Best Week: Guest Week 2

Posted on February 16, 2011 by davep

Chapter 2: Demonology is going to end in about a month. As was the case with the ending of Chapter 1, we will be hosting a guest week between Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. The guidelines are pretty simple, just make sure that the comic you create relates to JCD in some way, and please make all comics at least 2 panels in length. We will make sure to give full credit to all guest artist, as well as provide links to your personal site. To add, I’ll probably post some blog describing how wonderful you are and explaining why I love you so much.

If you would like to be a guest artist, please email me at dpembe01 at gmail dot com. We are going to accept submissions from anyone, artist or no, so please don’t hesitate to dive head first into the world of webcomics.

I love you all,

Dave P

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I will sell you things for dollars.

Posted on November 23, 2010 by davep

In response to the current economy, I have decided to sell out. All things posted on this site are now for sell, any pages or illustrations could be yours, for dollars! If you are interested in any piece of original JCD art, please contact us and we will work something out. Note that we draw in layers and add color and text digitally, which means that backgrounds are separate from  foreground characters. So if you purchase a page, then it will only be the characters without color. However, I am more than willing to edit the pages, and even draw you in AS A FRIGGEN CHARACTER. Yeah. Choke on that.

More so, I will also begin commissioned pieces. Prices negotiable depending on level of detail and work, however I promise to at least attempt a drawing of whatever you want me to draw.If things work out, I will expand this medium to include acrylic paintings. Holla.

Please contact dpembe01@gmail.com for more information if you are interested.

If Obama won’t give us change, we have to change for each other.

Dolla dolla bill, I gotsta get paid.

Dave P.

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Marvelous Mustache Factory

Posted on August 29, 2010 by dave

Recently, the great Phil McAndrew held a contest requesting entries of fantastic and unbelievable beards or mustaches.

Phil asked readers to “draw a picture of someone with a beard or mustache…I won’t simply be picking the most attractive drawing. I want everyone to have a shot at this. I’m going to be looking for creativity! I want to see some TOTALLY WILD beards and mustaches! Make me laugh! Make me fall out of my chair in awe of the facial hair you’ve dreamed up!”

The evening after reading this announcement on Phil’s blog, I drew out a quick picture of King Neptune:

To my amazment, ol’ Neptune was selected as one of two honorable mentions! To see all the other entries, please go here:

http://philintheblanks.com/blog/?p=471#comments

There are some really great illustrations and I encourage you to look at all of them, if you love beards that is. If you don’t, then please go die.

Love,

Dave P

P.S. Phil’s blog can be found here: http://philintheblanks.com/blog/ I highly suggest following it. Great illustrations, great watercolors, great mustaches.

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Guestweek

Posted on August 22, 2010 by dave

A few days ago I finished inking the last page of the first chapter of Joey Cheats Death. I have decided to turn a bit of my energy towards what is next, and that is Guestweek.

In between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, we will be posting guest strips from some of our friends on the internets (and in real life).
Currently, we are seeking submissions from EVERYONE IN EXHISTANCE, because we really want to have a wide variety of work. If you would be interested in doing a guest strip, whether you are an artist or not, please contact us.

We would love to have you.
Elitism be damned, I say! This is a short opportunity that we have to share the site with our friends and fans. We want the conversation between JCD and her few dedicated readers to be turned, and to allow all you out there to become a more active part of it.

We love you all,

Dave P

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13th

Posted on August 12, 2010 by dave

Our 13th page, posted on Friday the 13th on our one month anniversary, all an unplanned coincidence (surely the Devil is twisting the strings of fate to extend the haunting fame of Joey Cheats Death). Hail Satan.

I have enjoyed working on this much more than I assumed I would. I still have that giddy honey-moon feeling. Every time someone likes a page, retweets an update or sends in some fan art, I damn near explode my heart. I want to take a moment a say that this website would not exist if it weren’t for my friend and partner, James.  I mean this not only in the practical sense, that James does all the heavy lifting when it comes to computers/internets/electronics, but that James is the one who convinced me to plunge myself into the uncertain limbo that is web comics.

We were sitting in my apartment, for some megalomania’d reason I was regaling everyone with the basic plot points from Joey Cheats Death (originally a comic I had written in high school). Everyone laughed more than I expected, especially James. The next week I handed him page one, that night he bought the rights to Joeycheatsdeath.com. A few days later he emailed me the first page. We both worked furiously for the next two weeks, drawing and inking and interneting. Finally, nervously, we launched the site. Something I would not have done without James. He has supported me in every way imaginable, this comic is as much his as it is mine.

