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Man, I had a whole week off of work with nothing to do, no conventions,no travel, no big shows. Just a week to sit around the house,bbq and booze it up with some old friends. Kim had the same week off so it was even more awesome.

We visited a bunch of touristy areas around here (not the Ocean though because all you fucking New Yorkers are too busy shitting that up).
Restocked all of our old stuff and put some new stuff down in the Underground our friends store in Smithville.

Went to New Hope and spent a million bucks at Suzie Hot Sauce, there is also a pretty cool store down there called "God Save the Queen" check it out if you get the chance.

Went down to AC with $20 between the 2 of us, had some free drinks, got lunch and left with $1. Not really big rollers, but not a bad day in the sun.

Had an awesome surprise party for Kim's birthday on Friday, the party wasn't a surprise but all the people who came down from so far away was. We are lucky to have such good friends.


Our annual Canoe trip is coming up, if you want to go on it shoot me an email and I'll send you directions on how to get there. There will be people camping afterwords it is always fun and relaxing.

The only think I will write about Michael Jackson

Hopefully this is the only blog I will commit to Michael Jackson, I tried to avoid it all together but after he was the only thing on TV while I was stuck home yesterday I couldn't help myself.

Why is everyone so upset that Michael Jackson is dead?

No one seems to remember that some kid described his penis to the cops. Not the kid who was acquitted, the first one, the one he paid off.
Whether or not he had sex with kids is irrelevant. The fact that some kid described his penis to the police and a handful of other kids claimed they were abused (usually hushed by Jackson’s powerful PR machine), should be enough to make people thankful that he is gone. Even his nasty ass sister called him a pedophile until his PR people got to her.
The guy had an amnesia educing sedative in his house, I’m not saying he used it on kids, but c’mon people if he didn’t sing and dance and he lived next door to you and he had a petting zoo and kiddie rides and he let all the neighborhood kids sleepover in his bed with him, would you be comfortable?
Even if he wasn’t accused of actually fucking little kids the stuff we actually know about him should be at least enough to keep him from pre empting programs all fucking day yesterday. Seriously, I had to sit home and wait for a contractor to come to my house and every channel was playing his creepy ass, sold out funeral.
Did you ever see “To catch a predator” on NBC? These guys get men to come to a house on the notion that they will be able to fuck a kid (or at least drink wine coolers and talk dirty with one and they are arrested on the spot. Maybe next season they should ask them if they could write a catchy pop song and dance really well before they get arrested. If they can then they should let them go and give them a record deal.
I don’t blame him for all this bullshit, I blame the media for hyping the crap out of this situation. They find the 10 or so most upset people then they show the same interviews of those ten people on all the networks until all the sheep at home think that his death is really upsetting. Then all you jackasses won’t stop talking about it (including me with this stupid blog). Then Sony decides to throw a funeral concert so they can put all of their old,stale performers into the limelight and sell some records. And all of you eat it up so much that it gets on every channel, you all change your myspace songs to one of his songs or a cover version of one of his songs. The man who most of us were disgusted with a few years ago becomes a legend and a hero.

The “M” word.

So anyway my friend Doug (ArsenicLullabies.com) asked me to write a blog this week as he is undoubtedly busy drawing the same page over and over again because one of the background characters in the 5th panel has a pinky that is slightly larger than the index fingers or some inane thing like that.

So here it is, I read a few of his blogs, each one was about something or other that pissed him off.

Since Michael Jackson, Farrah Faucet, Ed McMahon and Billy Mays recently died I’ve been in pretty good spirits. I can’t believe that four useless nothings who at one time or another have totally annoyed me have left the planet. I’ve been practically farting rainbows for the last two weeks, I’m so happy.

I decide to watch TV, there has to be something happening in the world besides the death of some pedophile popstar (hero) that will annoy me and that I can focus on long enough to write a blog befitting of Doug’s pages.

Then there it was: a short news piece on midgets. It seems a few of these... I don 't know what to call them anymore. Calling them "little people" seems to be worse than "midget" to me. Anyway, they've have had it up to here (hand slightly higher than my knee) with the term Midget. They find it offensive and they want the word banned from the English language. The reporter goes on to relay the story to his viewers, but instead of saying the word “midget” he says “the M word”. As in “these little people want the “M” word removed from the dictionary”.

