The Adventures of Dr. McNews

The Slightly Askew Adventures of Ham and Eggs

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:19:00 +0000

I have written here before about the hilarious and amazingly drawn Ham and Eggs. I wrote nice things. And so I feel it is my duty to inform you that the first Ham and Eggs collection is now up for pre-order. All the info is here, and let your good taste guide you.

Also, a quick note on my own merchandise. For a limited time only, you can now get the Leaping McNinja t-shirt in MIDNIGHT BLUE.

Interview on Dr. McNinja and Cumberland

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:09:00 +0000

Title says it all! Here you go.

Gordon Update

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:06:00 +0000

WOW.

WOW.

Thank you all so much! The voting is closed, and Gordon is ahead of all the other dogs by some 2500 votes right now. You have been so excellent to me and my ridiculous looking dog. Thank you very much.

Things were kind of intense there Sunday night/Monday morning! My understanding is that the top 4 dogs weren't originally to be voted on by the public. They were to be picked by the judges from the top 12. But then BAM, tiny window for the public to "influence the judges decision" with votes. And let me tell you, all of you DOMINATED that last second announcement.

And I know we're all dying to find out what's going on after that intense effort. Here's the news from the Cutest Dog site.

"Congratulations to each of the semi-finalists. The judges will vote based on the information they have in hand. There is no need to continue to influence their vote. Their choices for the four finalists will be published on the site November 12th per the contest rules. The $1,000,000 Grand Prize winner will be announced on Thanksgiving Day."

So there you have it. I hope I'll have good news on November 12th! And you know, even better news on Thanksgiving Day. Thank you all again, so much!

Here is a video of Gordon and I chatting with each other.

Commissioner James Gordon, the only police commissioner running for Cutest Dog

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:03:00 +0000

EDIT: Thank you all so much! Voting is now closed. I think we did good!

Friends and readers, you may or may not know this already, but here at Dr. McNinja HQ, I have a little studio intern who goes by the name of Commissioner Gordon. It is my belief that he is cuter than evolution actually allows. Scientists are coming in next week to check it out, you know, do some tests.

My fiance, Carly and I have entered Gordon in The Cutest Dog Competition, which offers a grand prize of one million dollars. And here's the crazy thing. Gordon is in the top 12. Thanks to your votes back in August, he actually could win this thing.

So Gordon is in the final round. The contest judges determine who the top four are out of the twelve, but they've opened it up for voting to help them decide. This is where my widdle fellow and I need your help. Please vote for Commissioner Gordon.

Things have changed since the last time we spoke fondly about the creature whose new food blesses him with droppings that smell fouler than a sasquatch's. You have to register to vote now. I know that seems like a big deal, but it seriously takes 30 seconds.
Please only vote from one email address once a day! The guys who run this site are like DEMENTORS, and they will KNOW. Also, the competition has gotten a lot tougher. Every dog has it's own community rallied behind it.

Here's a video of Gordon reading a book on how to make delicious barbecue.

Now, here is what I think is whack. As of this writing, the Commish is nowhere near the number one spot. He's actually in sixth. Tough competition, guys. I need your help.

I make this comic for you for free. I don't ask for donations, and I only offer you books and t-shirts that you are free to buy or completely ignore. Most of you don't buy any of it, and that's fine. That's how capitalism works, friends! And I'm genuinely happy that I'm just entertaining folks! But if you were to take just a SECOND to vote for Gordon (and maybe even pass it on to others?), it would be a great way to return the favor. If every single reader were to vote just ONCE, let alone the once a day they allow, we'd destroy the competition.

LOOK AT THIS FRIGGIN GUY!

In fairness, if you look at the contest, and don't actually think that Gordon is the cutest dog, then vote for another dog! But I feel confident in Commissioner Gordon's Government Rated Cuteness.

What will we do with the money if we win? I don't think this is something that needs to be put out there, but some of the other dogs have made it that way.
A) Carly and I have got a wedding to pay for. Weddings in NYC are EXPENSIVE.
B) Carly and I want to buy a house! Houses in NYC are EXPENSIVE.
C) We talked about the causes that we regularly donate to, and both of us are proud supporters of public radio. Winning a boat load of money, you know you should pay some of it forward. So a portion of our winnings will go toward supporting public radio. Most notably, PRI, and WNYC.
D) You better believe we are gonna throw a big old party for Gordon and everyone is invited. (There has been some controversy over bribing for votes with other dogs, so I'm going to make this clear. You might be invited to the party, and I would surely be happy to see you there, but I surely ain't gonna pay for you to get there.)

In closing, here is Gordon eating an apple.

If you want to see a couple other pics of Commissioner Gordon, as well as comics by some pals here is the original call for votes.

Short Dr. McNinja Fan Video

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:12:00 +0000

The end kills me every time. Go look!

Upcoming APEarences

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Guess what, fools! C. Hastings is going to be at the Alternate Press Expo in San Francisco! Because I'm so ALT. YEAH.

