Attention Deficit Disorder

I’ve never been good at juggling. Multi-tasking, sure…but keeping your eye on the ball while while riding a unicycle across a high-beam over a crater of lava? That’s quite a different story.

The draft for this post is over a year and a half old!

Nonetheless, 2025 is off to one “hell” of a start. See You in Hell is still waiting in the wings, but Steven and I have another big debut: Evil, I : The Depths of Deceit. Coming to Kickstarter on February 11th! Pre-launch up at the end of the month, but you can still sign up to our mailing list here on the website.

"If I strip for you..."

Raymond, Caniff, Foster, Watterson…the list of great illustrators who made lifelong careers out of the daily strip is a long one. And all tragic stories aside (re: death, rights, $$$), the comic strip has has brought immeasurable joy to millions of people. What is morning-Twitter “doomscrolling”, but morning-newspaper “doomperusing”? Nothing has changed in that regard between 1921 and 2021. We are always looking for rescue in that sea of misery, and the comic strips were (still are?) that much needed life preserver.

Our salvation can come in many forms: high-flying adventurers, ace female reporters, a boy and his stuffed animal, or even a secret agent and his demon girlfriend. These stories can all reflect subject, artist, and audience alike. They can be raw as moonshine or distinguished as Cognac. My own journey now begins upon these uncharted waters carried by the inimitable talents of the comic chameleon and steady supplier of salacious styles: Nickolej Villiger. All of his work shines with a love of illustration and a deep appreciation of the medium.

The economy of line and the distillation of story are the hallmarks of the daily strip. A picture is worth a thousand words, and one word still has the ability to elicit a thousand pictures.

Memorandum on Foreign Relations

German Base Camp is pleased to announce a number of new allies from around the world that have been secured for new projects! Currently we have commissioned operations in Canada, the UK, Italy, and Turkey. We are proud to count all of these great creators as friends:

Tarik Uslu

Margherita Da Pont

Nickolej Villiger

Brad Simpson

Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Rob Jones

Despite the global pandemic, we have treaties in place to make sure 2021 is filled with as many comics as we can produce. Please use this site and any of the links above as resources for further knowledge and updates.

Changes to the TOS (Tired Operating System)

Updated the website with more than just this blog post! New links to the small body of work I’ve made so far, and just a general clean-up. Which is quite easy to do when you have a Bauhaus-style aesthetic and a Kindergartener’s-level mentality when it comes to websites. Hopefully the links I created to some truly talented artists, Tom Neely and Mark Rudolph especially, actually work and pay off in the end. If they don’t, I hope we can still be friends.

Emerging from the trenches

So, almost a year has gone by and I have surely proven what one man is completely incapable of doing: managing his own website. With everything going on in the world, the machinations of a lone comic writer seem insignificant. We’ve all been focused on other things.

BIPOC trampled underfoot and literally killed in the streets, Martial Law declared on both our bodies and our thoughts, and new sexual predators found under every rock and each rotting piece of bark peeled away from the once-mighty oak of The American Dream.

The plight of the comic industry may mean nothing to the rest of the world, but for some of us, it is our world. The tragic irony of “Back the Comeback” beginning with the monumental split between DC and Diamond is laughable to those of us who have been in this business for any length of time.

But we have to do more. We have to write more. We have to draw more. There are so many stories left to be told.

And if we’ve learned anything from the last few months, we have to do better. Even if no one is listening…

Getting Underway

Preparations have begun on the new communications center. Newly updated technologies (and a crack staff of an able-bodied man) are gathering intelligence and media for dissemination.