Mal Jones

Joe has been working on The Great Pacific for a while now, but he needs help getting it over the finishing line. The Kickstarter Fund will be used to help pay his artist, editor, designer, and letterer on the project, which is what Kickstarter is for.

From the Kickstarter page: 

Great Pacific is a full-color sci-fi adventure comic book series set to debut in the US comics market in October 2012….

… Great Pacific tells the story of Chas Worthington, recent heir to one of the richest oil fortunes and most successful corporations in American history. In a defiant act that seems crazy to most and criminal to many, he sheds his former life of wealth and influence to settle the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, planting his flag and declaring the environmental wasteland a new, sovereign country.

The art is fucking amazing, really, and I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even know the Garbage Path was a real thing.

You can become a backer of the project here.

My friend and colleague Rafer Roberts has a new collection of his book Plastic Farm available for pre-order.

Let me tell you that this book is weird. Very very weird. And really great. I know he just went through a massive re-lettering process for this edition and it’s got some great guest artists (Danielle Corsetto, Dennis Culver, Dave Morgan, Wendi Strang-Frost and Jake Warrenfeltz).

He’s sent me the info for it, so take it away Rafer!

PLASTIC FARM: SOWING SEEDS ON FERTILE SOIL in in the April Preivews and can be ordered using code: APR110754.

There is a downloadable order form here: http://plasticfarm.com/ssofs-order.pdf that folks can fill out and give to their local comics peddler. The book is also available for pre-order on Amazon: http://amzn.to/hT12R0.

Written and (mostly) drawn by Rafer Roberts, Plastic Farm follows the life of a man named Chester and his slow descent into complete insanity and chronicles how that madness reshapes the world around him. Chester has had a rough childhood, has a magic cowboy that rides a dinosaur living inside of his head, and is now, late in life, sitting in a nameless airport bar during a blizzard telling his life story to a group of people who really couldn’t care less.

Throw some money a local artist’s way and check out a book that has actually disgusted reviewers, but just makes me laugh. It’s just so freaking weird.

Disclaimer: I’ve known Rafer for years and have worked with him on a short that will show up this fall. But that’s all besides the point.

Here’s the Amazon link again: http://amzn.to/hT12R0.

Being that I’m actively working to get back into regular comic work this year, I’m super pumped about this.

A couple of friends are writing stories in it. Here’s hoping I get paired up with them.