Alan Gardner, over at the Daily Cartoonist, posted a nice blurb about the coming release of Escape From Barkeater Lake. Thanks, Alan!
And if you’re looking for news, views and debate, check out his Daily Cartoonist blog. Alan does a great job of keeping his finger on the pulse of all things cartoons.
Courtesy NY Times
When I was a kid, say around 10 or 11, we had this huge console stereo. It was this plastic, faux wood-paneled dinosaur with a radio, a record player and an eight-track – a toast to the chunky cheese that was 70s decor.
I had three things I was aloud to listen to on the console: Bill Cosby: “Why is There Air?”, An REO Speedwagon album and an eight-track of George Carlin’s “A Place for My Stuff”. Three great comedy albums that I wore out via headphones so big and snug, they ensured absolutely no interruption, even from a nuclear attack.
I don’t claim many heroes and I’ve never been one to raise us flawed human beings to God-like status, but I will say “A Place for My Stuff” is a big, if not THE reason I chose the comedic path I have. I don’t think George Carlin was a King, or that his shit didn’t stink. I just think sometimes, a person can do one thing so well that it makes the world stop, look and clap.
Ah, summer in Maine… Lobster, ocean-side grilling and the unmistakable fragrance of the homeless baking in the afternoon sun.
There’s also comedy, you know… Every third Wednesday at the Empire Dine and Dance (575 Congress St, Portland)… And today… Today happens to be the third Wednesday in June!
Here’s the idea: Why not get yourself a couple of lobsters for outdoor grilling around, oh, say… 6pm. They cook quick, so you could have your “lobstah dinnah” by the sea, throw back a few High Lifes and be at the Empire in plenty of time for the show! Sound like a plan? Well let’s implement and destroy!
See you at 9pm! Don’t forget to remove your lobstah bib. You don’t want to look like someone from “away”.
The Drink at Work Show: Portland!
Tonight! 9pm at the Empire Dine and Dance
575 Congress St. Portland, ME
Featuring possible comedy by Brian Giles, Brian Brenniger (Portland Phoenix’s vote for best Portland comedian), and Cloud Morris
Hosted by the amazing and drunken Country Rhodes and The Fuge
$3 at the door
Presented by the Bollard and Fake Rockstar, LLC.
Holy moly, what a week.
You’ll all be happy to know that TOBY, Robot Satan is all up to date and flying high, once again. Our nagging technical issues caused a lag in updates, but we were able to get things up late last night. We’re still waiting on the proof of Escape From Barkeater Lake from the printer… As soon as its in, we’ll approve it ASAP and hopefully stay on schedule for shipping the first wave the first week of July.
Work has once again resumed on the CHPMNK book and of there’s a God, we can have it to the printer by the end of July, then set our sites on the third collection of BL strips: Return to Barkeater Lake. Corey wants a “Spaghetti Western”-themed cover, but we’ll see.
Of course, this all hinges on Fake Rockstar, LLC procuring new computer equipment in the next month. We’re on the right track and hopefully we can raise enough coin to work something out.
Happy, digital thoughts!
Cheers, beers and longing for naps,
Your Fake Rockstar Weirdos
In celebration of Escape from Barkeater Lake finally going to print, we decided to make the cover into this here nifty movie poster! Then we decided to put it up for sale to you, the loyal and patient fans! Just like the first poster, there are only 50, signed and numbered. When they’re gone, they’re gone, folks.
ALSO: The first poster of Delores and the CHPMNKS is no longer at Etsy.com. It’s under the “shirts and accessories category in the new Fake Rockstar shop.
Enjoy the movie poster. Get pumped for the book!
Fake Rock on,
Your Fake Rockstar Team
Bloggers: “Okay.”
The Official Fake Rockstar Shop is now open for business! Though there are holes in the inventory (Shirts, stickers and freebies are pending), there are books for sale! We also still offer original artwork, poster prints and a chance to appear in a Barkeater Lake Sunday strip, over at Etsy.com.
We hope you like the new shop and keep stopping by. New things will appear weekly.
Cheers!
Fake Rockstar Management
My friend from the Casco Bay Weekly days, Martin Shields, who did this lovely cartoon of me in The Bollard, has a new blog of his artwork.
It includes this hauntingly beautiful animation that he’s been working on since 1993.
Martin not only moves to the beat of a different drummer, but that drummer also has no arms and legs and speaks only in Navajo Indian. He’s an unbelievable artist and I’m a better artist for knowing him. Check out his stuff, you won’t be disappointed.
First off: A new Li’l Spencer can be seen here: Lilspencer.com
Second…
A while back, I made a joke with my editors at Universal: “What do you call a Panda stuffed with a dolphin?” I asked. “A ‘Pandolphin’, of course!”
I’m tried a lot, and this, at the time was the funniest thing I had heard in days, so I relayed it to my friends at The Bollard. What happened next is only speculation, but in the June print issue of The Bollard, an old cartoonist friend, Martin Shields, ran this cartoon:
Courtesy of The Bollard Publishing, LLC
I’m not sayin’ it was a conspiracy, but…
I honestly dig the Hell out of it. Thanks Martin. You ass.
If you’re in the Portland area, pick up the June issue of The Bollard. It’s high-quality thinking fun.
Do you like celebrity gossip? Do like humor? Do like celebrity gossip and humor morphed into something we, in the industry, call “Celebssipumor”?
If you answered “yes”, “yes” and “uh… okay, sure”, then you need to check out our good friend Ned Ehrbar and his metro column The Word. Ned and I have known each other since our tumultuous days at the dreaded United Media. He has been my editor, my friend and my drinking buddy. And hey, do you guys like TOBY, Robot Satan ? Ya do? Well, you can thank Ned for that. He’s the one that pushed me to come up the idea and he’s pretty much the reason it exists and runs in metro.
So read Ned, laugh with Ned. And if you see Ned on the streets of NYC, tell him the Fake Rockstar and wife miss him.
