Let's Be Friends Again

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..

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

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.

Okay, let’s do some thangs!

1) We’ve done an interview for a blog about pop culture that we’ve agreed is probably the best interview we’ve done so far. You should all read it, because honestly, you need more of us talking about pee holes and Hawkman in your life. The interview is broken into two parts: One & Two

2) Check out this amazing painting Sheli Hay did as part of an online art project she’s doing.

Amazing, right?
It features the first appearance of The Enthusiast and Mr. Fahrenheit Jr. in their Surf Mission Uniforms.

3) And finally, don’t forget, the LBFA 2nd Annual Original Art Sale is still in full swing! If you’d like to buy the original art of any of the strips (or any of the other miscellaneous art you may have seen on the site) e-mail me at thechrishaley@gmail.com and I’ll let you know if it’s been sold already or not and how much it will cost.

As some of you may know, it was my birthday last week, and I was lucky enough to have people in both real and internet life conspire to make it awesome.

Stephen Garza was nice enough to start a campaign on Twitter for people to draw Superman and the Doctor teaming up for me. I thought I’d share some of those efforts with you because they are amazing.

Since it was his idea, it was up to Stephen to get things started with this great star powered sketch.

Lucky for me, Brandon Schaefer is the kind of pal that keeps a camera on him just in case he sees something amazing like this happening.

Brandon is also the kind of pal that makes incredible things like this..

So, yeah, he’s a great pal is the point.

Jordan Witt had just made us some awesome (non-erotic) fan art and still found time away from watching Ben 10 and being a super-secret covert military spy to make this for me. It is my new wallpaper. Replacing my old wallpaper.. which was also by Jordan.

The Doctor was busy for this one by Chris Graves, but that doesn’t make it any less fantastic. I pretty much love everything about this.

And finally, super-friend and designer extraordinaire, Dylan Todd tried to fit almost everything I love into one unbelievable image and the world nearly exploded because of it.

You may think this art is awesome on it’s own, but it’s even more awesomer when you realize it is the cover art for an incredible 30 song birthday mix Dylan made for me that I have decided to share with all of you as well. Click here to download and enjoy.

So yeah, my thanks to these wonderful people and to all of you other wonderful people that sent me birthday wishes and made me feel like it is great to have a birthday.

xo
ch