Poster for the Milwaukee’s second annual ALL MESSED UP FEST!
For more info on what this show’s all about click here.
Onion AV club article here.
-Matt
CHRISTMAS CHIDZ “Christmas Helmet” official music video.
Once each year, me and some friends get together and we get drunk and take drugs and write a bunch of Christmas inspired songs.
We call ourselves the Christmas Chidz, and this year fellow-Chid Marky made a video for the new song “Christmas Helmet”.
There’s a plan to eventually put all our songs online for the whole world to enjoy, but for now there’s just this.
Hope you like it. Merry Christmas! Be safe on Christmas. It’s coming up soon in 363 more days.
-Matt
I did not draw this, but it’s awesomer (that’s a word) than anything I’ll ever draw.
-Matt
From the original artwork to the first Spider-Man story from AMAZING FANTASY #15, now held by the Smithsonian Museum. Here, the splash page logo stat is lifted to reveal the original title lettering underneath. Additionally, you can see where a web-pattern has been whited out around the logo and the tiny Spider-Man figure. Artwork by Steve Ditko.
![Show poster for January 3, 2012
For more posters and artwork, click on the deviantArt Gallery link or [here].
-Matt](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwgzecv9d21qgeca3o1_500.jpg)
Show poster for January 3, 2012
For more posters and artwork, click on the deviantArt Gallery link or [here].
-Matt
![DOWNLOAD DADS SONGS FOR FREE!
We sold out of the tape because it’s awesome and because there were only 25 made, but now you can listen to and download it for free. Talk about a holiday miracle!
Get it on our Facebook page [here] and like us too.
We’ll be recording more later, and Aaron Rodgers will probably put out our record.
-Matt](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwgs8i7rDQ1qgeca3o1_r1_400.jpg)
DOWNLOAD DADS SONGS FOR FREE!
We sold out of the tape because it’s awesome and because there were only 25 made, but now you can listen to and download it for free. Talk about a holiday miracle!
Get it on our Facebook page [here] and like us too.
We’ll be recording more later, and Aaron Rodgers will probably put out our record.
-Matt
Two random work-in-progress pages from Egyptian Shumba.
Just ‘cause.
And don’t forget to follow me on Twitter @iammattchic if you love Twitter.
-Matt
![ITEM!
MILWAUKEE ZINE FEST
is this Saturday, Dec. 10 @ the Polish Falcon, 10am - 5pm.
Per usual, I’ll have comics and art for sale. I won’t be bringing as much stuff as I did to Hovercraft (thanks to everyone who attended btw), but I will have my Daily Marvel sketchbook pages and show poster originals/prints. And stop by the after party too at Quarters. Dads [link] are playing along with the Appleseed and Neolithics!
More info about MKE Zine Fest here.
More info about After Party here.
-Matt](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvtcw5ZrvO1qgeca3o1_500.jpg)
ITEM!
MILWAUKEE ZINE FEST
is this Saturday, Dec. 10 @ the Polish Falcon, 10am - 5pm.
Per usual, I’ll have comics and art for sale. I won’t be bringing as much stuff as I did to Hovercraft (thanks to everyone who attended btw), but I will have my Daily Marvel sketchbook pages and show poster originals/prints.
And stop by the after party too at Quarters. Dads [link] are playing along with the Appleseed and Neolithics!
More info about MKE Zine Fest here.
More info about After Party here.
-Matt
![BUZZPOP #5 second printings in stock. I know you were wondering about this.
40 pages of awesome garbage!
Buy it, along with other cool comics and artwork tomorrow at Hovercraft [link] in Milwaukee!
-Matt](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvll39I3SW1qgeca3o1_500.jpg)
BUZZPOP #5 second printings in stock. I know you were wondering about this.
40 pages of awesome garbage!
Buy it, along with other cool comics and artwork tomorrow at Hovercraft [link] in Milwaukee!
-Matt
![Here ye, here ye…
HOVERCRAFT is SATURDAY!
If you live in Milwaukee or will be around then, you should go. It will be cool and full of local neat stuff that you could buy for yourself. Or for a loved one this holiday season perhaps? That’d be nice too.
Look for my booth where I’ll have copies of the latest NLC titles, as well as original artwork, prints, and sketchbook pages [link] from this year.
Following the show, there will be an after party at Frank’s Power Plant featuring the Happy Thoughts, Facts Machine, Technicolor Teeth, stand-up comedy by Jake Kornley, and special guests the Christmas Chidz (which is a Christmas and alcohol inspired magical band including myself, members of Holy Shit!, Goodnight Loving, Dinosaur Pills, Elephant Walk, Fair-weather Friends, Jaill, and more).
