Thank you to all the readers of Scar Tissue for your support over the years. Our 5-issue series is now collected in a trade paperback that you can purchase online from ComiXpress.

Dave and I have been discussing the idea of putting Scar Tissue online as a webcomic in the near future. This is still up in the air. If we go this route, you’ll be able to read all five chapters of the entire story right here. Subscribe to the RSS feed, bookmark the site, and check back soon!

UPDATE:

In the meantime, did you know that Dave and I have started up a new project? This time it’s a webcomic, and it’s a Western adventure story. It’s called The Guns of Shadow Valley and it was just nominated for an Eisner award for “Best Digital Comic”. If you liked Scar Tissue you’ll probably really like this. Give it a read, won’t you?

http://reviews.xcave.net/indies/minis/geniusjtaogw.htm

They said it was “effin’ awesome”. Gotta love that.

The 2007 San Diego Comic Con marked the convention debut of Dial R Studios, and we couldn’t have asked for a better venue or a warmer reception. Attending at the booth were myself, Jim Clark, Pat Loika, Chis Maze, Tim Loika, Mike Woods, and our newest member Barry Miller. I absolutely love these guys and every time we get to hang out is always fun but way, way too short. And what a beautifully designed booth it was, thanks to the extreme efforts and talents of designer Chris Maze.

San Diego is a fun town. The weather was perfect and the sights, ohh the sights. Beautiful women everywhere. Inside the con, they even dress up in sexy character costumes! mmmmm…slave Lea…mmmmm

I still hate Dick’s Last Resort! But the company was good, so I still had a great time.

Almost knocked over Rosario Dawson at the bar.

John Culjack, my pal, there’s never a dull moment when he’s around. Offered a valuable combination of humor and insight.

Steve Bryant smells delicious! I’m serious folks, if you ever get a chance, take a long whiff of that manly musk! Glad we finally got to hang a bit on Sunday night. This is becoming a tradition.

Jamming on the ukulele’s with Jim.

Almost knocked over Joe Q at the Hyatt entrance. (now that the weight is gone, it might actually be possible to knock him over!)

Jim Clark and Philip Clark’s (no relation) duet of ukulele and alto sax.

Massive throngs of con-goers stuck in the street by the passing trains.

Judge, and sis, and daughter. Judge is a great friend of the booth that I see every year. This year it was a pleasure to meet some of the family as well.

Mike Norton looking a little bewildered by the size of the place.

Laughing at uncoordinated comic fans tripping over the chain at the food court. Jim putting a sign on the chain reading: “DO NOT STEP OVER THE CHAIN, you will trip and fall and look like an idiot and everyone will laugh at you.”

I got to draw a lot of fun sketch requests. Including a somewhat bizarre request from Jim Clark. People seemed to really go nuts over this image, so expect to see a colored version available soon.

The pose modeled after my Thing Vs. Hip Flask commission print. We displayed them next to each other.

Hanging with my buddy Chad at the bar. Great conversation in the heart of chaos. When you get a seat at the San Diego Hyatt bar, you don’t let go!

Seeing Jiba, my fellow Chicago art school compatriot, is always great. Check out Hip Hop Chronicles!

During the last few minutes of the show on Sunday, Barry introduced me to Richard Starkings of Elephantmen/Comicraft fame so that I could show him the color print of the Thing versus Hip Flask. He totally flipped, excitedly telling me that the Thing is his favorite Marvel hero and that Hip Flask is in may ways based on Mr. Grimm. He handed me one of those impossible 1000 piece Ladronn painted Hip Flask puzzles and joyfully accepted my print. It may or may not happen, but keep your eyes open Elephantmen fans, you may just see a familiar image of a certain orange rock powerhouse versus a hippo man gracing a page of one of the greatest comics currently published! Needless to say, I’m still a little giddy over the encounter.

Barry Miller, our newest victim…er, member, is awesome, btw. We had a great conversation about great tv shows that were cancelled before their time. Finally, another person who loved Doctor Doctor!

Walking back to my hotel, well over a mile and a half away, at 3 am every night. That first night i actually got lost. Having not walked to the hotel since last year, but I was fairly confident that I knew where it was. Yeah, that didn’t work out. After going about 15 blocks up Front St. I thought I had gone too far, must be on the wrong street and made a right turn to start on parallel streets. I must have been wondering around another half hour, with an ominously increasing need to ‘see a man about a horse’. No problem right? Just find an alley and go? Oh, wait, there are no alleys in San Diego! Finally stopped in at the Motel 6 where the night watchmen(who was really personable, I figured he doesn’t get to talk to many people on his shift) and he pointed me in the right direction. Literally pointing at the Radisson tower. It wasn’t marked by a sign due to the fact that starting Aug. 1st it would go from a Radisson to a Double Tree, so there was no sign-age on the building, at least none illuminated at night. And it turns out that right turn I made was just one block before my hotel!

Cullen Bunn had some fantastic news: The Damned has been optioned by Dreamworks! I hope his head doesn’t get so big that I can’t work with him!

I took no pictures. I have a crappy camera. Luckily Pat took a ton of them. (sadly, many others were corrupted and lost.)

Pat’s awesome flikr page.

Every con has been better than the last, and this is the best one yet. It’s such an immense joy to hang with my Dial R buddies again. They are my brothers from other mothers.

And professionally, I’ve never been more excited about the direction I’m going. I had felt like I was starting to tire, maybe a little frustrated, but by seeing old friends and fans again, and making new ones, I am rejuvenated.

