Fifteen Heart Attacks, p. 20-21, by Mike Hill!

The Fifteen Heart Attacks online jam lives on! One of my favorite ever cartoonists, Mike Hill, who lives in Western Pennsylvania (a part of the country I have learned to love), contributed the following. Thank you Mike for climbing aboard!

Fifteen Heart Attacks, p. 18-19

Two more pages for the ongoing online jam, Fifteen Heart Attacks.

Page 18 has spot illos by Jim Siergey, Chad Woody, Larned Justin, and Bruce Chrislip!

Page 19 is by yours truly.

[I can't seem to find Larned's email. Anyone out there have it handy?}

Fifteen Heart Attacks, p. 13-17

The Fifteen Heart Attacks jam is now online. I've set up a special page for it. The most recent contribution is by our friend in Chicago, Jim Siergey, who followed the setup created by Max Traffic.

My immediate goal before leaving for the Obscuro Bezango show next week is to add one more page to this ongoing effort.

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 12

By Maximum Traffic

This is last page of the unfinished jam for any of you who want to pick up the story from here

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 11

By Maximum Traffic

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 10

By Maximum Traffic

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 9

By Maximum Traffic.

"Fox News is crap-full of lies!" So true. Beautiful.

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 8

By Maximum Traffic

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 7

Page 7 by Maximum Traffic. Max tried to "draw" me into this jam by using some of the characters from my comix, such as the fellow in panel 3. The face came from a page in Brave New Nazis of the Inland Empire.

There's that "Bezango" word again. This morning I have been blurting "beZANG!-o" once in awhile for no apparent reason.

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 6

From this point on, all the pages are entirely written and drawn by the amazingly incredible creative ball of energy we know as Maximum Traffic. Students of Newave and Obscuro will notice what care he took to  mimic my drawing style in certain instances in order to have some sort of continuity in the inevitable anarchy of the open jam.

Max is a brilliant star in the comix universe. I am so glad I got to meet him in person last year at SPACE in Columbus, thanks to Bruce Chrislip and Bob Corby making my trip possible.

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 5

On page 5 I did the pencil work, lettering, and partially "inked" (felt tip) panel 1. Maximum Traffic completed the inking on panel 1 and entirely inked panel 2.

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 4

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 3

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 2

Gotta love that "What th--?!" phrase. No comix story should be without it.

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 1

Fifteen Heart Attacks was a story I began, I'm guessing, in 2009 or 2010. But life caught up to me and the project died. But I can present this unfinished piece in stages. Maximum Traffic got in on the act later. You'll see.

Morty the Dog's declaration on the splash page is a direct quote from the amazing Vincent Price in his very best movie, Theatre of Blood. Supposedly I actually uttered these lines when I came out of surgery while under the influence of pain killers on April Fool's Day, 1995.

One time in the late 1970s/early 1980s I woke up after a wild party and found myself behind a couch in the morning. That fond memory inspired this page.