A secret project revealed...
When I was 11 I created my first comic: The Footsies. It starred a bunch of kids with really big feet, hence the name. It's creation was brought on by my mom, who insisted that my drawing Garfield and other comic strip characters and selling the artwork to classmates was illegal. So I started making comic strips and comic books starring these characters and sold those around school. I continued making comics with these characters up until I was a freshman in high school, but didn't do anything with them since. I saved all the artwork and it was sitting in my parents' attic for about twenty years until late last year when I came across it and figured I should scan it in, since a lot of it was fading or ripped or generally falling apart. I then got the idea to make a book out of it as a Christmas present for my mom. I missed that date by five months, but now that I gave it to her for Mother's Day, I can mention it here without ruining the surprise. The book, The Complete Footsies: Bunions and All, totals more than 400 pages, and I put running commentary on most of them. There's a lot of stuff that's embarrassing, but I wanted it to be as all-inclusive as possible. I showed a copy to a few people at NYCC last month, and some said they wouldn't mind having a copy of their own, so it's up at Lulu.com. I'd never used that print-on-demand site before, but it printed really nicely. If anyone's curious, here's a link to it:

The Complete Footsies




One of the first drawings of the characters.


Cover of the second issue.


Cover of the ninth issue.


Sample from back cover to this collection.