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Posted on April 30, 2013 by admin

Welcome to the Mischief Comics website! I’m starting a new subscription program to get comics into your hands the old fashioned way, actual ink on actual paper. You can take it with you to work and share it with your friends. You can hide it in your silent reading book when you’re supposed to be reading Call of the Wild. You can subscribe to DOUBLETHINK comics. I’ll be producing 12 issues and mailing them out starting in June 2013 and mailing the last issue in May 2014. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find in the pages of DOUBLETHINK:

You must be wondering what the covers are going to look like, am I right? Well, check them out below:

But that is not all that DOUBLETHINK has to offer, OH NO, that is not ALL! I’ve also got my friend and fellow cartoonist on board for the next year: Kevin Kilgore! Kevin draws hilarious slice-of-life comics, and he also dabbles in the longer story telling form. He told me he had wanted to draw a longer comic story about a giant monster named MUJIGAE. It’ll tentatively be twelve chapters, each chapter roughly 8 pages. I told Kevin my goal to put out a monthly comic for subscribers and asked him if he wanted me to run MUJIGAE in the book. Kevin jumped at the chance. He has the story mapped out and is churning out the pages. I always feel that if a cartoonist can work on something that they really want to work on and are passionate about, it’ll come out better than if they force themselves to draw stories that their hearts aren’t in. MUJIGAE is a work of passion, told in the vein of Tintin with a twist of Godzilla. It’s also hilarious to boot. Here’s a sample of the story below:

If this preview looks like something that you’d like to read, you can subscribe via PayPal right now this very site. For those of you who prefer to send a check via the US Postal Service, you can make the check out to Matt Aucoin it’s $30 for a subscription ($38 outside the US) and mail it to:

Mischief Comics
PO Box 704
Windsor, VT 05089

Please include your address and whether or not you like sushi.

Thank you very much for your interest and support! I hope you decide to come on the year long adventure with Kevin Kilgore and me, it’s going to be a lot of fun!

Most Sincerely,

Matt Aucoin

FIGHT HERO FIGHT! Collector’s Cards

Posted on April 9, 2013 by admin

I’m a collector, there, I said it. I’ve been collecting cards since I was a kid. I started really getting into it when the 1989 Batman movie had collectors cards. They were those cheap cardboard cards with gloss only on one side, the wrappers were waxy, and it even came packed with a disgusting piece of bubble gum. I’ve since collected many cards: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jurassic Park, Digimon, more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and another set of Ninja Turtles. I even will sometimes pick up a few packs of Garbage Pail Kids, and most recently Skylanders. There is something very appealing, and addicting, about collecting cards. It feels so fulfilling to own a complete set, once you throw in some chase cards or shiny rare cards, forget about it, it becomes a full blown obsession. So naturally, I’ve always wanted to print up some collectors cards for my comic book characters.

I went with a blocky border to keep with the 8 bit video game theme. I’m not too jazzed about the white border. The yellow border inside the white border just wasn’t working for me. I like some aspects about this design, but I wanted the character name to have it’s own special border too. So I tried the design below…

It hit me while I was pondering over the design tonight: I should go all the way with the 8 bit video game theme for the card borders! So that’s what I did. I used the round border from the old Nintendo logo for the character name. The font for the name is Triggering Fanfare, a new font I found on dafont.com, which I just love. It was designed by Andrew McCluskey, who has done many very cool fonts, you can check his stuff out here.

I hope to one day print out some really sweet trading cards of FIGHT HERO FIGHT! Wouldn’t that be neat? Until then, I’ll be making comics! I hope to see you at the Boston Comic Con in a couple of weeks, where you can get the first issue of FIGHT HERO FIGHT! and DoubleThink #11.

FIGHT HERO FIGHT! Cover

Posted on March 20, 2013 by admin

Here it is: the cover for my newest comic series FIGHT HERO FIGHT! Yes, it’s as awesome as it looks. FIGHT HERO FIGHT! is a comic series that is inspired by all of those early Nintendo games that I used to play as a kid (and still do actually). It’s a loving parody of the story telling devices used in the old 8 bit games. It pokes fun of them while embracing them at the same time. In this first chapter, of course the Princess is kidnapped, there is some evil dude who is ruining the entire land, and it’s up to the Hero to save the day. Hilarity ensues. I’ll be selling this book at the Boston Comic Con this year at the Hines Convention Center on April 20th and 21st. I hope to see you all there.

Princess Pepita

Posted on March 16, 2013 by admin

Every once in a while while drawing panel after panel, page after page of a long comic, it can get to be a bit of a slog. When I start to feel like that, I like to sketch on a scrap piece of paper to remind myself why I’m drawing in the first place. This is one of those sketches of my character Princess Pepita, she is the damsel in distress (or maybe she just CAUSES distress) in my new comic FIGHT HERO FIGHT! I’ll be selling the first issue at the Boston Comic Con this year. Check out their website for more details.

FIGHT HERO FIGHT! CMYK/RGB.

