Blood Cheese

Every time I try to use my Ikea cheese slicer I end up sinking the blade into the fleshy pad of my thumb. I'm growing accustomed to the sprinkling of my plasma on the perfectly even, gossamer slices of jarlsberg. If I ever do get the hang of the malignant tool, will I miss that? Will I... crave it?

Calamari Wrestler

A championship wrestling match pits Koji Taguchi against Crush Volcano, the latter no match for Koji’s signature move, the Torture Ring Strangler. Koji beams as he clutches the Champion Belt, only to have it snatched away by a mysterious new challenger in the ring—a giant squid! A giant squid, in fact, who not only evades Koji’s key attack, but destroys him with a Northern Light Suplex! Koji’s fiancée Miyako watches tearfully, though there’s something about this Calamari Wrestler that seems familiar to her…

The tentacled tackler is the hottest story in the Japanese sports press. The president of the Cho-Nippon wrestling team proposes a fixed match as a publicity stunt, but the honourable Calamari Wrestler will hear nothing of it. Wrongfully banned from the sport, he retreats to the Monhonji Temple to train and meditate, where a young reporter tracks him down and begins to unravel his enigma. But the squid’s problems are just beginning—treacherous businessmen, unrequited love and the wrestling-ring menace of the Octopus Wrestler and the insectoid Squilla Boxer await!

Directed by Minoru Kawasaki. Playing at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montréal, July 1st to Augusy 8th.

Housewarming

Well, I've successfully moved to a new apartment and I'm back online (no phone yet, though).
Majestic #3 is underway. I always forget how debilitating it can be to work in a new space. Even my trusty pencil feels different - like the lead is trying to acclimatise itself to the air or the energy or whatever it is that separates this lonely little room from the one I just spent three years slaving in.
But now that I've moved, I'm officially announcing the newest addition to the Horhaus site... the Work Cam!
I tinkered with this a couple of weeks ago, but I decided to wait until I could point it directly at my table before going public with it. Perhaps sometime in the near future I'll buy a longer FireWire cable and show you the pages in progress, but until then feel free to check in on me and make sure your comic is being produced in a timely fashion. There's a permanent link to the Cam under my happy face on the right-hand side of this page...

Grant's head

Popimage have just unveiled a massive new interview with comics wunderkind Grant Morrison. I could go on here about Grant and all the intelligent, revolutionary stuff he's done, but you don't need me to tell you who he is, right? Right?

They not only tapped me for the above portrait, but were also kind enough to offer a home at long last for my poor old 'New X-men' pin-up!