For most of the year, I’ve been at work on projects near and dear to me, producing several hundred thousand words of prose on two non-fiction books (oh, the stories I could tell…and I do), a few short stories for anthologies from Titan Books (Aliens: Bug Hunt and Planet of the Apes: Tales From the Forbidden Zone) and Crazy 8 Press, comic book scripts for Charlton Neo Comics, and a nonfiction graphic novel that I’m in active talks with a major book publisher about.
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But no matter how busy I am, there’s always time to make fun of American politics!
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See, I was watching one of the Sunday morning news programs a while back and, as has become necessary in this election cycle, they were reporting on the latest ridiculous thing that Donald Trump had said. I don’t remember exactly which ridiculous thing it was he said that day, but when I heard it, a funny picture popped into my mind, so I wrote it down. And then I Googled some other ridiculous things he’s said, and reading them evoked yet more funny pictures, and before I knew it, I had a 16-page coloring book written.
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I sent the script to my Charlton Neo Comics colleague Mort Todd for his opinion. He wrote back that I should write a second book, this one based on Hillary Clinton’s own words, and we should get these puppies drawn and published as soon as possible! I did as commanded and Mort, former editor of Cracked Magazine, lined up the amazing Cliff Mott to draw the books, and before I knew it, we were making coloring books!
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Charlton Neo’s Kickstarter campaign for THE UNOFFICIAL 2016 DONALD J. TRUMP COMMEMORATIVE COLORING BOOK and THE UNOFFICIAL 2016 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON COMMEMORATIVE COLORING BOOK went live yesterday and will run through September 29, with plans to ship the books out to all out supporters and contributors by early October…by which time we’ll all need a good laugh ’cause there’ll still be a whole freakin’ month of the campaign to go!
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Rewards include the Donald Coloring Book or the Hillary Coloring Book…or both, plus anti-certificates, prints, custom crayons, autographed scripts, hand-colored and autographed pages (by me!) and even Cliff Mott’s amazing original art used in the books!
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Help Make America Great Again…or vote for one of the candidates! Our goal is modest…but the rewards are YUGE!
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Thanks to all who have already given us their support…and to all who will join our campaign to help Make American Coloring Books Great Again!
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Thank you!
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