This Week's Comic... 
|
|||||||||||
 -All the Umm as of Sunday, July 18th, 2010- SAN DIEGO As some people may have heard, they seem to have some cute little comic convention in San Diego, California every year, and this year I'm going to go. I'll be at the LEGO booth, signing LEGO prints and doing minifigure sketches (and maybe selling some Lethargic books under the table!). The convention is July 22-25, but I'll only be there Friday afternoon to Sunday. So if you have nothing better to do, come on out because it would be nice if somebody supported this thing and showed up!UPDATE: For those keeping score the LEGO booth is Booth 2829. Stay tuned to Lethargic Lad's Twitter and FaceBook pages for more information and exact signing times (updating this site will be difficult while I'm away)!
THAT THING I WORKED ON WITH JAKE GYLLENHAAL... Earlier this year, I got to work on four "mini movies" LEGO made for thier new Prince of Persia line. Earlier in May, the finished movie was shown on the Disney XD Channel and now is on YouTube though LEGO TV.Originally, these were written as four seperate mini-movies (one for each LEGO set), but it seems that elements of all four movies have been put together as one. Again, I'm always happy with the way these CGI LEGO movies turn out, and I was quite surprised that it was narriated by Jake Gyllenhaal! (Jake and I have been looking for a project for the two of us to work on, and seeing that the LEGO Donnie Darko line kind of fell through, this turned out to be the perfect project for us!)
Be sure to check out the other things on the LEGO Prince of Persia site, including the TV commerical I also storyboarded!
BIONICLE FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
Last year I did the storyboards for five stop-motion LEGO Bionicle Stars movies that are now up on line on bionicle.com. The movies I worked on are:
BIONICLE Battle Video: Introduction
The videos turned out pretty good, and the stop motion looks pretty good. I approached this project as (possibly) the only time I'd work on a superhero comic or movie. While I'm not a huge Bionicle fan, I had a lot of fun with this. Check them out and I hope you like them!
Or the whole thing is on YouTube:
GET READY TO SPIN!
The game has 40 Issue Cards, 40 Spin Cards and 20 Media Cards, all illustrated by me, and was created by GBG Publishing's own founders, Tex, Lash and Rose Angel. SPIN THE ISSUES contains 100 cards for 2-5 players ages 10 and up, and is $15.00 plus shipping & handling. Availble in fine game stores everywhere, or ordered direct from GBG.
LETHARGiC LAD.COM TURNS 10
So, please, take a moment to celebrate Lethargic Lad's digital milestone and buy a book!!
IF A GREG TALKS ON THE RADIO... This Wednesday (Feb. 3rd), I was the "Guest Host" on CFMU 93.3's Comic Culture radio show. If you missed it you can download the podcast of it from Comic Book Daily.com right here.Hear me use words like "unreadable", "unwatchable" and "appalling." I say nice things about Alpha Productions and call another big-name comics guy from my past "inept." Download and enjoy!
NINJA BURGER NOW IN A NEW BIGGER LOCATION! The fine people at Steve Jackson Games have just rereleased my game Ninja Burger in a new Secret Ninja Death Touch Edition. This new edition combines the original Ninja Burger with the cards from the supplement, Sumo-Size Me! and adds counters for tracking honor and money.Designed by Steve Jackson and illustrated by me, Ninja Burger pits you against your fellow trainees in a new Ninja Burger store. Learn the secrets of stealth, swordsmanship, and customer service. Fight for honor, respect, big tips, and that coveted promotion. Ninja Burger Secret Ninja Death Touch Edition has 216 oversized cards, 3 black ninja dice, honor counters, ninja money and a rulesheet and has a suggested retail price $34.99. Available in fine game stores everywhere, or though Warehouse 23.
SEND IN THE LEGO CLONES I just noticed that my last Clone Wars CGI animated comic, "All good clones must come to an end" is now up on the LEGO.com Star Wars Homepage.One thing I noticed is that they didn't use the original tag-on ending that was in the script. So I thought I'd let to you see the original storyboards that I did for the end. Oh, that Nute Gunray and the wacky misadventures you get up to! Maybe my original end will be an "extra" on the DVD release of this (don't count on it). The LEGO.com Star Wars Homepage has all 18 episodes Clone Wars CGI animated comic up and and all but one were storyboarded by me. Check them out! And will there be more? Only time will tell...
