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07/02/09-"[The Hap and Leonard
stories] are crazy sort of folk tales mixed with reality, but it's always the
social and cultural issues and the two characters that drive the series." Click here to read Rick
Klaw's entire interview with Champion Joe, as published July 1, 2009, by the
San Antonio Current!
07/02/09-The Mojo one is hitting the road
this month! Here's the schedule:
July 7, 6:30 p.m.: Murder by the Book (Houston, TX)
July 8, 7:00 p.m.: Book People (Austin, TX)
July 9, 7:30 p.m.: Tattered Cover (Denver, CO)
July 14, 7:00 p.m.: Poisoned Pen (Phoenix, AZ)
July 15, 7:00 p.m.: M is for Mystery (San Mateo, CA)
July 16, noon: Seattle Mystery Bookshop (Seattle,
WA)
07/02/09-"Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody
answer to Mark Twain." That's what Joe O'Connell writes in his review of
Vanilla Ride and Sanctified and Chicken-Fried, published June 26 in the Austin
Chronicle. And that's all well
and good. But you'll want to click
here to read the article to find out what Champion Joe's dad did to the
neighbor who hit young Joe's dog with a steel pipe, how his mom inspired the
story "Bubba Ho-Tep," and why it makes sense that Batman, Shakespeare
and The Iliad could all come together for a single story!
07/02/09-If you think Joe can write,
wait until you hear him speak! Champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale was
interviewed by Jeff Rutherford for the eighth episode of "The Reading and
Writing Podcast." Listen
to it by clicking here!
07/02/09-Onyx Reviews calls Vanilla Ride "a perfect balance between violence and comedy, one
that is difficult to pull off." Click here to read
the entire review, or click
here to buy your own copy and make up your own mind!
07/02/09-We know how you like your shorts: in a bunch. So we
got "Seven Short Shorts"
for you. It's the totally free Mojo
story of the week! Enjoy!
06/25/09-What do you mean, you haven't
ordered your copy of Vanilla
Ride yet? You
don't like Hap & Leonard? Well, the book is on sale in five days. You best
act soon, or there won't be no Dr. Pepper or vanilla cookies for ya.
06/18/09-Joe writes, "Bette
Farmer, Philip Jose Farmer's wife, has died. She was a bright and beautiful
lady, and was as important to Phil's career as any editor, agent or publisher.
She was the rock on which he stood. And what a fine lady. She will be
missed."
06/11/09-Ever wonder what Champion Joe
sounds like when he speaks Italian? Check out
this TV interview from Italy!
06/11/09-The Mojo one has been surfing
the web on his virtual tour! Want to see where he's stopped, and read what he's
written on fans' pages? Go to joelansdale.blogspot.com
for a list of pages visited!
06/11/09- Fans and you-ought-to-be-fans
of the Hap and Leonard series will be pleased that Vintage is reprinting the
first three in the series. And, hey, that's not us talking--that's
ReviewingTheEvidence.com. Check it out!
06/11/09-And they're not the only ones
crowing about the Vintage re-releases! On the release of Two-Bear Mambo and Bad Chili, Bookgasm writes, "[F]rom
the amazing mind of Lansdale, who loves to pass along a damn-good story and
never fails to entertain. If you haven't met Hap and Leonard yet, please get to
it."
06/11/09-If you're more partial to
moving pictures than written words, you'll want to check out this
article in Fangoria about the film adaptation of Champion Joe's short story
"Mister Weed-Eater"!
06/11/09-Horror Bound Magazine reviewed the short-story collection
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried, resulting in our favorite pull-quote of the last
78 days: "Joe R. Lansdale is a true master of his craft. He could write a
first person account of a deaf-dumb-blind kid stirring a pile of wet dog sh*t
with a popsicle stick and make it as feverish a page turner as any I've ever
read." Read
the whole blessed review here!
06/04/09-As promised, Champion Joe has
been "touring" the websites of fans. Check out the blog SomebodyDies and the KillerCon MySpace page for
samples!
06/04/09-Speaking of blogs, Champion
Joe's got his own now! Click here to
read the latest from Joe hisownself--and to see Killer Kasey's swell new
outfits!
