Author: Brad Guigar

Henchmen, Lackeys, Thugs and Goons People who have subscribed to the Evil Inc Fan Club, Henchmen, Lackeys, Thugs and Goons, on Facebook, have been getting plot hints and special storyline extras. Membership has its privileges. 🙂

Comic Con 2007: Convention Wrap-Up Part 5 [NEWSARAMA] We’re in that “twilight zone” time between two big conventions, post San Diego, but pre Wizard Chicago. To tide us over till the news from the windy city start pouring in, Word
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Comic Con 2007: Convention Report Part 4 Of course, another major highlight of my week in San Diego was the opportunity to attend at Eisner Award ceremony as a nominee. As you may remember, my weekly comic, Phables, was nominated
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Comic Con 2007: Convention Report Part 3 As always, the convention’s meta-human population flocked to the evil goodness that is the Evil Inc Annual Report. Here’s a look at some of the finest — and their reactions to my arduous
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Comic Con 2007: Convention Report Part 2 The best part of any comic convention for me is alwys meeting people — whether they’re regular readers of the strip or newcomers. Here’s a few who were nice enough to pose for
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Comic Con 2007: Convention Report Part 1 I’ve finally recovered from an awesome Comic con appearance in San Diego. I can’t say how terrific it was to meet everyone — from diehard henchmen and lackeys who came up to introduce
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Site Features Welcome to all of my new minions-to-be who discovered Evil Inc at Comic Con International! Here’s a re-cap of all the sites features that make this your home page for Evil. RSS feed (comic):The strip itself has an
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Comic Con! Booth 1330! If you’re going to be in sunny San Diego for the Big Weekend, be sure to drop by the Blank Label Comics booth — in the heart of Webcomicon — at Booth 1330.

Webcomicon 2007 Look for me at the Blank Label Comics booth in the middle of Aisle 1300, among some of the top names in webcomics! Many of your BLC favorites will be in attendence! It’s going to be a fantastic
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Milestone or Brimstone? As of today, Monday, July 16, there are 666 comics in the Evil Inc archive. Enjoy.

