Boorman, the wizard who brings these pages to life, is BACK! Bring on the dancing girls!

We know it’s been a while. To refresh your memories, I’ve reposted the first page of Zoe’s current tale. If you need to start from the beginning, click here.

To catch up on “Pastrami for the Dead,” click here.

This week…elephants!

Next week, a theater improv class goes horribly wrong, and the week after, we wrap up “Pastrami for the Dead”! See you next Thursday!

To catch-up and/or review what’s happened so far on 1 Way Ticket, look to the right and click on Chapter 1 and 2’s Catch-Up Pages

1 Way Ticket is written by Chris Arrant and illustrated by Dan Warner

Dear Readers:
Please welcome the newest element in The Chemistry Set, my collaborator for the next couple of months, the exquisite Michel Fiffe, founding member of ACT-I-VATE and creator of the terrific (and ongoing) PANORAMA.

If you were ever wondering what it would look like if Al Hirschfeld drew a Bernie Krigstein story, well, this might just be your cup of tea.* Enjoy…but not too much, okay?

Please join us next Tuesday, December 5, for Page Two.
*Note: this comparison embarrasses the artist, but I stand by it…

Previously in STUCK

Chapter One; Chapter Two (to date)…

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Thanks for checking us out this week.  Next week, the end of Chapter Two!

Tom & Vito

So it’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving and you’ve had your fill of leftovers. You hate football. You’re stuffed and bored. What next?

If you’re in NYC, head on down to KGB Bar, where I will attempt to read SCHEHERAZADE out loud, live and in person:

Graphic Novelists at KGB

Start: Nov 26 2006 - 7:41pm
End: Nov 26 2006 - 9:00pm

Margo Dabaie will be reading from her work about growing up Palestinian Christian in America.

Given that I’ve never attempted to read a comic aloud in my life, it should be interesting. There will be some fab ACT-I-VATErs presenting as well, including Steven’s brother, Dan.

There will be no interpretive dance, I promise.

Be there!

TODT HILL, an adventure strip by Kleid & Colden, updates here every Friday.
Preach on, Officer Tompkins and have a Happy Thanksgiving weekend!

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Have a happy Thanksgiving, everyone! And check back here next Thursday for more STYX TAXI!

Here we are, in second scheduled Skip Week between chapters 2 and 3 1 Way Ticket. Last week, I talked about music in comics…. this week, I want to talk about music in .. well, my life.

Amidst the late nineties, I was part of several local bands that some might say failed spectacularly. But in doing so, we had alot of fun. Degredation. The Silent Couple. The Velocet. Adagio. Memento Mori. Those were the names of the bands I played in. I started as a keyboardist due to 12 years classical piano training, but was quickly pulled into the allure of bass playing following the likes of Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order) and Simon Gallup (The Cure). I’d always been a student of music, starting with my piano training but also going to my college majoring in radio broadcasting and culminating with performing in bands.

The initial allure was the performance in front of crowds, but once I was “in” I grew to love the practices and camraderie (or lack thereof) that permeated the relationships in a band. All the local bands practiced in a group of storage sheds (as homaged in Chapter 1), and on weekend nights it became a band camp of the best kind with up to 12 to 15 bands playing simultaneously in their badly sound-proofed sheds. It became a subculture of sorts for a few years, with pseudo-groupies coming to sit outside their favorite band’s shed to hear what they were working on, but more importantly, to be with them in this stripped down moment. From the grindcore bands such as Circle and Cede to the grunge throwbacks the Lunge Puppets to my own particular persuasion of gothy new wave / rock, it was all there. Even the cops routinely coming by to cite us on noise complaints.

It was these years that gave me such an interest in the “behind the scenes” or “inside baseball” approach to musicians. And although I ultimately fell out of actively playing in bands, those experiences still color the way I see and create things to this day.

That’s where 1 Way Ticket comes from.

Come back next Wednesday as we begin chapter 3 of 1 Way Ticket, where we learn the effects of Sully’s spectral guitar.

What Came Before: Catch Up Here.
And now, on to Page 9, the denouement:

I’d like to wish my fantastic collaborator Hyeondo Park a fond and temporary farewell - don’t fret, Hyeondo fans: he’ll be back at The Chemistry Set before too long, doing a STYX TAXI story with Steven Goldman. And Hyeondo and I are currently cooking up something good for you all in 2007. Stay tuned…

Speaking of staying tuned: Come back next Tuesday, November 28 for the debut of REST STOP, a nasty little story featuring art by ACT-I-VATE superstar Michel Fiffe!