LETHARGiC LAD:
TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE
ON SALE NOW!

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-All the Umm as of Tuesday, August 19th, 2008-

LETHARGiC LAD 2007 contains all the ll.com strips done in 2007 in one 46 page full colour book, in a format featuring one strip per page. The colour version of the book will be signed and numbered and limited to a run of 100 copies. Also, an area on the cover has been left blank for me to do an original Lethargic Lad sketch. A future regular black & white edition will also be released later this year, and premeired at SPX in October.

The book will first be sold at the Comic Book Expo 2008, and then released for sale right here on the website. Like LETHARiC LAD:TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE, the book will only be available though the website and my convention appearances. Stay tuned for ordering information.

Meanwhile, come see me at the Comic Book Expo 2008 in Toronto, August 22-24. I'll have the usual Lethargic Lad books available, and I'll be doing LEGO mini-figure sketches, but one thing I'm doing different this year is I'll be bringing a lot of original art for sale. I'll be bringing not just ll.com strips, but also LEGO art and Murphy's Rules strips. If there's anyting in particular that you want, feel free to e-mail me and let me know.

I'll also be at the con counting how many people are dressed as the Heath Ledger Joker. Cuz you know there's going to be lots of them.

SPONGEBOB GOES TO THE HOSPITAL

The comic is on the box, but I've been told that a larger version of it can be found in the instruction booklet in the European versions of this set!

Remember that the new LEGO Batman™ sets with my comics are still out. There are four new sets, featuring a cool assortment of villains (including a nifty new Harley Quinn mini figure and Dark Knight movie inspired Batman figures), and sets at a lower price point.

The four new sets are Batman's Buggy: The Escape of Mr. Freeze™, The Tumbler™: Joker's Ice Cream Surprise (with a pretty accurate looking Batman Begins and Dark Knight movie Tumbler Batmobile... however, no creepy smudgy faced Joker), Robin's Scuba Jet: Attack of the Penguin™ (at last, a cheaper way to get a Robin and Penguin minifigure), and what I think will be the best selling of the group, because of the Harley Quinn figure, The Batcycle™: Harley Quinn's Hammer Truck.

The Batman sets are all available on LEGO Shop@Home, and in all good toy stores (you know the ones).

Actually, that's not true. It hasn't been a 100 months in a row, because I think I took a month or two off, but still, it's been 100 months worth of comics! Also, this year marks the 20th anniversary of Lethargic Lad in some sort of print, as it was in 1988, my first year of college, that I made the first LETAHRGIC COMiCS, WEAKLY mini-comic.

So... hooray for Lethargic Lad.

VISIONS OF AN ICON

For Visions of an Icon, various Canadian comic artists were asked to draw their version of Superman. The exhibit will display all the original art, and (I believe) auction it off to raise money for the Joe Shuster Awards.

I decided to contribute a LEGO version of Superman!

UPDATE:

The show was great! Here's a picture of my piece along side contibutions by fellow Canadians, Dave Sim, Tom Grummett and Todd McFarlane!

A few weeks ago, Mike e-mailed me to see if I did commision artwork (which I don't normally do). But when he said it was for a tattoo, I said definatly! He wanted to use a panel from Lethargic Lad #1 where Lethargic Lad is eating cereal and reading the box (a page that Mike also owns the original art), but he wanted Lethargic Lad reading a comic book and slightly smiling, so he needed the panel redrawn slightly. And with a little less cross-hatching to reduce the pain! I said I'd be happy to do it, and I'd do it for free because, in my oppinion, Mike was going to end up paying for it in other ways than merely financial!

I sent off the artwork and this week I got this picture. I have to say, I'm both honoured and horrified that Mike has done this!

So... who's next?

ALIENS, SOCKS AND ME

LETHARGiC LAD:
TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE
ON SALE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!

TOPICS OF UNCLEAR INPORTANCE contains 184 pages and prints pretty much all of the ll.com strips featured on-line since April 2000. That's over 370 Lethargic Lad strips, with material that has already been featured in the three Lethargic Lad Annuals, and material that has never seen print before. Also, the books contains all the Lethargic Lad's Rogues Gallery comics, that were originally featured in DORK TOWER.

Copies of LETHARGiC LAD: TOPICS OF UNCLEAR IMPORTANCE are $25.00 with shipping included to anywhere in Canada or the U.S. Feel free to use the handy PayPal button to buy a copy!

And if you want to pay the old fashioned way, send a check or money order made payable to "Greg Hyland" for $25 to:

Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery (I'm sure you've bought stuff off the internet before... you know the drill!). Be sure to e-mail me if you have any questions.

John Kovalic and I decided that we will do this book instead of the Jumbo-Sized Annual this year. It's been nice to have all this material in one book. It's basically everything I've done with Lethargic Lad from the last seven years. Fans have been asking for a book that reprinted the DORK TOWER strips, and LL Annual #1 & 2 are almost sold out, so this was the right thing to do.

