Let’s Be Friends Again

As requested, here is Deathstroke..

(You can click on it if you like.)

This was another sketch for another one of the cool people that played my Twitter Halloween guessing game.

I actually had all of these sketches done within a few days of Halloween, but I was trying to pace myself with posting them, and then Curt and I both have been having internet problems for the last week or two.

Let’s do this thing by the numbers..

1) I went ahead and coloured that Scott Pilgrim & Superman high-fiving sketch Bryan Lee O’Malley did for me.
I hope you do not think that I have ruined it.

2) A big thanks to The Daily What and the rest of you friends and fans for the links on the new strip. Truly, the Muppets stir something inside us that is universal.

3) An even bigger thanks to Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool for plugging the book, for saying our comics are “rather good”, and comparing the “Good Intentions” strip to Perry Bible Fellowship. For doing all of this we will forgive that he left the “again” out of “Let’s Be Friends Again”.

4) Speaking of the book, our Master Designer, Dylan Todd, has created a new banner ad for the book, and it should be showing up over there to your right… but for some reason it is sporadically not showing up. Hopefully, that will be cleared up soon.

5) This is the “she” the latest strip is referring to.

6) And finally, here is another sketch for one of the cool people that played my Twitter Halloween guessing game.
It is intended to be Indiana Jones. I believe he is running away from the coyote from the Roadrunner cartoons.

Hello there.

Did you dudes have a good Thanksgiving?

I hope that you did.

You may recall me showing you the latest addition to my Superman and Scott Pilgrim high-fiving sketch collection a week or so ago, so I figured I might as well show you the first of my Superman and Scott Pilgrim high-fiving sketches..

Mr. Lee O’Malley drew this for me the first time Curt and I met him at HeroesCon 2008. We’d actually seen him briefly at MoCCA earlier in the year, but we were too busy trying to get people to buy our mini-comic to go talk to him.

I doubt there is a better way to start a themed sketch collection than by getting the dude responsible for half of the theme to get things going.

xo
ch

When people are willing to draw things for me, I generally ask for one of two things, Superman riding Devil Dinosaur or Scott Pilgrim and Superman high-fiving.

Nate Bellegarde ( www.fetorpse.org ) is a dude among dudes, one of my all time favorite artists, and has once again raised the bar beyond belief..

Get a load of Sinestro over here..

(You can click on it if you like.)

Another sketch for another internet compatriot that guessed my Halloween costume in my Halloween-Costume-Guess-O-Rama-Contest-A-Thon on my Twitter.

While you’re waiting for the new comic, why not enjoy this sketch of Superman I did for one of the lucky jokers that correctly guessed my Halloween costume in my online-Halloween-costume-guessing-game-prize-time-game.
This is but one of the reasons you should follow me on Twitter.
Curt doesn’t use it much, but he has one as well.

xo
ch

PS – This is one of the other reasons you should follow me on Twitter: click.

After a week of illness and general terrible-ness, here we are.

The signing at Comics & Collectibles on Halloween was excellent. We sold out of all of our books, with Chris drawing 50+ sketches and me coming up with 50+ things that I wouldn’t want my mom or college professors to ever read.

Thanks to everybody who came out. It was, admittedly, mostly family and friends, but there were a number of people who had never met us but somehow knew our comic and came just to support us. We left the place with real live dollar bills in our hands; a pretty great feeling.

The real Let’s Be Friends Again push will begin in earnest in January, once I return to the States that got all United, but thanks to everybody, family, friends, people we only know on the internet, (except for Eugene, fuck you always) for making the last few months feel like something we can build on.

Here are some pictures from the signing, taken by the always awesome Joey Miller.

Memphis Magazine article on Let’s Be Friends Again

Originally uploaded by thechrishaley

For those in the greater Memphis area, you can pick up the new Memphis Magazine wherever fine magazines are sold. This includes places like Wal-Mart and Kroger.

The cover is black, white, and pink, and has a naked lady with the title “ART ATTACK!”.

If all of that doesn’t make you want to pick it up, I don’t know what will.

The art they used is the incredible pinup of us Evan “Doc” Shaner did for our book.
Check out Evan here: www.evanshaner.com/
Buy our book here: www.createspace.com/Customer/EStore.do?id=3392422

Our total gratitude to the wonderful staff of Memphis Magazine for giving us something to show off to our families.

Halloween breakfast

Originally uploaded by thechrishaley

Mad Monster Party Dracula was watching over my bowl of Count Chocula.
Taken on Halloween morning before our big signing at Comics & Collectibles.
Pictures from that and the rest of our Halloween festivities will be up soon!

Ping-O-Ween

Originally uploaded by Dylan Todd

To help get you in the mood for our very special Halloween week surprise (and just to get you in the mood for Halloween in general), LBFA’s go-to designer extraordinaire, Dylan Todd and myself have made yet another mix album in our PING series.

Drawing by me. Embellishment by Dylan. (He is awesome at embellishmenting.)

You may download the album by clicking here.

And if you’re interested in checking out all our previous awesome collaborations…

PING 1: Ping of Pong
PING 2: Return of the Ping
PING 3: The Man Who Would Be Ping
PING 4: & Away We Go
PING 5: Fourth World Blues

XO
ch