HEAD-TURNING SAVAGE DRAGON #280 SELLS OUT AT DISTRIBUTOR, RUSHED BACK TO PRINT THIS WEEK @imagecomics.com @eriklarsen.bsky.social

My commentary interview with @eriklarsen.bsky.social for #SavageDragon 280 went live a few days ago!

A little hard to hear you from where you are inside Trump’s colon can you say that a little louder

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Well, I enjoyed Supergirl. Minor spoilers ahead. Milly Alcock is not what I pictured as Supergirl--but that's okay. She's unusual looking in some ways and there was no effort made to give her glamor shots. She's much prettier on the red carpet than she is in this movie.

My cover to The Amazing Spider-Man #1000, my initial sketch, the inked art, and my initial color pass.

🕷️🎉 The road to Amazing Spider-Man #1000 continues! Marvel has revealed a new variant covers from @eriklarsen.bsky.social, @ramosland.bsky.social, Tedesco, and more!🔥🕸️ Plus: a new look at @jmdematteis.bsky.social and Ramos' anniversary story! #SpiderMan #comicsky Don't miss it:

Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering

Savage Dragon #280! Is this the best cliffhanger since the last page of SD #9 in 1994?? Yes, @eriklarsen.bsky.social has written and drawn this book for 280 straight issues. It belongs on more readers’ pull lists! Support incredible achievements! (P.S. Angel’s looking more like her mom every day.)

Everyone keep an eye out for the variant cover for Savage Dragon #280 penciled by @brettbooth.bsky.social & inked by me. It comes out July 1st. @eriklarsen.bsky.social @imagecomics.com

For what it's worth--I have drawn MY cover to the Amazing Spider-Man #1000 as well but it's not mine to share. Once Marvel posts it I'll do the same.

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

erik.larsen.75 If I was casting Dick Tracy today I'd pick Enver Gjokaj, who looks like Dick Tracy just stepped right off of the comics page.

A viral social media post circulating shows that Eric Trump illegally sought insider information about UFC Freedom 250 matches, trying to cash in, and Trump appeared alongside Dana White at the White House, where he looked visibly unhealthy on his 80th birthday.

I keep seeing A.I. tourist style maps that are crazily inaccurate. Is this just engagement bait to get people to angrily respond? They're so incredibly unhelpful. (The first map here is the only real one).

Trump's reflecting pool improvements

Great moments in animation: The Dragon and Alex round a corner in the Savage Dragon animated series but don't change size when they cross in front of the camera in this epic don't-blink-or-you'll miss-it screw up.

If your oldies channel just cherrypicks the songs that have endured and doesn't transport you back in time for a warts-and-all immersive experience--what are you even doing? The real '70s was more than Boston, the Doobie Brothers and the fucking Eagles, man.

Another new-to-look-old cover for mighty Marvel. They had me dress up and color this cover as well and draw it.

I roughly traced it in pencil for placement. I inked the teeth pretty close to the original and the drool as well but the rest required serious reworking.

Here's what the original art looked like prior to pasting up the logo and coloring it.

Just drew a cover to the Amazing Venom #1. It’s based on my previous cover to Amazing Spider-Man #347 from 1991. Hard to wrap my brain around that being 35 years ago!

"Spider-Man Noir: The Gwen Stacy Affair mixes the best of the character and creates a surprisingly fun and unique world that makes up for the narrative tropes of the genre." @eriklarsen.bsky.social #comicsky #SpiderNoir Out today, read @jonwahizzle.bsky.social's TPB review:

Most of the characters in my Spider-Man Noir series were new--including this guy. I created a bunch of new supporting characters and villains.

And the big moment for me was that I got to meet @eriklarsen.bsky.social, who made the first comic book I ever read (Marvel's Spider-Man) and who I've spent the last ~33 years reading his creator-owned character, Savage Dragon

Comic Con Oakland

These deaths are on him as well as the parents he has misled.

"The Greatest Comic Character Of All Time Is J. Wellington Wimpy," by Tom Spurgeon www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/br...

If you can read Alter Ego #199 and not want to dig up Julie Schwartz and strangle his rotting corpse you're a better man than me. It details how Julie absolutely shut down C.C. Beck, drove him off the book and essentially torpedoed the first SHAZAM series. An infuriating read.

Superman and Batman by @eriklarsen.bsky.social

As I recall, we were talking about a crossover that would continue from one of our ongoing books into the other ongoing book. So, it would start in Gold Digger and continue into Savage Dragon or vice versa. The timing just didn’t work out.

Not to be a noodge (while acknowledging that I’m perfectly capable of being a noodge) but there was a time when people pasting up covers would make the logo as big as possible so that readers could easily see it. I left plenty of room on this cover (see figure 2)! What happened?

Before may take you a couple hours max, after will take a letterer up to a full work day, where they aren't doing pages and earning their page rate. Even at just $10/page (a woefully low page rate these days), that's $200 a day you've cost your letterer.

And you may ask "but Taylor, what's the difference between before and after?" and the answer is because you will be wasting the letterer's time and costing them money to do it after.

That includes restructuring dialogue to better match the art, cutting down dialogue if it won't fit, and clearing things that the art is already addressing. And this needs to be done BEFORE the script gets to the letterer.

Something that came up in class today, that is also just good info for everyone: writers, it is your responsibility and part of your job to review your script after the art comes in and make changes/adjustments.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Two more oil tankers have been turned around in the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim reports.

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

What do you do when your reprint title ends but the last story you're reprinting was a continued story? Well, if you're Marvel in 1982--you do THIS--!

Trump has launched three more boat strikes this week, bringing the total death toll to 177. Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

John Eastman has been disbarred. 👏

The United States is in an unprecedented crisis. A convicted criminal has attained the presidency. And he has decided that a crime is not a crime if it is committed on his behalf.

“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.” @heathmayo.bsky.social

I’m gonna side with the pope on this one