DOES ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE ANY OLD EIGHTIES ERA STUFF THAT I DREW THAT I COULD BORROW?

DO YOU OWN SOMETHING LIKE THIS?


I have what might be an unusual request.

I am getting ready to put together my next book called MANCHILD 4. And I thought it would be really great if I could re-print an assortment of the kind of stuff I drew back in the eighties when I was a punk rock pen pal who drew little silly cartoons. I have a humorous article that I have written, put aside for this event. But I need help to pull it off.

For anyone out there that might remember writing to me, trading stuff with me and having me draw stuff for you: Is there anyway that you can reach into that box of old stuff that everybody no doubt has, and pull out that old Brian Walsby drawing that I did for you twenty years or so ago? And if you have been able to do that, would it be too much to ask for a scan of said drawing and send it to me for the possibility of having it be re-printed in the next book that I am about to do?

my e-mail address is:
reluctantking@hotmail.com

individual credit will of course be given for the help. A 300 dpi jpeg would do nicely. My goal here is to have a affectionate look back into my past, with a dash of humor involved, and that is pretty much it.

thanks for your time!

YOUR WEEKLY NEW CARTOON.

Well, it is Monday and here it is, this week's new cartoon. It is all about the state fair that just happened here in Raleigh. Sort of. Click on the cartoon to read it.

Also, thanks to Christian for his story, and also Rev. Mike for his. Hopefully I will be able to turn these stories into cartoons.

SCREAMING TREES - "HALO OF ASHES"

REALLY UNDERRATED. I WISH I WAS PLAYING THIS SONG.

PAY PAL LINKS.

I twisted the arm of computer genius (and frontman of..ahh you know who) Kevin Collins to put Pay Pal links of all of the things that I am selling, like all three of the MANCHILD books and the MANCHILD t-shirt.So now you will never have to go to my horribly outdated website (www.brianwalsby.com)ever again to buy any of this stuff.

So scroll down and check everything out on the right side of this blog.

Also, the horribly outdated website will be dealt with soon enough. I am debating just pulling the plug on the whole thing because to me it seems to make more sense having everything that I am about in one place but Kevin thinks that there is a lot of potential. Since I can't really seem to ever get in touch with the affable fellow who built it for me years ago, I think I will let Kevin take a crack at it. Anyways, there will be some changes going on for that fairly soon.

I have also upped the prices a tiny bit for a few things since it was killing me financially to offer the books at these rock bottom prices, especially sending anything internationally.


thanks.

MANCHILD 4.

CHARLES CARDELLO, MY PUBLISHER.

I would like to talk a little about MANCHILD 4, which will be my next book put out by Bifocal Media.

At the end of this month, we will begin to work on it. This means scanning all of that new art, erasing my own pencil lines, at least attempting to proof read my misspellings and to get a bunch of people to advertise for the book. We did pretty well the last couple of times and there is no reason why we couldn't do it again.

As of right now, there are no set ad rates. We will decide that and I think that will be the next announcement.

There has also been some talk about including another cd inside the book. This time We are hoping to do a split cd with some lives Melvins stuff, and some Double Negative stuff, either live or studio out takes. No actual real news on what it will be, but that is what we are aiming for.

In the meantime, if anyone reading this is interested in placing an ad, I don't think it would be a bad idea to bother Charles Cardello and give him a "heads up".

Charles has a business called Bifocal Media, and he has put out lots and lots of stuff. To get to the website, go to:

http://www.bifocalmedia.com/

And to bug him personally, here is his e-mail address:

charles@bifocalmedia.com

And that will be it for right now. So thanks and stay tuned.

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2008.

I don't know why I haven't bothered to at least mention this here yet, but Double Negative has been invited to play at this three day festival in England. It is in December. That is right, we are flying over to play one show, hang out, and then we are flying back.

It is our only U.K. show this year. Don't miss out!!

For more info, go here:

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/nbc2008/

VALIENT THORR MOVIE!!!!

Listen up kids, Charles wanted me to spread the word. The movie he has made about those bearded madmen VALIENT THORR is ready to be unearthed. Click on the pic below for details:



And lurking in the "extras" section of this soon to be unearthed DVD is this video Charles made, with crude animation and cartoony graphics from yours truly. This was one of the very first things I had posted, but you know what? Let's see it again:




So come on down..even if you don't have a beard.

THE MANCHILD COVERS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT.

HEY..FINALLY, STUFF THAT WON'T APPEAR ANYWHERE ELSE OR END UP IN A BOOK FORM:



BASED ON A TRUE STORY THAT HAPPENED YEARS AGO. THE STORY WILL APPEAR IN MANCHILD 4. YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T WAIT.



THE AGE OLD STRUGGLE.

DOUBLE NEGATIVE LAST WEEKEND IN RICHMOND.

WE PLAYED WITH WASTED TIME AND DEVOUR. TONY LYNCH TOOK THESE PHOTOS AND THEY LOOK REALLY COOL. THANKS, TONY.

MY PROG ROCK DRAWING FOR THE BAND.

NOT FINISHED YET, BUT REALLY BEAUTIFUL ALL OF THE SAME.

CY RAWLS.

cy rawls. (on the right of this picture)

I WAS SADDENED TO FIND OUT THAT CY RAWLS PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING AFTER HIS SHORT BATTLE WITH HIS ILLNESS. HE MUST HAD BEEN VERY BRAVE. I CAN'T SAY THAT I KNEW CY VERY WELL BUT HE WAS ALWAYS A REALLY NICE GUY WHO SEEMED LIKE THE BIGGEST FAN OF MUSIC OF ANYONE I HAVE EVER KNOWN. R.I.P.

here is the link to today's interview.

http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot1001c08.mp3/view


it went well. I had no idea it was NPR!

WUNC's "The State of Things" for Wednesday, October 1st

today I will be interviewed on the radio in Durham. It will be the last fifeen minutes of the hour of noon. Tune in. Maybe I will be charming and witty.