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| UPDATE: As of September 06 all news will now be posted at this link. Click there for recent things comics, music, etc. Below is previous posts from 2003-2006. Thank you - Ethan |
NEWS
August 17, 2006
Art Showing at Royal Edinburgh Hospital,
ARTLINK HOSPITAL ARTS
Jul21–Sep 29
with Daniel Johnston, Renee French, others
Work from TEDDY and CHARLIE PICKLE is currently on exhibit at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland. The show is put together by FUNCTIONSUITE (click link for more information) and is located in the Hospital's Link Gallery; easily accessble to patients, their
family, and hospital staff. Very pleased to participate in a show like this.
Other artists include Mark Martin, Graham Annable, Daniel Johnston, Tomer Hanuka, Joel Orff, Josh Neufeld, Renee French, Scott Mills, Hunt Emmerson, Vincent Stall, Malcy Duff, jenniferdaydreamer, Max Estes, Matt Madden, Tom Hart, Jonathon Sperry, Dan James, Jeffrey Brown, Dan Wilson, and Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson.
The Royal Edinburgh is a Victorian residential psychiatric hospital.
More information on the Functionsuite's "Artlink Hospital Arts" project - http://www.functionsuite.com/
Thanks and best, Ethan
April 21, 2006
STOP THE MADNESS
Long-lost 1980's Nancy Reagan anti-drug music video
with LaToya Jackson, Whitney houston, many others
Thank you.
March 28 , 2006
STD COMICS
1965's JOHNNY GETS THE WORD
and COMICS WITH PROBLEMS No 7 - Madonna on AIDS
Above, an old medical illustration of Syphilis. Awful situation, but pretty beautifully rendered, don't you think?
February 15, 2006
Bomb Scare comics
1951's IF AN A-BOMB FALLS
and The H-BOMB AND YOU(1954)
February 6, 2006
Large site update
SNAP reposted
a new MUSIC SECTION
comics with problems #6
January 22 , 2006
1973 Roe V Wade Decision Comics Debate!
WHO KILLED JUNIOR?
ABORTION EVE
January 11 , 2006
1956 Martin Luther King Comic Book Message
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January 1 , 2006
Fifth issue of COMICS WITH PROBLEMS posted
Hey Hey Heyyyyy....
Happy New Year - Ethan
December 15 , 2005:
A HOLIDAY GIFT FOR YOU
A lot of fun if you consider the second panel in each as the joke or punchline. 95 comic strips total.
Happy New Year, as well - Ethan
November 21, 2005:
First issue of the Recovery of Charlie Pickle now posted. Click to read. Thank you.
Thanks and Best - Ethan
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November 6 , 2005:
We decided to put our decorations up early this year. Here's two early holiday gifts from us, to you
1984 CIA "GRENADA" Comic Book - click to read
1947 "Story of Johnny Surge" Comic Book - click to read
More information at the intro page
Something even better on Dec 15.
Also: First issue of CHARLIE PICKLE will post here,
on Monday November 21. See you then.
Thanks and Happy Holidays - Ethan
September
22, 2005:
Fourth issue of COMICS WITH PROBLEMS posted.
"Capt. Veedee-O and Ms. Wanda Lust in VD CLAPTRAP"
A wonderful eye-popping addition to our growing list of problems.
Can't even go into detail on the bizarre string of events that
brought this one to our attention, but here it is, just in time
for fall romance and the pre-holiday shopping season. Click
and be informed at this long lost Sex Education PBS-related
1972 gem. And with full sincerity, as Ms. Wanda or the Captain
might say, VENUS OR BUST, SHANKERS AWAY!
September
20, 2005:
New book out
PICTURES & WORDS
by Roanne Bell and Mark Sinclair
New book out from Laurence
King, now out in UK stores.
(Also available in the US from Yale Press) - more
information
Large new book. Features a lot of amazing comics art; Some previously
published work, some new. All of it very well presented. For
me it's the first time portions of DOG AND HIS ELEPHANT and
TEDDY have been printed in a nice sized heavy format. The whole
thing is very nice and I'm happy to be included. A substantial
chunk of comics from over thirty artists from Europe, Hong Kong,
Iran, the US, UK, other places.
Partial list of contributors (with some links):
Tom
Gauld
Simone
Lia
Sammy Harkham
David Rees
Jordan Crane - (whose
new "Clouds Above" book is really something, btw)
Ron Rege Jr
Jason
Marjane
Satrapi
Joe
Sacco
Jim Woodring ......-
full
list -
Also:
LONDON
DESIGN FESTIVAL
In addition, a show of work from artists included in the book
is currently being held at Magma Books in London, and is part
of this year's London Design Festival. A large piece of mine
from my upcoming CHARLIE PICKLE story is included in the exhibition.
links:
Magma Books
Book
detail from their website (click 'look inside')
London Design
Festival
Best regards - Ethan
August
26 ,
2005:
A small teaser for my new story, "THE RECOVERY OF CHARLIE
PICKLE", can be found on the front
page.
