I don’t think I could kiss anyone for 46 hours and 26 hours straight. That’s the official world record for kissing–just set by a Thai couple during a “kissathon” competition. Too long for me. Best I could manage would be a measly 42 hours or so.
But trust me. They’d be quality 42 hours!
Talk about perfect timing! My copy of Comics Buyer’s Guide #1676 arrived today on Valentine’s Day. A great Valentine’s gift for me since I did the cover and the theme of the issue is romance comics.
Well, okay. The late Dick Giordano did the original art and Allen Freeman extended and colored the art. But I wrote the dialog.
I’ve decided to just show the art here for now. You’ll have to pick up the magazine to see the gags I wrote.
Besides, it’s been awhile since I had a contest for readers. So here’s the deal.
Contest Rules
Submit your dialog for this art in the comments section below. Contest closes Monday night at midnight. I’ll pick a winner by the end of that week. Winner gets 10 Last Kiss notecards.
Press Release:
Seattle, WA (Feb. 10, 2011) — Romance comic genius John Lustig has a surefire cure for anyone suffering from Valentine’s Day heartburn.
His first animated video, “Racing Toward Heartbreak,” is a darkly funny, faux ad for The Last Kiss Institute of Dismal Love Affairs. The mini, mock epic features a mad doctor’s extremely inappropriate solution to a desperate dame’s boyfriend problems.
“Dangerous drugs and unnecessarily expensive shock therapy are involved,” explained Lustig.
Years in the making (seconds in the planning), the video is a collaboration with an award-winning Newgrounds animator Edward (Meddros) Smith.
“We included modified word balloons because we were trying for the look of a comic book,” said Smith. “But we added a voice track, music and special effects because…well, we thought it’d be easy. Silly us!”
Like Lustig’s regular Last Kiss webcomics, the animation uses art from old romance comics with bizarre, new dialog.
February and March are turning out to be big months for Lustig. In addition to the animation release, he’s spotlighted in the current issue of Seattle Magazine. Lustig is profiled as one of seven Seattle comic creators for the magazine’s “geek issue.”
On Feb. 23 (revised date–it’s out now!), Lustig has a long-awaited Disney story in Boom! Studio’s Donald Duck and Friends #363. His “Somewhere Beyond Nowhere” is a 12-page Donald Duck story based on a plot by Disney legend Carl Barks and drawn by Daan Jippes.
And then, on March 30, Lustig’s first Last Kiss merchandise (coffee mugs, metal card cases & sticky notebooks) through Dark Horse Comics will be arriving in stores.
See more Lustig-related video on the Last Kiss YouTube Channel!
Last Kiss and I just got a great plug in Seattle Magazine’s February “Geek Issue.” I’m so proud. I’m officially a geek! http://su.pr/4rKuDu
After I posted yesterday’s gag about a strip club with parody lyrics (“There’s No Business Like Bare-ly Show Business”), I received an e-mail from my pal cartoonist Kevin Boze who came up with some great lyrics of his own. With his permission, here they are:
MEN’S CHORUS:
The bouncers, the colored lights, the panties, the tops
The audience that stares at you and sighs
WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops (NOTE: This was just too good a line to change)
The feeling when you make their winkies rise
MEN’S CHORUS:
Excitement when the tipping comes apace
WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The downer when your stripper shoes unlace
ALLS:
There’s no business like ho business
Like no business I know
MEN’S CHORUS:
Every man looks on that stage adoring
WOMEN’S CHORUS:
Sweating but you’re trying to stay cool
MEN’S CHORUS:
No where could you dance and keep on whoring
ALL:
While you’re ignoring that four-foot rule
They’re hip people, those strip people
They’re swinging on the pole
MEN’S CHORUS:
Yesterday you barely could fill out some B’s
WOMEN’S CHORUS:
That night you really wanted to tease
MEN’S CHORUS:
Next day you are showing off your double-D’s
ALL:
Let’s go on with the show
Let’s go on with the show
Last Kiss is back in the newspaper business. As of today, Last Kiss will be appearing in every issue of the Dayton City Paper. Yes, I’m excited! Today Dayton, tomorrow the universe…or at least maybe Akron, OH.
See the entire first issue that features Last Kiss.