06/04/09-And while you're bouncing
around the Web, check out Horror Bound
Magazine's interview with Champion Joe!
05/28/09-To promote the June 30 release
of his new Hap & Leonard novel, Vanilla Ride, champion Joe is going on tour . . . a
virtual tour!
It all starts today, at 9:00 pm Eastern. Click here to create a
username for yourself, and champion Joe will sweep down upon you like a benevolent
force of nature! First cities on the tour: San Diego, Phoenix, Birmingham, Columbus, and Denver. More to come!
05/21/09-The second issue of Zombie
Tales, a comic
from Boom!, is out now, and it features a story written by champion Mojo
storyteller Joe R. Lansdale and illustrated by the legendary Eduardo Barreto.
Get yours now!
05/21/09-The fifth issue of Morpheus
Tales is the
"Undead Special" issue. We're going to pick that one up because it
features short fiction by champion Joe. But even if it didn't, we'd pick it up,
'cause we think being undead is pretty special, too. Look
for it in July!
05/07/09-Hey, everyone! Killer Kasey
Lansdale has a message for you! Click here to retrieve it.
04/30/09-All you folks that have been
aching for another film adaptation of champion Joe's Mojo magic will want to check
out the story in Fangoria about the forthcoming Mister Weed-Eater! [Thanks,
Damian!]
04/23/09-The friendly folks at Bookgasm
say that Leather Maiden is "unlike any thriller you've ever read." Read that
and all the other nice things they said by clicking
here! For that matter, read what they had to say about Sanctified
and Chicken-Fried,
and the
Hap & Leonard trade paperbacks!
04/09/09-Ever wonder where champion Joe
got the idea for "Bubba Ho-Tep"? Well, stop wondering and start
reading! Ross Thompson asked the question and got the answer, and it's
published in the latest issue of AU. Click here to read it for yourself!
04/02/09-"He may be violent, gruesome and shocking, but [Joe]
Lansdale is also one of the greatest yarn spinners of his generation: fearless,
earthy, original, manic and dreadfully funny." That's what Jane Sumner of
the Dallas Morning News
wrote about our very own champion Joe. Click
here to read the rest of what she wrote about him, and about his new short-story
collection, Sanctified and Chicken-Fried!
04/02/09-This just in from a couple of folks from the Mud Creek
Asylum: "Hey, Mojo-fanatics,
it's Patrick J. Kennedy from BellMojo Productions. If you are a member of
Facebook and want to check out the new exclusive interview with Joe R.
Lansdale, click
here! If you're not a member, it's free to join up and then you can also follow
updates about the film adaptation of Joe's "Mister Weed-Eater,"
being developed by Damian Maffei, star of Closed for the Season, and Brian Fitzpatrick, co-creator of the
Hobo-Horror short Throwaway!
03/26/09-Champion Joe remembers his
hero Philip Jose Farmer. Click
here to read his piece.
03/26/09-Ever wonder what champion
Joe's childhood looked like? Stop wondering and click
here!
03/19/09-Back in January, Vintage
re-released the first two Hap & Leonard novels, Savage Season and Mucho Mojo. Click
here to see the bitchin' cover they have for the re-release of The
Two-Bear Mambo!
And here
for the re-release of Bad Chili! Both coming in May!
03/19/09-And while we're on the subject
of bitchin' covers and Hap & Leonard novels, check out the cover for Vanilla
Ride, the new
H&L hardcover from Knopf that goes on sale June 30!
03/19/09-If all that doesn't make you a
little unchained and unhinged, then how about this
gem that's shipping from Subterranean Press?
03/12/09-Amazon says champion Joe's
latest collection, Sanctified
and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale, went on sale March 1. Well, it
didn't. It ships next week. But preorders are such that the hardcover is almost
gone already. So . . . if you were expecting a hardcover, order now. And enjoy!
03/12/09- The Boar was recently published in Germany!
Deutschlandradio says that it is written like wonderful minimalist poetry, that
Joe is a big deal and folks should check him out. But they say it in German. If
that doesn't put you off, click here.
Or if you just like pictures of cute baby boars, click here.
And send your Mojo waves of thanks to our German pal, Olaf! [Thanks, Olaf!]