For more info check out the Hovercraft site here, and find them on Facebook if you want to as well.
-Matt](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvk5bd3wVL1qgeca3o1_500.jpg)
Here ye, here ye…
HOVERCRAFT is SATURDAY!
If you live in Milwaukee or will be around then, you should go. It will be cool and full of local neat stuff that you could buy for yourself. Or for a loved one this holiday season perhaps? That’d be nice too.
Look for my booth where I’ll have copies of the latest NLC titles, as well as original artwork, prints, and sketchbook pages [link] from this year.
Following the show, there will be an after party at Frank’s Power Plant featuring the Happy Thoughts, Facts Machine, Technicolor Teeth, stand-up comedy by Jake Kornley, and special guests the Christmas Chidz (which is a Christmas and alcohol inspired magical band including myself, members of Holy Shit!, Goodnight Loving, Dinosaur Pills, Elephant Walk, Fair-weather Friends, Jaill, and more).
For more info check out the Hovercraft site here, and find them on Facebook if you want to as well.
-Matt
NLC available at Desert Island Comics, Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
Now in stock on the cool spinny racks of zines and mini-comics:
*BUZZPOP #5
*I’M BATMAN #1
*DINOSAURTIMEOKAY #1
Maybe you should go there for Black Friday? I think so. And coming up on Dec. 3rd, Desert Island [link] is throwing the 2011 Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festical, so if yer in the area you should check it out.
More info on that can be found [here].
-Matt
EGYPTIAN SHUMBA script complete!
Aside from getting to know the city more, my other main reason for taking this month off in NYC was to finish the script for the upcoming NLC graphic novel. I already have 72 pages penciled and lettered (to be inked and re-lettered later), but I got to a point where I wanted to lay down an actual script for the remainder of the story.
It takes up 59 pages of that there red notebook, and now that it’s done, it means I can really start cranking out the rest of the comic pages.
I’m super psyched to finally get to this point, but now that I know how much is still ahead for me to draw, I can safely say it’s gonna be a while before Egyptian Shumba is 100% done. But still. Big stepping stone here, so that’s good.
I’m not gonna give away too many plot points yet, and I’m not trying to make some grand epic. I mean, it’s looking to be around 150-200 pages at this point, but it’s still just the Night Light Gang hanging out and getting drunk and talkin’ shit, only with more of an overlaying arc to everything. Also, some Egyptian stuff.
Updates to come.
-Matt
PS: Follow Night Light Comics on facebook here, and Matt Chic on twitter here.
![Today marks the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I was the only guy there in Packers gear. Or so I thought…
I started out the day with a little reading, and then grabbed a slice for lunch, where I also got some writing done (the script for the upcoming NLC graphic novel: Egyptian Shumba nears completion). I left my hat and gloves in the bathroom at the pizza place, and thankfully six train stops later, they were still there! Phew.
(I remember making a deal with myself like “if your hat and gloves are still there you’ll…something” I don’t remember. It was probably like “donate a million dollars to charity” but I forgot what it was the second I found my hat and gloves. Sorry, charity.)
Anyways.
I was gonna meet up with some friends for the rally at Foley Square around 5:00, but that wasn’t for another few hours so I took the train to Fulton to see if anything was going around there.
I walked right into an enormous OWS march heading north on Broadway so I jumped in, and then I was really in the thick of it. That was at about 3:00, and for the next two and a half hours we marched around chanting, and doing ‘mic checks’, and holding signs. So many signs.
After going up Broadway we gathered at Union Square for a little bit. It was very cool, and pretty inspiring actually to see all these people. And while I had no idea what was going on really, what came next was the coolest part.
So after we stationed at Union Square for a bit, it was time to take to streets and head to Foley Square. And I mean take to the streets literally! You can see in the pics that we just marched down the streets, and there was nothing anyone could do! Like, the whole way from Union Square to Foley Square. It ruled walking in between cars, cabs, and trucks who were just plain fucked, so long as the crowd kept coming. By this point my phone was almost dead so I didn’t wanna take too many pics and drain the battery more, and that sucked because there would’ve been some really good ones.
A few people seemed annoyed, but for the most part, all these people —who were flat out trapped in their cars— were loving this actully! Everyone was recording on their phones, honking their horns in rhythm to whatever chant was going on, giving thumbs-up and peace signs. And the cops who where walking along the sides and stuff didn’t seem to give anyone a hard time really (for the record).
I wish I could remember the rout, or had been able to get my bearings better, but it was all pretty surreal and happened so quickly.