Subscribe
to the RSS to keep posted. Thanks. Hope
you are all having a nice summer, too. Best, Ethan
July
19, 2005:
Third issue of COMICS WITH PROBLEMS posted.
"Where there's smoke . . . THERE'S DANGER!"
A fun anti-cigarette comic with pretty effective science lessons
from 1965. Interesting and confused views from a time when most
adults still smoked and it was apparently okay for schoolkids
to smoke on the playground.
Also, the letter section from COMICS WITH PROBLEMS #2 has been
posted.
July
11, 2005:
A DOG AND HIS ELEPHANT is back online.
Not at serializer anymore, though. We're deciding to keep it
just here for the time being. If you'd like to read it, cost
is a low dollar-fifty and supports all the free stuff you find
here. Click the link for more information.
June
28, 2005:
Please welcome our
new columnist.
June
15, 2005:
Pardon the interruption, SPREE
is now back online
please distribute, thank you.
May
6, 2005:
March
17, 2005:
Second
issue of COMICS WITH PROBLEMS now posted
More information on the RSS. Thank you. — Ethan
February
16 , 2005:
New section to this website added
More information found on the RSS feed.
COMICS
WITH PROBLEMS
January
7, 2005:
SPREE:
An Escape from Reality is finished. Click to listen —
Ethan
January
3, 2005:
Hello - I've added an RSS
Feed to this site.
Information about new music and comics, etc, delivered right
to your RSS inbox. Subscribe to http://www.ep.tc/rss.xml
to receive updates and news, as well as get incidental links
to other places on the web as well as hidden links on this site
that I don't post about. RSS is sort of like a non-intrusive
email list or bulletin board. If you don't already use RSS,
here's a link
to help you out.
Thanks and Happy New Year, Ethan
November
entries deleted.
October
19, 2004:
Update: As
it's a work in progress, SPREE is still changing while things
get figured out. An improved version of side two has been posted,
with some new stuff on it and a little neccessary fat trimmed.
Please replace your existing copy of side two with the new one.
Sides three and four still to come. Thank you.
SPREE
October
14, 2004:
Exciting
news. BUSH JUNTA Book is now available. Packed with art, writing,
facts and jokes about the administration, tracing it all the
way back to World War 2. Click on the book above to get a copy.
Yours for about 13 bucks. There isn't a bad piece in the entire
thing.
I contributed two pieces - one on Ashcroft, the other a collaboration
with Austin poster artist Jasun Huerta, on the Patriot Act.
Order
the Bush Junta with this
link (more info at the link, too)
Here's a link
to posted page samples
(there you'll find my first page on the Ashcroft piece)
Also,
mr K Thor Jensen, of Amber
Forever and Red
Eye Black Eye has put together a CD of music based entirely
on found high school song lyrics. Click
this link for more information.
I contributed one song to the effort, the lyrics and title to
which are here,
and the lyrics to the entire album are here.
Pick up a copy of the album, you won't be disappointed. All
proceeds go towards supporting bad highschool lyrics.
Finally, since everyone loves passing this link around,
if you haven't seen it, here's Bill
O'Reilly's sexual harassment papers
Watch out for the falafel ladies.
Thanks and best, Ethan
September
7, 2004:
NEW
MUSIC POSTED, click here for
info
First two sides finished, sides three and four to follow.
Quite pleased with this one.
Please share with others, thank you. — Ethan
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September
3, 2004:
another new restored comic for you
1950s SKATING SKILLS
comic book
Goofy but couldn't resist. Just in time for back to school.
Newly posted for reading on this website, or for downloading
directly to your hard drive. A great extremely campy comic book
about rollerskating which I doubt you've ever read or heard
of. I'm offering it along with two mp3s of hammond organ music
from an actual rollerskating rink from that era AND an alternate
commentary option re-envisioning the comic book as one about
a wife-collecting rollerskating cult who travel from town to
town with their hypnotic music and their mind-controlling skates.
Click the link above for more information.
And beware the mind controlling rolling feet — Thanks,
Ethan
August
31, 2004:
Hi
-- I've decided to put together a zip file of the entire Teddy
story. Please feel encouraged to keep a copy of the Teddy story
on your computer to read and to pass the zip file around like
you would an mp3. One stipulation: Please do not upload the
Teddy story to your personal website without emailing
me for permission and details, etc. For now I'd really prefer
Teddy only be posted here, but for archival and file-sharing
interests I'm posting this zip file. Thanks for the many of
you who have written requesting such a thing be made available,
and for your patience in me getting one prepared.
