Manly Guys Doing Manly Things

Today’s comic will be up this evening. I ended up working two extra shifts this weekend on top of the regular 60 hours I normally pull, so I couldn’t get the page inked in time for midnight.

Also, I disabled my Formspring account. figured I’d try it out because it’s what all the cool kids were doing, but the inane and/or personal questions were starting to far outweigh the legit ones and I don’t like to talk about that kind of stuff on the internet. If there are pressing things you need to know, it’s not hard to get in touch with me.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned on more than one occasion that I’m a big fan of men’s post-war pulp adventure magazines, so I feel like I’d be doing a disservice if I didn’t direct people towards this Art of Manliness post telling people where they can go to vote to help BULL Men’s Fiction win a 100K grant from Dockers so they can expand into a proper publishing house.

These are hard working guys who just want to bring back fiction that isn’t about glittery vampires, I think we can all agree that’s a noble cause.

I miss you Giovanni.

Trying to get on making things because people are beating down my door for stuff to buy

One thing I’ve been tinkering with the idea of is an 11×17 print of Commander in his garage. SO QUESTION what do you guys think, shirt or no shirt. I’ve been having people ask for a pinup, but I’m not looking to alienate the straight-guy portion of the readership, so I figured I’d see what people think of the sketch thus far;

Other thing I was wondering if people have interest in, I have some pretty good contacts with a local business in the area that does castings, manufacturing, that sort of thing. There is a chance I could sculpt Commander’s Navy TIALS pin and have it cast (I could have a few different materials to choose from on this one, everything from plastics to actual metal). I’d have to get a quote on what it would cost, but I figured I should poll for general interest first. Since it’s hard to judge from that comic, this is my present design for the pin;

EDIT: Got a price quote! if they’re metal and three inches or so across it looks like I shooooould be able to sell them for $25-30. I would likely do a limited run of them, like 25-50.

Annnnd a couple ideas for shirts. I dunno, I know everybody wants something Mr. Fish-y but I feel awkward about using copyrighted characters in merchandise. I know everybody does it but… y’know. Personal hangup. Anyway, trying to think of things that people don’t need to be fans of the comic to get a chuckle out of.

Other Possibility, I could maybe contact a custom beanie place to make Jared’s Mushroom skull touque. That’s have to be a bulk order that would cost a few hundred dollars initially, though so that’s only if a loooot of people (like at least fifty) are interested.

So, I dunno, just some thoughts, wanted to know what folks think so I can stop going to cons without anything to sell:P