J Chris Campbell

All the new WAP goodies for FLUKE!

Weirdotoys
By Justin Gammon

26 Robots
By J Chris Campbell

Pegbots
By J Chris Campbell

Go grab a copy of Students of the Unusual Giant-sized Music Special #1. “The first comic to come with it’s own music cd.” The cd is loaded with tunes from winners of a music contest including Wappie Ashley Holt and features a cd design by me! The issue also contains the first issue where Brad McGinty takes over the art for “Recalcitrant Jones and the Dead Beats.”

I’ll have a new mini-comic for FLUKE on April 12,2008. It’s called 26 robots and it’s a full color collection of robots in alpabetical order. Drop me a line if you can’t make it to FLUKE and you’d like a copy. Not sure of the price right now but I’ll let you know ASAP.

You may have heard that I won a bunch of money recently. I’ve decided to share it with all my good friends and family. Just e-mail me the name you’d like to appear on the check and your home address. I’ll send you my own funded economic stimulus package.

UPDATE

As some of you figured out, this was a good ole April Fools’ Gag. I wasn’t going to do anything but then the spirit of the Fool came upon me. So I sent this image and info out to my mailing list yesterday and got a lot of responses. The most surprising to me was that all the girls that responded just wanted more information and didn’t send the information I asked for. Most of the guys who were “fooled” sent the requested info with no questions asked. Even if they thought something was fishy they still sent the info just incase. It was fun and I sent all responders this image.

I always liked it when the Rankin Bass’ characters would balance things on their fingers. I feel like they did it a lot but no one instance sticks out in my brain.

Gary Gygax died last week. I was a little under the weather and didn’t post about it. I started to write a really nice entry and it morphed into a story. So I think I’ll keep working on it as a little remembrance in comic form perhaps.

Until then all you need to know is I’ve played a lot of D&D in my life. A ton of it actually. I’ve got a shelf dedicated to it, not a room thankfully (that’s full of toys). A few months back I was thinking about it and did some doodles in my sketch book.

I really appreciate the time I’ve spent with friends around a table piled with books, dice, maps, manuals and food. I’d like to thank Mr. Gygax and everyone else with whom I shared those times. Moander the shambling mound shall take us all one day.

My wife ran across this video news report: Lizard Man chewed up my van

I couldn’t believe I had never heard of the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swap. After doing a tiny bit of research I noticed that our Lizard Man needed a name. Native American tribes of Carolinas talked about local living lizard or fish men called the Inzignanin. That’s way long and hard to remember. So I shortened it to Inzig maybe, I should have called him Nanin.

What do you call your local lizard man?

FLUKE is the worlds most best mini-comics festival!
April 12 2008
Athens Georgia in Tasty World
Check out www.flukeathens.com for more information!

What is FLUKE? Well the website says:

FLUKE is a mini-comic festival that has been organized by Athens-area comic artists, underground publishers and their enthusiasts since 2002. Conceived as a venue for the discussion and exchange of timely ideas related to mini-comics, zines, and other independent publications, FLUKE is not a large comic convention or merchandising-saturated extravaganza. This isn’t to say we don’t like our share of stuff–’cause we do. However, we have kept the organization of the event as simple as possible to ensure that it remains focused on work and ideas rather than merchandising.

Today I went to my son’s school and drew robots with his classmates!

Go here and check out what all the kids did and download the template for yourself.

Someone said when you hear a sudden tone in your ear that slowly fades it is the Swan Song of a certain note that you will never hear again. I’ve noticed this happens fairly often recently and every time it’s like a little sad goodbye from my eardrum. Regardless I’ve yet to research the truth in the saying or go get my ears checked. But I did manage to do this little illustration about it.

I like having something brand new at every show I go to. It doesn’t always happen but I try. For ACE I continued my theme of Flowers and Robots. Ending up with 3 out of 5 being on topic. Not so shabby I guess.

What is shabby is the scan job I did on these suckers. The colors either get completely washed out or really saturated. Now I don’t have the originals to adjust them like. But hey, I was walking out the door so I’m glad I even took the time to capture them in the first place.

Can you guess the 3 that sold at the show?

This year at ACE a bunch of artists were given Munnys to customize at the show. Andy Runton and I teamed up on a Munny and Munny Mobile based on this guy with flowers in his mouth. This little guy along with the mobile and tons of other Munnys will be actioned off sometime soon with the real money going to RIF.