You might notice a link to a Good Crook holiday card I made above the logo there. I think it came out pretty okay! I might use it as my regular holiday card except for it has guns in it.

The other day I watched one of my favorite movies again for the first time in probably a year, Dog Day Afternoon. If you like this comic I strongly recommend it (not that this comic is anywhere close to that movie in terms of ... goodness). Al Pacino's character in that movie was a huge inspiration for Jackie, especially visually. There are some major differences, though. For instance, Jackie is not a young, gay bank robber. So, y'know. It's also worth it just for John Cazale's performance (he was Fredo in Godfather). He'll break your heart, but doesn't he always?
So anyway, Dog Day Afternoon: It's a perfect holiday movie for the whole family! (Not really.)

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! I'm really late on the Scott Pilgrim train but seriously it may be the coolest comic book of all time. I didn't want to read it before because I thought it was about anime hipsters, and it kind of is, except somehow really good.

I've been looking forever for my sketchook with all the concept work I did for Good Crook. I just found it yesterday, so I'll put up a sketches section really soon. It's a Thanksgiving miracle!

Hey, everyone! I hope you're enjoying the comic. Please don't hesitate to let me know what you think, whether it's by emailing me or on this blog. There's no "chapters" in this, because I want it all to be more sort of cinematic or something, but this page does mark the start of the second thirty-page installment block, so I guess you could call it part two if you want.

There's been two mob movies released recently, We Own The Night and American Gangster. I thought both of them had a raging case of Trying Too Hard To Be Goodfellas syndrome, which is only marginally more tolerable than Trying Too Hard To Be Pulp Fiction syndrome. We need some new brand of mob movie for everyone to rip off. The age of the gritty, realistic mafia and the hip, self-aware mafia is over. It is time for an earnest, whimsical mafia movie that's sweetly charming and vaguely magical. James Cromwell can star as the grumpy, strict old don who learns to love again with the help of his bright-eyed, inventive new consigliere.

Well, it sounds awesome to me.

Happy Halloween! Here's a quick Halloween picture I did (it'll open in a new window). Features characters from Templar, Starslip, and Gunnerkrigg Court. (I don't like that cutesy "Guess who they're supposed to be!" thing.)

In "real life", I don't think any of the characters read webcomics. I think Nona would most likely go as Lyra from Golden Compass. The movie version better not suck.

Quick note- You may notice an "Extra Comics" link there. I'm still messing around with it, so expect it to be all wierd until at least the weekend. You can still hit the link at the header to see the 24 hour comic all in one place.

For now, my 24-hour comic, about Jackie and his dad, can be found here. It's just a temporary location though, I'm still trying to decide how to present it. I might just make a seperate series here on Webcomics Nation for Good Crook related short stories, since I have a couple of em in the works. I'll try to get that done, maybe on Thursday or something.

Guys who read Bukowski when they should be working. What are you gonna do?!

Anyway, I did 24 Hour Comics Day! At first I was worried that I had resigned myself to spending the whole Saturday in my room hunched over my desk, but it actually turned out to be really fun. I wrote a story about Jackie's dad. I'm not gonna post it here yet because I used part of an anecdote one of my teachers told me, and I need to ask his permission to use it. Hopefully I'll have it up on Wednesday. It came out pretty nice if I do say so myself.