One day I’m going to write more Punchin’ Bag, do a Kickstarter about it, and offer trading cards as a freebie. That’s at least one other graphic novel away, so in the meantime here are some images. This one’s Tex Arkana, my less punny take on Americana heroes. Check back next week for a colored version (ish).
If you’re interested in my current stuff and not hypothetical crowdfunding, check out gscomics.storenvy.com
So for some obvious 2020 reasons I’m not going to be doing any comic shows for the foreseeable future. With that in mind I’ve turned to you, the internet, to sell my physical books, as well as coffee mug stickers and a few “Just Like Comics” pins!
Check it out at http://gscomics.storenvy.com/
There’s some print exclusive stuff here, including:
Eight colorful pages of The Indefatigable Punchin’ Bag
Comics about a melancholic Canada goose named Etienne
A limited hand stapled ashcan of something called “Tex Arkana 2020”, made in late 2019 when I thought the only thing weird about 2020 was going to be that it was a two digit number repeating.
Plus a Punchin’ Bag trade if you’re feeling saucy.
For the upcoming print edition of The Punchin’ Bag, I decided to do a full color homage to Avengers #4 (or Captain America #337 for the more frugal among us) for the back cover. It’s pretty cool to see the color schemes I have in my head when I’m doing these black and whites actually come to life. Left to right, Flag-Bear-er, Dividing Dude, Tex Arkana, Dr. Sigma, and Blaxtreme.
As cliche as the title is, it at least has double meaning, as Punchy quits the Elite Team and I try out a few new stylistic flourishes for the “season 2” of Punchin’ Bag (to be collected in the second print edition at a later date).
http://thepunchinbag.tumblr.com/post/157958036828/the-punchin-bag-25-quittin-time-the-punchin
Because sometimes people on your team aren’t actually your teammates.
I had to take a few weeks off to work on prints and actual, factual, printed comic books for Gentleman & Scholar Comics‘ booth at the Portland Comic Expo. It’s surreal.
Now, though, PB is back talking to an old friend of GSC, Tex Arkana. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t go well for The Punchin’ Bag. You’ll get’em next time, Punchy!
Gentleman & Scholar Comics presents its first full collaboration comic book, Tex Arkana.
Learn Tex Arkana’s origin as he struggles with his past, at the expense of his present. There may be hope for his future, yet.
Tex Arkana is a relic of a bygone era. A superhero returned from operations in Afghanistan, can he survive in a post-War on Terror world that has passed him by?
Click here to get this black and white comic book on Indy Planet!
The entire Gentleman & Comics line is on Indy Planet as well!
Here is a black and white inked sketch of Nero, the antagonist of both of my novellas, The Punching Bag and Tex Arkana. With the Neurological Enhancement Research Operator atop his exposed brain (which is protected by another of his devices, the polymerizer, which renders materials a nigh indestructible plastic), Nero lives up to two supervillain cliches: a brilliant mind bogged down by perpetually scheming, and ridiculous acronyms
Check out his villainous schemes in my ebooks, in Links.
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