Melvins Box Set Released!

UPDATE:
from the Hydra Head Blog:

"Also, this happened to some of the Melvins comics...

When Tom went through signing and numbering the comics for the Melvins box set, he went and got all clever and did shit like this...which makes us just want to keep them all ourselves...instead we just took pics of each one and cataloged the images for safe keeping...we'll post more down the road. This Horse image here is in the batch that Secret Headquarters is sitting on right now...and no, we're not gonna tell you what number it is. Roughly 1 out of every 6 has a unique drawing in the comic...there are talking Juicy Juice boxes, black metal dudes yelling "Elton John!", knights and castles, and piles upon piles of other sketches including, as you can see above, some of the characters from "Your Disease Spread Quick".
"

The Melvins Box Set with my comic book "Your Disease Spread Quick" is released today exclusively through Secret Headquarters in L.A.

From SHQ:

Its here!
Melvins
"A Senile Animal"
Box Set
(4xLP, comic, belt buckle, limited to 300)
exclusively available
at
Secret Headquarters
of
Los Angeles, CA.
Starting today!
Accepting orders via email ONLY

Send email with "Melvins" in the subject line to:

shq@TheSecretHeadquarters.com

Include address and telephone number in the body of the email.
We will contact you once we receive your email.
Limit one per customer.

Price: $90
Shipping West Zone: $20
Shipping Mid Zone: $25
Shipping East Zone: $30

International rates on request

Don't call us - we'll call you.
We will not be accepting ANY phone orders - please follow the email instructions above.
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This is really upsetting me.

Hollywood really needs to be stopped!

"Universal Pictures has made a splashy preemptive buy of "Moby Dick," a reimagining of the Herman Melville whale tale that Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted") will direct. Studio paid high six figures to Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to pen the screenplay.

The writers revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab’s obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain.

This change will allow them to depict the whale’s decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab’s Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.

"Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s ‘Moby Dick,’ " Cooper said. "This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story."

..."We wanted to take a graphic novel sensibility to a classic narrative," said Collage. They brought it to the Wibberlys, the "National Treasure" scribes ..."

What the hell is wrong with these people?

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Melvins Box Set

It's finally almost nearly out!

Read about it at the Hydra Head Blog.

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Interview on Indie Spinner Rack

When I was at Heroes Con in Charlotte North Carolina this summer, I met Charlito and Mr. Phil of the Indie Spinner Rack radio podcast. They asked me to do a joint interview with my pal Jim Rugg during the convention. It happened on Sunday when I was sleep-deprived and losing my voice and not really thinking all that clearly... But anyway, it's not as bad as I expected it to be.

Our interview starts several minutes into this show (after a long bus-ride conversation about Starbucks and Japanese Engrish between Charlito and some other people in the Heroes Con shuttle). I talk about The Blot, the Melvins book, my big sculpture and other stuff.

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Another great review of "Your Disease Spread Quick" and "Brilliantly Ham-fisted" comes from comics critic Rob Clough:

"Neely's artistic style makes for an interesting series of contrasts. He draws much of his inspiration from classic animation and comics from around the 1920s, and his comics have a rubbery, cartoony quality that draws the reader to its surface qualities. At the same time, he subverts reader expectations with images that are often gruesomely visceral. Another trope of his is his use of ink blots. These blots have multiple meanings, depending on the context, but generally represent both creation and destruction. Neely also has an extensive background in fine arts, and as a result his comics have a tension between the flow between panels & pages and the powerful single image."

Read the rest of the review here.

(The article also includes reviews of two other books by Rina Ayuyang and Jonathan Baylis)

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Two Great Reviews!

Comics critic Sean T. Collins reviews my Melvins comic book " Your Disease Spread Quick."

"Tom Neely is working the most fruitful vein of horror-slash-artcomics since Al Columbia."

And he also gives a mostly positive review of my collection of comic strip poems "Brilliantly Ham-fisted."

"...this collection of "19 comic strip poems" ... boasts some very strong work, including among them some of my favorite comics of the year."

I still don't know the release date for the Melvins Boxset, but it should be any day now.

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