Franks will be at Armageddon Melbourne this weekend. http://armageddonexpo.com/au/ Stop by for a chat or to pick up some McBlack books. Franks will also be selling a limited edition Dave Gutierrez print promoting McBlack volume 2: Lady McBlack. This is what it looks like in B&W: See you there, mother truckers!
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On McBlack
When I was young and stupid, I decided that I was going to draw and write an ongoing comic series called The Bad Man. It was about a monster who wandered all over a strange landscape, picking fights with more or less everything he came across and stopping only to replenish his supply of ammunition, which he would spend in vast quantities. I went through all of my sketchbooks looking for monster designs which I could pit against him. One of these designs, which I think dated back to high school, became the character McBlack, who was to be a...
On Kagemono
My first published comics were anthologies: One More Bullet and Rockstar Pizza. They were a mixed bag of whatever I had written at the time–I write in whatever genre takes my fancy on a given day, and the anthologies reflected that. Autobiography, travel, science fiction, horror, war stories, comedy–whatever I felt like doing and could hustle some poor artist into drawing. Hard Words, which followed those two books, was presented in the same spirit, except for that book I asked a group of my writer friends to contribute. It was through Hard Words that I first met Yuriko Sekine, who...