Gosh, This One Summer is a fantastic book.

Only 22 pages to layout today. No problem. 😬

A rejected cover sketch for the upcoming Incredible Doom Vol. 1. Originally inspired by a cover to “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro. I did several where the kids were apprehensively looking at a computer like it had just landed from outer space. 💥💾🖥🖌

I also did a sketch version of Jesses cover, with dot matrix printer paper as the title devider.

A cover concept my collaborator Jesse made from art for our upcoming book Incredible Doom Vol 1. Proud that the panel with my dog in it made the cut! (although upside down)⁠⁠

My colaborator Jesse just posted some adorable rejected ASCII art that he made for our book, including our own ASCII “author photos”. I love that this project allows for stuff like this, and that Harper let us get away with it!

Working with the windows open today!

It's strange how drawing this comic works. For the last two days of drawing pages the work was grueling. Nothing looked good and getting myself to figure out a panel was like pulling teeth. Today I blew through what turned out to be one of my favorite pages of the next book in no time and I'm having a blast. 🖌

Just tried Micro.blogs features for looking up a book by it’s ISBN and it worked for my book! : Incredible Doom (Incredible Doom, 1) by Bogart, Matthew 📚

“Instant messaging is the COOLEST.”

It’s so much fun to watch “For All Mankind” (a show that jumps 10 years in between each season) and imagine where the characters introduced as teenagers this season are headed next year, and the year after that. 📺🚀

This spring, I wll ride a bike. Regardless.

Hey, I’ve never shared the COVER to graphic novel here have I?

Incredible Doom about a group of kids in the 90s having their lives turned upside down by the early internet.

“Incredibly strong and not a little disturbing.” - Corry Doctorow

“Perfectly captures the mystery and wonder of the early days of the internet.” - Andy Baio

It comes out on May 11th, and you can preorder it now.

With my graphic novel INCREDIBLE DOOM Vol 1 avaliable for preorder from Harper Alley, thought I’d pay homage to its influences, starting with Freaks and Geeks. Here’s Lindsay Weir.

“Nobody thinks you’re cool you know.“ “Trust me… I know.“ 🖌🎨📺

Drew Richard from INCREDIBLE DOOM just for fun. Did this one in bed, with the sun coming up, girlfriend snoring beside me. It was nice. 🖌🎨📚

Gosh this makes me want this Eightball collection. www.youtube.com/watch

I just posted our 3rd patron exclusive podcast about the creation of Incredible Doom. It’s about the year of pre-production we did before launch, coming up with our business model, working with printers, and preparing for launch day.

The more I think about livestreaming my drawing of new pages for Incredible Doom Vol 2 the more I realize that I get up from my desk about every 15 min.

📺 👩‍🚀Started a rewatch of For All Mankind, this time with girlfriend, so that we’re ready for the new season next month. We’re both enjoying it. Girlfriend kept saying “I want to get to the ladies!” throughout the first episodes.

Played a few rounds of Star Wars Battlefront today. 45 or so deaths, 3 kills. Not sure how to get much better. I’ve been trying off and on for years now. Oh well. It’s not as if it wasn’t fun.

What cartoonist hasn’t had to dig up an old Mac mini, to run even older software, to accurately re-create late 90s ANSI art?

We were feeling cooped up in the house, so we found a much smaller one to stay in for a few days.

Patreon reward idea: Every 3 months you get a different “Incredible Doom” floppy, with a new label design & files on it like characters’ emails to each-other, their ASCII art, etc. + a clue to a secret URL to download those files if you don’t have a drive. Fun? Not fun?

Birthday presents from girlfriend. She got them with the help of the good folks at Books With Pictures. They are great. (The books, my girlfriend, and the folks.)

I get to talk about my log secret project this week. Stay tuned.