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About Me

I work, I draw, I play... I get by and try to have fun. I have two awesome kids, one very patient wife, some cool friends, a webcomic or two, a few thousand ideas rattling around in my scattered brain, one eye, a full time job, a convertible, psoriatic arthritis, the ability to predict things that have already happened, an odd sense of humor, a story to tell and never enough time in the day it seems. ****All comic work has halted for the summer!*** Do not despair though, check out www.evilrobotcomics.com for a dose of awesomeness!

My Interests

Do you really care? really? Most things can interest me for at least an hour... so my interests are fairly varied. I like movies, books, comics, sex, music, drawing, painting, playing, sleeping, long walks on the beach, sunsets, pina coladas, getting caught in the rain...

Desktop Tower Defense

I'd like to meet:

old; young (but not too young) happy; sad, mellow; high strung, has beens; never will bes; the masses. the sick and twisted throngs of people who devote their lives to grinding away the days on the calender only to be rewarded with their pittance at the end of each biweekley pay period... oh, and people who want to read my comics!
***Attention Empty Theater Fans!*** I'm not done with it yet, but it may be a long time until I get back to it. In the mean time Subscribe to my blog to get Daily Backstage! comics and also to get any news on the Empty Theater front. Thanks!

Music:

I like lots of different music... techno to rap. blues and soul to j-pop, punk to lounge... I think I can enjoy a little of every genre, and even stuff without genres. I believe that most music has a place in my life somewhere. So I suppose "It depends" would be the best way to describe it for this space...

Movies:

I watch all sorts of movies. but I don't have any favorites really... other than the normal stuff... Blade Runner, The Road Warrior Movies, Star Wars and it's various se/prequels, X-Men, Spidey, movies where shit blows up, Campy 80's coming of age movies with John Cusack, Jon Cryer, Judd Nelson, and the rest of those guys, Revenge of the Nerds because it about these nerds, who get... revenge! (yeah so the american splendor reference would indicate a liking for that movie as well) Damn I like alot of movies.

Television:

Heroes is the bomb you should watch it. (even if only to see Hiro make the Thinking Really Hard face) And House, because Hugh Laurie is fucking awesome. other than that, a ton of old show's that aren't on anymore and some new shows that I don't watch enough of.

Books:

I love alot of books. like you really care! half the people on Myspace are practically illiterate. And I'm not going to drop loads of books here so that people will think I'm smart either. But I will say that the prose writing of Bukowski is something everyone should read... I could care less about the tropic of cancer, but notes from a dirty old man is great.

Heroes:

The number 0 and Hiro! Oh and loads of other people that do cool stuff and make neat things. And some who don't do any of that shit.

My Blog

Backstage!: Surprizes

So... in an effort to save some time I did this at work. I didn't have my normal mechanical pencil, I had a softer lead cheapo one... So I made some of the lines darker so they'd scan better and didn'...
Posted by John on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:04:00 PST

wtf...

I sat down to draw every night this week.I brought my laid out paper and materials to work every day.I had ideas about things to draw and some of them were even good.But with the paper in front of me,...
Posted by John on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:20:00 PST

Backstage!: Props & a long awaited Heroes blog

Yes, I will talk about the box... It's just an odd musing related to good ol Shaver family legacies... It may or may not be amusing. But we'll see. :)So the important stuff... Heroes last night. I hav...
Posted by John on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:58:00 PST

Backstage!: This is a totally predictable strip

Copyright problem fixed temporarily... Thanks Jax for pointing that out.Um... other than that the comic pretty much says it all for me right about now.Have a good night everyone!:)...
Posted by John on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:42:00 PST

Backstage!: Historical perspective...

Not much to tell about this... however if I'm allowed to be introspective for a sec... this is really about my personal philosophy of keeping a historical perspective on things. Both foward looking as...
Posted by John on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:09:00 PST

New comics to start soon but now... something different.

I've started drawing again and I should have some new comics up by the end of the month. Thanks to everyone still reading this crap for your patients!the IT department at my office decided that Myspac...
Posted by John on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:41:00 PST

These nights... a survey or something

I sat down tonight to draw.I couldn't seem to make anything work.I decided to write instead.I couldn't get anything out that felt right.I hate nights like these.These nights nothing works.I think ever...
Posted by John on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:23:00 PST

How’s everyones summer going?

It seems that myspace started giving up on me and not sending me any emails to tell me when people post new blogs... so I've got a massive backlog of blog reading to do!I've been working on content an...
Posted by John on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:22:00 PST

About last night...

The party went pretty good last night. about half the people I expected to show up actually did, and we drunk dailed a few of them (ok ok, one of them) about a hundred times or so up until around 10.T...
Posted by John on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:28:00 PST

just ’cause I see you watching... (beware this is not a comic!)

hi there... um... long time no blog.I'm still alive!so a few important things to note. My fourth was good, I spent it playing with the kids, tuning Lilly's new violin (which is a little big for her, b...
Posted by John on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:53:00 PST