will return to these parts on Jan. 6!
Happy Birthday to me! (Seriously, this is my actual birthday [well, tomorrow is--I decided to post this 4 hours early] and we’ve been working on this strip and its ideas for so long that it really is like a gift to finally be able to show it to you.) This is it, this is the [...]
Welcome to a new chapter–and a new era–of The SuperFogeys! I’m sure a lot of you are still reeling from the revelation of our jump to one year later on Monday, but we’re not wasting any time here. We gotta dive into this new world, and first up is a villain I’ve wanted to bring [...]
Marc knocked me out with the art in this one. A lot of it is in the coloring, particularly that last panel. I see every step of the art, from roughs to pencils to inks and finally to colors. There was nothing in any of the stages that prepared me for how awesome the background [...]
Hel, the opposite of Valhalla. You first went inside it here. And then you saw the outside. And, of course, Gene worked there. Now, it’s a day spa. Makes sense, right? A lot’s changed in a year. Zurida’s in charge of (most of) The United States. Soviet Sam wears an eye patch. Spy Gal got [...]
Today is your first real look at the Reactors. What are Reactors? They’re basically Zurida’s peacekeeping force in this new world. For their design, I had Marc draw upon equal parts Mad Max and a particular kind of soldier in US history (I’m sure some astute reader will guess it correctly in the first or [...]
I want Suckface in all the strips. Marc has turned him into such a powerhouse I’m trying to think of a way to work him into all storylines. Does he fall in love with Dark Maiden? Should he be pen pals with Atomic Fly? What if Mega Matt was his annoying sidekick? The possibilities are [...]
One Year Later, as I’ve mentioned before, means a lot of design work for both old characters and new. In fact, that design work is still an ongoing concern. Sam and Spy Gal were the first two Marc worked on because they were the first to show up, in SF 564. For Sam, I wanted [...]
I told someone yesterday to watch out because today’s SuperFogeys has a lot of text. His response? “Dude, I can read.” Fair enough. This is the info dump that is not an info dump. I actually am a fan of exposition (I like just kind of getting on with it and moving on to the [...]
UPDATE 2:30pm PST: Whoops. Sorry about that folks. I have never, ever let it go so long without writing up something short to go beneath a strip. I spoke in church yesterday, and between that and the video I’ve spent weeks putting together for Violent Violet’s 3rd Birthday and my wife being sick and my [...]
We’re getting pretty deep into One Year Later here and we’ve almost caught up with all the characters to see their new status quo. Obviously, there’s a promise in the last panel that Monday’s strip will fulfill. I can’t wait for you guys to see it. Anybody else seeing Captain America: The Winter Soldier this [...]
Big thanks to Marc for this strip. We had a technical glitch with all the lettering I did and at the last minute Marc purchased the font himself and did it up real special like for us. I’ll be updating later today with the real lettering (just for the sake of consistency), but Marc did [...]
I think generals and leaders of men have a terrible burden of responsibility. We’re so quick to judge them, and sometimes rightly so, but if they’re actually good at what they do then they make the tough calls in favor of the greatest good and sometimes that means doing the unpopular or the seemingly insane. [...]
For those wondering what in the world Soviet Sam is referring to, you can see it for yourself right here. I’m looking forward to the discussion today. The past several weeks you guys have really dug into the themes of SF and shown your love for the characters by how closely you pay attention. Like [...]
You read that headline right. After a nearly two year absence (the last SuperFogeys Origins page posted on October 12, 2012), SuperFogeys Origins is coming back this coming Friday, July 4th! That’s right, American Independence Day! Which is purely coincidental and has nothing to do whatsoever with SuperFogeys Origins or the story we’re kicking it [...]
This is it! The momentous return of SuperFogeys Origins! I wrote extensively about the whys and wherefores of the Origins’ return in this blog post right here. What I’m not sure I made totally clear is that you really have the artist of this very page to thank, Jason Williams. His recent fan art really [...]
The return of SuperFogeys Origins continues! You might have missed the first page of this story (dropping new pages on holidays isn’t the best idea), but you can check it out right here. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Spy Gal’s father. Hopefully, last week, you all took the opportunity to reread Spy Gal’s [...]
This page scares me. I don’t know what half those tools do and I’m just frightened. In case I haven’t made the point well enough before, I really do recommend reading Spy Gal’s origin from a few years back. You’ll get a much better perspective on the story being told here. The art on this [...]
Big news for fans of this story! Originally slated to run 9 pages, we’ve now expanded it to 10 pages! More bang for your buck! Well, sort of. Not like you’re paying for this. (You cheapskate.) But it’s still cool. This story gets a bit more twisty than it’s letting on right now. Just you [...]
Manny! If you’re scratching your head and saying “Who?” then you haven’t read Spy Gal’s origin! When last we saw Manny he was… not so alive, really. Apparently, he got better. Because it’s comics! Who doesn’t!? The art on this page, as in this whole story, is by a man so magnificent in both body and [...]
This chapter is gonna zip back and forth pretty often between Earth-Avalon and Earth-? (so named for now, though the number of this strip–616–has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? (major Captain-America-Wizard-of-Oz points if you get that)), so get your charts out. Actually–hopefully–you shouldn’t need them. If you’ll notice, something I’ve been doing [...]
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT NEXT WEEK: On account of Marc’s birthday (Happy Birthday, Marc!) and a convention he’s attending this weekend, we’re taking Monday off. Regular schedule resumes on Wednesday! REGULAR POST: This is probably my favorite page Jason has illustrated for this story so far (his, too). I grew up on comics with lots of [...]
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 [...]
So sorry for the late post! We are basically never late around here and it pains me when it happens, but in this case it couldn’t be helped. Thanks for your patience. You’ll recall that this story takes place just a few months after this story, so Spy Gal is not so very far removed [...]
Yikes! I’m posting this a bit late so I better make it quick. How’s that? See you on Wednesday with a double-sized strip!
For Soviet Sam, the journey to this moment has been a long one. I’d encourage you to click on Sam’s name in the tags (or right here) to check out his past appearances to see the full scope of what this hug might mean to him. Infamous Nefarious commented on Monday’s strip (which saw Sam [...]
And there he is, the mastermind behind the whole thing. Some of you had no idea, some of you guessed straight off. That’s okay, the real reason for this story is the why, not the what. The why is coming. Only two pages left! The art on this page, as in this whole story, is [...]
One of Marc’s artistic high watermarks has got to be the Donutron destruction of Las Vegas. That’s a sequence that also took place at night. I think Marc is just really good at nighttime stuff, and this strip is no exception. The colors sing. This chapter is about to get down to brass tacks. You [...]
