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Hello regular readers...

Coverless is on pause at the moment due to a variety of reasons. First my web server (webs.com) closed my site because they believed there was porn somewhere on my site. There wasn't, but that didn't stop them from closing my site down for almost two weeks (bastards). Then I've been deluged with work, the new day job in particular, working very early morning shifts. Then  I've got two books coming out from Arcana Comics soon-ish. One called The Truman Virus is complete and should be out next year (written by Eliot Witters). The other called Zombies in Love (written by Nial Pressner-Kehls) is only 10% started so I've got to buckle down and get that done.

I've also got a book of which I am just doing the colors and letter for called All Star University being published by Markosia Comics sometime next year. Its written by Dan Fitzgerald and illustrated by JC Grande. Plus I've some other artistic commitments I need to finish up that I've put on hold for awhile (Squared Circle written by Jeremiah Allan) and Adventures of the Jetmen (written by Kevin Pearl). To add to that I need to finish up a couple submissions of my own to send to companies (ESP written by me and illustrated by Alex Diotto) and (Before Snow written and illustrated by me).

To add to all that work I am dealing with a breakup from my true love (after 5+ years together - 90% my own fault unfortunately, stupid me) and it's at times sapping all the energy from my very soul and all I want to do is lay in bed and never get up again. But somehow I do.

In the end this blog will return, possibly here or possibly with one of those free Wordpress accounts. Not sure yet, but please bear with me as I get things returned to normal.

Be well everyone, continue to send me emails, I do read each and every one and will respond if necessary. Thank you.

Look at this picture from the Atomic Books blog...

20 years ago, heck even 10 years could we ever have imagined books of comics ever being published in the size of Habibi or Big Questions?

Alison Bechdel (Fun Home) is interviewed at the AV Club.

Here's an excerpt...

"It’s weird; it’s so funny to me that Fun Home has become this college text, and we’ll see if that lasts, but if I had tried to create a book that would be read be college classes, I couldn’t have done a better job."

Now Available from Tugboat Press...

Over the last decade, Nicole and Clutch have been teaming upannually for this split zine that traces the daily adventures of two cartoonistsas they make their way through the ups and downs of modern life. This year's issue finds Nicole dealing with a pet emergency, a brief trip to Canada, Zumba lesson and the pre-empting of the Amazing Race. Meanwhile, Clutch battles the neighborhood raccoons, struggles with his drawing, discusses procreation, and takes several naps. Filledwith humorous conversations and heartfelt reflections, this split zineis a fun look at friendship.

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Papercutter is Tugboat Press's award winning anthology series dedicated to showcasing the best young, underexposed and emerging comic book artists. This issue marks a departure for Papercutter as we turn the whole issue over to acclaimed zinester Jason Martin (Laterborn) who fills the issue with seven autobiographical stories illustrated by seven of today's best cartoonists. Jesse Reklaw (Slowwave) draws a story from Jason's youth as he creates the greatest unknown supervillain of all time, "The Weeper". Calvin Wong (Ramble On) provides the art for one the most harrowing moments in Jason's life as his house nearly burns to the ground. Corinne Mucha, Francois Vigneault, Sarah Oleksyk, Hellen Jo, and Vanessa Davis round out this special issue with funny, compelling, and heartfelt stories. Additional art by Nate Beaty.

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The first-ever comic book based on Capcom's mega-popular zombie survival game series! Bridging the gap between Dead Rising and Dead Rising: Case Zero, fans will finally learn what happens to Frank West, Chuck Greene, Rebecca Chang, and other popular Dead Rising characters during the fateful Las Vegas outbreak! Written by Tom Waltz (Silent Hill: Past Life, Duke Nukem: Glorious Bastard) and illustrated by Kenneth Loh (Killing Machine).

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Set during the catastrophic New Madrid earthquake of 1812, Black Powder is the story of Robert Young, a former captain in the Barbary Wars and his river journey on America's first steamboat to rescue the woman he loves from a gang of river pirates led by his cutthroat nemesis and former commander, Samuel Mason. En route, he encounters hostile Indians, swashbuckling battles, and several historical figures, all set against the backdrop of an earthquake that sinks islands, reverses the flow of the Mississippi River, and wrenchingly exposes the fractures of a new nation itself.

