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Joey

About Me

Hi, I'm a cartoonist currently living in Bloomington, Indiana. For more info and work visit my website !

My first graphic novel, The Ride Home, is coming this Fall from AdHouse Books ! Preorder it on amazon.com today !

Also look for work of mine to appear in Superior Showcase #2 ( AdHouse Books , June 2007) and Flight Volume 4 ( Villard/Random House , July 2007)!

My Interests

Comics, Art, Fun, Cats

Music:

Tom Waits, Belle & Sebastian, The Unicorns, Islands, Cibo Matto, Gorillaz, Butter 08, Miho Hatori touches, Eels, Devendra Banhart, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Arcade Fire, Of Montreal

Movies:

Royal Tenenbaums, All of Wes Anderson's other movies, Science of Sleep, Porco Rosso, My Neighbor Totoro, Pom Poko, all other movies by Studio Ghibli, Airplane!, Freaks, Triplets of Bellville, Ping Pong, Shaolin Soccer, God of Cookery, Stephen Chow's other movies

Television:

Venture Bros, Sifl & Olly, Fishing With John, Stella, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, I don't really watch TV these days, but I remember Nicktoons fondly....

Books:

Bone, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, All other works by Akira Toriyama, Dungeon, Vampire Loves, The Rabbi's Cat, Spiral-Bound, Ben Edlund's 12 issues of The Tick, The Acme Novelty Library, The Clouds AbovePeanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, Popeye, Pogo

Heroes:

Jeff Smith, Akira Toriyama, Joan Sfar, Bill Waterson, Charles Schultz, Walt Kelly, Tom Waits, Ferdinand Magellan

My Blog

TCAF & More!

These guys are all packed up and ready to go to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend! It's going to be great! I'll be sharing table space with Michele Chidester (girlfriend), David Yoder...
Posted by Joey on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:36:00 PST

The Ride Home in Stores for Real!

The Ride Home is in stores now!! Go forth and purchase this baby! Last Wednesday, at the San Diego Comic Con (more on that later) was my first time seeing it, and it turned out great! From what I h...
Posted by Joey on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:50:00 PST

More Flight news!

First of all, the official Flight 4 preview is up! Check it out for more samples! There are two pages from each story, and cool sidebars that give a good feel for all the different artists. Also, mo...
Posted by Joey on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:47:00 PST

Cavemen in Space Update!

Well...I'm going to try to start updating my MySpace blog with what I write in my LiveJournal ( http://joeyweiser.livejournal.com ), since some of you probably don't check that and are curious about w...
Posted by Joey on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:23:00 PST

Flight 4 In Stores Now!

Flight Volume 4 is in stores now! From what I've heard, it's in book stores for sure, but it might be a few more weeks before it hits comic shops. So, go forth and find those Flights! It's totally ...
Posted by Joey on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:50:00 PST

SHORT UPDATE!

Uh, hey guys...I just looked at my profile and saw it still said I lived in Savannah, and worked at a magic shop. OOPS. Yeah, so I didn't do any serious work on my profile, but I at least updated th...
Posted by Joey on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:25:00 PST

Blog...

Okay, just so you know...I've already got a livejournal over at http://www.livejournal.com/users/joeyweiser/ and I think one blog is as much as I can handle.
Posted by Joey on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:07:00 PST