Yee Haw Calgary!

I’m in Calgary this weekend for the Calgary Comic Expo. I’m here to do quickie sketches for the great and wonderful charity, the Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund (I’ll post links later…this is a SUPER quick post!). Although I thought it was busy the last two days I’ve been told that they were the QUIET days. Can’t wait to see how today goes.

I’m doing black and white head shot sketches for a minimum $20 donation. Anything over $25 will get colour.

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See you at the show! I’m sitting in the Pro section in between Don Rosa (X32?) and Jens Robinson. Jens and I have a panel today talking about his dad Jerry Robinson and his and other creators contributions to Batman. I think that’s at 2pm. At 5pm, Kelly Tindall and I will talk about Teaching Comics. Come see us there…and stop by and get a sketch from me and contribute to a good and worthy cause, CLLDF.

 

Ty the Guy OUT!

Enough is enough Bun Toons!

Seriously, I’m not doing tragedy this week.  I simply have no interest.

Ty the Guy OUT!

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Most people don’t realize Prince’s first appearance in comics was in a Spider-Man annual by Peter David and Mark Beachum.  I’m pretty sure this was RIGHT after Purple Rain came out.

They didn’t call him “Prince” (his name was “ACE”) and he didn’t have any Punchanello marionettes or any version of Morris Day anywhere near him, but we all knew what was going on.  The character appeared only once more, in Peter Parker, Spider-Man annual #6. It’s possible they were asked to stop, either by Marvel lawyers, or fans.

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for last week’s Superman themed Toon, click the Kryptonian Bunny

for last week’s Superman themed Toon, click the Kryptonian Bunny

Hop, hop and away!

I promise, no complaining about the new Zack Snyder movie, except for this bit here.

Another honest-to-god-true-life-adventure.  Ah, the life I lead…

I suppose my other children are pretty cool, too.  No, really.

Ty the Guy OUT!

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As long time readers of this blog might recall, my eldest son, Kellam once went out on Halloween as BLUE SUPERMAN!  

Perhaps the only Blue Superman ever on Halloween.  Not a single house knew who he was.

Below is a conversation I had with Taylor about the Archie characters.  It’s an ongoing education with my brood.

And, of course, me and the lad aren’t the only ones with a Christopher Reeve man-crush.

Jerry Seinfeld’s man-crush on the big blue boy scout is so strong, a few years back, American Express actually hired me to draw Superman and Jerry palling around together.  No, really.

I think Superman is tickling Jerry here.  What was I thinking when I drew this?

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For last week’s Bun Toon, click here!

If you life in the Toronto area and are interested in learning to write or draw comics, click here.

Agh! Uk! Ut! Ow! Bun Toons!

Smile, though your guts are breaking, smile, even though you’re aching…

I wasn’t around Bun Tooning last week because of the chronic, you know what I’m saying?  And by chronic, I mean chronic and ongoing kidney stone problems.  No details, I don’t want to bore you with the icky stuff, but it’s why I wasn’t here last week.

All real quotes.  My wife overheard the comment in the bed next to mine in emergency last week.  Apparently I was getting a little too detailed about my belief system while the universe took shots at my innards, and it put someone off that I wasn’t just saying “Ow!”.

I ended up in a semi-private room with a nice Catholic man named Rick who didn’t deserve the tsuris, so I learned to stay quiet about the Bible as the meds wore off.   I can be good.

Fingers crossed, my doctors think I can be free of these things for the rest of my life in a couple of months.   Then I’ll be reduced to only cursing bad movies and bad drivers, but I’ll keep those blasphemies to myself.

Ty the Guy OUT!

I know it’s because of SELMA BLOTTE (the Kidney Lady from Howard the Duck) that all this happened to me.   I wrote her into ONE Howard story in a Civil War special, just a single panel cameo, for god’s sake, and she took it wrong.

I have the power of life and death over you!

I’m glad I never wrote a scene with Appendix Bursting Man or Lung Disease Boy (two of the lesser members of the Legion of Substitute Heroes), or I’d never be free of the hospital.

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for the archive of years bun past, click here

 

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