…as in chests?!? I’m thrilled to announce that Playboy just gave my new book Clean Cartoonists Dirty Drawings a giant plug right in the front, page 20, of the new November issue! And it’s on their website, too. This will be huge for the book and will, I’m sure, lead to lots of other attention-in fact it already has on the internet with buzz and controversy. Yay! Visit the Clean Cartoonist’s Dirty Drawings website for a preview of the book.

Click on the cover (by Superman’s Joe Shuster) above to order your very own copy to read under the sheets with your flashlight.

At last! I just got my advance copies of “Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings”, my new book! The printer did a beautiful job! The only problem is, from all indications, we may not have printed enough, so if you don’t want to be disappointed I’d suggest ordering here right away. You can get it soft or hard, depending on your preference. The Limited Edition hard cover has 16 more dirty drawings than the paperback by 16 of the clean cartoonists. And it’s gonna have a bookplate by the brilliant Dean Yeagle (Dean did the beautiful dustjacket). I’ll have ordering info on the Limited Edition soon-there’s just 300 copies of that, again probably not enough for the demand).

And check out the website that I just launched to promote the book here (NSFW). There’s lots of sneak preview pics!

Playboy magazine is doing a feature on the book and I’m in talks with a way cool museum to do a show based on it. A number of bookstores and comic books stores want signings and I’m fielding inquiries from conventions to do talks on Clean Cartoonists Dirty Drawings. I guess sex sells. I just wish we had printed more copies…

Dean Yeagle. Probably the nicest guy in the business. I consider myself quite lucky to have him as a friend. AND I HATE HIM!!! Let me explain why and maybe you’ll hate him, too. I don’t think that there is an artist alive that knows Yeagle’s work and isn’t insanely jealous of the how good Dean can draw to the point of hating him. I’m just the only guy that is publicly admiting it. Yes, it’s a sad commentary on the human condition, blah, blah, but look at the evidence below and tell me if you, too, aren’t disgusted by the fact that Dean has more talent in his little finger than most artists, certainly myself, have in their whole being!

Below is the cover of his latest “sketchbook”, but Dean ain’t content to merely have sketches that show everybody else up, he has to have the sketches tell endearing, fun little stories, too. What a jerk! The story with the frog and the other one with the dinosaur are especailly hate worthy.

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Below is a piece of unpublished art that Dean gave me for my next my next book, Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings and a shot of what Dean’s spread in the book is gonna look like. I’m quite afraid that Dean is gonna make the other 68 artists in the book look real bad. And if that wasn’t enough, Dean “kindly” did the cover of the limited edition of Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings me and the the Last Gasp Publisher is gonna issue. If Dean thinks by giving me all this help on Clean Cartoonists Dirty Drawings and doing the carticatures of Reamer Keller and Kremos for Arf Museum and Arf Forum are gonna change my feelings about him, well, he’s wrong. Geez, I hold him in such contempt. No, really.

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Don’t be a lover, be a Dean hater and if the above art wasn’t enough to make you angry-as-hell-and-not-want-to-take-it-anymore then get in touch with your anger by going to Yeagle’s websites http://gallery.bellefree.com/dabeagle and http://cagedbeagle.com

Saw on Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter blog that this is Al’s birthday.

Here’s a little drawing that Al did that will be my upcoming book, Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings. They’ll be a big one, too, an incredible two page spread of a Roman orgy-I kid you not!

You can click below to order the book and be the first on your block to eyeball it. Woo-hoo and happy birthday, Al!

Happy birthday to Hank Ketcham (1920-2001)! The clean cartoonist of Dennis the Menace is featured in my upcoming book “Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings.” Below are some of the dirty drawings by Ketchum that will be there. And there’s some blog bonuses here-cartoons that didn’t fit in the book for space reasons.

I’ve found many very unusual photos to accompany the bios in “Clean Cartoonsts’ Dirty Drawings.” Here’s Ketcham and Tricky Dick. But now let’s get to Hank’s sexy stuff…

Ketcham sent the following drawing to Charles Schulz for fun. Apparently Schulz wasn’t amused, he didn’t reply to Ketcham.

BTW, here’s a Dennis The Menace statue that YOE! Studio created for Dark Horse…

Order the “Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings” book by clicking here so that you can be the first on your block to eyeball its pages!