Episodes by me:
LETHARGiC LAD ON
|
|||||||||||
In SPIN THE ISSUES, you have just become a Candidate for a Congressional Seat in your district. As issues are laid on your podium you must spin those issues to raise your popularity in the polls or take a decrease in the polls. Of course the media must have their say and they also can affect your standing in the polls by taking away spin or allowing you the audacity to take another turn.
This year I was asked to contribute some art for an event called 
First |
My new book, LETHARGiC LAD 2008, is now on sale exclusively here at lethargiclad.com. LETHARGiC LAD 2008 contains all the ll.com strips done in 2008 in one 46 page full colour book, in a format featuring one strip per page. The colour version of the book will be signed and numbered and limited to a run of 50 copies. Also, an area on the cover has been left blank for me to do an original Lethargic Lad sketch. Copies of the Limited Edition of LETHARGiC LAD 2008 are $20.00 with shipping included to anywhere in Canada or the U.S. Feel free to use the handy PayPal button to buy a copy!: |
 |
And if you want to pay the old fashioned way, send a check or money order made payable to "Greg Hyland" for $20 to:
60 East Ave. N
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8L 5H5
Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery (I'm sure you've bought stuff off the internet before... you know the drill!). Be sure to e-mail me if you have any questions.
*I will have a better system up soon for buying books, especially if you want to buy copies Lethargic Lad 2007 and LETHARGiC LAD: TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE. E-mail me if you do want to buy both right now. Also, scroll down the page to buy Lethargic Lad 2007 and LETHARGiC LAD: TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE
LETHARGiC LAD JUMPS ON THE BANDWAGON
SECRET LEGO AGENT MAN
Over the last year or so, besides all the LEGO Clone Wars work I've been doing, I also got to do comics for the boxes of LEGO's Agents 2.0 line. And unlike the comics I did for LEGO Batman, my comics are on the front of the boxes this time!Agents is LEGO's own line of James Bond-like secret agent spies who fight against a great assortment of crazy villains, my favorite being the slime-faced Dr. D. Zaster!
I did comics for five different sets- 4-Wheeling Pursuit (with the crazy Dr. D. Zaster!), Aerial Defense Unit, Gold Tooth's Getaway, River Heist, and my favorite set, Robo Attack, featuring a great bubble-domed giant robot! These sets are showing up in stores in Canada and the U.S. and are now available in the Agents section of LEGO Shop@Home.
Besides doing the comics for the boxes, I storyboarded a couple TV commercials for the Agents sets, and I was also asked to do some preliminary designs for how the photos on the boxes should look. The picture to the left is for the Robo Attack set (you might notice that the robot's arms are somewhat different than how the set ended up- this set in particular went though many changes!). So I ended up being involved with the Agents 2.0 sets a lot more than I had with LEGO Batman or LEGO Spongebob, and it was a lot of fun. If I can't do any more LEGO Batman, the Agents is the next best thing (unless I get to do some work on my favorite new LEGO line that I have nothing to do with, Space Police!).
BRICKJOURNAL
On sale now is the new issue of BrickJournal Magazine, which is the first print magazine entirely created by LEGO enthusiasts. Since this magazine started as a PDF downloadable magazine in 2005 I have been involved with it. In February 2008 it became a fully printed magazine, and I've been asked to continue contributing new AFOLs comics for every issue.
Also, two issues of note are BrickJournal #2 and, the most recent issue, BrickJournal #4. Issue 2 features two full page LEGO Indiana Jones illustrations by me. For issue #4 I wrote an article about Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica Minimates, which are some of my favorite non-LEGO toys!
BrickJournal #4 is on sale now at fine book stores everywhere, or order anyof the issues though the BrickJournal Magazine website. You can order either as print copies or as a downloadable PDF files. Also, feel free to browse the BrickJournal archives to read some articles, including several of my AFOLs comics. Check it out!
And speaking of AFOLs comics...
This is sort of old news, but I was just remeinded that LEGO's own LEGOfan website uses several of my AFOLs comics as topic headers and host the PDF downloads of the comic book. Take a look in the Getting Started section to read some o the AFOLs strips and the Links section for the AFOLs PDF downloads.
BACK TO HELL WITH YOU!
