Sometimes You Wanna Go…Where Everybody Knows Your Name….

Hey, Everybody!

(That always sounds like ‘Dr. Nick’ in my head when I write that. Not that it does to anybody else.)

Today I just wanted to share some links to some very talented people I know.

So enough blabbering and on with the friend-strafe:

This here is a great new comics/pop culture podcast by my old High School friend Thomas Houston. Tom is just like Batman…if he were as witty as he is tacit and as insane as he is…okay, he’s closer to Batman than I thought, even. Enjoy, fellow Geeks.

Remaining on the comics tip, this is some brilliant artwork by my favorite comics collaborator (okay, my only one, but still…badass) Benjamin Reid Phillips.

And another illustrator. I just met this guy, but his stuff blows me away. He works at my local comic shop, and is a nice fella who enjoys good comedy and shares with me the unique and awkward trait of being starstruck by people 99% of the population doesn’t give a shit about.

Now going up the ladder (arguably, though I don’t consider myself much of a book-snob) to word-based art, we have my good friend Kelcey Wells, who does things with sentences and memes that would kick my ass into inspired literary action even more often than it does if I could extract myself from the slack-jawed wonder I find myself in, reading the incredible work he produces on a staggeringly consistent basis.

…and that’s enough for now. I have more amazing friends, but I’ll save them for next time. Partly because I want to tease you into returning to the site (devious but honest?) and partly because the cold medicine I took half an hour ago is rapidly turning my skull into an inane plush teddy bear who only speaks in bizarre platitudes badly translated from Japanese.

Thanks for reading,

JBLs

Initial Blog Post Number Seventy-Eight or Something

Hello, Imaginary Readers!

This is my first blog post for my wordpress blog. It’s probably the eleventh blog I’ve started. Let’s see if this one takes.

Above you’ll see a very insane picture of me taken when Eben (my old pal, business partner, and perpetual elbow-in-the-ribs, whom you’ll be hearing about quite often, probably) and I visited New York for the NY Comic-Con back in January.

I wasn’t drunk or anything.

I think I’ll be putting some fiction up here, as well as random cranky and/or nonsensical posts at a rate that could, at best, be predicted as ‘irregular’.

I like that word. I buy my pants that way.

And with that, I’m off. To figure out how to make this thing look halfway appealing. Which will probably take me seventeen and a half days. Good luck to me!

-JBL