Happy Tick-day, everybody!

Today’s the day the first issue of The Tick, vol. 2 comes out! I drew it, and Benito Cereno wrote it. It’s kind of a big deal.

You can check out a preview here, then head on down to your local comics shop and buy five or six copies.

Also don’t forget about the original Jonny Crossbones art for sale.

In the interests of maintaining insurance on both myself and my car, I have decided to sell just 10 pages of original Jonny Crossbones art.  I will make a note here when 10 have sold.

The pages are 18×24 inches, black ink on white 2-ply bristol board.  Some pages have stuff drawn in the margins.

The price is just US $100, plus $5 shipping.  They will ship via USPS in a sturdy cardboard tube.

Original art makes a great holiday gift!  Also it will keep me from dying of a chronic disease.

I’m afraid I’m keeping pages one through ten for myself.  Any other page is up for sale!  My one condition of sale is that I would like to reserve the right to borrow the page for a possible gallery show upon completion of the book.  Your name will be listed as owner under the piece in such a circumstance, and I’ll cover any shipping costs.

Okay!  Click this button and own a page today!

contact me at lesmcclaine-AT-gmail.com if you’ve got any questions. And please feel free to spread the word around!

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Hey, sorry there’s no update today.  I found a HUGE mistake I made in the writing (I knew there was a problem, I just didn’t realize how bad it was and thought I could fix it with some dialogue editing) and I’m going back and changing a bunch of dialogue and some artwork earlier in the story.  So, no update.  I’ll be working on this fix more tomorrow, too, but I hope to have a new strip up for Monday.

Hi guys, we’re going to be shifting to a slower update schedule for a couple weeks– Probably two updates a week, spread out whenever I can get to them.

I’m working on the first issue of the Tick, and due to some delay in getting script approval, I’ve got to rush the whole issue out by the end of the month.  I’ll be back in the beginning of October with the 5-day-a-week updates.  Sorry about this!

Coming to your local comic book store this holiday season:

The Tick: All-New #1 written by Benito Cereno, drawn by me.

It’s a new ongoing series, with us as the creative team. Oh, we’ve got such plans. This first issue, which one might find on page 280 of today’s new Previews catalogue, with the item code SEP09 0937, is a Christmas special, something I’ve always wanted to do.

If you’re a regular comics reader, or even if you’re not, try to get down to your local comics shop and ask them to order a copy or two. It’s gonna be good and we want it to do real well.

Also, Arthur has some pretty shapely legs on that cover.