Sex Advice Avengers
Look, we like to have a bit of fun here at Zdarsco, Inc. Sometimes that fun is at the expense of comic book artist Ryan Stegman, which makes sense. He’s off-putting. He puts you off. Is it his fault? Can we hate the wind for blowing the stench of the local slaughterhouse our way?
Anyway, I just wanted everyone to know that my mocking of Ryan stops here, today. Someone recently brought to my attention a startling bit of news:
When you google “Ryan Stegman” it brings up an image of Ryan Ottley, co-creator of the hit series INVINCIBLE. Possibly the most successful Ryan in the comic industry, behind, obviously, Ryan North.
That’s got to hurt.
So, yeah, this stops now. They say in comedy you should never punch down. Until recently I thought that meant physical size, so punching Ryan was fine since he’s freakishly tall (and yet has real “short king” energy?). But now I see that I’m laying out haymakers on a man in the gutter and that’s 👏 just 👏 not 👏 right.
Ryan, I’m sorry. Please forgive me. And if Ryan Ottley is reading this, I’m a huge fan!!!
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHIP ZDARSKY
Every day is s struggle, but I try.
Everyone, go out and buy The Missionary.
In comic book news, this week has two new releases of mine that couldn’t be more different from each other: AVENGERS: TWILIGHT and SEX CRIMINALS: LETTER DADDIES. I’m in the woods still so haven’t seen physical versions of these, but Mr. Matt Fraction sent me a pic of LETTER DADDIES and it looks fiiiiine
This also reminds me of a text exchange I recently had with my long-suffering editor Allison:
SORRY ALLISON
ARE YOU
Not really.
Anyway, to celebrate these two momentous books, I am combining them into one. Enjoy.
So, yeah, pick up both books today at your local comic book retailer!
In CHIP PALZ news, I recently illustrated a variant cover for THE POWER FANTASY, the fantastic new Image book from Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wjingaard! Here it is with stuff on it and stuff NOT on it!
I think that’s it this week? Special shout-out to Neighborhood Comics, who absolutely get what I’m doing with ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS! Thanks for the love!
Comic shops! It’s not too late to onboard the ZCN train choo choo!!!
Bye!!!!
UPCOMING BOOKS
PUBLIC DOMAIN #8 — Sept 4
BATMAN #152 — Sept 4
BATMAN: THE JOKER YEAR ONE — Sept 10
TIME WAITS #1 — Sept 11
THE DOMAIN #3 — Sept 11
CREEPSHOW VOL 3 #1 — Sept 25
ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS #3 — Sept 25
BATMAN #153 — Oct 3
PUBLIC DOMAIN #9 — Oct 9
THE DOMAIN #4 — Oct 16
BATMAN #154 — Oct 16
ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS #4 — Oct 23
PUBLIC DOMAIN #10 — Nov 6
BATMAN #155 — Nov 6
THE DOMAIN #5 — Nov 13
TIME WAITS #2 — Nov 13
ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS #5 — Sept 25
DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS VOL 2 —Jan 1
THE ALL-NIGHTER VOL 3 — Jan 21
UPCOMING SIGNINGS
ROSE CITY COMIC CON (Portland) — Sept 6-8
CXC (Columbus) — Sept 27-29
NYCC (New York City) — Oct 17-20
THOUGHT BUBBLE (Harrowgate) — Nov 16-17
Chip this. Chip that. Chip enough and what will be left? The very gods chortle.
Understand that we're all going to stop punching down. HOWEVER I was at the Toronto Fan Expo this weekend and Ryan insisted INSISTED that he drew this crude caricature of you, as you can tell from the photo. I'm less than impressed. https://www.instagram.com/p/C_Jh1cUNRVB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==