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Crowdfunding Corner: Bob Fingerman’s That’s Some Business You’re In

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That’s Some Business You’re In

That’s Some Business You’re In is essential for any fan of Bob Fingerman’s work, this career memoir details his 40 years of toiling in comics, and boasts a huge amount of art, much of which is presented for the first time and scanned from the originals. Take a trip through the beloved cartoonist’s artistic journey — and buy some of his rarely offered original art or signed comics while you’re at it!

Blessed and cursed with a memorably comical name, Bob Fingerman was fated to be a cartoonist. And that’s what he’s done with his life since the moment he could first grasp a crayon! 2024 is a milestone for Fingerman: his 40th anniversary of working professionally as a writer and artist. Starting his career, in 1984, working for the legendary Harvey Kurtzman on the short-lived humor anthology, NUTS!, then cutting his teeth as a regular for Cracked magazine, continuing on through the sewers of adult publications, and along the way working for pretty much every comic publisher (Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Archie, Eclipse, Fantagraphics, Dark Horse, Heavy Metal, IDW, etc.), Fingerman has cut a curious swath through Comicdom with his idiosyncratic style and scripts.

That’s Some Business You’re In is a career-spanning art book, brimming with content that even though old will be new to most readers. Plus, tons of recent art. It also is a damned good read, with a foreword by Bill Sienkiewicz, then starting with a detailed career memoir, and followed by individual sections highlighting and elaborating on specific topics and phases, from student years, to his time as “one of the usual gang of idiots” in MAD magazine, to his signature works like Minimum Wage, Recess Pieces, and the more recent Dotty’s Inferno.

Boasting a huge amount of art, much of which is presented for the first time scanned from the originals, warts and all, “Artist’s Edition” style, as well as archival materials and tear sheets, That’s Some Business You’re In is essential for any fan of Fingerman’s work, and also for those unacquainted, as a deep dive to whet their appetites for more!

Preview: Dotty’s Inferno by Bob Fingerman

Dotty’s Inferno by Bob Fingerman

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As the goggle-eyed philosophical Frenchman once wrote, “Hell is other people.” Meet Dotty. In life, she was a call girl. In death, she’s been damned to work in Hell’s Inhuman Resources department, New Male Arrivals Division, assigning wayward souls their crummy afterlives. For eternity. All the same, Dotty spends more time away from her desk on odd jobs and adventures, be they fetching Cerberus from Hell’s dog pound to licking psychotropic toads’ heads and tripping ballz. Forever is a long time, so one might as well make the best of a hellish situation. From the pages of Heavy Metal and Soft Wood, with five never-before-seen stories, Dotty’s Inferno is a roasty romp by Mad Magazine contributor and Minimum Wage creator Bob Fingerman.

Dotty’s Inferno Bonus Material: Pinups by Comics Legends!
Also included in Dotty’s Inferno is a bonus gallery featuring “pin-ups” by John Cebollero, Howard Chaykin, Dave Johnson, Mike Mignola, Dan Panosian, and Bill Sienkiewicz!

Dotty's Inferno by Bob Fingerman

Heavy Metal Announces a New Creator-Owned Imprint, Virus

We can debate the name of the new line of comics but Heavy Metal is diving into the world of creator-owned comics with a new imprint, Virus.

The first comics from the new venture launch April 29 with eight stories and new titles will arrive every Wednesday going forward.

Virus will feature comics from Ron Marz, Bob Fingerman, and many more. Four titles launching next week are The Red (by Rosenblum, Medney, Bownz, Hander, and Lam)Nomobots (by Agrimbau and Tumburus)Hymn of the Teada (by Medney, Rosenblum, Mechler, Fung, Pinchuk, and Bownz), and Garbage Factory (by Jakofire and Kim).

Heavy Metal is also positioning the imprint as unique and “revolutionary” as the compensation offered to creators is 15% of the sticker price, “whether they sell one book or 10,000.” ComiXology submit offers 50% of the net sale of a title (after they pay their mobile distributors their standard fees).  If your title is sold through the comiXology website, you will receive 50% of the gross sale after credit card fees are taken out (credit card processing fees range from 1.5% to 2.9% for swiped credit cards). In the announcement they hinted they are looking to host comics from other publishers building a new digital platform.

Check out covers for those below.

Also released was artwork from Bob Fingerman’s upcoming Dotty’s Inferno.

(via SyFy)