During those heady mid-1990s, Seattle's The Stranger (which has employed, at times, a slew of comics-related folks, from co-founder James Sturm, to former art directors Jason Lutes, Joe Newton, and Dale Yarger, and columnists like Tom Spurgeon and yours truly) was a hotbed for local cartooning. Strips would come and go and you could always count on the paper's back page for some quality cartoons. One of my all-time favorite Stranger strips was a short-lived feature by Jeremy Eaton, called Jackass. This surreal gem featured a disembodied head at the mercy of Eaton's imagination, and the results were always a great blend of humor, Dada, and handsome cartooning.

The reason I mention the strip is that Eaton has written a pretty great post-mortem of the strip, ten years later, featuring everything you could possibly hope to learn about Eaton's process along the way. Once you're done reading it, go buy the collection from our own Jason T. Miles' press, Drink Me.  

 

Jeremy Eaton is selling all of his original art at half the going rate for one week only, including beautiful pieces like this one: 

 

He's also previewing new work here.

Go read: Jeremy Eaton on how he almost had the chance to revamp a Marvel icon: Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham. 

 

Jeremy Eaton wants to pitch George Clooney on a biopic about the Marvel Bullpen. George, have your people call me, I'll set up the meeting. Meanwhile, Eaton's "Criminals of the Art World" series of paintings are rather brilliant, aren't they? 

Read it here.

 

Jeremy Eaton surveys the just-ended R. Crumb show at Seattle's Frye Museum. It was amazing having that Crumb show up for the last two months or so. It felt like we were living in a parallel universe where Crumb was a more ubiquitous artistic presence in this town than Dale Chihuly. The amount of books by R. Crumb that were purchased in this town over the last two months is going to cause ripples that will reverberate for generations. In 2020, everyone in Seattle will look like this guy.

Courtesy Jeremy Eaton:

My good friend, Jeremy Eaton, has launched a blog, and you must read it now, immediately, if only for the current post, "How the Hulk Almost Got Me Laid," which is easily the greatest comics-related blog post I've read in ages. And I have no doubt this is just the tip of the iceberg. Bookmark now.

Jeremy Eaton is collaborating with outsider musician Willy Blanefield III over at Blanefield's MySpace page, with Eaton providing illustrations for each of Blanefield's mercurial songs (with titles such as "Retarded" and "We Burned Frank Sinatra"). Meanwhile, Eaton is selling the originals over at Comic Art Collective, including this amazing Shaft-as-literal-sex-machine Kirby homage.