If any of you are young enough (or old enough) to buy Mad Magazine, you’ll find a two-page comic illustrated by me (written by Dick Debartolo) in the August issue (with all the super heroes on the cover) which should be on the stands now.
Here’s a peek:



Tim Hamilton

I did a brief entry over at the First Second blog on the use of the graphic Halo.

Thomas Baehr's The End is Here has been featured on Newsarama! Chris Arrant interviews Thomas Baehr about getting straight A's: Antarctica, American Comics and Act-i-vate! Click here to read for yourself.

Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson has an exclusive preview of my upcoming Zuda webcomix series, STREET CODE, at USA Today:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/2008/07/exclusive-previ.html

David Gallaher of High Moon gives props to Webcomics as guest contributor at Newsarama's newly resurrected I heart Comics column.

He was generous enough to send nods to many Act-i-vate comics including Back Stage by Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt, Sam and Lilah by Jim Dougan and Hyeondo Park and The Transmigration of ULTRA-lad!" by yours truly. Act-i-vate affiliates, Yes, Mother by Elizabeth Genco and Sami Makkonen and of course Dean Haspiel's Next-Door Neighbor Series on Smith Magazine were also highlighted.

Thanks David!

NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, the anthology I created and edit for SMITH Magazine, was featured in NY MAGAZINE with an exclusive sneak-peek featuring a first time collaboration by Harvey Pekar & Rick Veitch:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/07/comics_ndn.html

Hot off the presses is the latest issue of Heeb Magazine which features a one page comic of mine called, Workin' Girl Golem. The results are guaranteed fukakta. Click the image above to visit the site and see for yourself.

Seekers and shunners, loyalists and rebels, pacifists and pugilists, let the word go forth:
Barron Storey has sparked a blog.

Eisner nominated "The Process" creator Joe Infurnari has a new comic on Activate (Ultra lad) AND is in on Newsarama.

Follow the link:
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080625-UltraLad.html

The lovely Mia MacHatton writes a very nice review of my Eisner Award nominated webcomic, BILLY DOGMA: IMMORTAL, at Sequential Tart.

http://sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=999

Mia MacHatton, Columns Editrix

Dean Haspiel is bringing sexy back to comics.

Oh sure, there are some great nominees on this year's Eisner list. I'm incredibly impressed by the breadth of genre and style. But my favorite book by far, the one that left me hot and bothered, was Dean Haspiel's Immortal.

Immortal is the latest complete installment of Haspiel's creator-owned Billy Dogma series. Released as part of the initial ACT-I-VATE launch in 2006, Immortal documents the consequences of Billy Dogma and Jane Legit's War of Woo ­ their fierce romance awakens a cosmic deity who sacrificed everything to teach love to the world, and chaos ensues.

Now, what do I mean by "sexy"? I mean heartstring-tugging, breath-catching, tear-off-your-clothes sexy. The kind of sexy that one second has your heart aching from empathy, and the next has you searching out your honey for a little one-on-one time.

The art is a deliciously sexy black-on-red, perfectly exhibiting how Haspiel's art has evolved over the past 10 years since he started the Billy Dogma stories. He illustrates action and emotion wonderfully, and pulls no punches with nudity or zombies. That's right, I said zombies.

And the writing! How can I possibly convey the pulp perfection of lines like "Make the muscle to meet the desire"? The story isn't merely a send-up of the old-school, sordid "bruiser and his dame" tale ­ it breathes new life into the genre, and shows what happens when the bruiser and his dame have to put their fierceness aside to work out their problems.

So yes, Dean Haspiel and Billy Dogma are bringing sexy back, and you should go read Immortal immediately. And while you're at it, start on the next Billy Dogma installment (in progress), Fear, My Dear. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go take a cold shower.