It’s a dream come true!
(Not your dream maybe, but certainly mine.)
Last Kiss is now available via Facebook.
Great comics! Amusing (often fact free) news! And fabulous, freaky fun. Plus, it’s guaranteed to be better than sex–since you don’t have to pay for it.
Sign up to be a Facebook fan here! Free IQ boost to the first 1,000 people who sign up!
What is this woman saying? Or thinking? Or hearing? It’s up to you. Suggest some dialog!
Rules: No prizes. No winners. No losers. And no deadline. This is just for the sheer silliness of it all.
For legal reasons, I have to tell you that all submissions become the property of Last Kiss Inc. That’s pretty standard for contests–except, of course, this isn’t a contest.
Please keep it reasonably clean (PG-13 or so.) But mostly have fun!
What are these people saying? It’s up to you. Suggest some dialog! Please keep it reasonably clean (PG-13 or so.) But mostly have fun!
All submissions become the property of Last Kiss Inc.
I’m going to brag a bit about my brother Jim Lustig. Unsung heroes usually go–well, unsung. But Jim was recently honored as a “King County Hero” for his efforts to feed his community–particularly the homeless and poor.
Bizarrely, one of the homeless people he fed was an arsonist who was burning down buildings all around his Upper Crust Catering business here in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood.
Here’s an article about Jim, the award (and his unwitting interactions with the arsonist) in an article in The Seattle Times.
NobleWorks is having another sale. This one’s huge (50 percent off) and it ends Saturday, Nov. 7. To take advantage, you’ll need to enter the following Coupon Code during checkout: NOBLE50
To qualify for the discount, there’s a minimum order of at least two cards. Free shipping on all orders.
The sale is for all NobleWorks cards–not just Last Kiss. But it’s a particularly great deal on holiday cards. For example, 12 Last Kiss Christmas cards normally sell for $15.90. During the sale (ends Saturday), the set of 12 are just $7.90.
So you can spread the Last Kiss love this year for just 66 cents a card!
My greeting card publisher NobleWorks has launched a new site and is celebrating with substantial discounts through Oct. 31. Plus there’s free shipping on all domestic orders.
Save even more when you order sets of Last Kiss Christmas & Hanukkah cards: http://tinyurl.com/yznh8rq
A cool collection of great framed comics by some of Washington State’s best cartoonists will be on display at The Moses Lake Museum & Art Center from Oct. 16-Nov. 14, 2009. The show features work by John Lustig (Last Kiss), Donna Barr, Marybeth Barr, Frank Bravo, Travis Bundy, Keith Curtis, Jeff Hawley, David Juel, Jim Lee, Jodie Masiwchuk, Aaron McConnell, Dan McConnell, Jim Oddie, Elizabeth Pankey, Tim Pritchard, and Jodie Sarah Masiwchuk.
Admission is free. The opening reception is Friday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m.
Location: Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 228 West Third Ave. Moses Lake, WA 98837 509-766-9395
On Saturday, Oct. 17, at 1:30 pm Elizabeth Pankey will give a “Caricature and Other Funny Stuff” workshop.
Okay, let’s say you’re a big star and you run inside a fancy department store because you desperately need something important (panty hose!) so that civilization as we know it doesn’t crumble. But you didn’t bring enough cash and you don’t have any photo ID. How do you convince the store to accept your check?
I think most of the audience at McCaw Hall here in Seattle figured out the answer pretty quickly last night. We all knew what was going to happen when Carol Burnett started telling the story. And yet, we were all surprised by the punch line.
Burnett’s “Laughter and Reflection” performance was primarily—like the opening moments of her Emmy-winning variety TV show (1967-78)—a question and answer session. Oh, we got to see some hilarious clips from the series as well, but it was mostly just Burnett alone on stage telling us about her life and coming up with funny answers to funny (as in odd) questions from the audience.
That may not sound like the makings of a great evening, but Burnett’s ability to connect with people is phenomenal and her obvious delight when she gets a wacky question is contagious.
The pantyhose story came early in the evening when a woman in the audience got up and mentioned the “Tarzan” yell (actually more of a yodel) that Burnett did so often on her TV show. Apparently the woman’s mother used to wake her up every morning with the yell. The mom was in the audience too. So the daughter and Carol tried to get the mom to do the yell. She declined–insisting she was out of practice. So Carol did the Tarzan yell herself.
Carol also told a story about how she was in a ritzy store once and didn’t have any ID. So–to verify that she was really Carol Burnett–the store manager had her give the Tarzan yodel. A moment later, the store’s security guard–not knowing what the heck was going on–burst through a door with his gun drawn.
Last Kiss is one of more than 100 webcomics featured in the Cartoon Art Museum’s show “Monsters of WebComics.” Now through Dec. 6, 2009 see some of the best webcomics in the world–such as Girl Genius and Slow Wave–at the San Francisco museum.
Other great shows being featured at the museum is “Once Upon A Dream: The Art of Sleeping Beauty” (through Jan. 10, 2010) and “The Brinkley Girls” (through Aug. 23, 2009.)
Me and Leonard Starr.
If I had to pick a favorite moment at Comic-Con International, it’d be easy. Except it wasn’t a moment. It was more like two or three hours. I had lunch the first day and drinks later that night with a personal hero: Leonard Starr.
Leonard created, wrote and drew one of the best adventure comic strips of all time: On Stage With Mary Perkins. I don’t think a more gorgeous strip was ever drawn. The sheer beauty of the art and the fact that the main character was a stage and movie actress might have made some people mistake it as a soap opera comic.
But if it was a soap opera, you didn’t notice as soon as you started reading it. Adventure, mystery, drama, humor–On Stage was like a movie from Hollywood’s golden era. Great scenery and production values; top-notch, bigger-than-life actors; and a story that had just the right mixture of human interest, suspense and humor.
If doing On Stage for over 20 years wasn’t enough, Leonard went on to write and draw Annie (the revamped version of Little Orphan Annie) for another tw0-plus decades. But it was On Stage that changed my life…
Don’t believe me? Well, at some point during my first date with Shelagh, the subject of favorite comic strips came up. (Probably because she knew I was a comics geek.) And the one strip that we both loved was On Stage. Of course, it’s a well known fact that if you find a woman who shares your taste in comics–well, you better marry her.
So…thanks, Leonard!
(On Stage art copyright of respective copyright holder.)
