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[stevelieber]

This is the version we went to press with. Someday I'm going to have to publish the original art, with the original version of the gag that we realized we could never, ever get away with.

Credits: written by @mattfractionblog, line art by @stevelieber with background assists by @tomrogerscomics, color art by @nathanfairbairn, letters by @claytoncowles.

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #5

[calmiera]

I have Questions.

[stevelieber]

One of the best things about working with Matt Fraction is that he thinks out loud, so you might get a text at 10 PM that's just a list of Daily Planet headlines. Then a couple weeks later you've got a script in your hands and you're drawing this.

From Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen’s Boss Perry White #1, published by DC Comics. Written by @mattfractionblog, drawn by @stevelieber, color by @nathanfairbairn, letters by @claytoncowles. BG assists by @tomrogerscomics. 

[alphaflyer]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ♥️

Okay, so which of my 100+ children do I like best...? Hmmmm....

In no particular order, here are some I am fond of, for various reasons (ask me tomorrow, the answers may vary...!):

Second Mouse - my 2013 @marvelbang is an early SHIELD/007 crossover that begat two sequels. Started from this snippet of dialogue that was bouncing around in my head and would not be quelled:

“That supposed to mean something to me, Ma’am, double-oh?”

“It means, Mr. Barton, that Commander Bond has a license to kill.”

“You’re shitting me. You need a license for that here?”

2. Grace - a pretty angsty short ST:Voyager fic I wrote for an exchange - where it took the recipient WEEKS to acknowledge it. This one is always on my list of favourites, because I was trying to write to a cadence (with a slight nod to Harlan Ellison's "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tic-Toc Man");

3.  Angel of Mercy, Angel of Death (angsty stuff - placing Clint-the-actual-assassin into a real-world-like context, to see what that could conceivably look like);

4.  The Principle of Terrestrial Mediocrity (experimenting with Luis-from-Antman's voice and a breathless, unreliable, stream-of-conscience POV);

5.  By the Book and Diamonds and Rust (a tie, for my best efforts to strike the tone(s) of the @mattfractionblog Hawkeye comic books).

Tagging @inkvoices, @cassiesinsanity, @cloud--atlas, @alistrawrites and @thiswillonlyhurtalittle.

[omercifulheaves]

The Terminator (1982)

Mr. Machine (1960)

[comicweek]

Strip Panel Naked:  Hiding Subtext in Plain Sight

Sex Criminals is formally playful in a lot of different ways, but they all tend to revolve around the same concept, which is to be upfront about the nature of the scene, and give the reader the subtext of the moment honestly, and directly. But it's undercut with humour, and clever and funny formal tricks, to hide the fact it's being so honest about what it's doing. Using a couple of examples, I look at how it does this.

Sex Criminals on Tumblr @zdarsky​ @mattfractionblog @brimpersunited

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

on Halloween we dress up as Hawkeyes.

... @mattfractionblog's Hawkeye counts as a costume even when it's just my normal clothes plus bandaids... right?

(Birdie is a freaking adorable Kate today but she doesn't like sharing pics of herself so I promised not to post the pic I took. Rest assured she's perfect tho)

[atomic-darth]

Thank you @stevelieber @mattfractionblog @nathanfairbairn @claytoncowles and @tomrogerscomics for the glorious image of Bruce Wayne sitting on a toilet overhearing people talking about how his butler pays people to think he’s funny

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #5 (2019)

[stevelieber]

I haven’t used tumblr to properly plug stuff in a while, but here goes: 

It's BACK IN STOCK! It’s been sold out everywhere for months, but now I finally have signed & sketched copies of the brand new edition of the  Eisner-winning SUPERMAN's PAL JIMMY OLSEN collection. It’s available at my etsy shop! https://etsy.com/listing/877872677/back-in-stock-supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen 

Jimmy is written by @mattfractionblog, drawn by @stevelieber, color by @nathanfairbairn, and lettered by @claytoncowles. @tomrogerscomics provided endless and invaluable background assistance.

Every copy guaranteed sat on or sniffed by my cat.

[whereintheworldiskamalakhan]

My @mattfractionblog & @kellysue trade autographs, the great art I got from the artist alley, and my amazing Kamala and Kate commission from @secondlina!!

[jhscdood]

The elevator at the CDC.

Photo specifically taken in the style of @mattfractionblog

[everythingwasshiny]

Seriously though we don’t deserve @mattfractionblog

Sorry to put this on you but I have an honest question about depression an suicide. Isn't it completely possible for it to be a alternative for someone. Can't there be someone out there who genuinely is tired and doesn't want to continue. I know there is beauty and wonderful things in this world. There are things to look forward to. There will be more pain but also more laughter. But what if I'm not interested?

well… well first off, i’d say, seek professional help immediately. because i am wildly unqualified to answer your question with anything but experience. and first off, my experience says, if you are in such a deep and dark place where you say things like this to total strangers on the internet, you need to be in contact with someone that can help you start to heal.

second, i’d say… you’re wrong. i’d say the things any of us don’t know, especially about tomorrow, could blanket every grain of sand on every beach of the world with bullshit. And to simply assume you are done tomorrow because you are done today is a mistake. a factual mistake, an error, a critical miscalculation.

i’d say, read Tad Friend’s piece JUMPERS in which he seeks and finds and talks to people that jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge — and lived. And they all say the same variations this: “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.” 

