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Yeaaaah, so if you follow me on Twitter, you saw earlier tonight what I previewed. Vampire Puff Puff, my first video game coming soon. Ragamuffin related and story based. Basically, it kicks in the Lenore universe where Pooty Applewater appears and kidnaps Lenore to bring her back to Heck. Ragamuffin must fight through 5 different levels to rescue her. It's initially being released on iPhone. If it does well, we'll release it on other platforms like XBox Live, maybe browser based, etc... I have TONS of updates planned for it if it makes the investor's investment money back, like achievements, new weapons, an outfit store, multiplayer, rideable characters, going on rides in Spookyland, etc. The game is launching with 23 different bad guys to fight, including 15 unique zombies. The goal was to make the most unique and entertaining side scroller shooter ever. Weapons include a frozen cobra, the Poe Poe gun- a quick firing weapon that shoots ravens and weeps when it's out of ammo, the Bratgun- a shotgun like weapon that turns cows into sausages (it's a cartoon game, vegans!), and other stuff too. I'm fully open to ideas for updates and welcome them. For the first time ever, I'm asking for help and support in this endeavor just so I can add the updates to make this the full game I envision. It's been my dream for a long time to see what I could create video game wise, and I'm pretty proud of what I've come up with. All concept, art and writing were done by me. 17 hour work days 7 days a week. I miss my friends! Basically everything but the actual programming cause I'd just stare at the computer screen and drool if I had to figure that out. Here's some screen shots of the game:
http://twitpic.com/photos/Taxiderm…

PS....Livejournal friends only: I've written a bunch of new Lenore newspaper style strips and hope to start posting them soon. From above, hopefully you can see why I've been crazy busy and why I've been a bad, bad updater boy.

New Lenore out today. I just went to Meltdown Comics and bought one. Had no idea it was out and was there for something else. Weird. It's actually called Lenore volume 2-#1, not Lenore #14. My new overlords in their grand wisdom changed it to that. I think it's confusing but one must not question one's overlords for fear of head 'sploding. Available in 2 covers.

Comic Con:
Comic Con signing schedule: Thursday- I think, THINK Darkhorse booth from 1-2pm. Was late getting back to them so it's iffy but likely. If not, I'll be walking around and you may throw stuff at me as long as it's fluffy stuff or dolla' billz, ya'll.

Comic Con Signing Schedule:Friday-Autograph Alley,Table AA3.11am- 12pm. Signing at the Titan Booth from 3pm-4.

Comic Con signing schedule:Saturday. Titan booth at 1pm-2. My panel hosted by Alex Albrecht -room 8, 6-7pm. Will try not to die or something.

Comic Con signing schedule:Sunday. I will be a jelly puppet and people will slip and fall off of me making a "squip" sorta sound. That's it.

As I tend to do, I'll be at Comic Con again this year. Just so it's clear once more, I am no longer with SLG, so I will not be at their booth other than to say hi and hope they don't stone me. I will be at the Titan booth, maybe Darkhorse, artist alley and I have a panel where I hope I don't get electrocuted on the lips this time. The new issue of Lenore will be available just in time. Ragamuffin uses one of those loader robots from Aliens, so you know it's awesome.
Info here: http://comiccon.titanbooks.com/blo…

After years of being offline, Spookyland.com is almost redone. It's up now but a lot of the links don't work yet. Homeboy putting it together for me had to go out of town. Should be fully functional in its first stage by Con. There will be more sections too when time permits. This is just stage 1.

My phone died. I have a new number. If I know you and you needs it, contact me on here or Twitter. I lost most of my contacts so I can't call you to tell ya. I tried sending brainwaves but that doesn't seem to work surprisingly. Might be that my brain needs more power or old school rabbit ears.

Sorry I haven't updated in SO long. It's been a tough year but things are looking much fluffier. My 6 year divorce just finally ended so I no longer have that suffocating weight on my shoulders. My ideas are mine once again.

I think that's it. I'm probably forgetting something like that thing I forgot.

I'm saddened by California's supreme court ruling to ban same sex marriage. I have many gay friends who have more stable love lives than I would hope to ever have. Why has it become ok to hate one group more than others? Why is it ok for religious groups to mandate what is acceptable and what is not? Do you think gay people chose that lifestyle because it's so convenient? Why is this any different than hating a race for no reason? I'd love to hear your reasoning behind this madness?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp…

This actually made me tear up a bit. I can not explain that reaction or why I've watched this over and over and it gives me goosebumps.

*EDIT* This article nails it.
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/20…

Hey, why not...
Twitter.com/taxidermied.

