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 Party Girl

I wasn’t sure about Party Girl at first. It’s not really a name I’d associate with heroism. On the other hand, that was the point. When I started the project, I made a list of potential names. Just anything that ends on “man”, “woman” or “girl”. Here’s a sample of what I came up with: […]

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 Office Girl

I’m convinced that the only thing that keeps any bureucracy from collapsing are the people in it. You know the type – the office worker who will find an exception for you, who pulls the right file from the wrong drawer, and all these little things that nobody thought of when those rules were set […]

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 Middle Man

Back when I created this page, I wasn’t aware that somebody had already beat me to the pun, and that his comic would soon become a very charming, albeit short-lived ABC Family TV show. Oh well. I don’t think anybody at Fatboy Industries will bother to interfere, but just to be on the safe side, […]

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 Real-Estate Man

Real-Estate Man was the first character I came up with for this event. Actually, the name goes back to one of the earliest Reception Man notebooks, where he appears as a potential villain. When I decided to use the name for the Basel exhibition in 2007, this set one of the recurring themes of the […]

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 Heroes of Today in the City of Tomorrow!

In 2007, years after I’d last drawn Reception Man, I was asked to contribute to a superhero exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. Guess I was still the go-to guy for super stuff in the fanzine scene here. Working, as usual, on several things at once, somehow my research about a city planning scandal bled into the […]

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 Super Hallow

A bad day to be a super hero.

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 Webcomic Artists Live

Life at the convention. Day three or four or so.

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 Lonesome Foursome: Brain Man

Now I realize that, had I introduced the Fanatic Four any other way, you’d know by now what those extra brains are doing on Brain Man’s head. Without that, the images may be a little confusing. Oh well.

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 Li’l Cuckoos

Another short story I wrote for Mat Ferguson’s Two Sentence Stories contest in 2009. Brought back to mind when somebody somewhere else asked for short story submissions the other day. I’ve been meaning to post more of these in GATE CRASH, if only to make Sour Apples look less lonely. The photos, btw, were made […]

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 How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall?

Today’s comic is a warning to all comic writers and web cartoonists out there.

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