03/05/09-The (Texas) Eagle says champion Joe's Hap & Leonard
novels are "fast-paced and
often humorous." Of course, they also say they're "told in the voice
of Hap Collins and have a lot of sex, violence and profanity, so consider that
a warning." We assume they're warning folks about Hap, not the sex,
violence and profanity. Folks like sex, violence and profanity, don't they?
Anyways, click here if you want to read more.
03/05/09-Over in Boston, the fellas at The Edge said, "Joe R.
Lansdale knows how to tell a damn fine story." Click here to read all about those damn fine stories.
03/05/09-Publishers
Weekly got a
listen to Phil (not a porn name) Gigante's audio adaptation of Savage Season, and wrote that his performance is
"mesmerizing: he infuses this book with attitude and style, imbuing each
character with a rich distinct voice that resonates well with each personality.
His narration is crisp and smooth, with a good distribution of tension
according to the given
scene." Click
here to listen to samples. Or here,
to read the review.
02/26/09-Did you know champion Joe
teaches creative writing at Stephen F. Austin State University? Or that he'll
be teaching in Italy this summer? Neither did I--until I read The Velvet
Interview. Click
here to read it yourownself!
01/29/09-You somehow miss those first
two Hap & Leonard novels, Savage Season and Mucho Mojo? Then you'll want to send a big letter
of thanks to the fine folks at Vintage/Black Lizard, who have re-released those
'90s classics! Click
here for more information!
01/29/09-Modern Tonic says, "[Champion Mojo storyteller
Joe R. Lansdale] has long
challenged traditional genres by mashing up mystery, comedy, thriller and
Western themes. Bloody and unrelenting, Lansdale's work is not for the squeamish.
Nor is it for readers interested in a too-good-to-be true gay role model.
Leonard's raunchy gallows humor, not to mention his platonic devotion to buddy
Hap, make Savage Season and
Mucho Mojo crackling good
reads." Don't believe us? Go see for yourself, by clicking here!
01/22/09-The
Orbit's very own songbird, Kasey
Lansdale, has entered a contest to be the opening act for Little Big Town.
We're not asking for anyone to vote for her who hasn't heard her music at kaseylansdale.com, BUT, if you have
heard it and you like it, then you can vote
for her to be an opening act for Little Big Town by clicking here.
01/22/09-The
crazy folk at BellMojo have another fun event planned, this one in support of Protect, America's first political lobby for
child protection. This music festival--the BellMojo Broken Hearts Bash--will
take place Friday, February 13,
2009, in Bellmore, New York. Line-up includes The Vinyl Stash, Dangered Ace
(featuring Paul Ranieri) and
Burlesque performances by Legs
Malone, the girl with the 34½-inch inseam, so you got to figure this
February one will be the perfect precursor to Valentine's Day. Visit myspace.com/bybizarrehands for more info!
01/22/09-Did
we mention that Kasey Lansdale has
entered a contest to be the opening act for Little Big Town, and that you can vote
for her by clicking here?
01/15/09- When Ellen came to the moonlit mountain curve, her
thoughts, which had been adrift with her problems, grounded, and she was suddenly
aware that she was driving much too fast. She was heading straight for an
01/15/09-The Fantasy Book Critic says
that Champion Joe's comic-book adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Pigeons From
Hell is full of
"scathing wit and
wild, otherworldly creations." You can get the collected series now.
(Thanks for that update, Jared!) Click
here to read the full description, find a link to a preview, and find a
link to order the book. (That Fantasy Book Critic makes everything easy, huh?)
01/08/09-Sure, Sanctified and
Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale will be out soon--in March, in fact.
But in case you can't wait that long, Champion Joe will read to you a story
included in the collection, one that's never before been published. Click here to watch him read
a bit of "Dirt Devils"!
01/08/09-If you like Bubba Ho-Tep, and you like Doom, and you like Legos . . . then,
oh boy, do you have some strange tastes. But, oh boy, do we have a treat for you! Click
here for Bubba Lego Tep, starring Lego Elvis! [Thanks, T!]
01/01/09-Welcome
to the new year! And what better way to welcome a new year than with a new CD
from Champion Joe's killer crooner of a daughter, Kasey Lansdale? Click here to preview her CD,
"No More Rain"!
