Massie Makes Comics

The strip posted today is called “GETTING IN TUNE.” It’s a one page gag cartoon. So, pretty much I’m going to do whatever the Hell I feel like doing with this comic. There will be longer stories like the introduction I finished last Wednesday and to sort of fill in holes and to do character bits I’m going to be doing little one pagers and shorter pieces.

I grew up loving indie books in the ’90s. Things like “HATE” or “Yummy Fur”… They always were sort of like one man anthology type books. The idea with “Holler” is to sort of get that feel with just one main cast. Kind of like a grunge Archie comic. This will allow me to play with format and style a bit. Change things up formally.

So today’s strip and the one that will be posted next called, “The Booger” will be one pagers and a longer story will continue after. I plan on spending a lot of time on this strip and let it sort of evolve organically. So please keep on reading. Update on Wednesday…. THE BOOGER!!!

The past few years my comics have been published and distributed in comic and book stores all over the place. For the first time in a while I have no publisher for my current project.

So, I figured while I’m working on my new comic I’ll serialize it here and everything will sort itself out one way or another. Whether I self publish it or someone picks it up, it will be out there in the world and I’ll be working on it.

My new comic is called HOLLER. It’s about a group of teenagers in a punk band in the Appalachian Mountains. The story is set in the 1990s and draws from my own experiences growing up in Virginia back then. The comic is going to be told in a series of short stories that when completed will chronicle the senior year of all the main characters.

I’ll be updating this thing Wednesdays and Sundays.