Author: Brad Guigar

WikiWatch: Day 2 The Evil Inc Un-Deletion Movement is off to a strong start! I can’t thank you guys enough for the support and the kind words. There is a very heated debate going on a Wiki over the subject
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WikiWatch According to a few Wikipedia editors, Evil Inc is not a noteworthy comic. They know nothing of the 11,000+ daily visitors (not counting newspapers). They know nothing of the newspapers it runs in — including Philadelphia Daily News (130,000
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Awwww… man! The wikipedia article for Evil Inc has been deleted. If you read the comments in this post, you’ll see that mentioning the fact that Evil Inc runs in several newspapers, including the Philadelphia Daily News, would help bring
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DC tease [Newsarama] Last week Newsarama got you a close-up look at the teaser image DC Comics distributed hinting at a future storyline or storylines. We also got DCU Executive Editor Dan Didio to agree to answer 20 of your
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Brick-and-mortar news New York fans now have two more choices for finding and buying my books! Cosmic Comics and Forbidden Planet will begin carrying my merchandise soon. Expect books on the shelves by next week. Both stores are stocking Evil
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Greystone Inn archives: Greek Mirth Last week I mentioned a storyline that planted the seed to end Greystone and launch Evil Inc. As a counterpoint, let me present a storyline that made it harder to leave Greystone. I mean… “lip-dancing
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Green Lantern Corps 8 Well. It’s official. I’m an old man. I’m a huge Green Lantern fan, and when I saw the launch of the Green Lantern Corps monthly title, it was a sight-unseen lock on my pull list. It
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Cartoon Archives: John Sununu In another installment of my ongoing series that looks into cartoons from my archive, here’s an editorial cartoon I created for The Repository (Canton, Ohio) in 1991. George H.W. Bush’s Chief of Staff, John Sununu was
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52 clue In the latest issue of DC’s weekly comic, 52, Dan Didio left a coded message about the secret of the entire series. Has anybody cracked it yet?

StarHarbor Nights You’ll notice a new ad for perennial Sponsor of Evil, Star Harbor Nights. It will appear across all of the BLC sites for the next couple days. It also features a couple familiar faces. If you’re not reading
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Webcartoonist Choice Awards The list of nominees for the Webcartoonist Choice Awards has been released. I’ve received my first nomination ever — for Evil Inc in the Best Superhero/Action category. Blank Label Comics cleaned up in the nominations as well:
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DC tease [Newsarama] DC has released what appears to be a teaser image with no information attached other than the subject line of an e-mail: “Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction…” Which
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Greystone Inn archives: Henchmen, Thugs, Lackeys and Goons (2) Some more thoughts on the topic of henchmen, thugs, lackeys and goons. This time, as Samantha heads to Superhuman Resources to be tested to see which jobs she is best suited
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Free Comic Book Day 2007 The Free Comic Book Day people have released the information and images for all of the titles to be included in 2007’s Free Comic Book Day. FCBD falls on May 5 this year. For more
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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. New York Comic Con: February 23-25. Emerald City Comic Con: March 31st-April
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Questions for Upcoming Comixpedia Interview with BLC Comixpedia is planning an interview with the members of Blank Label Comics. You can post your questions over there. They’ll take the top ten questions, send them to us, and we’ll answer them.