01/01/09-And
if it's listening you want to do, don't stop there! Brilliance Audio is
releasing audiobook-adaptations of the Hap & Leonard classics Savage
Season, Mucho
Mojo (both January
13), Two-Bear Mambo, and Bad Chili (both May 5). And then, on June 30, to
coincide with the hardcover release of the new Hap & Leonard chapter,
they'll release the audiobook of Vanilla Ride! 2009 is the Year of Hap &
Leonard! Click
here to listen to samples of those audiobooks, all read by Phil Gigante
(not a porn name, it turns out)!
01/01/09-Speaking
of Vanilla Ride,
here's how the folks at Knopf describe the latest installment in the Hap &
Leonard saga:
In this Texas-sized
thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine--best friends, freelance troublemakers,
and tough guys with good intentions--find themselves in the crosshairs of the
Dixie Mafia.
Hap is an East Texas
smart mouth with a weakness for southern women. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam
vet. They're not the makings for your typical dynamic duo, but never
underestimate the power of a shared affinity for stirring up trouble and
general mayhem. So when an old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from
an abusive, no-good drug dealer, he gladly agrees and, of course, invites Hap
along for the fun. Well, the dealer may be lowly, but he is on the bottom rung of the Dixie Mafia, and when Hap
and Leonard come calling, the Mafia feels a little payback is in order. Cars
crash, shotguns blast, and people die, but Hap and Leonard come out on top.
Unfortunately for them, now they're facing not only jail time but also the
legendary--and lethal--Vanilla Ride, who is still out to claim the price on
their heads.
Full of twists and
turns, gunfire and gaffes, this hilarious, rip-roaring novel will have readers
turning the pages faster than a Texas tornado.
Now . . . we
know Phil Gigante isn't a porn name. But Vanilla Ride? Gotta be. Anyway, click
here to preorder your very own copy of this book!
01/01/09-If you're like us, you made it
onto Santa's naughty list. So get yourself something nice! Kasey Lansdale has a
whole warehouse full of original, never-before-read, first-printing copies of
Champion Joe's books, all signed by Champion Joe hisownself! Click
here to contact Kasey!
12/25/08-Last
week we mentioned to you that the latest issue of Irish pop-culture magazine AU had a two-page feature on Champion
Joe. This week, the author of that piece sends you a present: Click here to READ the article.
[Thanks, Ross!]
12/18/08-Champion
Joe's brother, Andrew Vachss, has been writing novels about career-criminal
Burke since 1985. The 18th and final novel in that series, Another Life, goes on sale December 30, and Joe
advises everyone to check back in for the end of that series. Vachss will also
be doing a three-hour webcast on January 14, where he'll answer any and all
questions live on camera. Click here for more information!
12/11/08-Hap
& Leonard fans, hold onto your hats! Mud Creek's favorite sons are coming
back, in a big way! First, Vintage will re-release the early novels
in trade paperback in January 2009. Then, an all-new Hap & Leonard, Vanilla
Ride, will come
out in hardcover from Knopf, in summer 2009. And then, Knopf will release another original
Hap & Leonard hardcover will come out in 2010! The boys are back in town!
12/11/08-The
folks who produced A NIGHT OF JOE R. LANSDALE are looking for anyone that wants
to get involved with future projects, including BUBBA HOTEP: THE MUSICAL. No
kidding!! Contact flapjackmulligan@yahoo.com.
12/04/08-The Geek Curmudgeon says Sanctified and
Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale is "one of the first 'must have'
2009 publications." Click here to read
his review!
11/20/08-Champion
Joe says, "March of 2009 is
the tentative release date for Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable
Lansdale, one of the most
important short story collections I've done, and the first printing is only
1500 in clothbound. It will go fast. It's from the University of Texas Press
and I want to alert readers of this site first, to give them a chance to get a
jump on the order for the collection. It contains a wide variety of stories by
me, never arranged in this manner; novel excerpts; and a brand new story of the
1930s. And if that isn't enough, it has a nifty introduction by Dr. Bill
Crider. And what a cool cover." Click here to see that
cover, and the covers of the Vintage editions of the Hap & Leonard books!
