Low Spark (1913-1938-1973-201?)

New mini, y’all!

It’s called “Low Spark (1913-1938-1973-201?),” and it’s out, and it’s awesome (if I do say so myself). Plus, that picture of me holding a copy doesn’t really do it justice, as the copies I’m currently shifting around are fully hand-colored! WHOA!

Anyways, like I said, it’s awesome. Quimby’s called it “Boss.” Boss!
(I think I’m quoting, but I might be paraphrasing, they’ve since removed the listing. But it’s still boss, I swurrs.)
Case in point:

Another case in point:

Drawn during a spirited and feverish April, 2010.

I was going for a much different approach this time around. I’ve been plugging away at the melodrama of Birds & Wolves for so long, so I decided to make not only a silly comic, but one that wasn’t so planned out. So, having done four tiny little thumbnails for this “new comic,” I decided to be free and write it without a script or any idea where I was going to go. As you can see from the above, I ended up going pretty far out, indeed.

Obviously the spark (all puns intended) came from the far-out cover of Traffic’s “Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys.”

I started this comic without ever having listened to the album, though having done so now, I would imagine it’d make a pretty far-out soundtrack to the desert utopia I’ve outlined in this comic. Another slight gag in the title that I feel no one gets (and why should most of them, anyways) is a reference to David Bowie’s song “Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?).” (fave blog ever, btw) I took the title as a reference to the “transformation” between Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, and bracketed a new year as a hypothetical deadline for a new Bowie album. Make sense? No, didn’t think so. But neither really does the comic. :D

Anyways, this mini is OUT NOW, at Quimby’s, I imagine, unless they’ve run out, in which case, you know where to find me. (UPDATE: which, in fact, they had, but I’ve since replenished them) I will also be selling this wild escapade at the upcoming Minneapolis Indie Expo, August 21st! 9-5! Free admission! Be there, just like me, and just like Low Spark!