Mike Dawson Comics

Four new Troop 142 pages posted. Campfires at Boy Scouts were often spent singing songs, telling ghost stories, and performing creaky old skits. Also, marshmallows.

This weekend was busy, so I’ve only got a small TROOP 142 update at the moment. Two new pages - see what happens after Matt swigs his LSD pill. He’s not happy.

It’s finally time for Tony, Matt, and Jason to drop their first hits of acid. What kind of a trip are they in for? The adventure starts HERE!

A very nice review of the first two TROOP 142 minis over at tcj.com

Mike Dawson has two chief virtues as a writer: writing dialogue with an almost painful level of verisimilitude, and an understanding of the dynamics of teenagers that manages to emphasize the Darwinian nature of their relationships along with the naivete’ of youth. The first two issues of his latest project, TROOP 142, put the viciousness of the interplay between teenage boys in the context of a Boy Scout outing. One thing that Dawson hammers home in these comics is the tension between the ideals of being a Boy Scout and the reality of being a teen.

I haven’t yet figured out how I’m going to make these minis available for sale outside of comic conventions. I’d like to try to get a distributor interested in helping me out, but if that doesn’t work out, I’ll probably setup some kind of Paypal system or something.

Five new Troop 142 pages have been posted. Check ‘em out!

Five new Troop 142 pages posted, kicking off the new TUESDAY chapter! Check ‘em out. Usual coarse-language and childish-behavior warnings apply.

The final three pages in the MONDAY chapter of TROOP 142 are posted. Check them out.

This is nice timing, as I’m off to the Angouleme Festival in France next week. It’ll be good to have a little break, before I get back into it with the next chapter, TUESDAY.

If anyone is going to be at Angouleme, I will be signing every day at the Rackham booth. There are also some bookstores signings planned for Paris and Lyon the following week. My good friend Alex will be at each of those appearances too, so I imagine we’re going to have a pretty good time.

Four new Troop 142 pages have been posted. Semi-NSFW, as usual.

Nine brand new Troop 142 pages have been posted here. I think this is a pretty funny sequence, hope other people think so too. Definitely NSFW, for language.

It’s been a little while since I’ve linked to new Troop 142 updates, but I’ve gradually been adding them over the past week or so. I can’t decide if it’s better to post every time I have a new page ready to put up, or if it’s better to wait until there’s a slightly more satisfying chunk of story.

Usual warnings apply: lots of juvenile teenage banter, etc. Not really safe for work.