11/13/08-If you've been wondering what
2009 will bring, wonder no more! Click here for a first look
at the covers of Champion Joe's first three releases in the new year: the
trade-paperback releases of the Hap & Leonard classics Savage Season and Mucho Mojo, and Sanctified and Chicken-Fried:
The Portable Lansdale,
from University of Texas Press! (Who knew Joe was portable? Can you take him on
a plane? Will he clear security?)
11/06/08-Finally! If you've been
waiting for us to update Champion Joe's bibliography, the wait is over! Click here to read the updated list
of Joe's books.
10/30/08-Happy birthday, Joe Lansdale!
It was hisownbirthday two days ago, on the 28th. Raise a glass of Dr. Pepper in
his honor!
10/30/08-A "Rest in Peace"
shout-out to Rudy Ray Moore, the comedian and filmmaker best known for the Dolemite movies. Mr. Moore passed away October
19. Say hi to Petey Wheatstraw, Rudy!
09/18/08-
The Chicago Sun-Times
had this to say about Leather Maiden: "There
are scenes that stand your hair on end while you fall out of your chair
laughing. . . . Be thankful [Lansdale] crafts such wild tall tales. . . . [His]
latest spans cunning, humor so salty it burns, and a fevered, cleansing
imagination, moving Leather Maiden from a story about journalism to an ornery fable about the ties
that bind--and rend--a small town." Get
your copy here!
09/11/08-The
Washington Post
calls Leather Maiden "Joe R. Lansdale's latest superb redneck-noir job.
Lansdale is both as humane and as tasteless as anybody writing crime fiction
today. Reading him is like riding the best tilt-a-whirl you've ever been on
while still keeping your lunch down." Get
your copy here!
09/11/08-The Marin Independent Journal says, "Lansdale
writes about the poor, emotionally traumatized, violent and stoically heroic
better than almost anyone. His characters can be off-the-charts weird, yet
lovable in a strange S&M way." They didn't just say all that for no
reason--they said it 'cause they like Leather Maiden. And you
will, too, when you get
your copy here!
09/04/08-Joe
Lansdale weighs in on the presidential elections! "E dire che la destra aveva invocato pioggia su
Obama," he tells Italian newspaper La Repubblica. So . . .
now you know!
09/04/08-The Dallas Morning News writes this about Leather Maiden: "Mysteries usually
begin with a drop of blood and end up with a barrel full. But Mr. Lansdale
tells this one Texas-style. It's a tall tale so boldly preposterous that we're
too enthralled to notice the duplicity. It's a puzzle, a game, a carnival act
of murder and mayhem. Cason and Booger sleuth it all out like perverted Hardy
Boys. And when it's over there's death aplenty, but where's the blood? Don't
ask. There's no blood in the Emerald City." Get
your copy here!
09/04/08-The folks at Details write, "Black humor and bad taste
abound in Lansdale's Edgar-winning body of work, and the cult author's newest
literary thriller--about Casey Stanton, a hard-drinking, Pulitzer-winning
journalist (and Gulf War vet) who returns to his rural Texas hometown after
losing his job in spectacular fashion--is no exception. As he investigates a
cold-case murder for the local paper and stalks his ex, Stanton emerges as an
appealingly ripe hayseed Sam Spade." Get
your copy here!
08/28/08-The Los Angeles Times writes, "Leather Maiden makes you want to sit on a porch
listening to [Lansdale] spin a yarn that you know doesn't contain a true
sentence. . . . At the beginning of David Lynch's film 'Blue Velvet,' you may
remember that the camera presents a typical American neighborhood and then
moves closer, right through the sod and down into the ground as a metaphor for
the nasty secrets hiding behind the veil of societal correctness. Lansdale's
novel is a trip into that same hidden shame. You may not enjoy the exposure,
but you'll definitely enjoy the ride." Get
your copy here! [Thanks, Judi!]
08/28/08-Joe's not the only Lansdale on the road these days!
Kasey Lansdale is taking part in the Great Texas Ranch House Tour, which kicks
off September 5 - 7 at the West Texas Horse Expo at the Midland, Texas
Horseshoe Arena!
08/21/08-HorrorReader.com
writes, "Joe R. Lansdale
excels at crafting dark, suspenseful and humorous fiction, and Leather Maiden makes for yet another
excellent addition to his already impressive body of work." Get
your copy here!