Anyways, I would be pleased as heck to see you there! Here's the info.

APE: San Francisco
TopatoCo: Table 254
You can find me if you follow this MAP! And this SIGNING SCHEDULE!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17
11 am - 1 pm: Jeffrey Rowland, Jon Rosenberg, Joey Comeau, Emily Horne
1 pm - 3 pm: Chris Hastings, Matt Boyd, Zach Weiner, Meredith Gran
3 pm - 5 pm: Jeffrey Rowland, Jon Rosenberg, Joey Comeau, Emily Horne
5 pm - 7 pm: Chris Hastings, Matt Boyd, Zach Weiner, Meredith Gran

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18
12 pm - 2 pm: Jeffrey Rowland, Jon Rosenberg, Matt Boyd, Meredith Gran
3 pm - 5 pm: Chris Hastings, Zach Weiner, Joey Comeau, Emily Horne
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Also coming up, Kent will be at Boston Comic Con, October 24-25. He'll be nice to you!

TopatoCo Tag Sale

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:21:00 +0000

This weekend, TopatoCo is opening it's massive warehouse doors to YOU, the PUBLIC, all in the name of GREAT SAVINGS! I'll let David Malki, director of marketing and t-shirt gun defense grids explain in greater detail.

The thing about running a T-shirt manufactury is that you end up with a lot of merchandise. Everything's gotta be printed in all these different sizes, and there are different color options, and even a small number of designs can permute out into irrational numbers of actual product.

And we ain't no second-rate ham-shop runnin' T-shirts out the back of an off-label methadone distillery either - we're the world's largest graphical internet entertainment licensing firm, and we got literally twenty dozen different designs that we throw away on a daily basis. We are straight-up and down-low professional and the side effect of all this legitimate-businessin' is that we got tee-shirts in every orifice and stacked up to reach the danged rafters.

Solution? TAG SALE. We've got bins, crates and barrels (curiously, no boxes) full of limited, discontinued, overstocked and/or clearance merchandise that we want to get rid of. This Saturday, September 26, we are opening our doors and urging you, a bunch of strangers, to come paw through a giant stash of our clean cotton miscellany. That's right - the TopatoCo offices will be open to the discount-loving public for a one-day bargain-basement housecleaning hootenanny.

Everything will be marked down to prices that may make us cry - but as our intrepid leader Jeffrey continually sneers, "We have to give them bargains so they will like us!" This is an important step in our social development so we just ask that you please not bring any airhorns or we may become spooked and bolt.

So join us on Saturday from 10 AM till 7 PM. The address is: 116 Pleasant St., Ste. 203, Easthampton MA 01027. Google's got a map of it right here. It'll be great bargains on a pile of great stuff for you, and maybe finally clearing enough space to meet the fire code for us. Sounds like a win-win.

Some pretty sweet fanart

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:06:00 +0000

Hey, check out the Dr. McNinja characters done up at Ewzzy's Freedom Force! I think my favorite might be Marty.

Robocop Comics!

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:55:00 +0000

Just for fun, I wrote a Robocop comic, and Anthony Clark drew it! Now you go LOOK AT IT.

And thank you very much to Carly Monardo and Alex Blasioli for having a good time with me and brainstorming stupid Robocop funnies so I had something to go write.

Archive Binge

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:22:00 +0000

Good news, everyone! Dr. McNinja is part of the newly launched RSS service, Archive Binge. What is Archive Binge? Why here, let me just have it tell you itself.

Have you ever found an interesting looking webcomic, looked at the archive, and thought:

I can't start reading this! There are hundreds of strips to catch up on!

At Archive Binge you can create a custom RSS news feed for a webcomic, which will take you through the archive, at a rate faster than the new comics update. This lets you get up to date on comics with large archives, without spending hours or days trawling the archive in one go.

Rather than spend a whole day or more bingeing on a comic archive, set up an Archive Binge feed. You can start from the beginning, or wherever you're up to. You can set your custom feed to deliver a strip every day, 4 strips every weekday, or whatever you want, up to 10 strips a day. Anyone can read 10 strips a day! If you get a spare hour and read the next 50 strips, you can update your position in your feed. You can even pause your feed if you go on vacation, and turn it on again when you get back.

And before you know it, you'll have completed the archive and be up to date.

Give it a shot if you like! (And I swear, an RSS feed for new comics will come soonish.)

Dr. McNinja at the Brooklyn Book Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:33:00 +0000

I will be signing books with TopatoCo at the Brooklyn Book Festival! Here are the directions! I hope to see you there.

It's time to read some PATRICK ALEXANDER COMICS!

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Hey, so I think Patrick Alexander is a great cartoonist, and for some reason (laziness, forgetfulness, wanted to post pictures of my dog instead) I've completely neglected to share that with you, the reader, ever hungry for more comics.

