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The Pizza Guy is DONE and AVAILABLE

Post author By Fort
Post date July 6, 2018
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The above is the special link ComiXology provides. I have combined the last two issues of the story, #s 6 & 7, into one giant 51 page volume. It includes a teaser of “Slate Shale in Oro Loco” (one shot Western genre comic, though technically a sequel to an old and unprinted comic by Sam Battin and myself.)

So, you can get it digitally on cmX or on DriveThruComics as a double issue, or you can order print versions via email from me. The print versions are separate issues (6 and 7), for ease of printing, etc. I have included the cover images from the print versions below.

The print version of TPG#6 has a preview of Slate Shale, alike the digital double issue, and the print verision of TPG#7 has a preview of Spaceman Greg & The Cosmic Otter; Alternate Universe. Alternate, that is, to the comic strip SG&CO in the issue of TPG#5 by me and Louis Delgiacco, Esq.

So, The Pizza Guy is done after almost 20 years, for most of which the unfinished story was a gadfly on the sow’s ass of my brain. I plan to bundle it up into a single graphic novel at some point in the next year. But really, I am so done with it, and have already moved on to my next projects.

I’ll tell you what those are when I have something to show. For now, have a looksie on my instagram and my tumblr

https://stonypointroad.tumblr.com/

https://instagram.com/am_press_comix

Thanks for you patronage, lo these many years.

Fort

Tags ampresscomix, apostate mansion press, ComiXology, cosmic otter, drivethrucomics, elmadmustdraw, fort dudak, louis delgiacco, Sam Battin, slate shale, spaceman greg, the pizza guy, the pizza guy comic

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Bible Stories That Don’t Suck

Post author By Fort
Post date March 25, 2015
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Way, way back in 1994, my cohort Sam Battin and I put together our very first comicbook. It was a foldover xerox affair, a minicomic or zine-sized B&W called:

SPIDERS IN THE OINTMENT

No idea which of us came up with that title or why. In my philosophy, absurd things need no justification other than that they make one smile, snigger, of guffaw in wonder. I’m guessing that when we we’re 23 and high on life, this probably did.

So, Sam did one comic, I did one, and we collaborated on the third with him as writer and me as drawer. The one that I did was called Bible Stories That Don’t Suck, and I have scanned in a few panels, cleaned them up a bit, and present some to you here. I won’t put up the whole thing for the sake of our individual mystiques, to shroud our past in a savory effluvium of curiosity, figuratively. Maybe someday, somewhere, someone will dig that thing up and present it at our 50th anniversary retrospective art show, if the world lasts that long.

Bible Stories That Don't Suck — Bible Stories That Don’t Suck, c 1994/2015 Dudak & Battin

The reason I’m doing this is because I found much better content on the same story from the Bible, on youtube. A motion comic, I guess. It’s really enjoyable, and totally NOT SAFE FOR WORK. I feel like I shouldn’t have to warn you as I think you’re safest assuming all my work is NSFW because fuckity fucking fuck-a-duck, you dicks. 🙂

Lovin’

Tags apostate mansion, bible, comics, Comix, fort dudak, lot, Sam Battin, spiders in the ointment, the professor brothers

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The Pizza Guy no. 2!

Greets,

The Pizza Guy #1 came out in November of 1999, debuting at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD. I handed it out for free, and gave several copies in a special “creator’s package” including a home-made, stamped postcard for creators to send me a few words on my comic, if they so wished. I think four artists replied, and one publisher, including Alex Robinson and Fantagraphics (yes, my SEO guy said to add more links to my posts to get more traffic – hey, this is a way to get the word out – I want readers after all, so sue me).

This is not the original cover, but the reprint cover. I like it better this way. Also, you will note my pre-nom-de-plume, corrected for the new millennium. I don’t present myself on the web with my boring birth name because 1) I don’t care for it, and 2) I can distance myself from people who know me, or have known me. Why do this? Well, 1) most of ’em I don’t want to google me down and gawk, and 2) much like Ozymandius in The Watchmen comic, I want to start from scratch and build a following without the help of friends and family. It seems more legit to me to earn it rather than trade on real-world good will (just another in a long, well-added-to pile of cut-off noses I am collecting).

So, as, I said, the first issue came out in late ’99, right before my GF of 3 years dumped me for her current husband, right before I broke a drawing finger, right before I decided it was time to get a real job (and I started working for General Electric), and right before I joined my first band.

This is the back cover of the reprint. The discerning eye will note what I have drawn attention to in red. Well, I am penciling and inking #2 this month, and it’s only been … 14ish years. Oh, well, at least I am doing it. Finally.

Over the years I’ve doodled the characters a bunch, written a few drafts, did this comic after a dream (a lot of my ideas come to me in dreams) and considered finishing this story. I am ready now to do this. I have been working for a few months on this, now.

Here are some details:

Jo in color — Jo de Santos, skin color test

I’m apparently obsessed with the middle finger. Does that make this entry NSFW? You know, technically, I think anyway, that anything you look at while on your work terminal, that isn’t work related, is off limits. Checking your gmail is Not Safe For Work. Go read your company’s internet policy; I bet I’m right.

So, my buddy and frequent collaborator, Sam Battin (a most excellent cartoonist and writer), is developing a website for promoting our comics. I’ve planned to write about tips and tricks from my process, including digital manipulation, coloring, etc. as well as talking about writing, thumbnails, ink, paper, and brushes. He’s started doing this. I’ll get there eventually. Take a gander.

Cheers,

Fort

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