Green Lantern #17 Newsarama has a very good interview with Geoff Johns in which he discusses the upcoming developments in the Green Lantern storyline. [Newsarama] The past has come back to bite Hal Jordan many times in his years as
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Greystone Inn archives: Henchmen, Thugs, Lackeys and Goons Today is the start of a new story arc in which we will meet the oldest living henchman. If you’re familiar with my previous strip, Greystone Inn, you’ve met him already. I
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Project Wonderful I’m participating in Project Wonderful, which is a unique approach to handling advertising on the Web. You’ll see the new ads to the left of this blog. If you’re seeing a “Your ad here” message, then there’s plenty
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New Avengers #28 Brian Bendis has revealed the final member of the New Avengers line-up: Spider-Man. [Newsarama] WHAT BRIAN BENDIS SAYS: “Spider-Man – the man who made the biggest boner move of 2006 [laughs]…. He has a lot to answer
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Race and Cartooning [Daily Cartoonist] Over on Jim Borgman’s blog he tackles a difficult topic of when he feels comfortable using minority characters when the editorial cartoon calls for a generic individual. His answer is interesting and he even redraws
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‘For Better or For Worse’… Not Retiring After All Here’s some pretty amazing news…. [E&P] Millions of readers will breathe a partial sigh of relief when they learn that Lynn Johnston won’t completely end “For Better or For Worse” around
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OtakuBooty Please welcome a new Sponsor of Evil: OtakuBooty. This is one of those “why didn’t I think of that” sites that I think many of you are going to appreciate. It’s a dating site for intelligent fans of anime,
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MySpace I’ve finally decided to start a MySpace page. I have no idea why, though. I’m clearly missing the point. If anybody has any ideas on how I can make the page better, please don’t hesitate to write.

Syndicate Bingo [E&P] A comic creator is playing bingo with his syndicate submissions. DailyCartoonist.com reported that Aaron Johnson sent his “What the Duck” strip last Thursday to Creators Syndicate, King Features Syndicate, Tribune Media Services, United Media, Universal Press Syndicate,
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Spider-Man 3 [Premiere.com] “Director Sam Raimi on why Spidey will finally face off against Venom: “[Avi Arad, the former chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios] said the fans want to see Venom. I come from a different generation. I read
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Studio Tours CBR has launched a new feature which looks inside the studios of some prominent comics creators. They’ve already done a complete tour of Scott “PvP” Kurtz’s studio. And, most recently, they showed the studio of Avengers artist Frank
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Site Features Time for the periodic review of the features of this site. If you’re a new reader, you’ll want to give it a quick skim. Blog: Register with Blogger, and participate in the discussion! It’s free! Google search engine:
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January Previews I just got my copy of the January Previews and I have to share it with you! Here’s the actual page with the first offering from my new production entity, Greystone Inn Comics. In case you missed the
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Philly Feed Here’s another exciting announcement for some great stuff that’s coming up in 2007: Phables, my long-form comic about life in Philadelphia, is going to begin updating every Monday starting later in January. It has been very successful in
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Comic Book Urban Legends From Comic Book Resources: Only one of these urban legends is false. Do you know which one? Batman had a brother! Blue Beetle gained weight as an homage to Nite-Owl from Watchmen. Archie cancelled a series
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January Previews I have some tremendous news to pass along, and I’m calling on all you thugs, goons, minions, and henchmen — er, henchpersons — to get involved in this and help make it a huge success. Diamond Distributing is
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Halfpixel on Newspaper Syndicates Leave it to Kristofer Straub to come up with a devastating comic on the state of newspaper syndication. It was posted on PVP Sunday, so if you missed it, be sure to go back and check
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Cartoon Archives: Christmas 1991 Here’s another project I’ve been batting around that I’d like some feedback on. See, I’ve been cartooning professionally since about 1991, and I’ve got a huge archive of cartoons that haven’t seen the light of day
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Greystone Inn archives: The Book Tour In 2001, my first collection of Greystone Inn comics was being published by Plan Nine Publishing. To promote this, I devoted a storyline to Argus and the gang going on a promotional book tour.
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Frank Cho Newsarama has posted part two of their interview with Avengers artist Frank Cho. It has some fantastic previews of his art. From the story: Now, before we move on to the best part of the interview where we
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Dan Didio looks back at 2006 Newsarama has an excellent interview with Dan Didio, Senior VP and Executive Editor of the DC Universe, in which he looks back at 2006. From the story: For both longtime readers, and relative newcomers,
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Diesel Sweeties Best wishes for success goes out to the talented R. Stevens, whose Diesel Sweeties is going to be syndicated to newspapers by United Media. [E&P] United Media will syndicate “Diesel Sweeties,” which began as an online comic, to
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I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a better compliment From a new blog about webcomics… Comics I Hate But Can’t Stop Reading God Help Me: Penny and AggieKevin and Kell Evil Inc.

