Woo!! This page was a BEAST. Hats off to the color warriors who took this on after I spent two days drawing it. This thing is chock-full of bearictures.
If you are wondering if you are one of the bearicatures on these pages, will email those who have appeared so far soon and send them a larger image of themselves. If you are just dying to know, email me and I will try to get back and let you know if your suspicions are correct.
I just posted a new art piece on eBay. Another take on the octobear. This thing will be live for bidding for 5 days, then the highest bidder gets it. Thanks in advance to all who bid.
I also posted this Axe Cop piece yesterday.
I have been kicking around a lot of thoughts lately. As a lot of you know, during the hiatus, Axe Cop got a TV series on FOX. Also, I two other optioned TV shows at Cartoon Network that have just begun to demand some of my time. On top of that I am trying to keep Bearmageddon alive, post a weekly Axe Cop page AND finish this print-exclusive Axe Cop miniseries. The only thing out of all of those things that is really making me money right here and now is the miniseries, the rest I do with high hopes. So, as things get more insane I am trying to figure out how to manage it all. I am probably going to have to go to one page a week on Bearmageddon. Maybe for the rest of the story, maybe just for a while. I will get it done, but I just need to be able to get other stuff done, and I want to put all the love I can into every page as I have so far. Once I get the Axe Cop miniseries done I may have breathing room to do more Bearmageddon. I may even try a kickstarter campaign of some sort. I have a lot of thoughts kicking around. I’ll decide by next week what I will do. In any case, thanks for sticking with me and keeping up with my comic. I love it and it’s exciting every time I post a new page. As a thanks, here is a desktop wallpaper of the mall carnage on today’s page:
See you here Friday as the bear drama continues!
Ethan
Discussion (54) ¬
“Give the gift of a TEDDY BEAR”
Frickin’ BRILLIANT!
Agreed, I liked the touch.
I am glad that yours was the first post–this needed to be stated IMMEDIATELY.
What would those two Cartoon Network shows be?
secret one and secret two 🙂
I hear it gets better by Secret Three.
Chumblespuzz?
they are totally new projects I pitched, nothing related to any of my existing comics.
Hey man, loving the new pages! Keep up the good work, and we’ll take what we can get – so take your time 🙂
Sexy Ester? That’s a cool band name. I should steal it!
Considering Ethan gave us colorists a reference photo for the band, I’m fairly certain the name is already taken.
Isn’t that also somebody’s name (probably a band member then) in the comment section here?
Yeah, I figured that our Sexy Ester paid for a bearicature!
Well, they’re all dead now so I guess the name is up for grabs!!
I want to shop at Tangent
I found Waldo, but why is he wearing a blue shirt?
forget the stripes, waldo (and everyone else for that matter) should be in Red shirts
I love the guy who, when his rock concert is being attacked by bears, does not run, does not hide, but screams: “HELLZ YEAH!”
I can imagine how hard it is to juggle so many projects. It’s even harder when there is no guarantee of a paycheck. Do what you need to do and we will all keep reading.
I do think you would do very well with a Kickstarter campaign though because a big part of it is having an existing audience of which you have a big one. There are 6 comic project on there right now that are all over 50K and counting. I see it as a perfect opportunity for creators as ourselves to finally get funding for our own visions.
THEY’RE KILLING DOGS NOW? Any remaining sympathy for the bears should be gone now.
FYI, last two panels had exactly their intended effect on me. *throat tightens thinking about it again*
I love the sign on the upper right corner that says “Give the gift of a Teddy Bear.” Classic, haha.
this page rawks “HELLZ YEAH!!”
Must save Louis!
No, but I found the Canadian!
I will admit I was cursing Ethan’s name coloring the first two panels on this page.
Hellz Yeah! So awesome. That made my day. Thanks Ethan!
sheesh, bears are mean.
Lovin it, but I can live with 1/week just fine if it means you can stay afloat. Good luck in all your projects!
WERE THE HECK IS WALDO?????
Hellz Yeah?
Hellz Yeah!
HELLZ YEAH!
HELLZ YEAH!
“Give the Gift of a Teddy Bear” I love it!
Also love that very drunk guy in the concert picture who’s clearly enjoying all the bear action.
I feel bad for the bear in the far upper left corner of panel one. All he wanted was a Joan Didion memoir.
I figured Louis would be okay since their dad has that Marine training, but oh shit…
First, I love the face-off between the bear and the dude in the foreground of panel one.
Second, I expect Joel to rip his face off, -be a robot-, and then fly away to go save his brother.
Hmm . . . Bears vs. Robots. Sounds like a good CN series if you ask me . . . or perhaps the name of a band . . .
My hat’s off to the guy who paid to have his bulldog put down by a bear. It really expands the variety of victims. Very nice.
Also, that “Give the gift of a teddy bear”? My kind of humor, right there. I’ll head over to my local Tangent or Wow Mart and grab one right now.
Ethan, please take care of yourself. I look forward to more AxeCop and Bearmageddon in whatever forms they take, but if you don’t stay healthy and end up burning yourself out, everybody loses. So go 1/week with BM, do what you have to do. Sleep
I was about to say the exact same thing myself. No need to needlessly burn the candle at both ends, so to speak.
This page is drenched in too much awesome.
Is that a Troll 2 reference in the first panel?
I dunno, if it was I think he’d be standing comically still and staring at the scene around him.
My vote says that chuckles stalls a bear long enough for louis and his dad to get to safety.
NYOAUGH is my new catchphrase.
go CBC! did somebody pay for that logo? 😉
Are the bears violent to other animals?
Are they violent to human pets?
Is this case just an isolated one, for sake of an commission?
Maybe the bear is trying to save the dog from its human captor!
Ahahaha! I just noticed the swift foot sign on my desktop background. Great little reference to switch foot without copyright problems.
my girlfriend loves Taylor Swift and Switchfoot, so that was for her 🙂
It makes in even better that it’s a band name hybrid.
Wow, that’s frightening. I can imagine to fight an army of aliens, demons, vampires, zombies or antiracists, but an army of bears ?!
Antiracists? Lolwut’s an antiracist…?
How about alien demon vampire zombie bears? Yeah, they’d just rip you up like the normal ones, I guess. Like a flesh pinata full of soft candy.
Bears, endangered? Pfft.
Our drummer actually left the band for a while sometime after this page was posted. We used to joke that our old drummer was eaten by a bear! He did come back, though, so I guess he managed to survive.