Earth Dude: chill eco-warrior

07/03/2026

Earth Dude™ Animated Short 01: Protect the Planet

29/08/2025

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31/05/2025

The remaking of Earth Dude! See how we're revamping the planet's best pal -- and see what we're gonna DO with him!

16/03/2025

Here's a FREE PREVIEW of EARTH DUDE™ #1, a full-color, 32-page action/humor comic book coming Summer, 2025. Featuring original superhero hijinx with an eco-twist from Walt Jaschek (writer), Craig Skaggs (artist), and Don Secrease (colorist.) Get ready to read... "DUDE OR DIE!"

02/02/2025

It's our characters MISTER STICKY™ versus FERAL HOGG™ -- a one-page comic with a surprise rescue by "Boastess Fructose Pies!" This is, of course, and ad parody we created as a bonus feature for WaltComics Presents #1, a print comic book releasing Summer 2025. If you read comics in the 1970s and 1980s, you know what this ad is... "honoring." 😜. Script by Walt Jaschek. Art by Don Secrease and Rick Burchett. Click to enlarge!

01/02/2024

Slightly Bent Comics #1 and #2 are black-and-white anthology comic books written and designed by Walt Jaschek, starring original, creator-owned characters. Top St. Louis comic artists supplied visuals. There's a set autographed by Walt here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/235965817833

This 2-issue, self-published series, was distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors to comic book stores across the United States in 1998. Walt Jaschek designed the Slightly Bent logo and the covers, and hired his talented friends to draw scripts for his creator-owned characters. Don Secrease served as art director on both books.

The comics feature the second and third print appearances of the original Mel Cool: Mall Cop, with art by Secrease. They also showcase the first appearances of Dude-Guy, with art by Craig Skaggs; Danger Dad, with art by Jaschek and Darren Goodheart; Corp Rut and Smirk du Jour with art by Tony Patti; Attorneys in Space, with art by Paul Daly; and Dang Gnats, a comic strip by Jaschek, who also wrote humorous editorials for both issues.

Reviews of these issues are on Steve’s Reads and on Flooby.

Says Walt: "The series was a fun experiment, a deep-dive immersion into self-publishing during the black-and-white comics boom, and a launch for characters and concepts bouncing around in my brain. It was also a nice, creative distraction from my day job writing funny radio commercials."

Approximately 800 copies of Slightly Bent Comics #1 were ordered by comic book stories, according to statistics from Diamond. Approximately 400 copies of issue #2 were ordered. These are the only copies of these two issues in circulation. Some issues are often spotted on eBay and other "back issue" platforms.

01/02/2024

Book update! My new book, THE DENNY O’NEIL TAPES, is in hardback and paperback on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/DENNY-ONEIL-TAPES-Conversation-Culture/dp/B0CFWZ271F

This admittedly “niche” book for comic book fans and pop culture historians spotlights a long interview with the late, great writer from St. Louis about his work on SUPERMAN, BATMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE, etc. It was conducted by a small group of comic fans in July, 1970 – including me. I was 15 years old.

The book includes some of Denny's published comic book work for historical context; ample biographical information; and scans of Denny's full, typewritten script for GREEN LANTERN #68, with published pages for comparison.

P.S. THANKS to the readers of the preview edition of helping me get this across the finish line. I know it isn’t the only Denny O’Neil interview from that era; it certainly isn’t “the ultimate.” It’s just the one I feel responsible for — the one I’m “steward” of, I guess. Back in the day, I transcribed the interview for our small circulation fanzine GRAFAN, but it has been little seen until now. I am happy to make it more permanently available to folks looking for it.

THE DENNY O’NEIL TAPES: A CONVERSATION ABOUT COMICS, CULTURE AND AMERICA.

Now on sale.

THE DENNY O'NEIL TAPES - front cover

25/12/2019

It’ll be 70 in . So I rewrote a certain song to fit the day. Randy on vocals!

12/11/2019

Marvel co-creator Stan Lee left us one year ago today: November 12, 2018.

In 7th grade, I wrote a gushing fan letter to Stan. The letter was published in Captain America #107, November, 1968. A thrill.

But it got better. Stan deemed the letter worthy of a “No-Prize,” his inside-joke “award” for fans – an envelope with literally nothing inside. So when, a few weeks later, said envelope from Marvel arrived, my 12-year-old head hit the ceiling.

This is my way of saying… RIP Stan, entertainer extraordinaire and an outsized influence on many, including me. I’m happy you lived long enough to see your co-creations explode into every corner of pop culture. Thanks for the ride.

And thanks also for this little envelope: no prize I’ve gotten since surpasses.