Yeah, I guess I died for a bit. Good thing that demon blood brought me back.
I sincerely apologize for the Houdini act. I've had a hectic year. You wouldn't believe it. As I write this, I finished Lenore #14 a few days ago. I gained around 8 pounds and everything hurts, including my new back hump. I'm typing this quiet cause I'm afraid it can hear me. Shhhhhh... It just moved. It's a side effect to sitting at a drawing table for 2 and a half months, eating only fast food when and IF I realize I'm even hungry, doing nothing else, going balls insane. BALLS INSANE, I says! I have a damn beard, man. That's just wrong for humanity. I look like a mountain man from the hot underworld, and I don't mean Australia. I'm looking forward to getting back outside and doing things with people. REAL people. Weeee.
I'm also coloring around a hundred pages of my original trade paperback collection; Noogies. My new publisher is reprinting the book in color and it's been a tough road. Check this.... That book is so old, the original digital files were on my ancient external drive that died long ago. That was OK, cause I had them backed up at my original publisher's offices. That was OK until a drunk driver crashed into their office, decided they would escape the scene, backed up, running over their computers and destroying everything. The book only existed after that as printer files in Canada, made up of little black dots. I had to take all those pages and "smooth" them out before coloring to make them look good. It was kind of Hell, but I really wanted this to look sweeeeeeet. The new publisher also offered to have other art peeps color it so I wouldn't have to spend countless hours doing it, but there was NO WAY in Hell I'd let anyone else touch my books. A labor of love.
God, I miss having a life and going out and doing stuff. If you follow my Myspace, you'll notice there hasn't been any picture updates. I look like a monster right now. Not a cool monster either. More of The Hills Have Eyes kind of thing. Ewwwww. I was also devastated when Ivy and I broke up and I turned in to a real ass hat for a bit. I've met someone new and super nice so I feel much better.

Almost 6 years after my divorce from a woman I was married to for 3 years, my ex wife is still going after me non stop for more money because she wants half of anything I thought of while we were married because California law allows such things for those inclined to pursue such matters. As you can imagine, that is financially devastating for me, having to shell out 6 years of lawyer fees, not including the huge hunk of alimony I had to pay. I obviously have some opinions on this matter, but I'm not allowed to discuss it or portray any opinions publicly past saying that it is still happening. You can imagine for yourself how hard it is to move forward with your life with that kind of situation trying to pull you down at every turn.

My business manager just payed all the back fees due on Spookyland.com so we could reopen it. I had so many people email me asking why I set Spookyland to be password protected and if they could have said password. I had no idea what the password was cause the web host did that to lock me out cause I owed them so much money! Right now it just came back online but it is not updated at all. He's looking into hiring someone to completely revamp and update it. I already did the new design stuff. Yup. Things are creeping along.

Well, I felt I owed this update that was WAAAAY overdue. My hand is swollen and blistered from all the new drawing and I have a month to finish coloring Noogies so I'm going to go relax and take a night and a day off to drink numerous bottles of wine that my girlfriend was nice enough to bring over. I remember I have this journal again and will start posting. I wish you all the best and thanks for being understanding and hanging in there with me.

From Lenore#14. Will come out at Comic Con.

I'm doing a small signing at Silver Snail Comics tomorrow, Staurday the 15th at 2:00 pm.If you're in the area, come by and say howdy, howdy. I will stare at you silently as though you were some kind of weird, stuttering cowboy type person.



367 Queen St. West

416-593-0889

www.silversnail.com

I find it disturbing that my ipod knows when I'm in, or walking by, a Starbucks. It's all " Hey, this song is playing right now in here. You want it? I can download it right this second." And then I'm all "No."
It just makes me wonder what else it knows.

I just got all the art out today that I've owed people for the past few weeks, including the commissioned pieces (I's been busy, hence my vanishing), so I puts these up.



The 2 art book ones are huge and extremely detailed so they are priced accordingly. Actually, they're cheaper than they should be, but I'm being realistic!
The bird took a little over 4 days to draw and is my new favorite. Both are 17 by 14 inches. Lenore is the usual standard size. Pencil on bristol vellum. I accept Paypal only. Taxidermied@aol.com
Here's bigger versions so you can see the detail:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/…
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/…

Pinocchi -uh oh $500
Birdie Perch - $600
Fuzzy! - $180 SOLD

I have life update stuff I'll post soon since I'm back alive now.

I only have a few new drawings for sale. Been mainly working on Lenore #14 now and can't put the pages up until after the book comes out. Makes good sense, no?

http://s251.photobucket.com/albums…

1) Greta $200
2) Boney Arm Guy $155 SOLD
3) Queen Of Horns $125 SOLD
4) Fancy Shmancy Lenore $160 SOLD

Taxidermied@aol.com. First come, first served.
Pencil on bristol vellum. Spray sealed...blah blah blah...

Oh, and they never found the guy from the stabbing incident. Thought they would... what with the blood trail, helicopter and all.