My favorite game is back! After being sold out for quite a while, Steve Jackson Games has reprinted Burn In Hell, and this time with a couple a nifty updates, like score pad and pencil and an updated Saddam Hussien biography (something "happened" to him since the game first came out). The reprint should be in stores by March, and can be ordered from Warehouse 23.Don't forget my other games, Chez Guevara, Cowpoker, , Munchkin Fu and Munchkin Fu 2, Ninja Burger and Ninja Burger 2. They can all be ordered from Warehouse 23, the offical Steve Jackson Games store.
ART FOR SALE!
For Visions of an Icon, over 100 Canadian comic artists were asked to draw their version of Superman. The art was donated by me and the money made from the auction is to raise money for the Joe Shuster Awards.
Auction ends December 2nd!
UPDATE: The auction is over, and my piece raise $51. Not bad!
Here's a picture of my piece along side contibutions by fellow Canadians, Dave Sim, Tom Grummett and Todd McFarlane!
WHO WANTS TO SEE SOME PICTURES OF ZOMBIES?
Almost a year later, the book is finally out! However... not with the orignal illustrations I provided. The pictures needed to be shrunk down so small, that my original pictures became nothing more than smudges. I was asked to redo the pictures, making them more ledgeble for the size they'd be printed at. Anyway, I thought the people of the internet might like to see some of my original unpublished zombie pictures:
The pictures are meant as icons for the section that rates over 300 zombie movies. They're for ratings like Avoid, Watch At Own Risk, So Bad It's Good and Thumbs Up (can you guess which one is Thumbs Up?).I also did a design for the cover, based on an idea by Glenn, of a theater full of zombies watching a zombie movie (I chose White Zombie). Unfortunately, the publisher didn't approve it.
Also, Glenn's first book, Disaster Movies: A Loud, Long, Explosive, Star-Studded Guide to Avalanches, Earthquakes, Floods, Meteors, Sinking Ships, Twisters, Viruses, Killer Bees, Nuclear Fallout, and Alien Attacks in the Cinema!!!, which also has (much bigger) illustrations by me, is still on sale!
LETHARGiC LAD 2007
|
My new book, LETHARGiC LAD 2007, is now on sale exclusively here at lethargiclad.com. LETHARGiC LAD 2007 contains all the ll.com strips done in 2007 in one 46 page full colour book, in a format featuring one strip per page. The colour version of the book will be signed and numbered and limited to a run of 100 copies. Also, an area on the cover has been left blank for me to do an original Lethargic Lad sketch. Copies of the Limited Edition of LETHARGiC LAD 2007 are $20.00 with shipping included to anywhere in Canada or the U.S. Feel free to use the handy PayPal button to buy a copy!: |
 |
And if you want to pay the old fashioned way, send a check or money order made payable to "Greg Hyland" for $20 to:
60 East Ave. N
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8L 5H5
Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery (I'm sure you've bought stuff off the internet before... you know the drill!). Be sure to e-mail me if you have any questions.
A future regular black & white edition will also be released later this year, and premeired at SPX in October.
*I will have a better system up soon for buying books, especially if you want to buy both Lethargic Lad 2007 and LETHARGiC LAD: TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE. E-mail me if you do want to buy both right now.
SPONGEBOB GOES TO THE HOSPITAL
The comic is on the box, but I've been told that a larger version of it can be found in the instruction booklet in the European versions of this set!
Remember that the new LEGO Batman™ sets with my comics are still out. There are four new sets, featuring a cool assortment of villains (including a nifty new Harley Quinn mini figure and Dark Knight movie inspired Batman figures), and sets at a lower price point.
The four new sets are Batman's Buggy: The Escape of Mr. Freeze™, The Tumbler™: Joker's Ice Cream Surprise (with a pretty accurate looking Batman Begins and Dark Knight movie Tumbler Batmobile... however, no creepy smudgy faced Joker), Robin's Scuba Jet: Attack of the Penguin™ (at last, a cheaper way to get a Robin and Penguin minifigure), and what I think will be the best selling of the group, because of the Harley Quinn figure, The Batcycle™: Harley Quinn's Hammer Truck.
The Batman sets are all available on LEGO Shop@Home, and in all good toy stores (you know the ones).
FAN FOR LIFE!