Another Paul Southworth Masterpiece Fellow BLCer Paul Southworth has come out with another T-shirt submission for Threadless. Threadless holds competitions in which the winner gets a $1,500 cash prize. Paul has proven himself worthy of that honor once already, and
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Zanadu Comics Good news for fans in Seattle! Zanadu Comics will begin carrying a number of my books. They will have on hand the following: Evil Inc Annual Report vol 1, Courting Disaster vol 1, Counting Wrongs (the fourth Greystone
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Martin Nodell, creator of Green Lantern, 1915-2006 Sad news to pass along. Martin Nodell, who helped create both the Green Lantern and the Pillsbury Doughboy, has passed away at age 91. If you’ve been to a comic convention, it’s likely
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I’m Mister Heat Miser… Be sure to tune in tonight to NBC’s live-action version of one of my all-time favorite Rankin-Bass animated specials, The Year Without a Santa Claus (9 p.m. on the East Coast). I don’t expect this to
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Update: JSA 1 [CBR] Thursday afternoon, DC Comics held a press conference to discuss the first issue of “Justice Society of America,” the relaunched series from the mind of Geoff Johns and the pencil of Dale Eaglesham. The duo took
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PVP: The Animated Series — Update Scott Kurtz’s foray into animation may be one of the most exciting projects in webcomics history. I’m subscribing and you should, too. CBR has posted an excellent interview with Kurtz about the enterprise and
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Tobey to Hang Up His Webs? [THE SUN] Tobey Maguire has hinted he will hang up his superhero suit after the release of Spider-Man 3. The actor says he is keen to tackle more challenging movie roles and also wants
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A Man of Letters From Chris Eliopoulos’ essay about being a letterer in the comic-book industry: Let’s be honest here. Letterers are the scum of the industry. Everyone looks down on what we do—except maybe Augie De Blieck—and thinks that
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Paper Holds Contest to Replace Marrying Cartoonist for a Day [E&P] With Wisconsin State Journal freelance editorial cartoonist Phil Hands getting married this weekend, the Madison newspaper is seeking an artistic reader to fill in for him this Sunday. The
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Fox Trot going Sundays-only [E&P] “FoxTrot” cartoonist Bill Amend has been thinking of turning his 1988-launched comic into a Sunday-only strip since … about 1990. “The sense that this full-time pace wasn’t working well for me probably started about two
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Eisner Awards Call for Entries From Comic Book Resources… Entries are now being accepted for the 19th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, to be given to the finest publications and creators of 2006. Publishers can submit any comic, graphic
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Comic Book Urban Legends Also from Comic Book Resources: One of these urban legends is false. Do you know which one? DC got the idea behind Brainiac from a “make your own computer� kit. Lex Luthor went bald due to
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Halfpixel What do you do when your mind is crowded with ideas and gags that just won’t fit into the two comics that you already produce? Where do you post that interactive Flash comic that doesn’t update often enough to
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JSA 1 [SBC] The first issue of DC Comics’ Justice Society of America appears in stores this Wednesday, December 6. Get in on the ground floor as the world’s first and greatest super-team returns to usher in the DCU’s next
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Tooncasting I need a little feedback from you guys. I’m thinking about making my comic available as a tooncast. In other words, for a small fee you would get some HTML code that would make my comic update on your
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The second Sheldon book is here From the Sheldon blog: THE BOOKS ARE HERE! And good Lord ‘n Butter, they look fantastic. I’ve always made it a priority that the Sheldon books look and feel awesome, and I was really
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GIfts for Graphic Artists If you have a graphic artist or designer on your holiday shopping list, I have a great idea for you: A matted print of one of the popular Gary the Graphic Artist strips. The most popular
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Another delay for Marvel’s Civil War [Newsarama] Marvel Comics has confirmed that the on-sale date of Civil War #6 has been moved to January 3rd, two weeks later than the previously announced on-sale date of December 20th, given when Marvel
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Wizard fires Editor-in-Chief [CBR] Wizard Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief has been fired, according to industry insiders. Multiple sources told CBR News Wednesday that Senior Vice-President/Editor-in-Chief Pat McCallum of Wizard Entertainment Group has been let go from the company. According to a 2002
