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Hey' Y'all!

Whelp, it's been a long time. Years! Ages! EOOOOONNNS! And we've missed ALL of you. Dearly! So we've recommitted to making this a more regular thing. Mark our words, dear reader. Mark'em good.

Anyhow, here are some of the things we've been working on:



3 screens, Mr. French "Berrylicious" Cover, Oct '08


3 Screens, Mr. French "Razzle Berry Cover, March '09



2 Screens, Mr. French "Wild Cherry" Cover, April '09

Posters! Goodness, do we love doing posters. Come to us for ALL YOUR POSTER NEEDS. We'd be excited to work on something for you. Above you see posters for The Hearts and Crafts Affair, which the most recent one was, like, a week ago and for the great band Stuporhero. Now that is one dead Deathbot, guys.


MORE GRIST FOR THE MILL

We've also been working on some comics.







Excerpt from the Trivial Four Square Anthology from I Know Joe Kimpel, which can be found, like, here. We were in the anthology along with Editor A.L. Arnold, Alexis Fredrick-Frost and Sean Ford. They're pretty cool guys.

And we're working on getting a story for Sundays 3 for MoCCA '09. Which isn't that far away! But don't worry, it'll be there. Our story will involve a girl, a guy, a monster and a jaguar. Check out more action here. We'll be in Sundays 3 with Chuck Mcbuck, Melissa Mendes, Joe Lambert, James Hindle, Sven Fjord, Blaise Larmee, Lydia Conklin, Annie Murphy (who recently won a Xeric! GO MURPH!) and Jon Bro. We're excited about this, to say the least.


RETURN OF THE MACK



Mr. Joey Lambs was nice enough to choose and color one of our Eagle Fight Squad 2030AD: Majesties of Justice to be in 7 Days, a weekly in Vermont. Check it out here. and Check out more from some great artists in 7 days here.


EVERYBODY IN THE CLUB GETTIN' TIPSY


OMG GUYS! THERE'S A TIGER ON YOUR LAPS!

OKAY! Well, guess that's all for now! Hope you see y'all round here again real soon.

You're Every Posting Never Forgetting Soul Searching Sucka MCing correspondents from the block,
DTWA&K

Yep. Yep yep yep...

Greetings, Y'all.

It's your faithful correspondents from shiny brooklyn bringing you some recent-ish news. We hope everyone is doing well, staying healthy and living it up. We (not-so) recently drew up a Eagle Fight Squad story starring our friend and colleague (and Ignatz winning (2 of them) cartoonist), Chuck Von Mcbuck. We plan to explore Mr. Von Mcbuck's origin in the upcoming Eagle Fight Squad story.

Check these out for now:







What else have we at DTWA&K been up to? Well here are a couple of highlights:


Enjoyed ourselves immensely at good ole' SPX '08 (more photos here)...


Tempted fate...


And went to a patch with pumpkins as faaarrrrr as the eye could see.

Also, we started selling our Xeric edition of Wall City! Contact Tony Shenton, shenton4sales(at)aol(dot)com, for wholesale info. If not, you can buy a copy online riiiiigggghhhhttt here.

Well, we suppose that's it for now. There's really so much (SO MUCH) that we would like to say, but feel as if the time is not right. Oh well, maybe next time.

Until then, we here at DTWA&K will be eagerly awaiting our next meeting.

Your ever faithful, ever believing correspondents from B-Ridge BKLN,
DTWA&K

Annnnddd... We're Back.

Hey Y'all,

It's been way to long since we've last heard from each other. How have you been doing? What's new? Tell us. TELL US NOW!

Well, what's new with us is that we've been trying to settle back into life... something we sometimes can't believe, yo.

And what news do we have to report? Well, for starters, DTWA&K has been awarded the Xeric Grant for Wall City! MY oh MY, you should have seen our faces when we heard the news. Astonished! We were speechless, dumbfounded, etc... So for the summer, along with trying to keep our minds at our job, we've been working on getting it ready for printing.

There's not a lot that's changed, we would have liked to have redrawn the entire damn thing... but well, you don't always get what you want.

We did, though, draw a new cover. Check it, yo's:



It'll be a wrap around deal, so the right side is the front cover. We also worked on a couple of new design pages, but they're not all that interesting.

