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Mid-January if I can find someone who can write in Japanese, otherwise, it's a big question mark.
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Ohh, until I can find a little more time, the only side project is going to be crankin' out new material and trying to get more readers.
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I was fortunate enough to grow up with one of the last great Sunday comics. My hometown paper, 'The Connecticut Post,' ran a comic-book insert of all of the Sunday comics. It was the same size and feel of a comic book, but instead it had all of our comic strip favorites. It didn't last forever, though, and now it looks like most Sunday pages: cramped, busy, and joyless. If I had to have a dream Sunday page, I'd sure like it to be the way it was growing up.
...but if I wanted to be selfish, I'd want it to look the way it did in the 20's, with large, poster-sized comics. George Herriman, Windsor McCay and their peers all created these wonderful works of art. If you haven't seen them in their full size, do yourself a favor and try to get your eyes on 'em. -
For Phil's Adventures, I try to top myself every month. So I'll take an interesting idea from the last story and try to do something completely different the next time. These strips are the ones that really play with the medium (there's SO MUCH you can do on a tiny little rectangle!) or the ones that surprise me (which always means I'm on the right path). My current favorite is a strip in a Tokyo fish market (coming up in a few weeks), but I'm sure that's going to change soon and change often.
For Phil, it's the same but even more ridiculous. In Phil's Adventures, I'm limited to the comic strip format, but in Phil, anything goes. I'm partial to the first Christmas storyline, or the time Phil kisses Mindy, when Phil is using a flamethrower and smoking a cigarette. But they're all so different, it's hard to pick a favorite.
But these two strips have always stuck with me. For Phil's Adventures: http://phils-adventures.com/?p=133 (this was one of the first Phil's Adventures comics I ever drew, way back when), and for Phil: http://haveyourphil.com/?p=594 (because it's so absolutely ridiculous) -
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I don't know when exactly Phil from Have Your Phil will be back but I can assure you that it will be!
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I'd be crying too if I was the man who sat on his hands while this fair nation crumbled. He's lucky Lincoln came along to clean up his mess.
Also I don't know if it's fair to call my feelings for Franklin Pierce 'love,' but I guess to some extent we all love losers. And I doubt there was as ineffective a President as Pierce. -
The decision to make Phil's parents a divorced couple was sort of reverse-engineered. I knew I wanted Phil to go around the world with his father the way Jonny Quest did, but I wanted to explain the absence of his mother. Phil's dad Pete didn't seem like a widower, so making him a divorcee became the only option.
As for his mother being French, that comes from two places: Phil is partially inspired by my friend Ben, who has family in France. So Phil speaking French and having a French mother is a tribute to him. The other reason his mother is French is because Ratatouille, one of my favorite movies, is set in France. Just listen to this song from the movie, and I assure you you'd like to be just a little bit French after hearing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_hdmt4vpBo -
'Freddie' is short for 'Frederica,' but she's the type to prefer the tomboy-ish nickname. I plan to use 'Nimbus' as her last name, but that plan could change. But Freddie Nimbus has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
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I must have read James and the Giant Peach over and over and over again. When I wasn't reading that, though, I was probably devouring a Goosebumps book or obsessing over a Calvin and Hobbes collection.
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Steve Winchell/Shoot...’s Bio
Chicago, IL
I draw comics and illustrate things like textbooks and t-shirts