Sincere gratitude to the locals for welcoming this mid-Westerner to their beautiful city. There were banners up all over the city advertising the show, it was in the paper, on the news, this city really supports its comic con. Pat and Chris make fantastic ambassadors. And they’re even better people.

And finally to Jim ‘Genius J’ Clark, what can I say? He may sometimes drive me crazy, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I can’t think of anybody else I would rather be a creative partner with on this crazy journey of ours. We’ve come a long way. This next, all new, all different project of ours is going to kick seven kinds of ass!

That’s all I can think of for now. Again, I can’t stress how great this show was. It’s only 8 days until Chicago, and even though I’m still exhausted, I can’t wait!

Genius J’s
Technicolour Almanack of Graphical Wonderment

Wherein Things Begin and Summarily End, The Past Catches Up To The Future, Strange Creatures Are Bought And Sold, Freud Is Discovered To Be More Wrong Than Not, And Other Wondrous Events Of Happenstance Happily Chance To Happen In Stances.

In this substantial, full-colour 52-page tome ye shall find a spectacular variety of stories to shock, fright, confound and delight! Tall tales are woven of love! War! Life! Death! Science and its Fiction! Westerns! Monsters! Magicks! Mystery! And other such silly nonsense!

There is Something for Everyone and Nothing for No-one, and it makes an excellent Lining for all manner of Gilded Cage containing Fowl or other Winged Creatures.

Featuring stories written by Scar Tissue author J. Andrew Clark, with lots of pretty pictures drawn by the wizards known as Victor Cabanelas, Enzo Pertile, Art Grafunkel, Jason Whitley, David Wachter, Bill Koeb, Chris Fason, Josh Hagler, and Jonathan A. Rector!

This classic piece of literature is now available in paperback at the online store (click here) or for download FREE at www.wowio.com!

“Not once as I read this did I feel disappointed by what I read, and that’s quite an accomplishment. There’s a serious pile of talent between these covers.”
– Aint It Cool News

Issue 5 (color edition):

Issue 5 (b&w variant edition):

The trade paperback collecting 1-5:

For example, here’s the difference…

Original page 2

New page 2

It’s a big difference.

Read it here.

Really good stuff.

Comics Podcast Crossover
Episode 10: “David Arroyo of the Comic Makers Podcast, Dave Wachter, sometimes guest on Around Comics, and host Bruce Rosenberger, discuss Small Press comics, from the inside.”

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Wordballoon
“So many creators to talk to at Wizard Chicago, we couldn’t fit them all in one show. In the 2 episodes you’ll hear from mainstream and indie creators.”

Show notes

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Around Comics
Episode 40 – “Wizard World Chicago Pt. 3 The last one, we promise! Join Around Comics as we walk the convention floor and talk with some of today’s top comic book creators. Hear interviews with Paul Jenkins, David Mack, Paul Azaceta, Jeremy Haughn, John Romita Jr. and more!”

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Episode 41 – Cameo appearance for the Top of the Stack Segment

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Comic Geek Speak
Episode 166 – “Our Chicago wrap-up continues with some help from Steve Bryant, Mike Norton, and Dave Wachter. But the fun doesn’t stop there! Kevin has a rant all ready to go. Sometimes silver and black isn’t all good. Plus a little comic discussion.”

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On the plane ride over I started to finally read Men of Tomorrow. When I got off the plane a guy approached me, said he saw me reading the book and asked what I thought. He introduced himself and I told him my name. He got a curious look in his eyes and said “are you the artist on that organ transplant book?” That was pretty damn cool. He stopped by the booth later and picked up the issues he was missing.

Met the Comic Geek Speak Guys guys, Peter, Bryan, Jaime, Matt and Adam, and a lot of CGS listeners and other podcasters like the Indie Spinner Rack guys(nuts), Lene from I Read Comics(charming), and Chris from the Collected Comics Library(swell guy).

Got so many sketch commissions that I was always a day behind, as well as selling most of the ones I had left from previous shows. Went to Fridays(I know, but it was cheap i.e. under $40/plate) with a bunch of CGS peeps, went to Dick’s(again, cheap, & a real crap hole but we made it fun) with the Ronin Crew, and went to a couple fancy-pants dinners with Jim, his wife Lisa and their two beautiful and well behaved twins, Eva and Tristan. Later in the night was the bar at the Hyatt.

Met Steve Bryant and we got along instantly. He’s a stand up guy all the way.

Got another chance to talk with WordBalloon’s John Suintres(probably bad spelling, but he does the same for me ). He’s a bundle of information and positive energy.

That’s what I can think of right now. My brain is still fried.

Special Thanks to everyone who came out to meet us and who picked up the book!

Here’s the few pics that I snapped:

View from the Radisson:

Stormtroopers:
Ray Harryhausen at the booth next door:

Jim and Nat jammin’ on the Ukes:

More Stormtroopers:

The Ronin Booth with Jim, Pat and Chris:

Steve Bryant, Athena Voltaire creator:

Blurry podcasters:

Even more Stormtroopers:

Art Adams working on my Loki sketch:

Loki:

Sketches for the CGS guys:

Even more Stormtroopers:

Mighty John Culjak(writer of Renaissance Man):

Jim and Pat:

CGS dinner group:

Ronin Crew, blurry mode:

Guess what, Stormtroopers!