Sexy Supervillains! It’s a topic near and dear to the hearts and minds (and so-forths) of fanboys the world over! They’re good when they’re bad, but they’re better when they’re badder. They make your pulse race … shortly before making it
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Henchmen, Lackeys, Thugs & Goons: The Evil Inc Fan Club I’ve become a big fan of Facebook.com, so I’ve decided that it’s the perfect place to host the Evil Inc Fan Club “Henchmen, Lackeys, Thugs & Goons.” Go on over
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Cartoon Archives: Marlette Edition The untimely death of Doug Marlette has me reflecting on my short stint as the editorial cartoonist of The (Canton, Ohio) Repository. Marlette’s book, In Your Face: A Cartoonist At Work, was an incredible inspiration to
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Webcomicon 2007 For the first time ever, Webcomics have unified their presence at Comic Con International. “WebComiCon,” the heart of the webcomics action in San Diego, will be found in the middle of Aisle 1300, where some of the top
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Starslip Crisis: Vol 2 Blank Label Comics is excited to announce the release of Starslip Crisis, Volume 1 by Kristofer Straub. Collecting Starslip strips from the very beginning to June 2007, the 176-page book contains over 500 strips. Fans of
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DC’s Villainous Tease Countdown tease When DC’s Countdown launched, they released a teaser image that spawned a heated debate about the direction of the upcoming series. DC’s Executive Editor Dan DiDio has finally come clean about the meaning of the
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Wapsi Square: Book 2 Blank Label Comics is excited to announce the release of the “Wapsi Square: The Demons In My Back Pocket” by cartoonist Paul Taylor. This is the third “Wapsi Square” book (the first volume was released last
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Site note: I’m considering changing the standing “The Week In Villainy” feature of this blog to “VQ: The Villain Quotient.” It’s the same general concept with a slightly different delivery. Any comments are appreciated. VQ Rating: Skrulls Taking stock of
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“Power Girl’s tailor” In case you were stymied by today’s punchline, here’s a look at the super-heroine in question. I originally posted the image on March 16, when DC first started teasing us with the illustration for the cover to
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Wizard World 2007 — Trend interview Hayden Mitman did a fantastic piece on Wizard World Philly for Trend, an 800,000-circulation newspaper delivered throughout the Philly suburbs. The guy gave me some major-league props, devoting five paragraphs (yes, I counted) to
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Wizard World 2007 Con Report Wizard World Philly was easily my best comic-convention appearance to date. It was good for Wizard, too. I can’t find confirmation, but I was told they broke their previous attendance record, and the foot traffic
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Mo’ MODOK! Pulse’s Ben Towle posted an excellent look at someone TWIV recently identified as a villain on the rise: MODOK. Seems our big-headed buddy is all of the Marvel Universe these days. Ben tells us why. [PULSE] Ten years
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Convention planning I know… I know… I’m not even into the heart of the convention season yet and already I’m planning appearances for 2008. But let’s face it, I’ll have three new books out by then — the third Evil
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Seven Years of Schlock Howard Tayler is celebrating seven years of his daily sci-fi comic Schlock Mercenary. Schlock is one of the truly seminal sci-fi strips on the Web. It’s written to a depth that has earned it fervent fans
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Evil Inc Theme Song If there’s one thing that this comic has been lacking, it’s a decent theme song. I’ve long coveted Kristofer Straub’s theme-song accomplishments, so when the immensely talented Gary Bloom offered to craft a song for Evil
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Wizard World Philly Neighbors Howdy neighbors! Take a look at my cool neighborhood! Sitting on one side is talented penciller Yvel Guichet. Among a great many fine projects, Yvel is the penciller on Dark Horse’s ArchEnemies. ArchEnemies is about a
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Wizard World Philly Programming Wizard World Philly has released their programming schedule. Here’s how you can fill in the rest of your weekend after you’ve bought all of your Evil Inc merchandise. FridaySaturdaySunday The convention is at the Convention Center
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Tony Soprano, aged Here’s a look at what I did at my day job last night. I took a stock photo of James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano and made it look as if he was about 80 years old. Click
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Wizard World Philly Floor Plan Wizard World Philadelphia has released the floor plan for the 2007 convention. I’ll be in Artist’s Alley at Table 2105. Just look for the Suicide Girls’ Table and then head straight back to the Artist’s
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Wizard World Philly Preview Here’s a small taste of what’s in store for Philly as Wizard World sets up its tents next week. [NJ.com] [Brian Michael] Bendis — the creative force behind several of the industry’s hottest-selling titles, including “New
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Mighty Avengers #3 If you recall, in an earlier post about my pull list at Hall of Heroes in Cherry Hill, NJ, I stated the following: And I couldn’t care less about what’s going on in The Mighty Avengers, but
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BLC’s Summer WonderFest Blank Label Comics, the ground-breaking co-op of independent cartoonists, is partnering with Project Wonderful to launch an ambitious concept in advertising that will offer never-before-seen marketing possibilities. BLC’s Summer Wonderfest is a limited-time offer through which advertisers
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Best Title in Comics: JLA Unlimited I’ve been trying hard for the past several months not to post this next item, but I’m afraid it simply needs to be said. JLA Unlimited is one of the top five monthly titles
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2007 Convention Schedule Wizard World Philadelphia is just around the corner — landing in Philly on June 15-17. I’ll be in Artist’s Alley, doing convention sketches and selling copies of my books. If there’s anything you’d like me to have
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The Ratings: Legion of Doom Lore Sjöberg has done a video version of his “Book of Ratings” on the subject of Members of the Legion of Doom. Come for the critique of Lex Luthor’s motivation, stay for “Bizarro Bob Barker
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Troops on a Plane Fellow BLCer Steve Troop just submitted the “Snakes on a Plane” spoof video from to the MTV Movie Awards. Over the next week, Web users vote on their favorite spoofs and the finalists will be shown
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A Peek At My Pull List I’m spending waaay too much on comics, so last month I decided to make some changes to my pull list at Hall of Heroes in Cherry Hill, NJ. New Avengers: DROPPED I’ve grown completely
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Heath Ledger as the Joker [NEWSARAMA] Here was the deal – last week, “I Believe in Harvey Dent� images appeared on the Internet, showing an image of actor Aaron Eckhart looking very…political. The reference, of course, the character in next
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Site Features There’s a new feature on the site, so it’s time for a re-cap of all the features, starting with the newest: Recent Posts: At the bottom of the blog is a list of ten preceeding posts. If you’d
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Tales from the Sinestro Corps Somewhere the Crypt Keeper is smiling. Making the Tales from the Sinestro Corps — found in the back of the current issues of Green Lantern — in the form of a caring, affectionate homage to
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Palmiotti and Grey talk Joker As predicted here, Joker is indeed taking center stage in DC’s Countdown series. ICN has an excellent interview with the two writers behind that series, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Grey. [ICN] This week the Joker
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Greystone Inn archives: The End It was two years ago today that I started what would come to be the very last Greystone Inn story. The story flowed smoothly into the genesis of Evil Inc. In fact, there was never
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The Week in Villainy: April 8-14, 2007 Who’s Up and Who’s Thwarted Vapor and X-Ray: This entry is a little overdue, but with the next issue of She-Hulk coming out next week, TWIV felt it imperitive to get this one
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2007 Convention Schedule Here’s a list of the conventions I’m planning to attend. I’ve also listed the conventions (in grey italics) that I’m considering, but haven’t committed to. The bad news is that Chicago is officially a scratch for 2007.
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Shortpacked! book in preorders My Blank Label pal David Willis is wrapping up preorders for the first Shortpacked! print collection.That means it’s time to mobilize the BLC Army and give the guy a Big Push before preorders end Monday. Swipe
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‘Spider-Man 3’ Villains Talk About Villainy [AP] Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man is so good at his job that his Hollywood handlers put him up against three enemies this time. “Spider-Man 3” continues Peter Parker and alter-ego Spider-Man’s battle against old pal
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