Save 16% on your order if you buy Candorville books this week straight from Lulu.com Just be sure to use coupon code “EARTH” during check-out. This sale only lasts until Friday, so now’s a good time to go to the Candorville store at Lulu and complete your collection.
Listen to me talk about my work, the industry, Star Trek, Fringe, & what it’s like to draw a week of cartoons in one day on the Wacom Cintiq, at Tall Tale Radio. I also reveal a huge change taking place in my other comic strip, “Rudy Park.”
Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? Make yourself feel better by getting your copy of the all new, FIFTH Candorville collection: RUN! (Vampires, Werewolves, “The One That Got Away” and Other Demons). This is the largest collection to date, with 800+ comics.
INSIDE:In the fifth collection of the syndicated newspaper comic strip Candorville, by Darrin Bell, Lemont’s new success as the Chronicle’s Senior White House Correspondent may be short-lived; as a startling revelation about his evil fiancee propels him and Dr. Noodle on a hilariously perilous journey to the heart of Mexico, where they face bloodthirsty demons, vampires, werewolves, and drug cartels.
At home, in honor of the 1st black President, C-Dog summons the ghost of Richard Pryor for advice on how to stop saying the “N” word. He finds himself on the run, impersonating Lemont on his book tour to hide from the insanely huge brother of a girl he’s wronged. And as Susan makes a life-altering pact with her backstabbing assistant, Lemont travels back in time to the Hammer-Time Nineties to help his younger self seduce “The One That Got Away.”
This 204-page large-format book contains over 800 comics and it’s been scientifically proven that it’ll take more than a year to read, if you only read it when you’re in the bathroom!
To get it faster:
Order it directly from the publisher through this button:
PAPERBACK: $19.95
If you have $10 extra, and can wait 4 weeks for delivery, you can order the Artist’s Edition, which comes autographed, can be personalized, and includes an original sketch on the title page. It will also be stamped and numbered, and only 250 will be sold. You can purchase the Artist’s Edition through this button:
AUTOGRAPHED – $30
(s&h included)
You can also complete your collection by getting the first FOUR Candorville books!
Just in time for Christmas (or the War on Christmas), comes the SIXTH Candorville collection: RUN! (Vampires, Werewolves, “The One That Got Away” and Other Demons). This is the largest collection to date, with 800+ comics.
INSIDE:In the fifth collection of the syndicated newspaper comic strip Candorville, by Darrin Bell, Lemont’s new success as the Chronicle’s Senior White House Correspondent may be short-lived; as a startling revelation about his evil fiancee propels him and Dr. Noodle on a hilariously perilous journey to the heart of Mexico, where they face bloodthirsty demons, vampires, werewolves, and drug cartels.
At home, in honor of the 1st black President, C-Dog summons the ghost of Richard Pryor for advice on how to stop saying the “N” word. He finds himself on the run, impersonating Lemont on his book tour to hide from the insanely huge brother of a girl he’s wronged. And as Susan makes a life-altering pact with her backstabbing assistant, Lemont travels back in time to the Hammer-Time Nineties to help his younger self seduce “The One That Got Away.”
Candorville, which has been called “this generation’s Doonesbury,” appears in over 100 papers. This 204-page large-format book contains over 800 comics and it’s been scientifically proven that it’ll take more than a year to read, if you only read it when you’re in the bathroom!
To get it in time for Christmas:
Order it directly from the publisher through this button:
PAPERBACK: $19.95
If you have $10 extra, and can wait 4 weeks for delivery, you can order the Artist’s Edition, which comes autographed, can be personalized, and includes an original sketch on the title page. It will also be stamped and numbered, and only 250 will be sold. You can purchase the Artist’s Edition through this button:
AUTOGRAPHED – $30
(s&h included)
You can also complete your collection by getting the first FOUR Candorville books!
Michael Ventrella, the novelist who wrote the afterword for the third Candorville collection, Katrina’s Ghost, interviewed me last week. You can read the full interview on his site, and it contains several startling revelations, such as: Pat Buchanan inspired my interest in politics; I have President Obama all figured out; and I am, apparently, a potty mouth.
Here’s an excerpt:
VENTRELLA: How did that get you into doing comics as a career?
BELL: In a roundabout way…
I was in gifted and talented programs in Jr. High and High School, and I realized my interest in history and civics was outpacing my interest in art (I’d been drawing since the age of three). That’s when the man who sparked my interest in politics (Pat Buchanan) became the same man who sparked my interest in journalism. In 1988, a Pat Buchanan ad where he portrayed a Gay Pride parade as proof we were going to CENSORED, pissed me off. I had barely noticed politics before this, but I sure as CENSORED paid attention to it afterward. It just seemed so monstrously unfair, and the prospect of someone like him leading the country scared the CENSORED out of me.
Anyhow, four years later, I was flipping through channels looking for coverage of the Clinton-Bush campaign, when I saw that same guy on TV. Pat Buchanan. He was so smug and full of his own opinion, but I noticed he looked really, really happy. And it occurred to me, I’d be happy too if millions of people were listening to my CENSORED ideas and taking me seriously.
