How can I help myself?

Gonna be quiet for a while as I really need to catch up on some stuff. Overcommitin’ fool that I am.

He’s too busy fighting crime to be savvy to the fact that Popeye Cigarettes are now Popeye Candy Sticks, and don’t have the “burning ember” red tip at the end any more.

Nobody I know has seen Big League Chew in decades, but according to its inventor’s Web site, it’s still out there. Somewhere.

Being chewed, presumably.

Today’s strip features not only Crowded House lyrics, but a cameo by James Duncan and his friend Jeremy, frequently seen in Mine.

A quick heads-up: the SLG zombie book I wrote, Dead Eyes Open, is part of SLG’s massive 25%-off-everything sale. So if you’ve been holding off buying until it plunged to the low, low price of $9.75*, THIS IS YOUR MOMENT. Strike while the zombies are hot!

(p.s. you can also get Faith Erin Hicks’ excellent zombie book, Zombies Calling, and the too-awesome-for-words Rex Libris at the same time. Also cheap!)

This didn’t turn out as cool as I thought it might, but I still think it’s pretty funny.

Amidst all the political blather lately, I actually HAVE been working on several comic-related projects, all of which are coming along nicely, none of which you’re likely to see before 2009:

In the “doing what I can, where I can” department: I am, frankly, more caught up in the American election than I am in the Canadian one, because the stark divide between “the sane way forward” and “bat-guano crazy isolationist religious hate machine” has never been so clear, and I am goggle-eyed at the thought [...]

…and it will magically make sense!