Stein Time

I met Joe Staton who was celebrating 42 years of inking comics! He was a very sweet old man. He gave me some advice about my idea for a comic.

Here is his page: http://www.joestaton.com/

I also had the good fortune of seeing my friends from Blewt who had their own fancy booth at C2E2 (thanks in part to their boost from Shark Tank). Steve was there selling his cat drawings and giving away whoopee cushions. I couldn’t help but feel that the joke was on C2E2, but good for Steve for having the balls to show his stick figure cats in Artists Alley.

Above is a drawing Steve did for me!

Get your own here: http://iwanttodrawacatforyou.com/

Here are some drawings that Mark Cuban did.

I ran into my friend Sterling Martin on the floor at C2E2. He even sold me his book Oranges Are Funny. (And they really are)

He is currently working on an autobiographical account of the goth dance club NEO. He is an excellent writer and I like his loose sketch style.

Here is his tumblr: http://sterlingmartin.tumblr.com/

I met Chris G who writes and illustrates G-Man. I like his old-school style. It is really funny too.

http://www.chrisgcomics.com/

I met James Anderson on the floor. I like his style a lot.

He has a weekly comic online called Ellie on Planet X.

Battlepug caught my eye because it is ridiculous! I have cared for pugs and they are truly a strange beast. Mike Norton created a funny and bad ass book that combines Conan the Barbarian with giant cute animals all in beautiful water color art.

He has a weekly online comic. Start at the beginning here: http://battlepug.com/category/comic/page/38/

I had a nice chat with Chris Hamer with UrbnPop. I bought one of his Pink Noise books where he takes lyrics from songs and illustrates panels to make a story out of them. He has a very cool style.

Here are a few of my favorite independent comics that I found at C2E2.

The Checkered Man by local Chicago guy Denver Brubaker. Denver and Jillian were super friendly nice. His comic has a mix of noir, caped crusader, and humor all with a cool style to it. I like that the main “hero” has an extreme fear of heights. I bought a book with a sketch in it! Check out the archive here:

http://thecheckeredman.com/archives/

I directed this. These people are funny. 

Design & Reality Recap Reunion

I get to be in this with all my friends from the Oprah cast. We have total freedom now to do what we want. Of course there is a rigid improv form that would be nothing without Jimmy Pennington, the host. Brittany Davis, Erin Johnson, Tim McKendrick, Michelle Thompson-Hay and myself all portray reality stars that we have created. Liz Bell directs the shit out of it.

Nina Metz finally had something nice to say and it was about me. 

“…Wolfgang Stein’s dopey, free-love dude who turned out to be a man of nuance and who was probably the smartest guy in the house.” - Chicago Tribune 

I think it is fair to say that she loved the show. We have three more weeks left since it was extended so tune in.

Design

Will this poster make you a lesbian? Possibly. 

So, as I was working on this poster, I couldn’t help but think that Lesbians look at women’s breasts too like men do. Then it doesn’t become an issue of the sexes but just of attraction. Up here. My eyes are up here. Right. Sorry. 

Equality.

Design

Just finished the 2013 CIF poster!

The Mayor of Improv City welcomes you!

Stitched and Seriously Unprepared were in the Redeye today!

This is me looking cold holding the paper and a puppy.