It’s true, in this strange year 2011 Jim Terry is predicted by unnameable forces to be visible on Saturday, February 12 between the hours of 2-4pm. This rare and mystical sighting is apparently to take place at The Comic Vault (Ashland and Montrose, NW corner, Chicago) during their fabled “WinterCon” - during which several creators of comic book fancy and the peripheral factions thereof can also be sighted. Almost as rare as a solar eclipse but not nearly as harmful to your corneas, Jim will be signing copies of his numerous comic creations and most likely trying to be funny between bouts of savage anxiety. If you can, swing by and see something not nearly as dazzling as the birth of a universe.

Yes, it’s true. I will be at the Comic Vault (NE corner of Ashland and Montrose, Chicago Illinois) on Black Friday. There will be TWO, (2), count ‘em, new issues available! Finally we get to see what happens to Edgebright & Leofwyn in “The Gift Part 2″, a giant-sized conclusion to the action packed first issue.

Also available will be…. LIE DOWN LOW: BRICKS & MORTAR issue one. Yes, I have decided to tackle the scuzzy, scum-ridden and thoroughly infested world of LDL once more. This series (most likely about seven issues) will be short stories of hard luck heroes on the periphery of the heavy action, the (as Barbra Streisand so famously called them) “little people” who get caught in the meat grinder of life. Come with me on this journey… it will be worth it; so far it is (in my opinion) the best work I’ve done to date and the second issue is already completed, just awaiting feedback on #1!

Hope to see you there, and sorry I’m such an inconsistent blogger.

Howdy, anyone paying attention!

Well, it’s been busy. The Comic Con was a subtle smash hit, as DC and Marvel decided not to show and gave us little Davids a chance to shine with folks who normally wouldn’t take a stroll down Artist’s Alley. There were a few artists and writers “slumming” it in the Alley who would normally have been under the protective, sterile canopy of said super conglomerates had they been there, as well, so it was good for the fans as well.

I thank anyone who stopped by the WBD table and said hello, especially the kid from Logan Square who was nice enough to pretend he’d specifically searched us out. Hope you’re digging the books, buddy. Appreciate it. It was also a great weekend, as I was signing at The Comic Vault on Montrose and Ashland on Saturday and the turnout was better than I’d hoped (considering I just now advertised it on my own site, three days after its occurance). I am the worst salesman in the world, no wonder I got fired from the men’s Polo department at Marshall Fields ten years ago. That and I showed up drunk all the time. ANYhoo…

Believe it or not, I am still working on the film. Everyone is prepared to lynch me at this point, those who are still interested. Everyone else who worked so damned hard on it and haven’t heard anything from me, I don’t blame anyone for being irritated or just giving up on their favorite hard-luck hero. I am wrestling with a few factors, post-production issues I have no control over as well as things that are just my fault; like being caught between wanting Sam Fuller-style energy and Kubrickian methodology. You cannot have both, my man!

Don’t give up yet! I am hard at work! It will be done soon and it will knock the shit out of you! Thank you for working on it and I have not forgotten anyone!

On that note, I’d better get back to work. Anyone who’s picked up the books in the last month, especially the Lie Down Low series finale, I would love to hear what you thought.