Good morning! I just want to quickly announce that a Good Crook minicomic will be running M-F this week and M-W next week over at Short Stories section. We won't be seeing Jackie's friend Rico for a while so he has a starring role in this one. (It's a flashback!)

My 24-hour-comic "Mickey Rooney" is also up there, you can read that one too if you haven't yet. In fact I would recommend reading that one first. It's not vital, but that's how I would do it.

These extra comics aren't hugely important to read to understand the story, but these characters go other places in my head, and do things that don't really have a place in the main comic. (I'd make a joke about how "LULZ cartoonists are crazy!" but I'm sure you've all heard people say stuff like this a million times before.) I do these extra comics sometimes just to try out these different stories. So maybe you'll like them too...?

Someday I hope to be remembered for writing such sparkling dialogue as "Get the fuck away!" and "You fuckin' get away, man!"

Now I know how Oscar Levant feels.

Anyway, I really want to talk about this part of the story, but I guess I'll wait for the scene to be over. CARRY ON.

Oh man, I totally forgot that we passed the 100-comics mark a while ago! Oh well. So, um, hooray for me.

This is the last page of probably one of my favorite scenes. I hope you guys liked it too. Fortunately I had kind of a small jump in readers during this scene- I'm glad people came in for that part of the comic. Anyway.

I had a great time at NYCC! There's new fanart up from Mary C. Shyne, who I met at the con. It was totally awesome discussing the women there walking around in leather underwear with her. (For real, con-going ladies, let's be serious for five seconds. )

I got a sketch from Alex Robinson too, and I was so nervous and excited I can't even tell you. He gave me a really good sketch but sometimes its weird getting drawings at conventions. I'm never sure whether to talk or not when they're drawing; I don't want to distract them, but there's also this awkward sort of silence. Oh well!

There was only one bad part to all this. When I got back from New York, I found out that Martin Scorsese had done a lecture at Brown that weekend, which is right next to my school. And I missed it. Noooooooo

Hey guys! I'm going home for NYCC. If any of you are going, maybe... maybe I'll see you there?

This is going to be awesome.

I loved drawing this page. I think this is a good one for new readers to come in on, if only because this is kind of the closest I've gotten so far to making The Good Crook EXACTLY what I want it to be. Does that make sense? No? Okay.

In case you guys don't remember, "Frank Brodka" is the name Nona found on the inside of the box where the gun was, back in the car when she was rooting around for it.

P.S. Kids with guns? Way way WAY fun to draw.

And hey, check out this comic Twelve Steps from Superman. The story is really cool so far, it feels like the opening scene of a great movie. Plus the art and characters are great, I love the layout and all the interesting little visual detours. That's the kind of stuff I wish I could do in The Good Crook but I'm afraid I'll screw it up. The artist, Mary Shyne, seems like a cool person too. I like it a lot is what I'm trying to say.