White folks is crazy. ‘Nuff said.

Hey folks, I said last week that I was going to rock the comic five times a week – and I’m still committed to that for sure! However, it’s the end of the quarter at SCAD and i have grading and paperwork to do before I start on a holiday road trek – first to Florida, then all the way up the coast to Boston!  I’m gonna be on the road for almost a week – so expect that five-times-a-week goodness that I gave you a taste of last week to resume next week!

Guess what bitches, I’m rededicating myself to the site.

The initial plan was to post three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  But, with all of the crazy stuff that’s been going on this quarter including a the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, a visit from Scott Kurtz and Dave Kellett, Brian Ralph coming down and ultimately planning on crashing at my place Winter quarter, Comics Art Forum XV, full-time teaching, and twice-weekly podcasting (just to list a few), I noticed that I was missing posts here and there.

Unacceptable.

So, instead of focusing hard and committing to stay on schedule, I’m pumppin’ this baby up! I’ll be posting five – yes you heard it FIVE – days a week now!

And what?

Ol’ Burkhalter is in on it too – so look for more frequent posting from him as well (If you could see me I’m flexing my muscles at the computer screen and slapping my bicep. Slap!

Hey folks! I’m back at it. I know I was a very, very, very bad Web publisher last week. I was behind on a bunch of stuff cuz of my trip to SPX, but I’m back now.  Man it feels good.

Hey folks, it’s me Sweetwater. I went to SPX this weekend up in Bethesda, and I’m having to play a bit of catch-up with school (my first priority is the students after all). But have no fear, I hope to get a new comic up here in the next day or so – keep the faith! Sorry I’ve putzed out a bit.

If you’re a Floridian (as I know many of my readers are), an ex-Floridian like Ol’ Sweetwater, or if you have family in Florida, help your nation and get down with the Sarah Silverman and the Great Schlep.

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

I want this like nobody’s business.  

Check this out: My comics are definitely proof that you don’t need to draw particularly good, or spend a fuck ton of time drawing in order for your comics to still be total 100% kick ass!

Another cartoonist proving this point is Yusaku Hanakuma with his work Tokyo Zombie. The Japanese even have a term for our kinda work, heta-uma, which when translated word-for-word means “bad, but good.”

This story is about two factory workers, Mitsuo and Fujio, who love nothing more than practicing their sweet-ass jujutsu moves during their breaks. When a corporate asshat from the “main office” tells them how gay their proper holds look, they bash his head in and drag his corpse up Dark Fuji, a local mountain of garbage where people seek to lose all their troubles.

Things go to shit though when Dark Fuji’s buried corpses begin to rise as flesh-hungry zombies. Plenty of town folk get bitten and infected with the zombie hiv, including the older Mitsuo, prompting him to urge his homie Fujio to keep training and attain that black belt rank.

And then the plot leaps five years into the future, where a walled-off city seeks to maintain polite society in the middle of the zombie hellscape, complete with the wealthy lording over slaves and holding gladiatorial human/zombie fights for their personal pleasure.

Guess who’s a skilled fighter in the pit?

All this, and the zombies have to wear animal masks when the wrestle. This stuff is funny as shit and I even make a guest appearance! So, that’s what’s up – heta-uma represent!

In Japan, they turned it into a movie! Here’s a sweet taste:

Hey folks – Pranas has all the scrilla he needs for a new computadors! No more need to throw money at him, but I’d like to thank anyone from this site that hooked him up!  I may be a totla prickwad, but the comic community as a hole is pretty damn supportive of our own.

As Nat Landry would say, “That’s what’s up!”