I don’t think of myself better than any group of people, I’m sure that most people can do at least one thing better than me, and I can probably do at least one thing better than most people. But if you are the kind of person who takes offense from a sound, chances are I am superior to you.

I will not use the term “__ word” M,N,F or any other stupid letter in front of the word “word” is ridiculous. If I go up to a gay guy on the street and say “Hey you F-word, you suck!” and he gets less offended from that than if I had actually said the word “Faggot”, he is a moron and should be heckled. The fact that the word only offended these munchkins when it was said in English but not in some other language was insane. If some guy from a tribal country in Africa called you “midget” but instead of the English word midget they say their word for midget, possibly something like “mm click mm pop click mow” that probably wouldn’t hurt their feelings at all. You know why? Because it is a freaking sound, just like the English word “midget”.

Well, that about wraps up my blog.

Go see Doug in San Diego July 23-26 and grab a copy of Arsenic Lullaby Omega.

And stop by AngryDrunkGraphics.com and pick up “Spaztic Colon Rides Again” by me.

-Steve Vincent

Angry Drunk Graphics comes to Philly




Angry Drunk Graphics will bring a few of thier friends back to Philly this weekend (June 19-21) for Wizard World.

We will be joined by our friends Doug P. (Arsenic Lullaby), Mike Diana (Boiled Angel), Steve Vincent (Spaztic Colon), Justin Melkmann (Spapped in the Face), Mike Stoneroad (awesome artist) and the winner of our 1/2 table give away Jimmy Comey (Donkey Punch).

This will be a great time and Wizard is ALL NEW! It's not the same stale con it was, there are new people running it. People who actually give a crap.

Check out the awesome guests


There are more comic guests than ever before!

Look at the Awesome exclusives!


here is the floor plan, I highlighted the important booths.

Hope to see you there!

We will also more than likely be at Tattooed Mom's on South Street Saturday night if you want to hang with us and can't afford the con.

Thanks to everyone who came out to, played or helped out with the ADGBBQ last weekened , it was the best one we've ever had. You guys are awesome!

Thanks!!!!

BBQ


FUCK YEAH!

Best time I have ever had at a BBQ! I don't think I am going to flyer these anymore. It's great that so many people just know. The rain made it somehow more awesome. Thanks to everyone who came out.

And thanks to all the bands,friends, artists and vendors who donated thier time. This was the best BBQ we have ever had.
The merch we sold more than covered the cost of the park and for the first time there was no jerk off meat heads (we'll just one but he cartweeled himself outta there). There weren't even any junkies nodding out in the bathrooms!

The cops tried to shut us down but we fought back and WON, fuck them!

This was the best , thanks again.

Hopefully someone will post pictures because I was having too much fun to take any.

See you at Wizard World Philly this weekend (and probably at Mom's on Saturday night)

The ADGBBQ is less than a week away. Here is all the info you need, please repost this!
Our annual Happy Drunk BBQ will be on June 13th in William Hebrew Park, Forked River NJ 08731.
We will have a ton of guest artists, vendors,comic book creators, film makers and live performances by
AWFUL WAFFLE (Brick NJ), HOTH (Howell NJ), The Jurks (Brick NJ), LOAFASS (Philly, PA), The Ray Gradys (Philly, PA), WWIX (NYC, NY), CRASHER (Forked River NJ), DRIVE THRU PHARMACY (Vorhees NJ),PSYCHED TO DIE- Ex hunchback and Ex Ergs members (New Brunswick NJ), PUBLIC SERPENTS- Ex Leftover Crack and Ex Choking Victim members (NY and NJ).

Vendors include Fukkit and Risky, JB's silkscreens,True Jersey clothing and of course Angry Drunk Graphics.
There will be a SKATE contest held by Rising Sun Surf Shop.
Two local Liquor Stores JR's (right off the Parkway on Lacey road) and Lacey Liquours (Route 9) will also be selling PBR,Budweiser and Yuengling Lager cans super cheap on Saturday. So if you are over 21 get your beer there!
If you aren't over 21 don't even try to drink in the park, you will be thrown out. You must have I.D. to drink in the park.