Summer has gone by too quickly, has it not? And yet, at the same time, we feel as though it's been so long since it first started. Oh well. In honor of summer, here's the other Eagle Fight Squad drawing we did for the Sundays Anthology, which came out this past MoCCA:






So what else has been going on with us? Well earlier this summer, DTWA&K was lucky enough to have a table representing The Center for Cartoon Studies at HEROSCON in North Carolina. Here are some highlights from that weekend:


The Table


Nice one, McChazzy!


Us, drawn by current CCS Co-fellow, Alec Longstreth


NACHOS, a popular snack food!


On the road, again, with McBuck and The Lamb.


And Finally, Starbucks got Sven's order wrong... He went Hulk on us.

Anyhow Y'all. We've also been interviewed by the gracious Carrie of Try Harder, a most impressive book blog. Check out the interview here. She was also kind enough to write a review of Wall City.... here. We recommend her blog very very highly.

We're guessing that's it. That's all we have to report. Oh wait, what else? Well, ok ok, we've also visited Vermont several times, went to a lovely wedding in Mystic Connecticut and have hung around NYC, walking reall fast. Here are some random pictures from our summer.



See ya in a couple of days, New York!


Hey, Y'all? What's cooking? Some friends in Vermont... and don't they look, ummm.. just delighted to see us?


A lake... We can't remember the name, though.


The Stars!


And then off we went to Mystic... to take in the sights...


Drink a lot...


And of course to celebrate Fiona (on the left) and Jeremiah's (on the right) Wedding. AWESOME, GUYS! AWESOME!


And finally, we can't forget the mushrooms... Mighty Mushroom, mighty mushroom, soak the ground up, grow up str-ong, grow stro-ong, and keep your head up.

OK OK, we're done. Thanks y'all for sticking with us this long. THANKS to the Xeric Foundation. They're the best! and, of course, thanks to our peeps, who have gotten us through this summer.

We'll be at SPX'08 with the new Xeric funded version of Wall City. Hope to see some of yer lovely mugs there.

Your ever loving, ever believing, always MC-ing Sucka MC correspondents from the block, far far out in Brooklyn. NY,
DTWA&K

P.S. We Love You!

Swift Business

Hey Hey Y'all,

Just a quick shout out, to see if this thing is on. We're test driving our new Etsy.com store.

Check it out here: thebearhead.etsy.com

It is working? Is it? IS IT?

Nothing there really yet, only Wall City, but we hope to soon have more mini-comics, posters and prints for sale.

And to leave you with a little something:



We're thinking of a mini with this as the first page. Maybe. DTWA&K must figure out schedule first.

Anyhow, Hope y'all are good. We think our neighbors are arguing, or talking very loudly, or maybe it's their TV.

You're ever believing, massage loving correspondents from Brooklyn, NY
DTWA&K

Good Bye Good Bye Good Bye... Also Sundays Sundays Sundays

Hello Hello,

We here at DTWA&K are writing to you with heavy, heavy hearts. We left our home of two years in White River Junction, VT and moved to Brooklyn, NY (NO. SLEEP. TIL BROOKLYN!).

Oh man oh man, things sure are a' changing. We're sticking to the fact that change can be good for us... and that New York City is a pretty awesome place to live and are trying to have a good time rediscovering what we love(d) about it.

ANYHOW, what else is new? Well we're glad you asked. We were at the MoCCA art festival this weekend and it sure was fun... and tiring... and fun... and tiring. We're glad to present to y'all the Sundays 2 Anthology!


Sundays 2, the front cover, drawn by Mr. Joseph Lambert, screenprinted be JL and DTWA&K

It's one pretty book. More info here. Buy it here. Sundays 2 will also be at HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC June 20th - 22nd. Come check us out. Sundays 2 is 13" X 19", 70 B+W pages, and filled with some pretty sweet comics.

Here's 1 of our 2 stories in the book:





GO EAGLE FIGHT SQUAD!

Also, here are some pics (from MoCCA) for our homies:


Unloading with Jess, Jeff and Chuck.


Table action!


Sven looking through a boat catalog.


Jess and Penina getting their game faces on.


Cat and B-rye... dudes!


Chuck with his enormous scholarship check!


Denis, Dane (who must see a pony) and John


Mr. Jason Lutes


Gibble Gabble getting his drink on.


A.A. getting her gum on.


Jeff meeting our Karate Chop...


and getting kicked by our Chucks of Justice. Don't mess with the Chucks of Justice, Jeff. They know no mercy.

Ok ok ok, we apologize for the scrap book action. Hope everyone is well out there. We gotta go deal with work. WORK! WOOOORRRRKKKK!

