First of all, MEGA thanks to Phil (Frumph) and the ComicPress team for being so responsive to us and our needs, and showing Tony some of the ropes for the latest ComicPress update. It’s so wildly fun to use, and there’ll be a lot of great structural changes that happen to the site from this point on because of their hard work. We greatly appreciate your efforts and thank you so much for the hard work.

But naturally (though he’s also part of the ComicPress supergroup), we want to give fantastically enormous thanks to Mr. Tyler Martin at MindFaucet. He’s been incredibly patient with us and our requests and the new website he designed is stunning. We now feel so professional, we almost don’t know what to do with ourselves.  Almost.

As always, the new strip is coming along slowly but it’s great to see another HUGE box checked off the list. We’ve dreamed of a site design like this since we were in diapers, scratching child-like crayon images of Tuna Carpaccio P.I. onto our parents walls and we’ve gotta say that it feels great to see it come to life like this.  Thanks again ComicPress guys and Tyler, you are our heroes.

Back to the action…

TONY CHAVIRA & JOSH DUNLAP are partners in crime. The two concept, write and draw an on-line comic strip called Tuna Carpaccio P.I. It’s an awesome strip and reveals a great on-going dialogue between the two creators. Josh wants the strip to be very noir and Tony wants the strip to be sort of Looney-toonish. The result is a great blend of hot creative talent.

It’s great to be mentioned on Accidental Mysteries because Mr. Foster, who runs the site, has a fantastic sense of design and a strong understanding of the motivation for and style behind independent artworks throughout the ages.  His blog is a fantastic read and I definitely recommend it to anyone out there looking to mix things up and see the world from another interesting angle.  Besides, anyone who calls us “hot creative talent” is a-okay in our book!

So thanks again Mr. John Foster of Accidental Mysteries!

“So I felt pretty guilty drawing this strip while watching little kids do gymnastics at the gym where my girlfriend coaches. I felt some evil stares from parents looking over my shoulder… But whatever. Enjoy!”

- Josh

SO CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT! (tomorrow at 9pmEST/6pmPST btw)

And yeah… we should have an update soon.  As in REALLY soon.  Jobs are great in a bad economy, but it’s murder on your schedule.

Here’s the address:

702 Americana Way Glendale, CA 91210

Hope to see you guys there, if you’re around!  And remember to check out Josh’s Blog for some of his other work!

So in no particular order, here we go!

A corrupt looking Coal Miner.

Very literally, Tuna Carpaccio P.I.

A cybernetic Iron Chef.

A super-fly Dead  Beat

A re-imagined police officer (preferably the one that busted De Jesus).

A hive of puns for Busy Bee, clearly modeled after “The Fly”

And the official winner of the Horrific Halloween Contest is our pal Hammerhead for this particularly dark revamp of King Pin that brings to mind images of Shakespearean lore… in particular Hamlet’s ghostly father, the gruesome reanimation of King Lear, or the image of MacBeth after he had been a cruel and murderous King for 10 years.

Except, you know, involving pins and bowling.

Congratulations Hammerhead! And thanks for keeping the momentum rolling!  (insert comedy drums here)

So to sum it all up, the contest ends.  At the end of the day, we’re closing submissions and picking a winner!  Then we’ll put all of the art we get up online to all eyes to see and rejoice!

So send your scaried-up version of a Tuna Carpaccio P.I. character to Tony@TunaCarpaccioPI.com as soon as humanly possible.  Or as soon as inhumanly possible.  Whichever’s faster.