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Time is running out for Detective Tom Whalen.  He's got NYPD Internal Affairs breathing down his neck, Korean drug dealers chasing him across the streets of Manhattan, and a lunatic Albanian crime boss wanting him dead.  His only chance for salvation: a Priest who comes to him offering him a chance to work on his team.  But, Whalen soon discovers that this is a very special team: it's a secret unit within the NYPD that has existed for centuries. A unit as old as New York itself, sworn to protect the city from monsters and myths, the terrors and nightmares that exist in the darkest shadows and corners of the great metropolis.

Meanwhile, ten year-old Deshawn Carver seeks escape from school bullies and his abusive home life in the form of an ancient-looking figurine he carries as a totem.  When the figurine suddenly comes to life as a terrifying and beautiful Celtic demon goddess, his fate is changed forever.  Until a group of city workers find his dead body in a centuries-old tunnel 700 feet below the city streets, an impossible mystery for Tom and his new cohorts begins.

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In a quiet New Jersey town there sits a small, old-fashioned movie theater.  But this unassuming theater holds a deep dark secret, one that threatens the lives of anyone who dares enter it.  And when an unsuspecting couple decides to visit the old movie house to watch some horror films, they soon will find that something full of horror is also watching them.  From the writer of the Wonderland trilogy and The Waking comes a whole new world of fear unlike any that has been seen before.  Featuring 29 pages of content and covers by superstar artists Artgerm and Tyler Kirkham. Mature Readers.

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Prism Comics, the premier nonprofit supporting LGBT comics, will be "Queer Central" for both creators and fans at New York Comic-Con from October 13-16! Prism's double booth #1058 will host signings with top LGBT comic book creators all weekend. Prism is also proudly hosting the panel, XX: The Women in Queer Comics, moderated by JD Glass and featuring Paige Braddock, Jennifer Camper, Joan Hilty, Abby Denson, Kris Dresen and Erica Friedman.

Full info here at the Prism Comics website

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Based on the forthcoming web series! From screenwriter Martin Shapiro and acclaimed artist Juan Ferreyra comes a modern-day reimagining of the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow fame. After taking a strange new drug with supernatural side effects at a party, a rebellious high school cheerleader starts seeing ghosts and is stalked by the Reaper, a headless Hell's Angel on a motorcycle who collects the souls of sinners.

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The amazing and hilarious comic is making its debut as an all-new Dark Horse mini-series! Comics fans and fancy news blogs aren't the only ones to take notice of Axe Cop; now the so-called "real" police know about him, too. And if there's one thing police don't like, it's a guy with an axe who's better than they are at catching and dispatching bad guys! Now Axe Cop and his partner Dinosaur Soldier are being treated like bad guys, not only by the police, but by the president and the army, too! But when a pair of nasty villains barge in from outer space and turn the army into actual bad guys, who gets the call to set things right? Axe Cop!

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Coming Soon from Fantagraphics...

In this issue Quincy, M.E.makes his comic book debut,struggling through the fantasticlandscapes of his own dreamsin “Quinception,” in which St.Peter also gets his own comicbook. Snake ‘n’ Bacon make anappearance in “Reservoir Dogs2,” where the gang reunitesfor another caper. Twain andEinstein deal with some familyissues, and a special section ofHistory Comics presents thestory of the Kennedy/Nixon debate and the incredible saga of BertrandDeCoupeur, alias The Scythe! Plus a photocomic starring comedian Julie Klausner, "Voyage To Narnia."

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Another quality free indy comic for you...

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The Comics Journal interviews comics artist extraordinaire Jason LaTour.

"I had the opportunity to meet Frank Miller once, when I lived here in New York. It’s not why I didn’t meet him, but it later occurred to me that I was probably gonna get into an argument with this guy over politics or something. I just can’t keep my mouth shut and I would’ve ended up feeling terrible for acting like an ass to someone who has done way more than what I could ever see myself doing. I’ll be lucky to do one tenth of what that dude’s done, for ill or for good. No matter what I think of his work, he did it. How many people could say that? "