Mike Engel is Lethargic Lad's
#1 fan!
A few weeks ago, Mike e-mailed me to see if I did commision artwork (which I don't normally do). But when he said it was for a tattoo, I said definatly! He wanted to use a panel from Lethargic Lad #1 where Lethargic Lad is eating cereal and reading the box (a page that Mike also owns the original art), but he wanted Lethargic Lad reading a comic book and slightly smiling, so he needed the panel redrawn slightly. And with a little less cross-hatching to reduce the pain! I said I'd be happy to do it, and I'd do it for free because, in my oppinion, Mike was going to end up paying for it in other ways than merely financial!
I sent off the artwork and this week I got this picture. I have to say, I'm both honoured and horrified that Mike has done this!
So... who's next?
ALIENS, SOCKS AND ME
For the last few months I've been helping my friend, John McCormack, with illustrations for the packaging of his new vinyl toy, Voyage of the Alien Space Cadet. The toy is sceduled for a mid-April release, but you can read an interview with John at ToysREvil's I Like Toys blog, where I'm even mentioned! I did the illustrations for the box and a booklet that will come with the toy. And I also did the Flash intro on the official Space Cadet website. I'll be sure to have updates when the figure is available for sale!
LETHARGiC LAD:
TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE
ON SALE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
TOPICS OF UNCLEAR INPORTANCE contains 184 pages and prints pretty much all of the ll.com strips featured on-line since April 2000. That's over 370 Lethargic Lad strips, with material that has already been featured in the three Lethargic Lad Annuals, and material that has never seen print before. Also, the books contains all the Lethargic Lad's Rogues Gallery comics, that were originally featured in DORK TOWER.
| Copies of LETHARGiC LAD: TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE are $25.00 with shipping included to anywhere in Canada or the U.S. Feel free to use the handy PayPal button to buy a copy! |
And if you want to pay the old fashioned way, send a check or money order made payable to "Greg Hyland" for $25 to:
60 East Ave. N
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8L 5H5
Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery (I'm sure you've bought stuff off the internet before... you know the drill!). Be sure to e-mail me if you have any questions.
John Kovalic and I decided that we will do this book instead of the Jumbo-Sized Annual this year. It's been nice to have all this material in one book. It's basically everything I've done with Lethargic Lad from the last seven years. Fans have been asking for a book that reprinted the DORK TOWER strips, and LL Annual #1 & 2 are almost sold out, so this was the right thing to do.
GREG BABBLES ON A PODCAST
Eagle eyed Lethargic fans will remember Mike as the creator of the "Li'l Lethargic Lad" comic strips which ran in issues of the Lethargic Lad series! And be sure to check out Mike's new comic Pigtails & Potbellies at http://pigtailsandpotbellies.blogspot.com/.
SOME NEW SUPERSHEROES
I have an illustration that is appeaing in Steve Jackson Games new book GURPS Supers, the "super-powered adventure" expansion to GURPS. I was asked to draw some "cartoony" superheroes, and originally I thought about using some minor Lethargic Universe characters, but then I came up with a few new original characters, including Hamsterman, Viking Mucus Fist and Flaming Tor! I kind of like these goofy new characters enough that they just might start showing up in Lethargic Lad sometime soon!The book also has a cover by Dave Dorman, so it's cool to be included in a project with him again!
LEGO STAR WARS MURAL
The art was then slightly modified by LEGO designer Erik Varszegi and fed though a computer program that generated a giant "colour-by-numbers" grid map. Over 82,000 pieces were put on large grey baseplates, primarily by members of the Southern California LEGO Train Club, to create this:
The mural was displayed at Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles, and then at Star Wars Weekend @ LEGOLand California a couple weeks later:
I only wish that I could be at the show to see it in person! Thanks to all the people that worked over 190 hours to put this all together, and Steve Witt and Ace Kim for getting me involved in this (and again to Ace for the pictures!). For more information, and pictures from both shows, check out the From Bricks To Bothans LEGO Star Wars fansite!
LETHARGIC LAD IN NIHILIST-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS #1!