Bring food to grill there are 4 huge grills in the park.

If you want to bring something charcoal is always good.


There will be a second show on Sunday at the Bill Doe hous in Tuckerton with Ash Monday,Common Enemy,Roachlord, The Jacks,The Sheckies and more.

If you want to spend the night in Lacey here are some places-
Places to stay after the BBQ
You can camp real cheap within walking distance of the BBQ (a few of te bands are staying here). They hve cheap cabins too.
http://www.cedarcreeknj.com/

Or stay at this one star hotel
Lacey Inn Motel
229 N Main St
Forked River, NJ 08731
..(609) 693-4351..‎
or stay at this nice one-
http://www.nj-lodges-review.com/?n=bay+harbour+motor+lodge&id=1900125&t=hotel

Or you can make a weekend out of it and stay in nearby Seaside Heights. There are rides, bars,beaches and lots of bars. Did I mention the bars?
only about 20 minutes away.

Directions
Directions to William Hebrew Park:
From Garden State Parkway North and South:
Go to exit 74 make a right after you pay the toll (Lacey Road). Go down to the first light.. you

will see the wawa. Before you get to the light take the jughandle. Go through the light and go through the next light. The park will be on your left hand side.

From Route 9 South:
Take Route 9 North towards Lacey. Keep going you will see a Wawa on your right.

At the light directly after the Wawa (south Street) make a left. The park will be on your right hand side.

From Route 9 north:
Take Route 9 South towards Lacey. Make a right onto South Street. The Park will be on your right hand side. If you come to the Wawa on your left hand side you went too far.

Helping out, if you want to volunteer to help us out with the BBQ let me know. This is a FREE event so we can't pay anything, but we could always use helpers.

Here is the flyer for your profile, or use it as your default pic and we might give you some free shit.

Blah, Blah, Blog

We'll we've picked the winner of the free table at Wizard contest. There weren't too many people trying to win. But out of the three or so we finally picked one.
I'll put up who it is after they accept.
What a stupid idea that was.I thought that there would be a ton of comic artists dying for a free table, I was wrong. I remember back when I started out I would have done anything to get a free table at a major con (even a cheap one would have been great).
Not these days, I think three people entered the contest and it was run in some major mags and all over the Internet. Artists are such nothings.
All I hear over the web and at conventions is "boo hoo Diamond won't carry independents anymore". We'll now I know why, no one pushes their own comic. Fuckin whiny artists, just sit around waiting for someone to tell them how talented they are.
I asked some folks who run some popular comic review/blogs to help me spread the word about the free tables. All the responses were the same, a big fat "NO". A bunch of fat asses sitting around in Batman underoos writing about how Jack Shit drew spider man wrong in issue 6043 deem themselves too important to help me give tables indy artists.
I told one of my distributors to get the word out about it so he wrote-

"Speaking of conventions, Steve@angrydrunkgraphics.com still has some space at WizardWorld Philly. Please talk to him at the above address if you want to attend this show! Do not talk to me, talk to him.
Press release attached. This is a mainstream show, but you never know who may buy your books, and if you have that weekend free, please consider this opportunity for free space.

Steve is part of the new "underground" but you don't have to be. "

"You don't have to be?"
What the fuck is that all about?
Just because I don't write hand bound, silk screened comics about little bunnies who were abused by their parents and eventually die of cancer,I'm not underground enough. Fuck that.
I spent years travelling around promoting my comics in clubs, basement shows and I have a damn good following because of it.I get cheap tables and free tables at conventions because of the following I have, that I worked fucking hard for.
Now that I'm in a position to help out other artists, I get shit on.
Oh well fuck it.
I went into this business hating artists and except for the very few that I've met and I've liked (you know who you all are) , I will probably go out of this business hating artists even more.
The three people who responded all have pretty good comics and hopefully the one who gets the free table will appreciate it.

Oh yeah, check out the Wizard Exclusives