well i guess i'll see you in 2009... tell chris you have hundreds of myspace friends that are willing to pay big dough for some jam-sketchbooks!

thanks for the update
 

Hey Joe,

I caught a typo in your blog:

"....and the scene where Jodie Foster leaves the police station and yells that line as she exists, has always striked me as hilarious.
"

The phrase "...striked me as hilarious" should be "....struck me as hilarious".


It's good to have a catchphrase though (SO LONG SUCKERS!!!), that people can remember you by. I like yours, it suits ya! Thanks for explaining it's origin.


Good luck with getting Chris Oliveros to OK your sketchbook project, would love to see it in print someday.

Your work is so good, Joe, oy, you're a talented guy!

I'm working on a project called "Wheelchair Gary Stories", based on my husband Gary, whom you might know, has MS and is wheelchair bound. Gary is a lowbrow art and underground comic book collector, former ironworker and mountain-climber, ex-coke dealer, ex-member of the communist party, animal-rights anti-veal anti-lab testing activist, arrested several times (drugs), hardcore punk rock fan, a truly interesting individual, and a perpetual source of strength and inspiration for me. Though he's made some wrong turns along the way, he's a nice man and cares about making the world a better place. He handles his illness with courage, dignity, and grace, even though he's lost so much in life, including the ability to walk and his vision (he's legally blind). Sometimes he gets a little help from some medical marijuana.....and watching the Simpsons every evening lifts his spirits. We begin each morning with a bowl of All-Bran cereal to keep us regular (too much information?), read the LA Times letters page, and then Gary begins his rant about how fucked up America is, thanks to George W. (Gary's a disillusioned child of the '60's.
)

We both love sequential art, which is how we met, when Gary placed an ad in craigslist looking for an assistant for Kids On Paper, his sequential art non-profit for kids. Gary has great taste in art, and also founded Lines On Paper, a sequential art appreciation society. You should check it out his website, www. linesonpaper. com. There are original drawings done for Gary by D&Q and Fantagraphics folks on there, like Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Crumb, etc....Gary would be happy to post a webpage for you on the site too, with your bio. Check out the "Contribute" link on his website to find out how. Free promotion....

I love Gary so much, that I thought I'd express my love by letting the world know about him by turning him into a comic book character (aka"Wheelchair Gary"). He has trepidations about exposing our personal life, but jeez, it wouldn't be interesting otherwise.


I'm submitting a 24-page comic to the Xeric Foundation, who gives out a $5,000 grant twice a year for artists to get themselves self-published. May I send you a copy if it ever gets published? I promise it will be bittersweet, amusing, sad, and poorly drawn....no, just kidding....I'm working on the drawing part.....

You have an open invitation to come over to our home in the Valley for dinner and a movie any time you like. We have a really nice home, full of art and comics, and old classic movies, including old Fleischer Brothers Popeye cartoons. If transportation's a problem (I know you don't own a car and dislike cars), there's a Metro station not too far from where we live (Lankershim Station on the Red Line). We'd really like to have you stop by for a visit sometime, Joe! Take a break from whatever it is you do in Los Feliz...

Sorry to read in your last blog about your breakup, hope you're not heartbroken over it. Despite the porn habit, you're a sweet and sensitive guy with a great sense of humor and huge amounts of talent, and....well, I do hope you find someone to love, cause it's wonderful to be in a loving relationship, I can attest to that. And porn has its place (especially in the bedroom, to enhance the act of lovemaking), but too much of it is not a good thing, sweetie. Everything in moderation.


Take it easy, sucke...er I mean, Joe.


-Pat
 

Man, I've had a crush on Jodie Foster from childhood; I know that it's weird to have a crush on somebody you KNOW doesn't like men (at least not in THAT way). It's also weird knowing that having a crush on her puts one in the prestigious company of John Hinckley.


Her biography "Foster Child" by her brother Buddy is pretty fascinating. Their father was pretty much absent, and Jodie was raised by "two Moms." She bonded very closely to her "male" role model "Aunt Jo," a butch Elvis impersonator.


Her role in "Foxes" is sensational, as the sexual tension between her and Cherie Currie (of The Runaways) is pretty heavy. A very hard-to-find title is "Carny" in which she plays a traveling carnival employee alongside a young Gary Busey & Robbie Robertson (of The Band) - and there's even more implied sapphic steam in this role. It's anybody's guess as to why they won't release this one on DVD; My Betamax dupe is pretty worn-out.

 

that is a great movie.

get to work, asshole.

 

None taken, good buddy ;)
 

we cannot wait until next summer!! Work harder and faster!!! What about next autumn?? Could you do it?
Ahh! Míriam is cancer now too hahahaha
 

Well, not wanting to sound like an a-grade asskisser...but I'D buy a sketchbook if you published one so tell those bums at D & Q to get their act together!
Cheers and take care!