08/21/08-The
Austin Chronicle writes, "The
ever-prolific Joe R. Lansdale . . . certainly knows from fucked-in-the-head. .
. . Entertaining and distressing in equal measure, and for all kinds of
reasons, Leather Maiden is a bruising jolt from an
immoral moralist." Get
your copy here!
08/21/08-Planning ahead for your vacation next year? Here's one
to consider: Joe R. Lansdale has been named Guest of Honor at the first annual
Las Vegas KillerCon, to be held September 17 - 20, 2009. Click here for more information!
08/14/08-The Agony Column
has this to say about Joe's latest, Leather Maiden: "[D]on't even bother
to pick this one up and try to read it in the store, because about ten hours later,
somebody is going to come along and tell you to stop reading and just buy the
damn book, already. Lansdale is firing on all six, slick cylinders."
08/07/08-Congratulations to Mud Creek's favorite daughter,
Kasey Lansdale! This past Saturday, she was married to Adam Coats. We wish them
all the best! (But, next time, maybe you could hold the reception here at The
Orbit. . . ? Plenty of wide-open space!)
08/07/08-The
(Nashville) City Paper
loves Leather Maiden! Reviewer Ron Wynn writes, "Joe Lansdale has won
both domestic and international awards for his past mystery novels, but he's
never written one quite like his new volume Leather Maiden. . . . Some of the conversations here
are hilarious, even if the language is anything but politically correct. [Main
character Cason] Statler is working in Texas small towns and country
communities, where folks don't mince words, and often aren't shy about
expressing disdain and wallowing in stereotypes. These ingredients only add
more punch and sparkle to a tremendous work that deftly blends farce and dry
wit with adventure and crime solving." But don't take his word for it--get
your own copy now!
07/31/08-The folks at Library Journal recommend Leather Maiden, saying, "With its mysterious disappearances,
abandoned houses, midnight trysts, and hidden culverts, Lansdale's latest is a
contemporary Hardy Boys story on crank, read to best advantage late at night
under the covers, with the aid of a flashlight." Read the entire
review here!
07/31/08-The folks at Texas Monthly also recommend Leather Maiden! They write, "[T]he combination of back-porch
storytelling and breakneck suspense . . . makes Leather Maiden a must-read for thriller fans." Read the entire
review here!
07/31/08-And
on the eve of the release of Leather Maiden, Joe R. Lansdale hisownself writes, "Just a note
to thank all my dedicated readers. I appreciate your support over the years.
You've bought a lot of my books and have been kind enough to tell me how much
you have been entertained. Today, I'm putting on my salesman's hat. My new
book, Leather Maiden, a thriller I'm very proud of, and hopefully the
beginning of a new series, is forthcoming from Knopf on Aug. 5th. In the past,
my books have sold, but over a period of time. I'd like to show my publisher
that I can make a real hit on the day the book is released. So if you would go
to your local bookstore on that day, or preorder from Amazon or Barnes and
Noble, I can't tell you how happy that would make me feel.
"Another
announcement: Next year, the new Hap and Leonard book, Vanilla Ride, will be published. I'm excited about
it, not only because it's the seventh in the series and it's been awhile,
but because Vintage has picked up the backlist for the Hap and Leonard
books, and I've seen the advance covers, and, man, they are great. I'm really
trying to prime the pump for my future publications, so, again, I hope if you
want Leather Maiden that you pre-order or walk into your bookstore and pick
up a copy on August 5. It would be nice if you pre-ordered from your bookstore
if no copies are going to be available. Team up with me to make this the
best-selling novel yet. I got here because of you, and I want to bring more and
more books to you, new books in the Hap and Leonard series, and stand-alones
and new series, as well.
"So,
I'm just out here takin' care of business, as the King used to say, and hoping
you'll help me in the process.
"All my
best, and thanks for your support."
07/10/08-Champion
Joe says, "Lewis Shiner's latest, Black & White, is killer. Strong characters, suspenseful
situations, and tremendous insight. A novel that doesn't flinch from social
issues, and is so gracefully written it makes you want to weep. Should not be
missed. Lewis Shiner is the real deal, and this is his finest work." Click here to learn more!
