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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 
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| 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.
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!
DORK TOWER #36
ON SALE APRIL 25th!
The all new issue of DORK TOWER will be on sale in finer comic stores everywhere April 25th!In this issue Kayleigh's back, and she's bending Sujata's ear. What does this mean for Ken's proposal? And how are the rest of the Dorks faring, the night before Mud Con 2007? Plus "Vosh, Slod and Bail Go To White Castle," a hilarious eight-page adventure for Kobolds Ate My Baby! All for the low low price of $3.49.
In the Lethargic Department, Lethargic Lad's Rouge's Gallery features a full three-page story, featuring the totalitarian villainy of The Leftist Gorilla! The funny thing about this story is that it's the conclusion of something I set up way back in Lethargic Lad #13, and it's taken me this long to finish it... so I hope it was worth the wait!
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
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GREG ILLUSTRATES ANOTHER DISASTER!
Coming this summer to a book store near you is 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!!! by my good friend Glenn Kay and featuring 12 illustrations by me. The book provides a history of the disaster movie genre, and has over 150 reviews of movies, from Titanic to The Night the World Exploded, and has an introduction by Mystery Science Theater 3000's Mike Nelson.Look for the book this August, or pre-order your copy from Amazon.com.
GAMES!
Remember,
Chez Guevara and Cowpoker, plus all my other games, Burn In Hell (listed as a Games magazine GAMES 100 game!), Munchkin Fu and Munchkin Fu 2, Ninja Burger and Ninja Burger 2 can all be ordered from Warehouse 23, the offical Steve Jackson Games store.
AFOLs #1
My newest comic project, AFOLs, is now available! What are "AFOLs?" AFOLs stands for "Adult Fans Of LEGO," and I was asked by the LEGO Group to write and draw this comic book to help explain what the adult LEGO building community does. Essentially the comic is "Dork Tower for LEGO fans."While this comic isn't on sale anywhere, copies have been given to LEGO clubs and organizations all over North America and Europe to be given out at various events, and I should have some copies at my public appearances, too.
The comic is also availble on line through the new LEGOfan.org website. There you can read it on-line or download it as a PDF and print out your own copy! And you can now download a German version, and a French, Italian, Dutch and Danish version are coming soon!
The reaction to the comic has been great! We hope that not only will we be able to do a second printing (all copies of the first printing have already been accounted for), but we hope to translate it into many different languages and then get to a second issue.
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
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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