Lethargic Lad and Him are featured in the all new Nihilist-Man and his Amazing Friends #1, published by long-time ll.com friend, Al Nickerson and P.I.C.Toons Studios. The book features the Lethargic Lad/Him/ Nihilist-Man/ Buzzboy/ Hunter crossover, part of which was seen in Lethargic Lad Annual #2. The book also features stories (including a Nihilist-Man and E-Man team-up) by such creators as Joe Staton, Michael Kornstein, Fernando Ruiz, Brandon J. Carr, John Gallagher, Nick Cuti and the mystrious Steve Remen.To buy a copy, go to the ComiXpress store and check out this preview of the book!
PROJECT WONDERFUL
INTERVIEW WITH A GREG
BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT:
LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #1, #2 & #3 NOW ON SALE IN LETHARGIC STORE!
Each copy of LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #1, LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #2 or LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #3 are $5.00 each, postage included! Send check or money order payable to "Greg Hyland" to:
60 East Ave. N
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8L 5H5
LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #1 is 48 pages and collects over 100 cartoons from lethargiclad.com, as well as a new four page Lethargic Lad story.
2003 LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #2, another giant 48 page annual, reprints over a years worth of comic strips originally featured right here on lethargiclad.com. See Lethargic Lad fight villains like the Evil Smiley Face Guy and Ghoulita, Goddess of the Dancing Dead, and Dark Green Boy, while finding time to see Attack of the Clones, read Harry Potter and visit the Mount Doom Shopping Plaza.
2005 LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #3, the third giant 48 page annual, reprints over a years worth of comic strips originally featured right here on lethargiclad.com. See Lethargic Lad encounter computer- generated monsters, fight Wolf-mans and Draculas, and face the evil Professor Monkeyhead. Plus, we reprint the first "Lethargic Lad's Rogues Gallery" stories from out of print issues of DORK TOWER.
But the most exciting (to me at least!) new feature of the book is the LETHARGiC COMICS, WEAKLY 2005 section, where all the original "Lethargic Comics, Weakly" artists, Brian Lemay, Luc Latulippe, John Migliore and Steve Remen return in one book for the first time in fourteen years, with new material featuring Guy-With-A-Gun, The Zit, Walrus-Boy, Him, and, of course, Lethargic Lad!
Now that the Annuals are out, I'll no longer be offering the "ll.com Print Out Books" for sale.
ALL-NEW "LETHARGIC LADS" T-SHIRT ON SALE NOW!
An all-new "Lethargic Lads" t-shirt is now on sale, thanks to the t-shirt producing robots of Cafepress.com. The t-shirt, featuring all of Lethargic Lad's incarnations with original art by Greg Hyland, can be purchsed for $16.99 through the new Lethargic Store at www.cafepress.com/lethargiclad.
Other items, such as baseball caps, coffee mugs and mouse pads, with new original designs, will be added soon. Other t-shirt designs are also on the way.
Click here for a larger look at the design! (a new window will open)
ORIGINAL ART FOR SALE
I've gotten a few e-mails recently asking if original Lethragic Lad art is for sale. Yes, pages from the comics and the LL.COM strips are all available.
If you are interested in buying any original art, e-mail me or send a letter with what page or strip you you'd like, and list two or three alternate choices (just in case I don't have them any more). Prices are:
$75 for any page from LETHARGiC LAD ADVENTURES, LETHARGiC LAD or for any cover (done by me).
$50 for any page from LETHARGiC COMICS, WEAKLY, LETHARGiC COMICS or TALES OF LETHARGY.
$50 for any LETHARGiC LAD.COM strip or cover.
Sined,
G. Hyland, Creepy Artist
Lethargic Lad
by
Greg Hyland
Nadine Wettlaufer
Proofreader
Technical Consultant
Lethargic World of Internet Fun
How Does This Site Work, Anyway?
Lethargic Links
Apparently there are other websites out there. Here's a really out of date list of just some of them!
"What's What in the Lethargic Universe"
A nifty guide to Lethargic Lad and the heroes and villains in the Lethargic Universe!
Frog Crisis
Greg Hyland's Shockwave animation. Will it ever get finished? Unlikely!
Gorilla Cover Comics
A record of comic book history, or a window into Greg Hyland's sad little life? You decide!
From Bricks to Bothans
Home of my Star Wars LEGO comics!
LETHARGiCLAD.COM IS A REGISTERED & BONDED MEMBER OF THE WIZARD DAD INTERNET COLLECTIVE
E-Mail us at greg@lethargiclad.com