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The picture says it all. This one’s all about male-bonding and tattoos. Comments Welcome!

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I’ve begun putting up pages from my new comic, Troop 142. Right now I’ve got the prologue chapter, SUNDAY, posted, and have started putting up pages from the first chapter, cleverly titled MONDAY. I’ve got more of this book done, but a lot of it’s in various states of completion. My plan is to post the material as it gets finished.

I believe I talked on an episode of the podcast about how this particular story has been a bit of a stop-and-start struggle for me. My thinking is that putting the material out there will help me get over some of my mental blocks. I really want to avoid getting into the habit of continually restarting, which is something that’s happened a few times already.

Plus, I’d like everyone to have a chance to check out all my pretty pictures!

I should also add, the content is sort-of, kind-of, “Mature audiences”. It’s not too bad, yet, but is definitely a little coarser than Freddie & Me.

Noted comics retailer, cartoonist, and con-organizer, Gareb Shamus Dustin Harbin crouches with us in the Panther’s Lair to chat about DUNE, Kung Fu, and more. Comments Welcome!

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A potpourri of topics this week, as Mike and Alex work their way through their podcast ideas slush-pile. Comments Welcome!

Show Note: it came to my attention after we recorded that Britney Spears did not in fact sing in the song Lady Marmalade. My apologies for spreading misinformation.

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Hey, if you didn’t pick up my book, ACE-FACE yet, when I mentioned it was on sale at the publisher’s website for $4.95 last month, then you should totally for real order a copy of it now, because it’s been discounted further, along with a ton of other great AdHouse books. Now you can get it for a mere $3.95.

Come on, seriously now, this is good value. The book is 100 pages long! It features three stories starring the titular character, plus two Jack & Max shorts, and more. Longtime fans of the Ink Panthers Show! will enjoy the slice of life comics, where someone who looks and sounds a lot like me has to deal with noisy neighbors on his front steps…

I’ve posted a few samples of some newer drawings over on my blog.

We continue our chat with Josh Flanagan. Josh tells us about National Novel Writing Month, Alex and I counter with The 24 Hour Comic, and then we go on to offer our opinions of Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Simple Rules For Writing A Good Story. Comments Welcome!

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iFanboy’s Josh Flanagan joins us in the Panthers Lair to talk Natural History, Dinosaur Fossils, Butterfly swarms, Giant Sloths, and London Dungeons. Comments Welcome!

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A Very Special Episode of the Ink Panthers Show! Mike and Alex discuss Alex’s new graphic novella, A Kidnapped Santa Claus, now available from HarperCollins. Comments Welcome!

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Mike and Alex both appear on podcasts that are not The Ink Panthers Show! this week:

iFanboy’s Josh Flanagan sits down for a lengthy chat with Mike about Freddie & Me, Ace-Face, Ink Panthers, and more on the latest Talksplode podcast.

And then Alex is the guest letter-reader on The New York Times The Ethicist show, along with his wife.