Eventually, we ended up making it to Foley, where a huge crowd and tons —TONS— of cops had already gathered. It was intense. And a little scary, but I felt pretty good about the whole thing. It seemed pretty civil.
Tired, a little hungry, and with a dead battery in my phone I decided to head home around 6:00. Also, that was right around the time people started rapping and singing over the PA system, so I wasn’t too worried about “missing’” that.
And oh yeah, right towards the end some dude named Mitch came up and gave me a “Go Pack!” and pointed at his own Packers hat. We talked for a bit, but I lost him in the crowd eventually. Good guy, I’m sure.
All in all, this was one of the coolest experiences ever, and I’m glad I got to be a part of it.
Pics [here]
Video [here] Cool Horn Honker/Packers Fan OWS
Video [here] “Bloomberg Has Got to Go” walk
-Matt](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lutzthuYIf1qgeca3o1_400.jpg)
Today marks the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I was the only guy there in Packers gear. Or so I thought…
I started out the day with a little reading, and then grabbed a slice for lunch, where I also got some writing done (the script for the upcoming NLC graphic novel: Egyptian Shumba nears completion). I left my hat and gloves in the bathroom at the pizza place, and thankfully six train stops later, they were still there! Phew.
(I remember making a deal with myself like “if your hat and gloves are still there you’ll…something” I don’t remember. It was probably like “donate a million dollars to charity” but I forgot what it was the second I found my hat and gloves. Sorry, charity.)
Anyways.
I was gonna meet up with some friends for the rally at Foley Square around 5:00, but that wasn’t for another few hours so I took the train to Fulton to see if anything was going around there.
I walked right into an enormous OWS march heading north on Broadway so I jumped in, and then I was really in the thick of it. That was at about 3:00, and for the next two and a half hours we marched around chanting, and doing ‘mic checks’, and holding signs. So many signs.
After going up Broadway we gathered at Union Square for a little bit. It was very cool, and pretty inspiring actually to see all these people. And while I had no idea what was going on really, what came next was the coolest part.
So after we stationed at Union Square for a bit, it was time to take to streets and head to Foley Square. And I mean take to the streets literally! You can see in the pics that we just marched down the streets, and there was nothing anyone could do! Like, the whole way from Union Square to Foley Square.
It ruled walking in between cars, cabs, and trucks who were just plain fucked, so long as the crowd kept coming. By this point my phone was almost dead so I didn’t wanna take too many pics and drain the battery more, and that sucked because there would’ve been some really good ones.
A few people seemed annoyed, but for the most part, all these people —who were flat out trapped in their cars— were loving this actully! Everyone was recording on their phones, honking their horns in rhythm to whatever chant was going on, giving thumbs-up and peace signs. And the cops who where walking along the sides and stuff didn’t seem to give anyone a hard time really (for the record).
I wish I could remember the rout, or had been able to get my bearings better, but it was all pretty surreal and happened so quickly.
Eventually, we ended up making it to Foley, where a huge crowd and tons —TONS— of cops had already gathered. It was intense. And a little scary, but I felt pretty good about the whole thing. It seemed pretty civil.
Tired, a little hungry, and with a dead battery in my phone I decided to head home around 6:00. Also, that was right around the time people started rapping and singing over the PA system, so I wasn’t too worried about “missing’” that.
And oh yeah, right towards the end some dude named Mitch came up and gave me a “Go Pack!” and pointed at his own Packers hat. We talked for a bit, but I lost him in the crowd eventually. Good guy, I’m sure.
All in all, this was one of the coolest experiences ever, and I’m glad I got to be a part of it.
Pics [here]
Video [here] Cool Horn Honker/Packers Fan OWS
Video [here] “Bloomberg Has Got to Go” walk
-Matt
Here’s a couple pages from tonight’s Drink & Draw NY.
I’m only posting the two here because they show up tiny, but if you wanna see others and larger versions check out my gallery/deviantArt page. [link]
It was at a pretty cool place called the Local 269 [link] on Houston St. and when I walked in the ipod mix was full of Otis Redding and Reigning Sound tunes, so I dug it right off the bat.
I did the Mars sketch (previous post) as a warm up before the model stepped in, and then just went along with whatever.
First were five two minute poses, then a couple five minutes, two tens (I skipped one), and a 20.
I bailed shortly thereafter, so I didn’t get to see the second model, but I enjoyed the change of pace. What I mean by that is the actual models. I really can’t remember the last time I sat down and did figure drawing, so it was fun to do that again.
-Matt
