My Journal
I hate writing introductions.
I’ve written them before, and I’ll sometimes write them for friends, but for the most part, I don’t like doing them.
The only thing I hate writing more are witty remarks on birthday cards.
You know what I’m talking about. You’re dinking away in your office at one of several major cartoon studios, checking out something on line you shouldn’t during business hours when someone you remember vaguely nodding to a couple of times in the break room shows up with a Hallmark card for a co-worker you know even less, and then stands there while you wrack your brains to set down something more heartfelt and memorable than “Happy B-Day, Mushface, I hope it’s great.” Then out of guilt, you try to draw a little Spider-Man or Bugs Bunny head next to your signature because one of the artists drew a freakin’ gorgeous Supergirl on the lower half of the card, but your drawings never turn out as well as you planned, so you’re always left handing back the lame Mushface greeting and a blot that might be a really bad Donald Duck or a hideously off model Spongebob, but is by this point, just a blot.
Anyway…
Introduction, right. So this is my new on-line home where you can find out about what books, cartoons and other projects I have coming up. Also, it’s a place for me to set down frequent journal entries and to debut new comic strip content. I’ve always wanted to do a Sunday comics strip with my own creations, and now I have that forum. First up is a new Mutant, Texas series written by me and drawn by the insanely talented David Alvarez. It was supposed to run only two weeks, but we kept thinking up gags, so expect to see the Kiyotes and Ida Red and their antics on into the summer. Throughout the year we will be switching out the characters, so you can look for Polly the Witch around Halloween, Jingle Belle at Christmas, and Super Rica and Rashy probably any old time.
And now, before we go any further, it’s thank you time here at the ol’ PD.com. Hats off first to that rare raconteur, that sage of the business we call Show, that all around Good Joe and Lord High Mayor of Comic Con, Mark Evanier. You can follow Mark’s Hollywood/comics/TV adventures at his wonderful site: http://www.newsfromme.com It was Mark who, back at the dawn of the dot com era, had the foresight to snap up a number of domains in his slow to act friends names so they could someday have their very own true and officially named websites like this one right here. Thanks many times over, sir. We still owe you a dinner. Name the night.
I also must bow in gratitude while pointing out that this gorgeous looking site is the creation of the immensely talented artist, designer, photographer, comedian, writer and performer Kevin McShane. You may have seen him at comic conventions and on TV as his sometimes alter ego, Fake Stan Lee. When he’s not imitating the Will, the Way and the Wonder of comics, Kevin is busy with hundreds of projects of his own and you can find out about them here: http://kevinmcshane.org
Thanks in addition to the amazing Bizzaro who frequently stops in here to make sure things are running right, especially as our designated web mistress Melodie (more about her elsewhere on the site) is usually “on break.” You can learn more about Bizzaro and his fabulous feats here: http://www.smappdooda.com
And of course, none of this would have been possible without the help, encouragement, love, support and occassional butt-whuppin’ from my marvelous, magical Misty Lee. http://mistylee.com I love you baby. Okay, I’m getting off the computer now, five more minutes, I promise.
I guess that’s it, then. We’ll be upgrading, changing, adding and revising things for a while as we get up to speed, but for right now you can stop on by for regular cartoons, news and frequent journal pieces from me. And while it is true I hate writing introductions, I very much enjoyed bringing you this site.
Talk soon,
Paul
