BECOMING A BAT-MAN

Plus: new Kaptara!!

A quick one today!

YOU ALWAYS SAY THAT

No, but really!!!

This week was a whirlwind with the release of Public Domain 1 and next week is Batman 125 so I’m all in a tizzy!!!

WHAT

A classic tizzy!

With all that’s happening, I was thinking rrecently of this photo taken of me at a signing years ago when I just started writing Spider-Man:

As they say, “frown for the job you want!”

I’ve always dabbled in Batman over the years. When I worked at the newspaper I would jump at the opportunity to draw the character. This was, I believe, for an article about old stars doing the convention circuit, and I was like I’LL DRAW BATMAN FOR IT

And of course I Dark Knight dabbled in my spare time, with things like this classic re-working of a DKR masterpiece page:

God, I used to have fun

And now I write Batman for real! That’s fucked up!

The weirdest part about all of this is that I now live in the woods, far from humanity and proper mail service, so I won’t see a copy of Batman 125 or Public Domain 1 until September. It’s a very strange feeling to make comics and never see them. It’s like I’m sending them out into a digital void and months later digital people are telling me they enjoy them (OR NOT) and I just go on and write the next one on my little digital box. REPEAT UNTIL DEAD.

SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE LIVING THE IDEAL LIFE

You bet!!!!!!

Anyway, it’s the beginning of a new issue of Kaptara this week, so I’m actually pretty excited!! Kagan and I have been anticipating this one since the beginning! I’m even going to keep it out of the paywall to confuse non-subscribers!

SKULLTHORRRRRR

Bye!

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