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Benito

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About Me

I write comics.
I wrote this one, exempli gratia.
Here is a basically complete running bibliography of myself:
(2007-08) Invincible Presents: Atom Eve (with Nate Bellegarde, Bill Crabtree and Rus Wooton)
(2007) Popgun vol. 1 ("Hector Plasm in Palamon's Conundrum"; with Nate Bellegarde, Jacob Baake, and SA Finch)
(2007) The Tick 20th Anniversary Special ("King Arthur of Mars"; with Cory Walker)
(2006) - 24seven ("None of Them Knew They Were Robots"; with Nate Bellegarde, Nick Filardi and SA Finch)
(2006) - Hector Plasm: De Mortuis (with Nate Bellegarde and Jacob Baake)
(2006) - Battle Pope (color) TPB vol 1 (introduction)
(2006) - SuperPatriot: War on Terror #3 (script assist; with Robert Kirkman and EJ Su)
(2005) - Image Comics Holiday Special 2005 ("Opnenig Presnets with Benito and Nate"; with Nate Bellegarde and Jacob Baake)
(2005) - Western Tales of Terror #2 ("Hector Plasm in: Skull Creek Reservation"; with Nate Bellegarde)
(2004) - Western Tales of Terror #1 ("Hector Plasm in: Ghost Town"; with Nate Bellegarde)
(2004) - Tales From the Bully Pulpit (with Graeme MacDonald and Ron Riley)
(2003) - Invincible backups (#s 3, 5-20; with Nate Bellegarde)
COLLECT THEM ALL.
I waste my life talking about my wasted life here. Add me as a friend and join the pity party in your pants to which no one is invited.

My Interests

Comics and classical philology. Anthropophagy. Philately. Numismatics.

I'd like to meet:

Nerds. Wealthy, completist nerds.

Music:

They Might Be Giants, Neutral Milk Hotel, Tom Waits, Decemberists, Flaming Lips, Pixies, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Spoon, The Go! Team, New Pornographers, OK Go, Bare Jr, John Linnell, Beck, Beastie Boys, The Shins, Flogging Molly, Dar Williams, The Mountain Goats, Sufjan Stevens, Ugly Duckling, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club, Tom Lehrer, mc chris, MC Frontalot, Why?, Five Iron Frenzy, Iron & Wine, Cake, White Stripes, The Double, Pop Will Eat Itself, Modest Mouse, Tenacious D, SNMNMNM, Ben Folds, Devo, Gorillaz, blah blah blah blah.

Movies:

Coen Bros movies, Tim Burton movies, Hitchcock movies, Kubrick movies, Wes Anderson movies, other movies.

Television:

Lost, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Mythbusters, Iron Chef, Good Eats, Conan O'Brien, Daily Show, Ace of Cakes, Ninja Warrior (Sasuke).

Books:

Watership Down, A Prayer for Owen Meany, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Catch-22, Grapes of Wrath, The Things They Carried, The Underground Journey of Niels Klim, Metamorphoses (both Ovid and Apuleius), Orbis Sensualium Pictus, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Princess Bride, Dubliners, The Man who was Thursday, comic books.

Heroes:

Alan Moore, Alan Davis, Rob Schrab, Ben Edlund, Bill Watterson, Jack Cole, Walt Kelly, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, James Joyce, Bryan Lee O' Malley, Apuleius, Publius Ovidius Naso, Paul Bunyan, Mike Mignola, Dr Perry Cox, Jeff Mangum, Carson Daly.

My Blog

Draw my default picture

Just in case you haven't seen this in the other thousand places I've posted it, if you send me a picture of me that you have made, I will post it as my default picture for a week, or until I receive a...
Posted by Benito on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:02:00 PST

Benito Cereno: Hug Salesman

I realize now I've been remiss in sharing Hug Salesman with you, my MySpace reading public, few that you are.Hug Salesman is an ongoing comics experiment for me.  That experiment being can I writ...
Posted by Benito on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:22:00 PST

We should have a contest

Because I feel fairly certain I could eat more cupcakes than you could.
Posted by Benito on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:11:00 PST

Amazing Joy Buzzards vol 2 .3

More news for Benitist completists:Amazing Joy Buzzards vol 2 #3 shipped this week, and it's worth your time to pick it up.  In addition to the usual great story and art by Smith and Hipp, the ne...
Posted by Benito on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:21:00 PST

Image Holiday Special

Yeah, so I've posted about this everywhere on the internets.  So what?  Wanna fight about it?That's what I thought.  Go smell a box of butts, Armpit Jackson.Anyway, the Image Holiday Sp...
Posted by Benito on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:59:00 PST