Posted by DwightMacPherson on Monday, December 31 2007 at 6:53 pm
Happy New Year!
We thank you for joining us on New Year’s Eve for the newest installment of The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo. We hope you enjoy this week’s strip and–if you did–please take a few moments to let us know.
See you next year!
-Dwight L. MacPherson (with Thomas Boatwright and Thomas Mauer)
Category: Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo
Posted by AndrewFoley on Monday, December 31 2007 at 4:36 pm
Val’s favourite film is “9 1/2 Weeks”. For more information on this cherubic deviant, contact your local O’Mega-Mart outlet or e-mail OMegaMart@Gmail.com
Category: Holiday Men, The
Posted by AndrewFoley on Monday, December 31 2007 at 4:35 pm
There are more than fifty species of rabbit and not one of them is over four feet tall. For more information on this abomination in the eyes of God, contact your local O’Mega-Mart outlet or write OMegaMart@Gmail.com
Category: Holiday Men, The
Posted by StevenGoldman on Thursday, December 27 2007 at 10:31 pm
Dear readers:
On account of the holidays and other events of both good and bad cheer, Tom and I are taking a break from “Federico” this week. But join us next Thursday for our story, already in progress!
And have a happy New Year!
–Steven
Category: Styx Taxi
Posted by DwightMacPherson on Wednesday, December 26 2007 at 7:43 pm
Whew. Another Christmas has come and gone. It was a wild and woolly one–let me tell you!
Thank you for joining us for the newest page of our ongoing adventure. As you can see, the mystery is beginning to unfurl before us. Join us next week as we find out more about Bea’s father and his unfortunate–well, you’ll see.
We hope you are enjoying our tale thus far. And, if you are, please tell others about Kid Houdini and the Chemistry Set.
That’s all I have time for this week, but we’ll see you next week with another page of Kid Houdini goodness.
-Dwight L. MacPherson (with Worth Gowell and Kevin Conley)
Category: Kid Houdini & the Silver Dollar Misfits
Posted by AndrewFoley on Wednesday, December 26 2007 at 6:05 pm
The Chemistry Set Online Comics Collective is pleased — well, not pleased, exactly, more like extremely reluctant but they’re doing it anyway, to announce the addition of Andrew Foley and Nick Johnson’s comic THE HOLIDAY MEN to the site’s regular features.
ChemSet co-founder Vito Delsante tried to explain the situation. “I don’t really know how it happened. I was just having a drink–a Pepsi, it wasn’t even liquor!–and the next thing I know I’m in a cheap hotel room with a dead hooker and there’s Andrew and Nick telling me they’ll take care of everything if I’ll just convince the other ChemSetters to let them join. No one’s found the body, yet, so,” said Delsante, stifling a shudder, “They’re in.”
THE HOLIDAY MEN chronicles the ongoing conflict between twisted versions of holiday icons and global economic superpower O’Mega-Mart. Described by Johnson as “a subtly nuanced, satirical critique of consumer culture,” and “a haphazard collection of ridiculously violent fight scenes” by Foley, THE HOLIDAY MEN is the first collaboration between the two talented, handsome, and modest creators.
An elderly curmudgeon since the age of 12, Foley graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design’s drawing program, ran his own painting studio, and successfully evaded his creditors for several years in the ’90s, before deciding to focus his creative efforts on writing. In addition to the independently produced comic books PARTING WAYS and DONE TO DEATH, he’s been paid to write more than a dozen graphic novels that haven’t been published, and a couple that have.
In addition to being a founding member of Calgary’s Vicious Ambitious Studios, Nick Johnson’s hobbies include juggling, animal husbandry, and lingerie modeling. An artistic wunderkind who drew his first comic prior to leaving his mother’s womb, he started selling minicomics to earn beer money at the age of fourteen.
Writer and artist first met in 2000 when Foley attempted to dispose of the pizza box Johnson lived in at the time. Said Foley, “Looking at the frankly disturbing images Nick had scrawled on the side of the box, I realized I’d just stumbled onto an amazing creative talent and immediately planned to ruthlessly exploit him to the best of my ability. Now, with THE HOLIDAY MEN, I finally get the chance.”
In addition to giving Chemistry Set’s audience a rollicking good time, THE HOLIDAY MEN also offers invaluable services to its corporate clients. Foley claims that, “Sponsoring a HOLIDAY MEN panel is a great way to bring your message to ‘the kids.’ You give us money and we give you access to the free webcomic-reading demographic every company’s dying to reach. Being part of this project will lend your business instant ’street cred.’ Rather than seeing you as a dust-covered dinosaur on the brink of extinction, partnering with THE HOLIDAY MEN will convince young people you’re ‘radical to the extreme!’” Anyone interested in becoming a HOLIDAY MEN sponsor is encouraged to send an e-mail with “Sponsorship” in the Subject Header to OMegaMart@Gmail.com.
THE HOLIDAY MEN’s first episode, “The Massacre Memorial Day Sale Massacre”, will appear in serialized installments every Tuesday on chemsetcomics.com, starting January 8. “We’ve still got good stuff like Dwight McPherson’s SURREAL ADVENTURES OF EDGAR ALLAN POO and Andrew Drilon’s KARE-KARE KOMIKS appearing on other days,” said Delsante, trying to reassure himself as much as anyone else.
The Chemistry Set is a destination for webcomics in a variety of styles from a variety of up & coming and established talent. Founded in 2006, The Chemistry Set’s membership boasts three Xeric Award winners and a combined bibliography including work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Random House, Image Comics, SLG Publishing, Markosia and many others. Visit The Chemistry Set at www.chemsetcomics.com
Category: Chemistry Set Announcements, Holiday Men, The
Posted by AndrewFoley on Tuesday, December 25 2007 at 3:33 am
OMegaMart@Gmail.com
Category: Holiday Men, The
Posted by DwightMacPherson on Monday, December 24 2007 at 5:35 am
Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas!
The Edgar Allan Poo crew with you and yours a very happy and safe holiday season.
We thank you for joining us this Christmas eve and hope you’ve enjoyed our latest page. Please take a few moments to let us know what you think of our newest installment.
Okay… got a few more presents to wrap, so I’ll sign off for now.
-Dwight L. MacPherson (with Thomas Boatwright and Thomas Mauer)
Category: Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo
Posted by AndrewFoley on Sunday, December 23 2007 at 3:13 pm
OMegaMart@Gmail.com
Category: Holiday Men, The
