Two more from Main Enterprise

Continuing my association with the every jovial Jim Main, the year gets off to a wonderful start as he releases a pair of fine publications (on which I served as Production Manager) first up is The Outer Limits, followed by *PPFSZT! #40.

Outer Limits ($8.99) is a 68 page, trade paperback format, glossy interior pages, index card cover stock book. that is chock-a-block full of amazing illustrations by a whole passel full of amazingly talented artists.


*PPFSZT!#40 ($6.50) is a magazine-sized funnybook with strips, panel gags, illustrations and other fun and entertaining stuff that will certainly brighten up your day.

Both publications are available from Main Enterprises, or by contacting Jolly Jim himself at jmain44@aol.com. We highly recommend both publications (and would have recommended them even if we hadn¹t worked on them ourselves).

So help yourself to a heaping helping of good ol’ funnybook (and TV) fun by acquiring for yourselves both of these very fine Main Enterprises publications.

You'll be so very glad that you did!

Main Enterprises

Yesterday I drove up to see my buddy Jim Main. I’ve known Jim for quite a number of years (met him back when he owned a comic shop). Well, Jim’s been publishing comics since the dawn of time and recently (over the past couple of years), he’s been publishing some of my stories in his many wonderful anthologies.

He publishes under the company name Main Enterprises, and this weekend I went up to his place to pick up a number of comics (with my work in them) that he was holding for me. (If you want copies of the books to which I contributed, go here, and check out which books you want, then either follow those links to Jim’s ecrater site, or contact me and buy from me direct. Hey I’ll even autograph them for you.)

Well, in addition to the books with my work that I acquired from Jim, he was nice enough to gift me with a couple of his other titles that didn’t contain my work, but are still nifty-cool. One of these books was Tribute #2 and the other was *PPFSZT! Annual #1 — Jim’s first full-color comic. The comic is beautiful featuring work from quite a few of the many talented creators who regularly contribute to Jim’s various books.

I also hear that an upcoming issue of *PPFSZT! (#35) he did manage to include a photo of my glorious self (one of the few photos ever taken of me that I actually like). Even though I don’t have anything in the annual Tribute, or *PPFSZT! #35, I strongly recommend that you check out the, along with Jim’s other titles as well, they are all quite good.

Some of the other comics that Jim publishes include Soundwaves, This comic is a very unique title from Main Enterprises because of its musical nature. Soundwaves contains illustrations and comics that are all on a musical note! And still there are more titles.

I tell you, Jim is a publishing machine! I’m not quite sure how he has the time to produce all of these comics, but he somehow does, and well, I, along with all of the numerous very talented creators, are very pleased that he does, as we are able to get our work into print.

So, if you are in the mood to support Indie comics, then hurry over to Main Enterprise’s ecrater site, and gobble up a whole bunch of them, as they are some of the coolest comics I’ve seen of late.

Well that’s all for me now, I’ve got to finish reading *PPFSZT! Annual #1. (Did I mention that it is full color?)

Let’s hear it for Jim Main!

So, 30some years ago or so I met Jim Main. Little did I know that throughout most of the intervening years since then and now, Jim has been publishing a revolving set of Indie comics under the umbrella of Main Enterprises. A couple of years ago, I re-connected with Jim, and he began publishing my short stories. to date, Jim has published several of my short stories, six of which are currently in print two more are illustrated and awaiting publishing, one has been accepted and awaiting an artist, two more are under consideration, and I have  another pair of scripts in the works.

That’s *PPFSZT! #28, 30, 33, 34, The Attic #1, & Main Enterprises #6.

Pretty Cool, eh?

An early Christmas gift

Just got the word from “Grim” Jim Main that my Christmas tale of mirth and mayhem (Santa and the Angels) will be appearing in his Santa-Themed issue of *PPFSZT! #34. How cool is that?

My story Slabbed, just showed up in *PPFSZT! #33, which Jim is telling us is literally flying off the shelves (no really it is a vampire, bat thing with actual wings I’m told, so you’'d best have some cloves of garlic on hand).

That issue has been written up over at examiner.com, so we are hoping that the additional exposure of the comic is helping launch Jim’s funnybooks into the stratosphere.

Well, as we’ve been telling folks, Jim has been publishing quite a number of our stories lately including Regret (The Attic #1), Too Much Coffee, Man! (*PPFSZT! #28), and Tea Party (*PPFSZT! #30).

Rest assured folks, that there are a whole bunch more stories of mine waiting in the wings, over at Main Enterprises, so keep knock, knock, knocin’ on Grim Jim’s door.

*PPFSZT to you too!

A few months back, Jim Main the head honcho of Main Enterprises, published a short story of mine, entitled, Too much coffee, Man. in his publication *PPFSZT #28. Well Jim induced me to submit a second story, which I did, and this second story appears in *PPFSZT #30. This second story (like the first) was illustrated by the extraordinarily talented Jack Bertram. The second story is entitled Tea Party.

Jim has three more of my stories that he will be publishing, one is entitled Papyrus (illustrated by the very talented Alex Lopez), a second is entitled Regret (yet to be illustrated), and the third (which I just handed in) is entitled Slabbed.

I have to say that I’m really enjoying submitting stories to Jim. He has about a dozen eclectic publications that he produces on (apparently) random publishing schedules.

Oh, I also contributed an article to Comic Fan #6 about our mutual friend Rusty Haller.

Here is the opening page to Tea Party:

*Ppfszt!

Hey kids, today is a banner day as I just got my exclusive copy of *Ppfszt! #28, fresh off the press from Main Enterprises. Don’t be embarasded if you are unfamiliar with this particular title, it is a (very) small press comic published by an old buddy of mine, one Jim Main. This particular issue of *Ppfszt! is of particular interest because it carries one of my stories (entitled Too much coffee, Man).

Hey! I have a story in this issue!

(And yes, it is dedicated to Shannon Wheeler).

More about this later.Shannon