Yes, yes, my posts have been infrequent for the past week & a half or so, but with good reason: Nobody’s gonna look at any new updates I make to this site because very few people are sitting in an office, bored out of their minds & looking for some droll anthropomorphic beer bottle / alligator-based serialized humor comics to waste their time. Sad (not sad), but true. My office is even shut down for the week to save money, which means I get to work from home AND draw a couple pages for issue 3! But, for the most part, people have better things to do during the last 2 weeks of December than wait for updates on the lives of my characters. If I am incorrect in this assumption contact me via email & I’ll send you a drawing or something…

Anyway, the posting of pages will resume on its regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule this coming Monday (01/04/10)…

GEEK MONTHLY: I, along with comic super-pals Sam Carbaugh & Jeff Mumm, was interviewed for an article about the Center For Cartoon Studies that appears in this month’s Geek Monthly. Go seek it out if you feel so inclined – it’s the one with Twilight on the cover (yeah, I know… not so “geeky” as “teenaged girly”, but that shit sells magazines I guess).

So, anyway, here’s the basics:

- Updates to resume on Monday, January 4th.

- I am featured in an article in Geek Monthly.

as part of my week of AWESOME FILLER counting down to the premiere of life is good #2 on monday 11/9, i thought i’d post about a project i was (marginally) involved with:

i was production assistant on alex robinson’s new book, “a kidnapped santa claus“. alex made “box office poison” – one of my absolute favorite graphic novels – & was my thesis advisor at the center for cartoon studies last year (he helped me develop “life is good #2” & “the trial of sweetie snake“). after minimal harrassment, i was able to get him to let me do the scanning & layout for his newest books “guts” (that’s fancy comic-speak for the insides of a comic book what that you read with your eyes) last spring. it’s a fun book that you should buy lots of copies of for everyone you love & respect (but not before you buy lots of copies of my books for everyone you love & respect).

and if you look hard enough, you might just find a little shout-out to brownie & charles on page 40… that alone is worth the price of the book – you know, if you like my comics enough to be excited to see the characters drawn by somebody else…

- steve.

(snazzy-looking cover painted by sara lindo – buy issue #1 with the snazzy-looking cover here)

so the posting of “steve seck’s life is good” issue one has come to an end. thanks for reading, those of you who did!

i made ”steve seck’s life is good #1″ in the spring of 2008 for my first year’s final project at the center for cartoon studies. looking back as i’ve been posting it page by page, i feel a complex mixture of pride & embarrassment – i like what i made on the whole, but there are definitely some drawing, inking & staging issues i was yet to get a handle on. while posting these, it was not uncommon for a panel to cause me to do a comically exaggerated double-take & think / say to myself “i seriously thought THAT was a good enough drawing to go in the book??”.

i guess everyone doing something creative has moments like that looking back on their work, though. hopefully the writing shines through some of the more crudely-rendered illustrations to make it an enjoyable enough reading experience for you guys.

anyway: on to the next learning experience! i’ll start posting issue #2 on monday, november 9th! in the interim, please enjoy some DAILY FILLER!

i had a great time at SPX this weekend! sara & i made some new friends & talked to a lot of really nice people (especially the couple students from the new class at the center for cartoon studies who stopped by our booth to say hello – i’m astonished at how friendly they all are!) i came home with a much lighter load than i arrived with – i sold out of copies of “the trial of sweetie snake”, got rid of half of my 2nd print run of “life is good” #1 & have about 5 copies of “life is good” #2 left. hooray for confidence-boosting sales & trades!

i ran out of free promo buttons, so if any of you are here because of those, a hearty “hello” to you! hello!

if you bought something, an EVEN HEARTIER hello! HELLO!

here’s page #13 from the first issue…

i’m headed to SPX for the weekend! if you’re in the area, stop by & say hi & i’ll give you some free stuff or something…

here comes page #11, which introduces the other main character, charles the alligator. this was originally the first page i drew for “steve seck’s life is good” for an assignment we had at CCS last year. i had completed the script & needed to illustrate a 4 to 5 page conversation, so i just went for this one. enjoy!

i’ll have copies of “Steve Seck’s Life is Good” issues 1 and 2 for sale for $4 each or $6 together, as well as my latest one-shot “The Trial of Sweetie Snake”, a comic in the classic “chase cartoon” tradition that ends in a highly publicized court battle. the charge? MURDER.

so, you know… jokes & stuff.