05.13.10
Posted in Tommy Chicago at 5:11 pm by Administrator
Hello everyone. First of all Springcon is rapidly approaching. In fact it’s approaching this weekend, May 15th and 16th. you can find out more at www.midwestcomicbook.com Please stop by and visit, and while you’re visiting, why not pick up a copy of Tommy Chicago #4, the thrilling conclusion to the Robot Tommy Chicago storyline, with art by the always amazing Danno! Seriously it’s probably his best work so far (in my humble opinion) you can check out his website at www.staplegenius.com it’s updated waaaaay more often than this site. He’ll also be at Springcon, probably sitting somewhere near me. I’ll have all 4 issues of Tommy Chicago there, so you can catch up on any you missed, or if you’ve “missed” all 4, I’ll have a special package of all 4 issues at a special price. Special.
Now on to the apology. I did some clean up on my list of registered users. If I happened to mistake your user name as a dirty no good spammer, I apologize. There. That was easy.
Finally, here is a brand new Tommy Chicago adventure written by me and drawn by Mr. Bob Lipski, check out his website www.uptowngirlcomic.com and say hi to him at Springcon too. He’ll probably be sitting somewhere near me as well (They’re apparently the only two that can handle the smell). You should probably buy something from him too, he’s got kids. Like 17 of them.
For those of you who like background, the whole point of the story below is once upon a time in the mid to late 1800’s, there was a little book that came out, written by me with art by Danno and Bob (the guys I made sure to mention above, go visit their sites, etc, etc) starring all of our various characters in one crazy nonsensical adventure. I had a great time and you can read our thoughts on every. single. page. over at Danno’s wonderful and frequently updated website. Anyway on the back cover of the story was a super awesome pin up by Zander Cannon (even though I’ve only mentioned him once and Bob and Danno multiple times, please do not mistake this as a reflection of his awesomeness) And the pin up featured Tommy Chicago holding a gun. Now, I don’t think I’d ever mentioned this to anyone but Bob, but I had decided that Tommy Chicago would never ever use a gun. And now all of the sudden, here he is, in an incredible pin up (seriously check it out here) holding a gun. Whatever was I to do? Well I’ll tell you what I did. I waited for one day when Bob said “I’d sure like to draw Tommy Chicago again sometime.” And BAM! I gave him this story. So now you know why Tommy Chicago is holding a gun in that pin up, and my OCD is once again at rest..until the next random pinup shows up. Please enjoy
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05.28.09
Posted in Tommy Chicago at 8:09 pm by Administrator
I’m pleased as punch (No, I don’t get that saying either, but it’s written so let’s forge ahead here) to announce that after a handful of passive-aggressive emails and queries from friends and family, Tommy Chicago (vol 2) issues 1 and 2 are now available to order online! No longer do you have to be disappointed that you forgot to buy them from me at one of the various local con’s. Or maybe you were going to buy one, but then you saw that issue of Wolverine: Saucy Plumber #7 that you needed to complete your collection. It’s ok. I understand, I’d probably do the same thing if I were in your situation.
But now, now you have a chance for something special. below are links where you can find issues 1 and 2. When you order them, they will be printed especially for you and then shipped out. That’s right. While other comics are printed based on retailers estimates of what you may or may not buy, Tommy Chicago is printed specifically for you, THE READER. Sure you may cherish the adventures of the saucy mutant who’s the best there is at what he does, and what he does is clear clogs from drains, but maybe when that comic was printed it was intended for someone else. Someone like John Voight. Or the Pope. You just don’t know! But with Tommy Chicago, you’ll never have another sleepless night of wondering.
Also if you already own the issues, you can go to the links and write a review of the issues (you can also order more copies, but I’m not going to press on that one. The fact that you even bought one copy makes you a good egg in my book, so we’re square. Thanks.)