Your ever loving correspondents from Brooklyn, NY wishing the best for everyone,
DTWA&K

Today, I think I shall cartoon.

Hello World!

Our time at The Center for Cartoon Studies is at an end, a very very sad end. We will be moving back to the big city next week and, in all honesty, are quite sad to be leaving all the great people in this wonderful community. We learned more than we could have ever imagined from both the professors and students and are extremely grateful to everyone. Y'all will be missed! Hear that CCS community! MISSED!

In any case, we present to you, the internet, Wall City, our thesis project.













Also, we graduated last week! Check it, miscellaneous photos from graduation!


The CCS class of 2008, with James Sturm and Michelle Ollie...


The Procession, replete with bagpipe player...


The Stone Age!


The Lambert Age!


JP and Jacie and some dude...


The Lost Boys...


J. Sturminator 5000 said some very nice words during the ceremony...


And so did Denis St. Denis presents Denis St. Denis...


Annnnnd so did Alison Bechdel (!), our commencement speaker...


Finally, we started sort of half-heartedly and very sadly packing up our studio space. Goodness, did we ever love having that studio. Chuck McChaz sat next to us all year and just about had his fill. But then he's one tough mother, so he was cool with that.


See? One tough mother.

What Else? well, today, we took good ole' Wall City on a walk around the studio. It LOVED seeing all the sights and meeting the locals.











I can't seem to say enough about CCS, really. Jason Lutes led our thesis studio this year and it was just awesome and amazing and it's only been like two weeks since we've seen him but miss him already. James, our very own school director, is awesome too... and so is Steve Bissette and Sarah Stewart Taylor... AND of course Michelle Ollie... we miss all of them fiercely. Too awesome, guys, TOO AWESOME!

Also, our day was rounded out by some enjoyable activities...


Cat walking...


And dill planting...


While Gabby supervised...


And Steve drove by shouting things at us.

Good day all around.

So, we guess that's it for now. We would post many photos and talk about everyone here, but don't want to be too much of a bore.

You can see more graduation photo stuff here.

More posts on graduation here and here.

Hope everyone is doing well out there in the big wide beautiful world.

Your newly certified correspondents from the dill patch,
Alex & Kim

DON'T YOU DARE!

5 screens, French cover stock, May '05

Rowaarrrrrr! ROOOOWWWAAARRRR! Secrets and Lies Y'ALL!

Recently, the very friendly Cat Garza asked us to do a poster for the book release party for his new comics anthology Secrets & Lies. Well, we could not have been happier to do it... hear that Cat? WE COULDN'T OF BEEN HAPPIER!!!

Check out the Secrets & Lies website for more pics of the whole printing thing. The Anthology will be debuting at MoCCA, so make sure you keep an eye out for it.

Anyhow, that's what you see above. Why the cat on the poster? Well we had a conversation with our boys down in R&D and they whipped out a report on what's popular with the kids these days and had it on our desks the next morning. Cats, its said. CATS!

Also, it's for Cat (Garza), of course. Just shouting a brother out. Not to mention the fact that we think roaring cats are awesome and couldn't help ourselves. If only we could... help ourselves, that is, maybe we'd be better off. eh.

So what else is new with us, you ask? Well, we're newly graduated from CCS is what's new! My goodness, what a wonderful experience CCS was. We couldn't get enough of it... but we guess we have seeing as we've graduated and all.

More on graduation later.

Whelp, it's time we did something with ourselves. Your ever loving correspondents from finally sorta sunny WRJ, VT,
A&K

The Next Obvious Step

4 screens, Butcher Blue French cover stock, May '08

HOLYMOLYFIREBREATHINGTORTOISEWATCHOUTY'ALL!!!
The gradient looks much cooler and hand done (read uneven) and not so, like, CGI looking.

Why HELLO! It has been a while and we have missed you dearly, ever so dearly. DTWA&K apologizes for not posting more often. We have been busy up here in the northland.

Anyhow, May 17th, Killing Phantoms heads over to Williamsburg to pump up the jam. Check it out, y'all.

Also we were given the opportunity to work on the title and thank you for reading pages for Robyn Chapman's Hey, 4-Eyes! #3. If you don't know about Hey 4-Eyes! well, now's clearly the time to check it out - especially if you wear glasses, like glasses, know people who wear glasses or like people who know people who wear or like glasses. And let's be honest, who doesn't.