And know that this piece has kept me in my seat on more than a couple dark nights.

And i’d say — i’d say i felt that way before too, and i was wrong.

And then i’d tell you something i don’t even think my wife knows. this happend years before we met — shit, more than a decade — and it’s not   the first time i came close to suicide was on a thanksgiving night. i’d eaten well and then as the house shut down i went into the bathroom, drew a bath as hot as i could manage to stand, and climbed into the tub with a razor  blade.

As i started to cut, as the corner touched my skin and that jolt of pain fired into my head, i stopped and thought — y’know, last chance. Are you SURE?

And i was tired. I sounded like you, that i knew there’d be ups again and downs but i was just so fucking TIRED i couldn’t stand the thought of having to get there. I felt this… this never-ending crush of days that were grey and tepid but for some reason i was supposed to greet each one with a smile. the constant pressure of having to keep my shit in all the time was just exhausting.

I wondered, then — well, is there anything you’re curious about. Anything you want to see play out. And i thought of a comic i was reading and i’d not figured out the end of the current storyline. And i realized I had curiosity. And that was the hook i’d hang my hat on. that by wanting to see how something played out I wasn’t really ready. That little sprout of a thing poking up through all that black earth kept me around a little longer.

I realized then that it had been so long since i’d laughed. I was numbed out and shut down and just… i missed laughing. maybe if i laughed a little i could get moving again. so i’d wait for my comic to conclude, try to find a few laughs, and then reevaluate.

So I’m in the bathtub and i got this real sharp-ass razor, right? And i look down and there’s all my bits floating in the water like they do and i thought okay, let’s get funny and i got to work.

I shaved off exactly half my pubic hair vertically. The end result was a ‘fro of pubes that looked like a Chia Pet that only half-worked. I started to laugh as I did it. And every time i’d piss, looking down made me laugh. 

Because JESUS what a nightmare.

Shortly thereafter I got very heavily into Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. Way less chafing and way more funny.

jesus. i was still in high school at the time. dig if you will a picture of the chubby weirdo that was always giggling at his dick in the bathroom. that was me.

And then I guess I’d tell you about Dave, who did the same thing as me a few years later, only DIDN’T have my hilarious Chia Dick strategy in mind and got the razor in and up. And as he started to bleed out “Brown Eyed Girl” came on the radio and he realized he’d never get to hear that again so, in a bloody comedy of errors — I swear to god this is true — he got out of the tub, tried to get dressed the best he could, went downstairs calling for help only to find his family gone, went out to his car, and drove to doug’s house only to find doug not home and so, then, finally, he blacked out from blood loss sitting there in his car, playing a van morrison CD on repeat, until, by luck, Doug’s mom came home and found him. 

Fucking Van Morrison, y’know?

A song, a comic, something dumb, something small. From that seed can come everything else, I swear to god.

I guess last I’d say… I’d say that, look — if you reached out to me for an answer, than I have to reach back out to you and insist you hear it.  Because it means, what, you know me? My work? You read my stuff and thought, well, fuck, if anyone would know why I shouldn’t end my life, if anyone alive is QUALIFIED TO SAVE ME it’s the guy that had britney spears punch a bear? okay — okay, then, so as THAT GUY I’m saying: Get help. Now, today, tonight, whenever — get to a phone and find a doctor that can try to help you heal, that can try to recolorize your world again, that can help you start caring again. All you need is that one tiny thing, that speck, that little grain of sand. the World Series, AVENGERS 2, Tina Fey’s new show, the first issue of PRETTY DEADLY, some slice of the world you’ve never seen, some drink you love, who the fuck will love your dog like you do if you’re gone, what if jabrams KILLS it on the new STAR WARS, the hell are you doing for Halloween, you ever feed a dolphin with your bare hand? because i have and I am fucking telling you IT IS A THING TO EXPERIENCE and oh god WHAT FUCKING FONT WILL STARBUCKS USE ON THE CHRISTMAS DRINK SLEEVES THIS YEAR — i don’t care what or how dumb but i promise you somewhere in your life is that one fleck of dust that can help start you on the road back. That’s all it takes. One fucking mote, drifting through your head. 

And because you asked me I am answering you because i know, motherfucker, i know, i know, i know the hole you are fucking in because I was there myself and if you look hard you can still see my writing on those walls and if you stare long enough i swear to god it’s pointing to up

[snarkymonkeyprime]

While talking to @mattfractionblog on Saturday, he mentioned he’d used index cards on a bar top for plotting out the Hawkeye run to accuracy.  I’m going to steal a page from his playbook and maybe I’ll finally figure out why I’ve stalled so hard on HHNF.

[intosnarkness]

It's okay to be jealous. @mattfractionblog was.

[batbirdies]

Did you guys know @mattfractionblog has a tumblr??? Idk if he’s active but PLEASE MR MATT.

I don’t even care which character it centers around I just want the chaotic batfam energy that could only come from your brain.

Someone please please get Matt fraction to write for Batman please PLEASE PLEASE

[brimpersunited]

Brimp!Up 3.0 tonight! Swing by BWW after HeroesCon for some Milkfed fun!times. @mattfractionblog & @zdarsky Q&A, Brimper Bingo w/prizes, raffle items, & a specccccial surprise auction from Chip. Cash & PayPal accepted for the auctions!