A Last Kiss to Valentine Blues…on YouTube!

by | Feb 10, 2011 | Blog

Press Release:
Seattle, WA (Feb. 10, 2011) — Romance comic genius John Lustig has a surefire cure for anyone suffering from Valentine’s Day heartburn.

His first animated video, “Racing Toward Heartbreak,” is a darkly funny, faux ad for The Last Kiss Institute of Dismal Love Affairs. The mini, mock epic features a mad doctor’s extremely inappropriate solution to a desperate dame’s boyfriend problems.

“Dangerous drugs and unnecessarily expensive shock therapy are involved,” explained Lustig.

Years in the making (seconds in the planning), the video is a collaboration with an award-winning Newgrounds animator Edward (Meddros) Smith.

“We included modified word balloons because we were trying for the look of a comic book,” said Smith. “But we added a voice track, music and special effects because…well, we thought it’d be easy. Silly us!”

Like Lustig’s regular Last Kiss webcomics, the animation uses art from old romance comics with bizarre, new dialog.

Kisses and Ducks

February and March are turning out to be big months for Lustig. In addition to the animation release, he’s spotlighted in the current issue of Seattle Magazine. Lustig is profiled as one of seven Seattle comic creators for the magazine’s “geek issue.”

On Feb. 23 (revised date–it’s out now!), Lustig has a long-awaited Disney story in Boom! Studio’s Donald Duck and Friends #363. His “Somewhere Beyond Nowhere” is a 12-page Donald Duck story based on a plot by Disney legend Carl Barks and drawn by Daan Jippes.

And then, on March 30, Lustig’s first Last Kiss merchandise (coffee mugs, metal card cases & sticky notebooks) through Dark Horse Comics will be arriving in stores.

See more Lustig-related video on the Last Kiss YouTube Channel!

And Now On With the Show…

by | Jan 19, 2011 | Blog

After I posted yesterday’s gag about a strip club with parody lyrics (“There’s No Business Like Bare-ly Show Business”), I received an e-mail from my pal cartoonist Kevin Boze who came up with some great lyrics of his own. With his permission, here they are:

MEN’S CHORUS:
The bouncers, the colored lights, the panties, the tops
The audience that stares at you and sighs

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops (NOTE:  This was just too good a line to change)
The feeling when you make their winkies rise

MEN’S CHORUS:
Excitement when the tipping comes apace

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The downer when your stripper shoes unlace

ALLS:
There’s no business like ho business
Like no business I know

MEN’S CHORUS:
Every man looks on that stage adoring

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
Sweating but you’re trying to stay cool

MEN’S CHORUS:
No where could you dance and keep on whoring

ALL:
While you’re ignoring that four-foot rule
They’re hip people, those strip people
They’re swinging on the pole

MEN’S CHORUS:
Yesterday you barely could fill out some B’s

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
That night you really wanted to tease

MEN’S CHORUS:
Next day you are showing off your double-D’s

ALL:
Let’s go on with the show
Let’s go on with the show

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