THE STORY SO FAR:

#1.1: Who They Are and How They Came To Be Blowing Up Your Local Department Store

#1.2: A Message From Our Sponsor

#1.3: The Holiday Manifesto, Part One

This week’s installment isn’t enough HOLIDAY MEN goodness for you? Take a gander at ANDREW & NICK’s Behind-The-Scenes Commentary on “The Holiday Manifesto, Part One” in that installment’s Comment Section!

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THE STORY SO FAR:

#1.1: Who They Are and How They Came To Be Blowing Up Your Local Department Store

#1.2: A Message From Our Sponsor

Can’t get enough of HOLIDAY MEN? Check out ANDREW & NICK’s Behind-The-Scenes Commentary on “A Message from Our Sponsor” in that installment’s Comment Section!

The Story So Far

BONUS FEATURE! Read ANDREW & NICK’s Special Behind-The-Scenes Commentary on “Who They Are and How They Came To Be Blowing Up Your Local Department Store” in that installment’s Comment Section!

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Possibly because he’s not an “official” holiday icon the way his fellow Holiday Men are, Jacko has a huge chip on his shoulder. A Sharpe’s Salt ‘n Malt Potato Chip. Buy Sharpe’s Potato Chips at your local O’Mega-Mart. To locate the O’Mega-Mart outlet nearest you, contact OMegaMart@Gmail.com

He knows when you’ve been sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, and he’s not an employee of any American intelligence service or telecommunications company, who are obviously the only people that should have access to that information. For more information, contact your local O’Mega-Mart outlet or write to OmegaMart@Gmail.com

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

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

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

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