The page posted today is the first of a few planned splash panels, and if you look close enough you’ll find a hidden Easter egg which is sure to embarrass me for years to come. Thanks James.

We also launched the fan art section of our site with some great drawings from some great friends. We will be posting submissions as they come in, and we are currently planning on hosting a gallery of art I have done as a fan for other web-comics.

Finally, for those of you who have been with us from the start, thank you. We hope you enjoy where this macabre tale goes. For those of you who have just found us, thank you. We hope you stick with us and get a chuckle or two every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Love for totes,

Dave P

Cheers, y'all

P.S. If you ever need any web work done, please contact James at www.wpninjas.net

he is the best around, nothin gonna ever keep him down.

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Shea Butter

Posted on August 3, 2010 by dave

A few weeks ago, when a mixture of heat and boredom kick-started the gestation of a seed James had planted in my head, I met a girl named Shea. I was in Iowa at Build-a-thon, working on a home for a family of Sudanese Refugees, Shea was one of the construction leaders. We bonded quickly because she was the leader in a small minority of the construction workers whom did not make fun of my Elton John sunglasses. Her hair was a-symmetrical, she had a nose ring and Buddy Holly glasses. I just assumed he was a hipster.

We were talking one day while getting water before climbing rickety ladders to shingle the roof (I was sure she was flirting with me). I noticed that she was wearing a ring on her finger, with the word “slut” engraved atop it. I pointed out the ring and assured her that, though I had known her for such a short time, I disagreed with her jewelry. She placed a gentle hand on my cheek, called me a deer sweet southern boy, and told me that the main thing the two of us had in common was the pursuit of sex. With women.

That night we went to a bar, and I realized that one person group that I loved and, sadly, had not been exposed too much in the Bible Belt, was Lesbians. They are awesome.

In the original JCD, Joey’s room mate was Alex, a character based on me, who never took of his aviator sunglasses. When I rewrote the story of “Oh! Self Righteous Fools!”  I replaced Alex’ sunglasses with sleeves of tattoos and that red dot you see everyone wearing in “The Darjeeling Limited.” As I drew up the characters for the web-comic, a few days after getting home from Build-a-thon, I decided to base the room mate on Shea. Like I said, I love lesbians (not pornographically, but socially). Che is a tribute to her, but also to a deep seeded desire I have to gather up gay friends. I think the LGBT society has been terribly under represented in the South (maybe by fear of shot-guns), so that probably has something to do with it.

This is all, most likely, a subconscious rebellion against Bill O’Riely. For our Yankee readers, consider the South one big “no-spin” zone. Incept THAT. Bitches.

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The Necronomicon

Posted on July 20, 2010 by dave

My favorite movie is The Evil Dead 2. When I was writing “Oh! Self Righteous Fools” I used the Necronomicon to advance the plot as a head nod to the film. Little did I know that the book is a fictitious item notably created by the horrifying H.P. Lovecraft.  It was first mentioned in Lovecraft’s 1924 short story “The Hound”, written in 1922, though its purported author, the “Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft’s “The Nameless City”.There was a possible reference to the book in “The Statement of Randolph Carter” (published in 1920) though it was not called by name. Among other things, the work contains an account of the Old Ones, their history, and the means for summoning them.

In the Joey Cheats Death universe, the Necronomicon is the book of the dead, serving as a kind of link between the living and the damned. Lovecraft wrote that the title, as translated from the Greek language, meant “an image of the law of the dead.”

So it makes sense that Joey would use the Necronomicon in his quest to cheat death. Take THAT, Bill Nye.

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In the begining

Posted on July 15, 2010 by dave

Joey Cheats Death is an idea I had in high school, late one night while watching Adult Swim. The first character I drew was Death, everything kind of came from that. I was reading a lot of Russian realism at the time, I think Gogol would have liked the idea of Death being a child. Its just so damned cruel.

At first it was just a self published zine that I passed out in high school and at local record shops in Denver. I wrote three issues before I got burned out. Maybe some of you have read the original JCD comics, if so then hopefully this webcomic will be like visiting an old friend. For all the new readers that might stumble upon this macabre mish-mash of low-ball jokes and bright colors, I am humbled by your presence. I sincerely hope you enjoy my stab in the dark approach to humor. Please stay with us and watch as the story develops, I promise that it won’t all be testicular cancer jokes. Honest injun.

Love,

Dave P

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