Download TEDDY with this link --
(3.9 Mb file)
Note: when unzipped, open the "index.html" file to
read.
This zip file is only offered for archiving and file-sharing,
not for publishing this story elsewhere on the web, or for selling
in any capacity ... And of course, you can still read Teddy
without downloading anything at this
link,
Thanks.
Best regards, Ethan.
August
18, 2004:
Well,
you certainly don't see this very often. A surprisingly mint
copy of the 1957 Atomic Revolution Comic Book has found
its way onto Ebay
Ha, so now we know there's at least two known copies to exist.
Maybe you can win it.
more
information about the 1957 Atomic Revolution Comic Book
Also,
check back here very soon for a new recording of twisted funny
and bizarre Horse songs. If you enjoyed SNAP!
you will really have a good time with this new stuff. Nearly
two years of production, editing and recording time covering
topics as mundane as conception and childbirth to ridding the
world of filthy longhair beatnics. This new work is very much
SNAP's sequel, as well as its big brother. I promise you that.
Alright, talk to you soon, Ethan
August
2, 2004
magazine clipping:
click on Lindsay
ROLLING
STONE HOT GUIDE:
The Bush Junta introduces the worst comic-book villians ever
(page 92 with the Lindsay Lohan cheesecake pose on the cover)
QUOTE: In the pantheon of comic-book supervillians - from
Doctor Doom to Lex Luthor - how do the nefarious subjects
of The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government
stack up? "No comparison; they're the worst,"
says co-editor Mack White. The 200-page illustrated history
of the Bush family, due out in September from Fantagraphics
Books, features twenty-five top alternative comic artists
- full list
of cartoonists found here - contributing pieces ranging
from a cutting profile of National Security Advisor Condoleeza
Rice to a factually shocking, hilariously drawn strip detailing
Nazi connections of the president's grandfather, Prescott
Bush. The comic-book corollary to Michael Moore's Farenheit
9/11, "The Bush Junta sprang from a sense of revulsion
at the duplicity and thuggishness of our current administration,"
says publisher Gary Groth. "In other words, from a long-surpressed
sense of patriotism." One wonders what the president
himself would make of The Bush Junta. "If he
was sitting there drinking a beer and eating a pretzel, he
would choke," White says, "but this book is about
informing people. A better informed public makes it harder
for the government to perpetuate its skullduggery."
— Peter Relic, Rolling Stone #955
I'm
told the book will be in stores sometime in August but to guarantee
a copy I'd pre-order now, certainly -- Ethan
(now
available) Order the Bush Junta with this
link
July
30, 2004:
Mack White has put together a space on his website specifically
for the upcoming BUSH JUNTA book. The section is currently under
construction, so check it often for updates, art, etc
That link:
http://www.mackwhite.com/BushJunta.html
The final version of the cover by Steve Brodner, shown above.
Damn, huh? Click the above link for more information.
July
29, 2004:
Announcing THINGS FOR SALE
At the request (and good suggestion) of others, I'm now offering
a few shirts and other items for sale. Here's the link:
http://www.cafepress.com/eptc
If this works out (meaning kind wonderful people like yourself
pick up an item or two), I'll be able to expand from cafe press
to offer you nicer things at better prices. But I think this
is a good selection to begin with.
You have:
• A Teddy Button
• A Package of Eight Teddy Postcards
• A http://www.ep.tc Bumper Sticker
• A multicolored Yellow and Black vinyl Teddy Pissing
Sticker
• A lunch box featuring art from the 1966 HOOKED comic
book
• An Eleanor Tile Box (from A Dog and His Elephant)
• A Mug featuring art from the 1957 Atomic Revolution
comic book
• Three Teddy T-Shirts (see above, one not shown)
• One Teddy Sweatshirt
I'll hope to offer some Cds and other stuff through a regular
Paypal button in a week or so.
The link to the t-shirt store again is:
http://www.cafepress.com/eptc
Thanks -- Ethan
July
21 2004:
HOOKED
word balloon in collage, from the Principia Discordia
A reader wrote today recognizing the "hey man ... great!"
word balloon from HOOKED as part of art from the 41st page of
the 1968 absurdist classic, the Principia Discordia (see above)
more information about HOOKED!
July
10 2004:
1966 HOOKED! comic book about
heroin abuse
Newly added to our growing list of strange comics. Click the
link for more information. In a few months I'll be adding two
or three more, too.
June 15 2004:
A Dog and His Elephant reviewed
in detail by the Webcomics Examiner
thank you, very appreciated.
June 8 2004:
Work from POGOSTICK (the comic book by Al Columbia and myself)
is on display in a "Spirit of the Harveys" exhibit at
the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) in NYC. Here's
a link ... the show will run through August 6th.
Also, occasionally in your record-collecting you find something
really great and worth posting. Here's a scan of a recent acquisition:
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