I misplaced this photo for a couple of weeks after getting back from the Alternative Press Expo, but I figure it’s never too late to post a sexy pirate photo! This picture was snapped by James Courtney (aka: NakedComix.com). The pirate is Treja Hayes, a make up artist he works with, and the nervous looking comics geek in the sweater vest and nerd glasses is me (of course). Happy Turkey day to all!
We got some cool fan art today from fellow comic book artist, Diego Jourdan Pereira. I thought I would share.
It seems this week’s Jane’s World comics got a bit out of order on the comics.com site. I thought I would post the entire week here just to clarify. This week featured a series of strips where Silas (aka: Bigfoot) and Bud discuss the environment and the end of cheap oil. Click on each strip to make it larger. And have a great weekend!
Greg Burgas gave The Martian Confederacy a great review on the Comic Book Resources site. He’s also highlighted some other new books in the same post. If you feel like reading up on new releases check out his reviews. Cheers!
Hi folks, I just sent the cover image for book 9 to the distributor for their spring catalog. I thought I’d share the main image for the book, which will be released May/June 2009. I’ll keep you posted on the exact date.
This, small portion excerpted from Andrew Sullivan today:
“Yes, it is heart-breaking: it is always hard to be in a tiny minority whose rights and dignity are removed by a majority. It’s a brutal rebuke to the state supreme court, and enshrinement in California’s constitution that gay couples are now second-class citizens and second class human beings. Massively funded by the Mormon church, a religious majority finally managed to put gay people in the back of the bus in the biggest state of the union.
It cannot be denied that this feels like a punch in the gut. It is. I’m not going to pretend that the wound isn’t deep and personal, like an attack on my own family.
The religious folk who believe that Jesus stood for the marginalization of minorities, and who believe that my equality somehow threatens their children, will, I pray, see how misguided they have become. And make no mistake: they won this by playing on very deep fears of gay people around kids. They knew the levers to pull.
California has full civil equality in law for gay couples. In time, full civil marriage equality – the only real measure of equality – will follow. And it will spread, state by state, more slowly now, and perhaps more organically from legislatures, rather than courts, which would not be the worst idea. And observing this backlash against us will reveal to many the cruelty of allowing majorities to take the rights of tiny minorities away.”
It is a puzzle to me, this issue of gay marriage, because it really isn’t about marriage at all. “Marriage” is the cover-up for prejudice against gay people.
If marriage were a religious rite in the same way that baptism or the holy eucarist is, then I could understand the religious community’s desire to control this issue. BUT as long as marriages can be performed in courthouses by civil servants and public officials then it is a CIVIL right that should be afforded to all.
Let’s be logical… if the true goal were really to “defend marriage” then the obvious solution would be to outlaw divorce.
How many divorced, straight couples that you know were broken up by a gay couple?
Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth and a BIG thank you to my creative life partner, Jason McNamara for hosting my spotlight panel on Saturday… and for going to all the trouble to ask new and different questions.
