So Buttons

So Buttons is a funny, heartwarming, relatable series featuring a murderers row of great artists. I write the stories (it's my life after all), and I tailor them to the strengths of the folks I work with. This issue is subtitled: Film School with Pekar's Pals and Mine If you don't know, Harvey Pekar was a guy who wrote auto-bio comics and hired different artists to interpret his stories. I follow that model. So... the inspiration for that subtitle is this. Last year, I met Joe Zabel, a longtime collaborator of Harvey Pekar's. I showed him my work and he agreed to do a story with me. And then he introduced me to Gary Dumm, and even longer collabber with Pekar. HE agreed to do a story. And then he introduced me to other co-conspirators Michael T. Gilbert and Brian Bram (not seen since American Splendor #2, 1977)! So… this issue is a split between Harvey's pals and my pals, and probably because of all the staying inside at home I did during the pandemic, it is a HEAVILY film-referenced issue. Before I wanted to call this series "So…", I wanted to call it "Film School" and this is the closest this book has been executed to that initial idea.