Check it:




pigma pens, April '08

And what have we been up to lately? Well, we are proud to say we have completed (COMPLETED, FINALLY) Wall City. More on that later - much, much more, dear reader. Also, we've been busy reading a couple of new blogs by a couple of our favorite cartoonists: Extraordinary Comic Professor and Amazing Cartoonist Jason Lutes and Fabulous Cartoonist and Former Great Roommate Rich Tommaso.

Anyhow, we've missed you so dearly, we will not be away for so long, not ever again.

That actually might be a lie, but then them just the breaks, we guess.

Your ever faithful and truthful correspondents from sunny White River Junction,
Drawing Time with Alex & Kim

Comrades!

Let it be known that we are tired of drawing a million televisions. A MILLION TELEVISIONS! Do you know what that's even like?!?! IT'S A MOTHER OF A PAIN, Y'ALL!

ahem

Also, good ol' Killing Phantoms is playing this Saturday. If you're one of the millions of people living in New York, go check 'em out.


3 screens, Steel Blue French Cover Stock, April '08

To bare our internet soul here for a second: something's bothering us about this poster. It's not the bad constructivist rip off hack job we got going here... it's... it's... that damned eye. Or eyes. Both of them. We can't help but wonder if the poster would look better had it been this:


Like, never happened, dude.

Well that's not so great either.

DTWA&K promises to live and learn. Or be harder on our own work. Whichever.

And if y'all are trivia buffs like we're trivia buffs you'll want to know that April 12th, 1961 is the day the Yuri Gagarin made it into space (into space, man. think about it. (thanks wikipedia!)). Or maybe you knew that already.

Yet Another Affair

4 Screens, Butcher Blue French cover stock, March '03

OH DEAR! it's time again for another Hearts and Crafts Affair!

What exactly is that, you ask? Well, like, it's only one of the most awesome craft fairs in brooklyn! Check it out people, cause it's, like, the jam.

More info here.

KAPOW!

Why HELLO there, dear internet,

We have very much missed posting new content on you. We hope you will accept us still, as we are, as we shall be.


4 screens, Steel Blue French cover stock, March '08

TONIGHT! If anyone is lucky enough to be in New York tonight and looking for a good show, we recommend Killing Phantoms, at The Bitter End.

The Eagle Lands!

Hello everybody, we do hope you are swell.

Recently, Kip from Rocksellout.com asked DTWA&K to work on a logo for them to be featured on their Cafepress store. We were most definitely very excited to be asked.

Check'em out y'all, one in color, one in the always engaging white on black background:





Rocksellout.com is a very cool website about music. We recommend it indeed. Also, if you should be interested in any merch: www.cafepress.com/rocksellout2. Wow, we feel like the merch guy at a concert.

Completely unrelated and on a more personal note: sigh...

OKAY OKAY

So, in the spirit of trying to keep this thing updated, we at DTWA&K offer you more Wall City Pages. We realize that it's a pain in the neck to read the pages out of sequence (as in this post is not directly after the previous Wall City post) and are very sorry for that. Well, we guess it's only a pain if you're actually interested, which we sincerely hope you are. Interested, that is. Hopefully Wall City will be completed by the summer... or by the fall.

Anyhow:











The color is something we're still experimenting with... fun stuff, though... playing around with color is quite the enjoyable activity.

{INK SQUIRT}

We're hoping everybody understands that the {} symbols used in the title mean that you're supposed to imagine the sound of an ink squirt.

In other news, huh, we're finding ourselves again a little tongue tied.

Yup... cat's definitely got our touch... yes sir, don't really know what to say for ourselves.

Yup yup yup YUP yup.


4 Screens, Factory Green French Cover Stock, Jan '08

Whelp, hope everybody out there is enjoying life. Live, dammit, LIVE!

Hey, Get Offa Me!

For once in our lives, DTWA&K doesn't know what to say for ourselves.


3 screens, French Steel Gray cover stock, Jan '08

THE END OF THE YEAR IS AN OCTOPUS

Alternate Title 1: BO'07 part 17 - BO'07 IS NOW JUST ABOUT DEAD
Alternate Title 2: GOOD BUY DEAR FRIEND, 2007
Alternate Title 3: BEFORE WE FORGET, HAPPY HOLIDAYS

(It occurs to us that it's a little early to be reflecting on the passing of one year and the approach of a whole new one, but we can't help it)

Whelp, we here at DTWA&K always feel strange this time of year. The year comes to an end, a whole new year lays before us, christmas presents must still be wrapped and sorted, much food awaits to be eaten.... just a grab bag of feelings.

