Re-Run Toons! Sorry!

What? Again? It’s not even summer?

Sorry folks, I don’t have a choice today.  I’m up against a deadline for an art job that’s very deadly and very liney.  It’s for a super-fun project with one of comics’ most successful writers (no hints beyond that), and I can’t wait to tell you what it is, but I can’t tell you yet.  On top of that, I’m putting the finishing touches on a script that I can’t tell you about until it’s announced, which is equally fun, but doesn’t involve one of comics’ most successful writers because the writer is me, and I’m only mildly successful.

SO…

We heard this week that the latest Superman and Batman movie is going to have an R-Rated release on blue ray, so I re-present a story of Superman’s private areas.

It’s hard to believe that it’s a year ago this weekend that the world lost Mr. Spock.  Sigh…

See you next week, where I’ll be far less employed in the making of comics for big-time publishers and industry people, and can come back here and make free comics for the likes of YOU.

Ty the Guy OUT!

For last week’s Bun Toon that obliquely references Star Trek (oh, but hardly), click here.

For the archive of old Bun Toons, click here.  (Oh, my god, it’s been too long since I updated the archive.  I’m a bad person)

Fascinating Bun Toons. Not Yay.

Taken out by a smoking habit. He could only be destroyed by something completely illogical.

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Ty the Guy OUT!

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I was at a comic convention in Kitchener, Ontario yesterday, where I was asked to do a sketch of Mr. Spock.  This was about twenty minutes or so, magic markers on cardboard from a photo on a smart-phone.

It turned out not bad for a marker sketch.

I’ve drawn Nimoy/Spock a zillion times over the years.  He was one of the faces I used when I first auditioned for Mad Magazine a lifetime ago…

Here’s Spock’s first appearance from issue #1 of the Star Trek miniseries I wrote for IDW a couple of years back:  MISSION’S END.  The pencils are by the delightfully skilled Steve Molnar.

I loved the “alien” look on the character, looking down on Gary Mitchell and another crew-woman as they first encounter him.  One of my favorite moments from a script I wrote brought to life perfectly by Steve…

The “Spock Five” did, in fact, start with me.  I’ve been drawing these on Canadian money since the late seventies, and some time in the nineties, a TV producer friend of mine named Mark Askwith asked me to demonstrate the trick on TV.  Shortly after that, I started getting them back as change, which freaked me the f*** out the first time it  happened.    Apparently, they’re still around, and a few folks did up some new ones in hounour of Leonard’s passing.  (the bill up above is not one of mine, btw, but I can’t find an original bill anywhere and had to settle for one found online).

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For last week’s equally sad Bun Toon, click here

for the Bun Toon Archive, click here

Steve Jobs and Charles Napier and Mr. Spock, all in one week!

I’m hardly the place to go for news on the net, but I wanted to comment on the loss of these three from the world this week.

Steve Jobs was one of the architects of the future, mostly by taking advantage of Xerox’s disinterest in marketing the personal computer that Xerox itself invented back in the 70s.  He may not have invented the mouse driven graphic interface, but he knew how to put it into stores and into your house, and helped bring about the world in which you’re reading this on the internet.  Only fifty-six years old when we lost him, so it REALLY SUCKS that he doesn’t get to see what the world he created will look like in the actual future.

Speaking of the Actual Future, us Trekkies just lost a couple of highly important folks as well.

Both of them! Damn it!

The delightful space hippie on the left was played by Charles Napier, who also passed away today.  He’s finally stepping out to Eden, Yea Brother.   Depending on the day of the week, this is my favorite episode of Star Trek.  (Some days it’s City on the Edge of Forever when I’m in a serious place).

The fact that Napier, the squarest-jawed actor in the history of Hollywood,  played this guy with such conviction is a HUGE part of what made this episode special to me, and the song he sang was so wonderful, you’d have to be a Herbert not to enjoy it.

Charles Napier, world's toughest space hippie.

And to round out the set of endings happening recently, Leonard Nimoy announced on the weekend that he was permanently retiring Mr.  Spock.  Leonard Nimoy has had some health troubles and after 80 years on the planet, doesn’t get around as well as he used to.   No more audio books, no more appearances at Star Trek Conventions, he will not be in the new movie, the character is over, unless you count the new guy.

Which we do not.

Obviously, nothing lasts forever, but I need to go hug kittens from all the crappy news today.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Here now your bonus Hugging a Star Trek Kitteh moment.

RED SHIRT?!?! Damn. The fuzzy thing is gonna die.