Eagle eyed Lethargic fans will remember Mike as the creator of the "Li'l Lethargic Lad" comic strips which ran in issues of the Lethargic Lad series! And be sure to check out Mike's new comic Pigtails & Potbellies at http://pigtailsandpotbellies.blogspot.com/.

The book also has a cover by Dave Dorman, so it's cool to be included in a project with him again!

The mural was displayed at Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles, and then at Star Wars Weekend @ LEGOLand California a couple weeks later:

In this issue Kayleigh's back, and she's bending Sujata's ear. What does this mean for Ken's proposal? And how are the rest of the Dorks faring, the night before Mud Con 2007? Plus "Vosh, Slod and Bail Go To White Castle," a hilarious eight-page adventure for Kobolds Ate My Baby! All for the low low price of $3.49.

In the Lethargic Department, Lethargic Lad's Rouge's Gallery features a full three-page story, featuring the totalitarian villainy of The Leftist Gorilla! The funny thing about this story is that it's the conclusion of something I set up way back in Lethargic Lad #13, and it's taken me this long to finish it... so I hope it was worth the wait!

To buy a copy, go to the ComiXpress store and check out this preview of the book!

Look for the book this August, or pre-order your copy from Amazon.com.

While this comic isn't on sale anywhere, copies have been given to LEGO clubs and organizations all over North America and Europe to be given out at various events, and I should have some copies at my public appearances, too.

The comic is also availble on line through the new LEGOfan.org website. There you can read it on-line or download it as a PDF and print out your own copy! And you can now download a German version, and a French, Italian, Dutch and Danish version are coming soon!

The reaction to the comic has been great! We hope that not only will we be able to do a second printing (all copies of the first printing have already been accounted for), but we hope to translate it into many different languages and then get to a second issue.

Each copy of LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #1, LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #2 or LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #3 are $5.00 each, postage included! Send check or money order payable to "Greg Hyland" to:

LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #1 is 48 pages and collects over 100 cartoons from lethargiclad.com, as well as a new four page Lethargic Lad story.

2003 LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #2, another giant 48 page annual, reprints over a years worth of comic strips originally featured right here on lethargiclad.com. See Lethargic Lad fight villains like the Evil Smiley Face Guy and Ghoulita, Goddess of the Dancing Dead, and Dark Green Boy, while finding time to see Attack of the Clones, read Harry Potter and visit the Mount Doom Shopping Plaza.

2005 LETHARGiC LAD JUMBO-SIZED ANNUAL #3, the third giant 48 page annual, reprints over a years worth of comic strips originally featured right here on lethargiclad.com. See Lethargic Lad encounter computer- generated monsters, fight Wolf-mans and Draculas, and face the evil Professor Monkeyhead. Plus, we reprint the first "Lethargic Lad's Rogues Gallery" stories from out of print issues of DORK TOWER.

But the most exciting (to me at least!) new feature of the book is the LETHARGiC COMICS, WEAKLY 2005 section, where all the original "Lethargic Comics, Weakly" artists, Brian Lemay, Luc Latulippe, John Migliore and Steve Remen return in one book for the first time in fourteen years, with new material featuring Guy-With-A-Gun, The Zit, Walrus-Boy, Him, and, of course, Lethargic Lad!

Now that the Annuals are out, I'll no longer be offering the "ll.com Print Out Books" for sale.

ALL-NEW "LETHARGIC LADS" T-SHIRT ON SALE NOW!

An all-new "Lethargic Lads" t-shirt is now on sale, thanks to the t-shirt producing robots of Cafepress.com. The t-shirt, featuring all of Lethargic Lad's incarnations with original art by Greg Hyland, can be purchsed for $16.99 through the new Lethargic Store at www.cafepress.com/lethargiclad.

Other items, such as baseball caps, coffee mugs and mouse pads, with new original designs, will be added soon. Other t-shirt designs are also on the way.

Click here for a larger look at the design! (a new window will open)

ORIGINAL ART FOR SALE

I've gotten a few e-mails recently asking if original Lethragic Lad art is for sale. Yes, pages from the comics and the LL.COM strips are all available.

If you are interested in buying any original art, e-mail me or send a letter with what page or strip you you'd like, and list two or three alternate choices (just in case I don't have them any more). Prices are:

$75 for any page from LETHARGiC LAD ADVENTURES, LETHARGiC LAD or for any cover (done by me).
$50 for any page from LETHARGiC COMICS, WEAKLY, LETHARGiC COMICS or TALES OF LETHARGY.
$50 for any LETHARGiC LAD.COM strip or cover.

Sined,

G. Hyland, Creepy Artist