This will most likely be the last post for a while, though maybe it won't... but incase it is, we decided to pull out a drawing from the archives. Here's a drawing from back in the beginning of 2006.



Drawn in early 2006, colored, like, just now.

Several New Year's resolutions: Take out garbage more, not obsess about work so much, stop being so neurotic, stop being pathologically sentimental, stop being a pathological dreamer, value drawing time more AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, bring back the octopus.

Anyhow, we hope everyone's doing well and that everyone enjoys their holidays. We here at DTWA&K are going on break soon and am looking forward to it immensely.

Your always jolly correspondents from White River Junction, Vermont, wishing everyone the best!
-DTWA&K

BLOG OFF '07 IS NOT DEAD, BLOG OFF'07 IS LIFE!

Hey Y'all,

Lordy, Lordy, have we got something to tell you... Seriously, have we got something to TELL YOU. The week here has at DTWA&K HQ has been grim... oh excuse us, we misspoke... the week here has been unbelievably-overwhelmingly-supercalafragalistically-depressing grim. The reasons you ask? Well the reasons are several but not least of which being that people seem to be under the impression that Blog Off '07 is over. OVER??!! It's barely begun! we responded to all who said so, BARELY BEGUN. Or we guess it's almost over, seeing as '07 is almost done with, but, we mean... BO '07 is still going on.

And to prove it, we have the following to show:




















WHAT THE HECK IS ALL OF THAT?

Well, it's our very own personal thesis, we answer! Yup, we've colored some more thesis pages... the ones here are pages 1-9. The color's we aren't very certain of... more playing around for the moment than anything else. Except for the pink. DTWA&K is very serious about the pink.

We also had a crit a week ago and that + looking at the pages after a bit of time, we've determined that a bunch of the panels need to be redrawn. All in due time, we suppose.

Anyhow, hope y'all are doing well. We had a blizzard here... the first snow is always sorta nice but then after that, it's all like, we don't know, depressing and annoying we guess.

Maybe not. Maybe we're wrong about that. Maybe we've lived our lives based on lies and denial. Yup, that's probably it.

OK, well, guess your ever faithful cartooning correspondents from Gleeful White River Junction, VT are signing off!

P.S. GO BLOG OFF '07, GO FORTH AND BLOG!

Oh, and P.P.S. if you'd like to see some more thesis stuff, or bigger stuff I guess, check out our flickr and this.

BANG BANG, You're D.E.A.D.

Morbid, yes we know.

Anyhow, here's a 2-pager written by the extraordinary Jeff Lok and drawn by DTWA&K for the Dead Man's Hand Anthology that debuted at this past SPX. We colored it rather quickly (lazily) for fun (procrastination purposes) but it was printed in black and white in Dead Man's Hand.





Thanks Jeff, you did it again!

In other news, it is snowing in the pit of depression aka WRJ, VT. We're going inside now and not coming out till Spring.

P.S. BANG, CLICK, BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! SHUFFLE SHUFFLE, RUN RUN, DUCK, DODGE, CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK, BAAAAAAANNNGGGG (<--- old western gun fight (sorry)).

Thesis Doth Continueth

Greetings, we here at DTWA&K offer you the following... we eagerly await your acknowledgment.







Last week, the thesis students here at CCS were asked to present our projects (in a 5 minute oral presentation and a set of posters). Above are the 3 posters submitted by DTWA&K.

Your ever faithful correspondents full of self loathing from sunny White River Junction, VT, signing off!

___ + ___ sitting in a tree... K - I - L - L - I - N - G - P - H - A - N - T - O - M - S

Sing it with us, everybody, SING! It'll make your day better, we promise.


3 Screens, French Steel Gray Cover Stock, Nov '07

Exciting, isn't it? Killing Phantoms putting out their first CD together as a band.

Anyhow, hope everyone is doing well out there. We here at DTWA&K are enjoying the first blizzard of the season. It snowed like a foot (OK OK, we're not sure if that counts as a blizzard)! We're also enjoying putting on our thermal underwear for the first time this season. We'll probably won't be taking them off until April '08.

Also, I Know Joe Kimpel is holding an amazingly cool ebay auction. Check out the IKJK blog post here... and check out the ebay auction here. Seriously, check it out right now.

Annnnddd... this is Blog Off entry #6, in case you, dear dear reader, are keeping track.