Posted on March 4, 2013 by admin

This is what the colors looked like when I was working on the image. The image below is when I saved it as a CMYK JPEG, I had to save it as an RGB JPEG to get these types of colors. You can see the difference. I’ll have to remember to always convert my files to RBG when posting on the web.

FIGHT HERO FIGHT! at Boston Comic Con 2013

Posted on March 3, 2013 by admin

Hi Everybody, I’m trying to spend some more with my blog, in addition to all the other sites I frequent. As you can see from the image above, I’ll be premiering my newest comic, FIGHT HERO FIGHT!, at the Boston Comic Con this year! It’s my first comic that I’ll be printing in full color, and it looks pretty good. FIGHT HERO FIGHT! is inspired by many of the early Nintendo games I played as a kid. Games like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Dragon Warrior. This comic pokes fun at the story lines of those games, while embracing them at the same time. It’s not to be missed if you’re an old school gamer, if you like fantasy stories, or you just plain like hilarious comics. I hope to see you at the Con here’s a link on all the info! Ooooo, Mike Mignola is going to be there!

Oh Magic 8 Ball

Posted on February 27, 2013 by admin

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. I’ve been playing around with social media websites trying to figure out the way to get my work out to the people. But, this comic pretty much sums up my endeavors… Here’s my tumblr account, and here’s my deviant art account, and of course the biggest time suck: facebook.

I’ve been getting some big plans ready for this coming year in regards to comics, you’ll get to see what I have planned this coming April. April is a lot closer than you think.

8 Bit Friends

Posted on December 9, 2012 by admin

I have been getting into creating sprite artwork for a while now. I decided to do two portraits of my friends Bryan Stone and Keny Widjaja. I added some photos so that you can see how close I got the likeness. Pretty close, yeah? Joseph Lambert took the photo of Keny. Bryan’s fiancee, Lisa Gaeddert took the photo of Bryan. I hope it is okay that I posted these photos here Joe and Lisa.

MONSTER PARTY! one weird NES game

Posted on November 19, 2012 by admin

Good Morning! Welcome to another strange, weird, and altogether abnormal blog post related to another blast from the past. This time I’m redrawing characters from the wicked game (and I DO mean wicked as in wicked NES from the West) Monster Party. This game was developed by Bandai in Japan, however it never got a Japanese release. Very strange, don’t you think? It was release in the US in 1989, and only in the US (to my knowledge, which I’ll admit is incomplete). I rented this game a kid with one of my best friends, Jason Cyr. We rented a lot of games back then, and the weirdness of this title didn’t phase us one bit. It wasn’t until years later, after procuring my own copy of the game to relive those nostalgic memories, and after much poking around on the internet that I came to find this game exceedingly strange, but also awfully alluring. I decided that I had to draw all the characters from the game just to wrap my head around how WEIRD they were. Here are the characters from the first level…

This is the first enemy you encounter. He shoots flames at you and jumps around like a dunder head. You can hit his flames back at him with your baseball bat, or just smack him in the gut. He looks like a pervy man, dressed up in a Japanese school boys uniform, set on fire. No wonder he’s jumping around like and idiot.

Naked legs embedded in the ground, which is a weird smiling block. What a sadistic block! Why is it smiling! What is it doing to the other half of that monster (or are those human legs?)? Although, don’t most monsters start out as human? I don’t know. If you know what is the other half of this monster, please inform me.

This is just…scary. Scary, scary, scary.

This giant eyeball thingie is that last monster you’ll encounter in the first level. He’s much more generic than the previous monsters in the first level, but he does have a whimsical wonderfulness all on his own.

I didn’t draw the main Boss enemies that you have to defeat in the rooms of the first level. That’s a whole different project. I hope you enjoyed these weird oddities from an even weirder game: MONSTER PARTY!

SONSON

Posted on November 16, 2012 by admin

Yay! This is an awesome game. It was developed in 1984 by Capcom. It’s a side scrolling shooting game. And it is all awesome! You play as Sonson, who is based off the main character in the Chinese myth Journey to the West. Goku from Dragon Ball was based off that dude too. Anyway, whatever, you play as a monkey (or a pig if you’re the 2nd player). The screen automatically scrolls right as you try to keep up and shoot through the enemies. Here are a few of them…

Aren’t they cute? They’re especially cute when you shoot them with a monkey fireball and get points for it. Anyway, I love this game, it’s a classic arcade game that doesn’t get boring. True, I haven’t beaten it yet, but I feel like I’m close. At the top of the screen as you progress instead of beating levels there are the rocks that mark how close you are to the end of the game (I’m guessing since I haven’t beaten it yet). You start at 19, I think I’ve made it all the way to 12. I’m working my way there.

I learned about this game on Game Center CX, which is a great show about retro games. The host of the show, Arino, was interviewing the creator of Sonson, Yoshiki Okamoto. It was a great interview, they were both really funny guys. You should check it out!

I’ll leave you with one last image from the Sonson game:

I made up their names. Cute, aren’t they?

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