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Matt (the mean one)

About Me

.. I'm what the kids call a "zinester". Which is to say, I've been publishing a zine called Meniscus on an irregular schedule since April of 1998. That led me to contribute to some other folks' zines along the way, and I have been a reviewer and illustrator on the last fourteen issues of Xerography Debt , an underground press review zine published out of Maryland. It's an awesome gig! It doesn't pay anything, but I get to read lots of cool stuff for free.
For the past few years, I've also been working on a series of comics called Love , which is a story about a couple of cool gay guys. It's a little reactionary, because I created the comic as an alternative to all the really annoying comics I kept finding ... really annoying comics about really annoying gay people. My gay people are way better.
The Love comics are now scores and scores of pages, in which main characters Jack and Pokie have created a brave new world with a bold new flavor! Their awesome adventures have been collected into an incredible 192-page book by Zero Cabinet Publishing , and we had a book release party and everything!
I have also been known to draw comics about super-powered, crimefighting butlers.
You can check out my gallery on storm artists if you want. This space will have images from recent as well as ongoing projects, and images too hot for MySpace!
And here is my entry on ZineWiki , which is a WikiPedia-like database all about zines and zinesters. I'm trying to get it up to date right now, but it already has almost all of my stuff on there.
In real life, I am the movie guy at Brainstorm. I live in Chicago, because that is where my store lives.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Spider-Man, and his amazing friends.

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My Blog

Rob's Mom

Rob's Mom is having her gall bladder removed this afternoon, and it's the general topic of worry around the apartment.  Rob has been on a sort of slow burn freakout since the consultation last week, t...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 08:36:00 GMT

"God Loves Gays"

So I spend a lot of time discussing movies and stuff on the message boards for the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) under the username "hadmatter".  Several of the more interesting and vola...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:01:00 GMT

I thought...

Here is a little song I invented.  I made it up while I was walking home in the snow last night, but I am not a musician so even while I was singing it to myself there were only about six notes.&...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:18:00 GMT

Halloween > Christmas

It's always a little sad when I realize that Halloween is over and now all I have to look forward to is the cold, snowy and virtually costume-free holiday they call Christmas. This fall, I broke my an...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Windy Decade

Just thought I would mention that I first arrived in Chicago exactly ten years ago today!  Hoppie and I showed up in a Budget rental truck on 25 July 1998.  Having driven here from Portland,...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT

Bottom Shelf

I guess I should mention it.  I finally sent the current batch of pages from my coloring book project (it's called Incredible Facts about Dragons) to a publisher.  Right now it stands at aro...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Gay Marriage

I don't spend a lot of time fretting about gay marriage.  I know it should be legal.  You know it should be legal.  And an entire country full of sheepfucking cuntbrains disagree, so wh...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 16:19:00 GMT

Hip Lit Fair / Museum of Contemporary Art

So yeah, I'm going to be at this thing on Saturday, so everybody should come, or something, I guess!  The "Hip Lit" deelie is this Saturday from noon to four, at the MCA.  I'll be there with...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 00:54:00 GMT

Free Comic Book Day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKUxagXStws One of our customers made this awesome Free Comic Book Day commercial in our store last week. Watch closely for my incredible cameo.
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:00 GMT

Killing Joke... for geeks only

As some of you know, I got a button-maker with my tax return.  I've wanted a button-maker since I was about ten years old, and now that my dream has come true I realized that it is, in fact, ever...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:43:00 GMT