This could be my favorite character from our small casts of freaks who populate Mr. Picks’ creepy theater.

Stay tuned for more freaks from the upcoming Reed Gunther in Freak Show Showdown!

Next up in our line of new characters from issue #5, Reed Gunther in Freak Show Showdown!, is the amazing Sword Swallower!

More characters all this week!

Reed Gunther made Steven Surman’s list of Five Independent Favorites of 2010 on BrokenFrontier.com!

Steven says all sorts of nice things including, “A book like this simply makes me feel happy.”

Thanks so much for the kind words and we’re honored to be in your list!

The end of the year is winding down, and we thought it was time to show you a little more from issue #5, Reed Gunther in Freak Show Showdown!

And with a title like that, we’re going to need some FREAKS! Chris developed a whole bucket-full of folks to populate Mr. Picks’ freak show including the Tattooed Man!

Stay tuned this exciting week before Christmas for more characters from the jam-packed exciting new issue!

Happy Reading!

- Shane

Steven Surman from BrokenFrontier.com recently asked me and Chris to complete a written interview.

Instead, we made THE MOST EXCITING VIDEO INTERVIEW EVER MADE* and packed it full of action and adventure!

A super big thanks go out to the real pizza deliver guy, Willy Roberts,who did not know what he was in for when he delivered that pizza, Dave Geis for asking Steven’s questions on camera, and Jon Hill for shooting the whole thing and making it look pretty.

And of course, thanks to Steven Surman for asking us to do an interview, and then still posting the schlock we made even though we didn’t answer a single one of his questions.

GOODNIGHT!

(cue SNL music)

- Shane

*about Reed Gunther

UPDATE:

And here’s the video embeded!

photo by Del Shoopman

We’d like to send a super huge THANKS to everyone who came out for Kids Comics L.A. this past weekend!

Kids of all ages hung out with us and talked comics. Chris lead a drawing seminar and created a couple of characters based on kid’s suggestions including Marc Pig (the angry spaceman), H.A.N.K. (Marc’s dog/fish space-pet), and the evil Dr. VonShoe (a horse, skull, lobster mix with a shark tail!).

photo by Jennifer Ruiz

In the second seminar, Chris and I collaborated with everyone in the audience as we all created a super fun and goofy space adventure for Chris to draw. What fun!

photo by Jennifer Ruiz

Here’s the final product:

photo by Jennifer Ruiz

If you can’t read it, in the last panel Dr. VonShoe gets one more glorious cheese pun in by saying, “I’m so Provolonely!”

Here are some of the fantastic kids who participated! Everyone was drawing and throwing out story suggestions at the same time. I’m amazed with their creativity, willingness to toss out ideas, and sheer energy that they brought to the event. What a blast!

photo by Jennifer Ruiz

photo by Jennifer Ruiz

And here’s the rag-tag group of creators who were amazing enough to come out and support this event!

photo by Jennifer Ruiz

From left to right: Sam Humphries (Fraggle Rock), Ian Brill (Darkwing Duck, Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers), David Server and Jackson Lanzing (Penguins of Madagascar), and us!

Thanks to Meltdown Comics for hosting the event, the Grilled Cheese Truck for coming out and feeding us, and to Jennifer Ruiz for snapping all these wonderful photos!

Thanks everyone! Happy Reading!

- Shane