???#3

The 3rd issue of ??? is finished! Just need to get it printed...

Here are the covers (YES! Covers!). My wife painted one of the covers & we'll be selling it as a limited edition signed & numbered thingy (with some freebies)!

Dawn & Dylan cover by DJ Legaspi

Argos (painted) cover by Dawn Legaspi

Only available locally.

The Origin of the Yeti Crab

Almost done with my 7-page komix contribution to a screen-printed komix anthology out first quarter of this year. The short komik is about the origin of the Yeti Crab. A character I created after seeing a picture of an actual yeti crab (MOST AWESOME CRUSTACEAN EVER!). Originally planned to just do 3 to 4 panel strips with YC & use them as fillers for my auto-bio comix, ???. The first story that I proposed for the anthology got dropped since the page count was cut down. Thankfully, the curator of the anthology suggested a YC story. Brilliant idea, the problem was I didn't have any long YC stories planned out. So how was I able to conjure up this story / long term plans for YC? By listening to the old The Shadow radio show (voiced by Orson Welles!). I love the pulps, The Phantom, Doc Savage, Conan. Enigmatic heroes, crazy stereotypical villains, world spanning high adventure, weird science. Add some Tintin by Hergé, some superhero styled origin and my fascination with cryptids. This is what you get...

Sorry, no dialogue / narration yet. I have 1 more page to ink then finish off the lettering. Hope you get the komix when it comes out.

P.S. - Don't know the title of the anthology yet but it'll feature local komix peeps such as... Josel Nicolas, Dark Chaps (of SSM!), Trizha Ko, Mica Agregado & some other guys, i think.

P.P.S. - HAPPY NEW YEAR!

More Komix!

For a screen printed zine project thing... Had to park my orginal comic for the project since it exceeded the new page count.

KOMIX!

Better Living Through Xeroxography is tomorrow! None of the stuff that I planned to release this year got done... No Baro Investigations. No ???#3. No story for QBCCC#3. No Dinoborg. I was only able to finish 10 pages of Attack Bear#1 (see poster thing above). Even the initial plan for the screen printed zine got changed, so I'm shelving the Sting/Johnny Cash song cover comic for the meantime.

Anyway, I'll still be at BLTX tomorrow... Selling reprints of ???#1 (with new-ish contents) & #2.

???#1 & ???#2

Here are some previous of stuff to come next year...

• Cataplexy for QBCCC#4 with Jim Faustino

• A Dinoborg Prelude with Josel Nicolas

• Some pages for ???#3

• Some pages from Attack Bear#1

See you tomorrow!

BLTX-Mas!

A panel from strip in ???#3, which will hopefully come out at BLTX this December 7. Still have a lot of pages to pencil...

Dinner...

My wife wasn't feeling well last weekend. So I was tasked to cook food. She told me to stop cooking eggs every meal. Thus, I was forced to open a can of Tuna Loaf...

Working on an 10-page silent comic for a silk screened zine project. This is a cover of a Sting song covered by Johnny Cash :)

I did the exact same thing to my wife a week ago. Having only 2 hours of sleep does crazy things to a person...

Attack Bear Vs. Cthulhu

A 6 or maybe 8 page zine, chronicling the first comic book adventure of Attack Bear. Weeeee! This will be for a exhibit / project thing that will hopefully push thru.

This happens very often... potato chips, I abhor thee!

Moral of the story: I should not be doing the grocery shopping.

A baby / dad / baby poop strip! The first of many...

Moral of the story: Babies are awesome. They are an awesome gift from God. Having your own baby is even more awesome. Everything they do is awesome.

Cloud Comics

That is what I'mma calling these things...

Yes, sir! Staring outside the window & drawing some funky cloud formations is very de-stressing.

My wife, waiting for her turn at the ultrasound machine-thing. More ballpen sketches from the sketchbook. A preview for ???#3. Still finishing up some of the strips, hopefully out by December at BLTX.

Advance Happy New Earth!

This made my day. If I wasn't running late earlier, I would've bought this from the old man. Looking forward to the new Earth!

One of the many ballpen sketches I did while waiting for my wife to deliver our baby boy. Will be part of ???#3, out hopefully by December.

Back in the office after 2 weeks off of work. Still reeling from the initial blows of fatherhood, such an awesome feeling. Babies are awesome!

Gave this to my wife as my 1st year wedding anniversary card...

This was supposed to be an 8-page mini-comic, a continuation (of sorts) of a strip I made for ???#2. Sadly, I was only able to finish 1 page. The words are the lyrics of a Weezer song, which I was thinking of singing on our wedding day... but I chickened out.

Lost...

Nah, it wasn't the actual John Locke (my favorite Lost character) / Terry O' Quinn. But the guy looked exactly like him, eye color, smile & everything.

The Window

Stared at the window the entire day. Hoping that my wife will not deliver the baby during the floods...

Going home after office, before the floods came. If you have money, clothes, food, time, etc. to spare... please help the victims of the flood!

Jack Gray

This was last week... Now, the streets are flooded. Be safe & take care! Help out! God bless!