So yeah, that’s the deal. If you’ve read one of our various giveaway issues, or read any of volume 1, or you’re my mom, follow the links below, and thanks for playing.
http://store.comixpress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1381&zenid=4bmmqsl39run89mq8evklk2l20″>
http://store.comixpress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1382&zenid=4bmmqsl39run89mq8evklk2l20″
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01.31.09
Posted in Tommy Chicago at 2:25 pm by Administrator
This is the back cover for TC 12, the final issue of the first volume of Tommy Chicago. But don’t worry, Volume 2 is already going strong..on second thought maybe you should worry about that….
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01.08.09
Posted in Tommy Chicago at 8:32 am by Administrator
Every good detective needs to keep up with the word on the street, so when Tommy Chicago needs to know whats going down on the seedier side of Chilitown he goes to Zombie Coltrane. Now Zombie Coltrane isn’t your average b-movie zombie. No, he’s a regular, talented guy who just happens to enjoy eating a brain every now and again. Sadly the people of Chilitown can’t get past their preconceived ideas, and so Coltrane never was able to find gainful employment and ended up on the street. He soon discovered he didn’t mind, probably because he’s a zombie. So now he just wanders the city playing his sax, eating the occasional brain, keeping his ear to the happenings of the criminal word and giving sage advice to anyone who needs it.
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12.29.08
Posted in Tommy Chicago at 7:17 pm by Administrator
These two are probably my favorite supporting-supporting characters, and they were both pretty much happy accidents..have you ever noticed that if someone tells you they had an accident, you automatically assume it was something bad? Is it really fair to the word that we have to qualify it with a word like happy to make it good? Anyway, more on this some other time. Now back to the characters.
I have the memory of a goldfish, so I had to check with Bob for the origin of Guy With Beard and he tells me that GWB was created way way back in the day when we were working on the original (and abandoned) Tommy Chicago mini series. If there’s one thing I hate to do, it’s naming characters. Heck, I hate naming anything, if I ever have kids they’ll probably be named Optimus Prime and Tommy Chicago. So I had a misc. character who had a beard and I apparently put in the script that I’d figure out the name of the character later, but we stopped work on that series and I lucked out.
That luck wasn’t to last though, because eventually we started up the ol’ Tommy Chicago bus again and in issue 6 I needed a random guy and Bob drew our old unnamed friend. I was able to avoid naming him again because in the story he wanted to keep a low profile, but I knew deep down time was running out (not really, I just think that sounds dramatic!) In issue 8 we needed a random guy to meet the Chili Monster. And when I saw the finished artwork, who should appear but that guy and his magnificent beard! At that point in my mind at least he became the unluckiest guy in Chilitown. Not only does weird crap keep happening to him, but nobody even knows his name..Not even me! We haven’t done much with him since Future Tommy Chicago blew up his car, but rest assured if the Tommy Chicago universe needs an innocent bystander to have wackiness inflicted upon them, Guy With Beard will be there!
Shavonda is a different story. I didn’t need a throw away character that later stole my heart and became and intricate part of the Tommy Chicago universe. Nope. It was a throw away line. There is a 3 year gap in story time between the end of the first series and the beginning of the second series. A 3 year gap which is partially covered by 3 years of Tommy Chicago Free Comic Book Day stories, the third issue should be out for FCBD 2009.
Now I don’t know much about kids but I’ve been told they grow up fast. Well I didn’t need that kind of problem with Jimmy. If I were to give TC a moody teenage sidekick the abuse TC heaped upon him would seem deserved, and readers might not be sympathetic towards Jimmy. Then I’d have to set up a 900 number to kill him off, and I honestly didn’t need that kind of stress in my life. So as I was writing issue 1, I decided I would just throw out a random line (lizard men, universal remote, hot dog vendor with a heart of gold) and then promptly forgot about it. Until once again I saw the finished artwork. Where I had expected a random hot dog vendor, Danno had given the world Shavonda. So far she’s just been seen in that panel in issue 1 and a short story we did to give out at Fallcon, but you’ll be seeing more of her in the future, because as Jimmy says “She’s sassy!”
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12.23.08
Posted in Tommy Chicago at 7:13 pm by Administrator
Whatever you do..Don’t pull that finger
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