Cigarro & Cerveja

Everyone knows that Wednesday is new comics day but on December 30th the mainstream publishers are taking a week off which could leave some empty shelves on the NEW COMICS THIS WEEK rack. Happy Harbor is going to fill that NEW rack with all the local and indie comics they have. Classics and new issues from people you know and people you don’t but any one of which could be the future of the medium.

Wed – Dec 30, Special COMIC JAM! 7 pm start. Here’s your chance to break away from the family for a bit and unleash your creativity! at Happy Harbor v1

Sat – Jan 2, SKETCHFEST! Dozens of local artists (me included) will be hanging at all 3 Happy Harbors for the day drawing custom sketches for you with a donation to the Food Bank. 10 am to 6 pm.

Sun – Jan 3, COMIC IN A DAY! Between 10 and 11 in the morning, come down to Happy Harbor vol. 1 and bring a donation for the Food Bank. If you make the biggest donation, you get to suggest a story idea/concept for the collective of writers and artists to create. By 6 in the evening, we should have 16 complete pages to be scanned and taken to the printers on Monday morning, ready for sale that same day! The person who contributed the most to the Food Bank and the story idea will also be credited in the book.

I will be participating in all of the events and it would be great if you stopped on by.

Hope to see you there!

-tony

On September 17, 2008, Cigarro & Cerveja will be ten years old. I never imagined that the little comic strip that I handed in to the University newspaper would be still going years after I had graduated. I’m very proud of it and I love drawing Cigarro and Cerveja and their crazy hijinx.

I saddens me to say that, on the tenth anniversary, Cigarro & Cerveja will be wrapping up.

15 years ago I drew my first comic. It was an incredible feeling to see my superheroes fight their archenemies on the page with non-archival ink (which bled pink through the bristol months later). I want to return to those stories. I’ll be trying my hand at creating an epic adventure story with burly macho men and lavish beauties. This will be a new challenge for me since I have been drawing funny animals for quite some time now.

Just because I’m choosing to go a new path doesn’t mean that Cigarro & Cerveja is dead or abandoned. C&C are very much a part of me and a way that I use to express myself. You may see strips pop up in the future similar to a personal blog rather than a regularly updated webcomic.

I offer my deepest thanks to all of you who have continued to read the comic and have given me so much support over the years. I regret that my decision may be a disappointment to you but I do hope that you will understand and find my next project to be to your liking.

Warmest wishes,
-tony

Hey there!

I regret to say that there will be a short time span where I won’t be able to update the comics. The house is undergoing some renovations and that resulted in the scanner being disconnected from the compy. I’ll continue drawing comics in the meantime and when everything is reconnected there will be a bulk update for all the time missed (which I hope isn’t much).

-tony