Mike Dawson Comics

16 original stories by the premier webcomix collective, ACT-I-VATE, with a foreward by Warren Ellis, coming this October from IDW Publishing.

With its roster of renowned creators serializing webcomix for free since 2006, ACT-I-VATE, has reached a comicbook critical mass. Now this funnybook big bang has birthed The Act-i-vate Primer, the very
first collection of stand alone, never-before-seen stories. This tome is a lot bigger than it seems. Each of these stories extend way beyond the boundaries of mere paper and cardboard out into ACT-I-VATE.com where you’ll already be initiated to the worlds greatest webcomix collective.

The Act-i-vate Primer boasts original art and stories by Roger Langridge, Mike Dawson, Nick Bertozzi, Tim Hamilton, Dean Haspiel, Simon Fraser, Molly Crabapple & John Leavitt, Mike Cavallaro, Pedro Camargo, Jim Dougan & Hyeondo Park, Ulises Farinas, Michel Fiffe, Maurice Fontenot, Jennifer Hayden, and Leland Purvis.

“ACT-I-VATE makes comics better.”
–Warren Ellis [from the ACT-I-VATE PRIMER foreward].

Diamond Item Code: AUG090968
ISBN: 978-1-60010-528-9

ACT-I-VATE PRIMER Link:

http://www.act-i-vate.com/pressblog.php?viewcomment=y&blogid=115

I’m putting my serialized comic, Jack & Max Escape From the End of Time, on hiatus for the month of August, planning to return sometime in September. I need to spend a little time with the script, and away from the drawing table. I will post announcements about it’s return date once I figure all that out.

Three brand spanking new pages added here!

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After a short delay, three new pages added here.

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Two new pages added here.

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After a few weeks off, I’ve got four new pages added here. Not a lot of questions answered, I know, but still.

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Also, I’ll be at the MoCCA festival in New York City this weekend, sitting at the AdHouse tables and selling copies of Ace-Face: The Mod With the Metal Arms. Please come by and say hello!

The exciting conclusion to Chapter 2 has been posted here.

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JACK & MAX will be going on a short 2 week hiatus after this, as I’ve got some other comics obligations I need to get focused on.

Reminders: I will be at the big TCAF show in Toronto this coming weekend. I am really looking forward to finally going, as I’ve never been, and I’ve always heard great things. I’ll be sharing a table with MOME contributor Tom Kaczynski – so come by and say hello.

Also, my new book from AdHouse, ACE-FACE: THE MOD WITH THE METAL ARMS, will be arriving in finer comics stores across the nation tomorrow. It’s a collection of stories, mostly featuring the titular hero, but also included are two, count ‘em two, Jack & Max shorts: “Max!! Get out of my room!” and “Max!! Get off of my side!”. Please check it out.

Four new pages added here. Find out what on earth was happening to Dad in the last update!

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Three new pages posted here. We’re closing in on the end of Chapter 2 now…

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Robin McConnell interviewed me this past week for his excellent comics-related radio show, Inkstuds. We talk about my books Ace-Face and Freddie & Me, as well as my ongoing webcomic, Jack & Max Escape From the End of Time, among other things.

Unfortunately the last minute and a half of our chat got scrambled, so had to be cut from the online audio. This results in the conversation ending kind of abruptly, just as I started on some weird rant about my disgust at my former college-age self for being such Politically Correct drip instead of going out and partying for four years. Maybe it’s for the best that the majority of this screed has been lost to the ages…