Pood Anthology Announced!

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Today both Robot 6 and The Beat posted about the imminent release of Pood, the extra giant sized newspaper anthology by Big If Comics. Here it is from the horse's mouth:

One of the most exciting new packages debuting at the MoCCA festival in April will be pood – an oversize newspaper anthology featuring some of today’s hottest alternative comics creators! Kevin Mutch and Alex Rader of Blurred Books have combined forces with Geoff Grogan of “Look Out! Monsters” to form BIG IF COMICS and to bring together an exciting array of talent in pood – a giant new package that lets each cartoonist strut their stuff!

Among the cutting-edge creators in the first issue of BIG IF COMICS’ pood: Joe Infurnari, Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca, Hans Rickheit, Connor Willumsen, Sara Edward-Corbett, Chris Capuozzo, Adam McGovern and Paolo Leandri, Lance Hansen, Andres Vera Martinez, Fintan Taite, Henrik Rehr, Bishakh Som, Mark Sunshine, Tobias Tak, Geoff Grogan and Kevin Mutch.

pood is a 16-page comics section in full color (and black and white) printed on newsprint, with a page size (17? x 22 ¾”!) that just may make it the biggest comics package on Earth! (or at least New Jersey). pood is BIG, COLORFUL, EXCITING comics in a beautiful broadsheet newspaper – right out of the Golden Age of Sunday Comics! pood has it all: sci-fi, Western adventure, bizarre drama, slapstick comedy and more! Each creator (or team) has turned their enormous page into a big, beautiful work of art!

pood offers a daring new (and old!) format for alternative comics, unlike anything on the store shelves today – and it’s a steal at $4.00! (Look for pood at the Blurred Books table at MoCCA!)

Following its debut at MoCCA, pood will be listed under the BIG IF COMICS imprint in the May 2010 Previews for comics shipping to stores in July 2010. pood will be published quarterly thereafter.

For more information and pics visit the pood blog!

Brain Orphan Bunted

While I was back home in Canada this winter, I had the notion that I would work up a sample page to experiment with some new techniques. Out of that came the above image. Birthed off the brain and coiled past the cortex, this visual orphan is a genetic mess of cellophane and cardboard, large brush swathes, ink drawings and sculpture. Yes, that a real cardboard rowboat. I'll let you speculate on the narrative source for this Freudian fever dream. Thanks for looking!

Original Art for Heroes 4 Haiti

I am donating this piece of original art on eBay with all proceeds going to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Please bid high and bid often. Your donation will not only get you this one of a kind original, it may just save a life. Thank you. Here's the link:

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This is only one auction of many that are participating in a larger initiative called Heroes 4 Haiti. All around the world, comics artists are donating their work for auction on eBay so if you're not interested in this drawing, please consider any one of the other works listed in the comments section at Heroes 4 Haiti!

Sled Dogs with Greeting Cards!

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2009 was a great year for me and a big part of that has been working on "Sled Dogs with Issues" with Glenn Eichler and the First Second crew. As a small token of my gratitude I whipped up some colored ink drawings of the characters as 'Thank You' cards. Above is the card of the character, Winston. You'll just have to read the book to learn more about him!