Free to Read

It's nice to have it all in one place.

Strips of mine for free reading on the internet:

My take on Batman at French webcomics site Grandpapier.

Batman is also up on my website, in the scroll format if you prefer that....

Old psycho joy tale God is Happy.

2 strips for Where the Wild Things Are: The PG-rated one and the rejected PG-13/R-rated one.

Preview pages and a 10-page pdf for my first book House.

Same here for Jessica Farm: Volume 1.

Clockwise from top: Mini Josh, Mini Wendy, Golden Boy, Turtle, Franklin Junior, Franklin P. Quacker, Monkey, Chicken, Quacker Senior, Regular Panda, Elephant, Bunny, Retard Panda, OldTheBunny (+ random Mini Chickens scattered throughout). Card and all people by Wendy except for Golden Boy, OldTheBunny, and random Mini Chickens.

The White Rhinoceros is coming!

Among many other things I will be working on and putting out in 2010, perhaps most important to the world of racial magic is The White Rhinoceros. The White Rhinoceros is a racially-oriented psychedelic fantasy comic written by The Partridge in the Pear Tree and drawn by me. It's going to be a very long book. It will be serialized in the anthology Mome beginning with volume 19, which comes out summer 2010. Full Hyper Color!

Petss

I am not kid-friendly.

For the up-coming Where the Wild Things Are movie, Vice magazine put together a promotional comic book edited by Johnny Ryan. (The mini website is here; I think the pamphlet will be included in this month's magazine.) The "night-time" strip above was my original submission. It was rejected at the last minute by Warner Bros. Here is the soft, lite, "day-time" strip that they did accept.

Monster

I did the cover painting and a 1-page strip (entitled "Monster") for the "Father"-themed issue of Australian zine Blackguard. My artworks in here were created in 2002. Ordering information.

The White Rhinoceros is coming!

Portrait of Josh

By Wendy.

Filth

Go get a copy of Robin Bougie's great and groovy Cinema Sewer Volume 2 book-- Packed with Robin and company's writings and interviews on porn, horror, gore, exploitation, forgotten and happy gems and shitballs of films-- Including two and a half pages of extremely homoerotic collaborative comics between myself and the Boogz (from 2003). See:

Liberace

A commission.

PONY

The White Rhinoceros is coming!

1999

Portraiture

Bridget, Fuzzy Pants and Thomas/ 2009/ Ink and colored pencil. Would you like me to draw your portrait? joshuahallsimmons@yahoo.com

Copy

One of the things they tell you in art school is to copy from accomplished artists in order to improve. Here are a bunch of copied drawings I did while living in northern Sweden in the winter of 1999. Hmm, let's see-- There's Kirby, Clowes, Segar, Joachim Pirinen, Crumb, Ware, Tenniel, Warren Craghead, Herriman, Gould, and a few Swedish cartoonists and others I don't recognize....

Dewy Doin' It

Special Nice Cosmic Hyperdeath

So I have an art show up in April, but the opening is this Friday, April 3rd, 2009, from 8-10 p.m., at Secret Headquarters in Los Angeles. Several new and newish paintings and drawings. Also, I'm printing up very limited quantities of a trio of recent stories as minicomics- "In a Land of Magic," "Cockbone," and (thanks to Secret Headquarters), "Batman." Yes, come.

"Cockbone"

New 26-page story in Robin Bougie's new new Sleazy Slice 3. Only available from Robin himself.

Funnies

Newspaper-style funnies one-pager in Mome 14, Tom and Michael above being one of the four strips...

Wendy's teaching me how to use a computer.

"JESUS CHRIST"

12 page story in the new Mome