Last Week's Shirt... Oops... (11.4.10)

Last week at the Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop: okay, the shirt before this was a day early and this past week I posted the shirt but nothing on the blog... I'll get it right eventually.

Regardless: garb yourself in everyone's favorite sitcom architect, Schultz! Shockingly fashionable ... and Surprisingly Schultz! (Weekdays at 7:30 on MDUP)

Farewell, Alex

Alex Anderson. 1920-2010.

Tonight at Quimby's! Exquisite!

Besides being behind on posting this week's shirt design (the next two months worth of shirts are finished, I just haven't posted one for this week), I'm behind on posting a reminder that tonight I'll be at Quimby's alongside Jenny Volvovski, Matt Lamothe, Lauren Nassef, Isaac Tobin, Lilli Carre, and Anders Nilsen signing The Exquisite Book, an exquisite corpse from 100 artists. I've yet to see the book, but I'm looking forward to it, and to decorating your copy with all five hundred of the letters that make up my last name. If you're in the Chicago area, stop on by and say something under your breath at us.

Conan: Look Back, Lookwell

It's no secret that I love Conan O'Brien's brand of brain-damaged oddity. One of the best presents I've ever received was my wife's gift of surprise tickets to see Conan in his home town of Boston. So if you're like me, you're looking forward to his upcoming return to late night.

But let's not forget the accomplishments of his past, especially his most important. His not-so lengthy run on The Tonight Show? His far more lengthy run on Late Night? His contributions to Saturday Night Live or The Simpsons? No, it's clearly the never-went-anywhere work of absolute genius, "Lookwell," co-written with Robert Smigel and starring Adam West as a delusional has-been actor convinced he's a real detective. It's a crime that this and Heat Vision and Jack were never picked up, but most of the people involved in both pilots have done alright for themselves nonetheless.

This Week's Shirt (10.27.10)

This week at the Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop: a day early? Yes, indeed. In time for your Halloween happenings is a vampire who is just... over it, you know? I mean... really.

This Week's (Other) Shirt (10.22.10)

Once again, over at the Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop: Some of the many odd deities (I swear these are all going somewhere) in the Huge Suit universe. A bodiless god of skirmishes, a spirits that occasionally pop the perfect bag of popcorn... A new pantheon for the unambitious.

This Week's Shirt (10.22.10)

This week at the Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop: shirt one of two for this week, prior to next week's announcement of a new project (that I could announce this week, but why spoil the anticipation?). Here we see the typical family portrait. Mom, Dad, awkward hair, floating bean-shaped furry beast , oddly glowing. Ah, memories.

This Week's Shirt (10.14.10)

This week at the Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop: the opposing deity, mythological beast, or short order cook to the dripping and previously-shirted Murp, Prum arrives be-boiled and ready to confuse.

Next week: to make up for lost time... two shirts! Prepare for more weird gods, life's larger questions asked.

Movie Bagel

This week's shirt will be posted later today, but for now I have to direct your attention to something far more pressing: Movie Bagel. Nothing says "the movies" like grabbing a warm bag of... bagels.

Two Groups, Two Countries

A couple of upcoming group events: the first is "illust_ratio 3" in Rüsselsheim, Germany. Illust_ratio a show of illustrators and cartoonists (among them the late great Heinz Edelmann of "The Yellow Submarine" fame) from the pages of the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. I won't be in attendance, but it sounds like a great show if you're in the area and able to make it. The show runs from October 23rd to November 20th. Unless my German is even worse than I think it is (and I think it's really bad), the opening is on October 22nd. Visit their site for more information.

The second event, where I will be signing or whatever we deem acceptable behavior, is at Quimby's in Chicago on November 5th. Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, Matt Lamothe, Lauren Nassef, Isaac Tobin, Lilli Carre, Anders Nilsen and myself will be at that venerable shop to do our scratchings in The Exquisite Book, a collection of 100 artists participating in an exquisite corpse. The book, published by Chronicle, is out now. So pick up a copy and head over to Quimby's on the 5th of November. See you there.

The Late Live Show

Here I am, making good on the promise of the last post: back to posting I go.

Above is the second installment of The Late Live Show at Second City in Chicago. The audio is a bit dodgy in places, but you can heat me discuss the origins of my comics as a cum-rag, debate the muse of gay mummies, and perform rather poorly in a game of "Win, Lose, or Draw." I take the stage around the twenty minute mark, but roughly half the references I make are about bits from earlier in the show, so I wouldn't recommend skipping it (and I'd recommend watching it mainly because it's twenty minutes of solid comedy from a bunch of talented young comedians).

Thanks to hosts C.J. Toledano and Joe Kwaczala for having me on. A good time was had by all. Or at least by me.

Whither Blog? Whither Me?

Several weeks without so much as a shirt, a post, or even a postcard. Easily 2.72 of you might be asking, "What happened to that guy?" Alright, 1.6, let's be fair.

But to answer the tens of people asking: I was busy doing something involved in the picture above and subsequently moving our home and my studio out to Evanston, Illinois (one of the most verdant and agreeable places I've called home since moving from Ohio farming country).

Posts, shirts, and more will be on the way shortly. I haven't died (despite some people's views of matrimony) and neither has the blog.

On Making Muppets

Jim Henson. Still the coolest.

This Week's Shirt (9.9.10)

This week at the Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop: another day late, another archaically dressed celestial entity parading atop a single-button telephone.

That's right, it's everyone's favorite could-be-a-mascot-for-an-old-flour-company-or-a-strange-lilac-perfume: Monsieur in The Moon.

This Week's Shirt (9.2.10)

This week at the Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop: a day late yet again, but just in time for the earliest inkling of autumn, we're presented with that comforting hulk of a poet, Biggeespeare.

Shouldn't his mustache and chin hair be separated? What's with the white gloves? Would there really be a seam like that in his shirt front, given the time period in question? Biggeespeare only replies, in iambic pentameter: MMMRRAAAAAAAAWWRRR!