Let me just link you to a couple of my favorites, and then if you enjoy them, you can explore around. WARNING. THERE ARE SOME ROUGH CHUCKLES AHEAD. (Genitals and bad words will find you through these links.)

Have you played the video game, Animal Crossing? Well then you might like THIS COMIC, from Hilarity Comics on Eegra, Patrick's spot for video game based humor.

Secondly, there is Raymondo Person, Patrick's other comic, perhaps his MAIN comic. I was going to go and find a favorite in there to link you too, but man just check out that most recent page. THAT IS SWEET.

Finally, Patrick makes funny videos. Here he is trying out to be a children's program host or something.

Commissioner Gordon for Cutest Dog

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:26:00 +0000

EDIT: Gordon won the round, and is moving on to the semi finals in a couple months! Thank you all so much for your support! You are all very awesome. Here is the video announcing his win.

And here is a sweet comic by Rebecca Clements about Gordon!
And here is one by K.C. Green!

Thank you all again so much for the support.

Have you met my dog, Commissioner Gordon? This is him and me.

Commissioner Gordon is running for the office of Cutest Dog, and your vote would mean very much to him. If you don't vote for little Gordon, he'll get sad, because he'll think he is too ugly to feel love.

EDIT: Took down the link cause he won!

Perhaps you'd like to see a portrait of Gordon with his favorite novels? Or a video of him eating an apple?

More things!

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:32:00 +0000

I went and did another interview!? Clearly I will talk to anyone who shoves a mic in my face. Fun questions on this one!

New Interview

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:59:00 +0000

Hey guys, I just finished up an interview with Lots of Interviews! Be forewarned! There is a BIT of a spoiler in the last question.

San Diego Comic Con and Volume 3 Launch Party!

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:59:00 +0000

First off, if you're coming to San Diego Comic Con, you can find me in the webcomics section with Dayfree Press at table 1231. I'll be in the same row as Questionable Content, Wondermark, Sam and Fuzzy, White Ninja, Tiny Kitten Teeth, Cyanide and Happiness, Halfpixel, PvP, and Blatant Comics. Clearly the place to be!

SECOND OFF we're throwing a party to celebrate the release of Dr. McNinja Volume 3, and you are invited! It's in San Diego after Comic Con Preview Night ends. Here is a map, and here is the facebook event page! (And of course if you can't make it, you can still order the book online here.)

YES you can come if you are under 21. You just can't drink.

I am very excited because we get to show off our sick mixology skills in the creation of several assuredly delicious Dr. McNinja themed cocktails. AND the brewery let me rename all their beers.

So come and have a Ninjas Can't Drink This, maybe win some prizes, and get me to sign a book for you! Good times!

Operation Dracula! From Outer Space

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:06:00 +0000

Holy crap, our third book is finally on sale!

You can go ahead and pre-order it, and you'll get a free print, and some stickers, and the opportunity to get me to draw IN the book for you.

OR, if you're going to be at San Diego Comic Con, you can come to the book launch party! Check back soon for details...

New interview!

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:40:00 +0000

I just did an interview over at Wired for Geek Dad! CHECK IT.

Kent will draw for you!

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:14:00 +0000

Hey guys, just another reminder that our inker Kent does up some very pretty pictures for you if you like. Check out his work over at DeviantArt, and if you like, send him an email! kentarcher10@gmail.com

MoCCA

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:52:00 +0000

Hey dudes! I'm going to be at MoCCA in NYC this weekend! I imagine you can find me somewhere near the hulking beacon that is Ryan North.

How Dr. McNinja gets colored

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:32:00 +0000

Anthony posted an informative and entertaining guide to coloring the comic! You should read it!

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:31:00 +0000

KNIFE EYE ATTAAAACK

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:32:00 +0000

Hello, art investors. It may interest you to know that the original artwork used as page 40 for Spooky Stuff (the one where Dan tapes the knives to his eyes) is up for bid on eBay. Please go internet fight for it with your money fists.

New Moon at My Plastic Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:32:00 +0000

Carly's got a really cool looking piece up at the New Moon show at the My Plastic Heart gallery! The show opens tonight, and is up till May 10th.

The Career Cookbook wants to know what YOU want to know.

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Hastings) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:39:00 +0000

In a week, I'm going to be doing an interview with The Career Cookbook. And I've been asked to relay this request along to you!

Hello web comic fans,

TheCareerCookbook.com is proud to present an interview with the talented comic book artist and Dr. McNinja creator Chris Hastings. We are happy to offer you the fans a chance to be a part of this interview by submitting your career related questions for Chris to answer. Questions will be accepted up until April 12th, 2009 and five questions will be chosen from those submitted for Chris to answer in his interview. Please send your questions along with your name and the city in which you reside to the following email: info@thecareercookbook.com. By including your name you can be credited for your question when the interview is published. We look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you in advance for your contributions.

Sincerely,

The Management at The Career Cookbook

www.thecareercookbook.com