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Another syndicated cartoonist bites the dust [E&P] The Silo Roberts strip is ending, according to DailyCartoonist.com. Rob Cabrera, who’s in his early 30s, told DailyCartoonist.com that he’s stopping the comic Dec. 10 to have more time for teaching and for
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Kyle Baker moves to Image Comics [Image Comics] Kyle Baker is making Image Comics his home. “Taking my books to Image was a no-brainer,” Baker says. “First of all, it’s a major publishing house run by cartoonists! And not just
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New Avengers #26 [CBR] She’s killed him twice, and twice she has brought him back to life. But what happens when Hawkeye confronts his long-time friend, former teammate, and killer, the Scarlet Witch, in New Avengers #26? New Avengers writer
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PhilCon 2006 Con Report PhilCon was my last convention appearance of the year and I can definitely say I went out on a high note. As you may remember from an earlier post, I was a little hesitant about this
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PvP: The Animated Series From Scott Kurtz’s blog: It is with great pride that we announce the first season of PvP: The Animated Series. Starting in February 2007, PvP will be offered as an animated feature via the Web. Each
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Miami cartoonist update [NBC] The cartoonist who allegedly stormed the Miami Herald building downtown on Friday remains in custody. A judge ordered Saturday that Jose Varela, 56, be held until experts can determine whether he is mentally stable. Varela is
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Dr. Strange: The Oath (2 of 5) I have to apologize. I’m awfully behind on my comics reading. In any event, I’m finally getting around to the second installment of Dr. Strange: The Oath. I’m still heavily into this series.
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O.J. Book, TV Special, Cancelled [YAHOO] After a firestorm of criticism, News Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and television special “If I Did It.” In the projects, Simpson speaks in hypothetical terms about how
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Lucy More Needs Less With holiday gift-giving season upon us, I want to call your attention to one of the best children’s books I’ve ever read. It’s a fantasic book about rampant consumerism and the perils of trying to buy
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Lulu is still Number One Here’s a little story from the Buckeye Book Fair a couple weekends back. I’m sitting there, signing copies of my Everything Cartooning Book book, and a guy comes up and mumbles some sort of half-hearted
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Sponsor of Evil: Binary Addiction Please welcome the newest Sponsor of Evil, “Binary Addiction” by E. Alexander Coolidge. It’s about two computer geeks. Matt — the logical one — is into programming and caffeine. Lots of caffeine. Josh — the
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Greystone Inn archives: Buffy the Vampire Slayer In 2003, I did a ttwo-week story arc paying tribute to the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It stands testiment to two things: (1) That was a darned fine TV show, and
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Buy Original Art You can buy original art from any of my comics — Evil Inc, Courting Disaster, Phables or Greystone Inn. The prices are very reasonable and they make excellent holiday gifts. E-mail me at bguigar(at)yahoo(dot)com to see if
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“I want my Western Burger!” And now, for your moment of Zen, here’s a 911-call from a woman who wants police dispatched to the fast food restaurant that keeps getting her order wrong. Snopes has labeled it as “Undetermined.” From
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Laying out 52 Newarama has an excellent interview with Keith Giffen, who has been doing the layouts for the weekly comic, 52. There are a few fascinating before-and-after shots. If you enjoy a peak behind the scenes, then you’re going
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Bite Me In case you needed one more reminder of why you stopped reading newspaper comics a long time ago, here’s another: United Media is sending an alert to editors who work at newspapers that carry Pearls Before Swine informing
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SEPTA Bingo Yesterday’s Phables was phenomenally popular — with Philadelphians and others alike. So I’m making the game board available as a letter-sized download. Download the PDF, print it out, and play on your next commute.

Evil Inc flyer For reasons that I will explain later, I would like to do a little readership push. That means I need you, my minions. 🙂 Print this flyer and post copies of it where you think people will
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