06/12/08-We
were all out of candles, but we lit a mosquito coil atop a cake last week in
honor of the 75th birthday of the drive-in theater. We hope you'll
do that, too! Read
all about it here!
06/05/08-If you're looking for a little humor in your horror, check
out the anthology Blood
Lite, which includes the story "Mr. Bear" from champion Joe!
06/05/08-George
Pelecanos calls it "gripping,
ferocious, and very funny"! Scott Phillips says it "walks a delicate
line between grotesquerie and moral outrage all the while managing to be
funnier than anything I've read all year"! Ken Bruen pronounces it
"the novel of the year"! And Italian newspaper
Corriere della Sera proclaims, "D' Alema e i libri pulp di
Lansdale: vendette orribili ma giuste"! It's The
Leather Maiden, champion Joe's latest, and it will be released August 5,
2008! (And, no, we can't read Italian. But that last one sure looks fancy, doesn't
it?)
05/22/08-And if you were wondering what Kasey's been up to . .
. she was a big hit at the blues festival in Italy where she shared the event
with James Blood Ulmer, Ponte Bon of Texas, Grayson Capps, and a lot of super
Italian blues musicians. In July, she plays in Norway at a country festival
with legendary female vocalist Lynn Anderson.
05/01/08-"I
relate to [Robert E.] Howard as a small town boy who wanted to do something the
people around him didn't understand. Like him, I did it. Unlike him, I never
had the urge to shoot myself." Read all of Chris Arrant's interview with
Joe R. Lansdale, as published April 29, 2008, by clicking here!
(Thanks, Jeff!)
05/01/08-Some folks have
asked what, exactly, Joe's forthcoming book, Leather Maiden, is all about. Big
Bill Crider answers that question here!
04/24/08-Stop what you're doing
and head to the comics store! Champion Joe has written a four-part comics
adaptation of Robert E. Howard's classic "Pigeons from Hell," and the
first part is in stores now. Click here for
more information! (Thanks, Tarhan!)
04/24/08-And while we're on the
subject of comics . . . a package arrived here in Mud Creek posted from Italy.
Inside: an amazing Italian graphic novel adapting Champion Joe's short story
"Way Down There." If you want to go searching for it, it's titled
Laggiu Nel Profondo; is adapted by Luca Crovi and Andrea Mutti; and is
published by Edizioni BD. And when you're at the comic conventions this summer,
tell every publisher you meet that you want them to print it over here, in
English! Take a gander . . .
.
04/03/08-In case you missed it,
Marvel Comics is making it up to you! Champion Joe wrote a couple of stories
about the Thing time traveling back to the Old West, and they'll be back in
print in Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Volume 8, shipping May 21.
03/27/08-Cason Statler is
drinking too much, stalking his ex-girlfriend, and wallowing in envy of his
older brother. All he has going for him is his new job as columnist for a
small-town paper. He thinks he can ride that last bit into something bigger by
investigating a cold-case murder . . . until he rides it straight into a serial
killer. Strap yourself in for Champion Joe's latest wild ride! The Leather
Maiden will be released in
hardcover from Knopf in August!
02/07/08-Sure, the holidays may
be over. But that doesn't mean your spending spree has to be! When the US
government shakes loose with that tax rebate, here's a way you can help bolster
the economy! Click here for a
list of signed Mojo options, direct from the source!
12/27/07-They love Joe in Italy! So . . . who's "they"?
Well here's two
"they," with Joe hisownself! Bongiorno!
08/16/07-Nominationsfor the 2007
World Fantasy Awards are in, and it's going to be a tough race in the Anthology
category, where Champion Joe is up against ... Champion Joe! Two anthologies on
which Joe worked are both up for the award: Cross Plains Universe(which he co-edited with Scott Cupp), and RetroPulpTales (which he edited by hislonesome). Congrats, Joe!
07/12/07-The Grist Mill's audio
adaptation of champion Joe's "God of the Razor" has been honored with
an Ogle Award, an annual award given to an outstanding horror/fantasy audio
theater production. Producer Scott Hickey, of STH Productions, received the
award at the CONvergence Convention in Minneapolis on Friday, July 6th.
Wanna take a listen? Click here!
[Thanks, Scott!]
06/21/07-"When the Vietnam
war came, Joe R. Lansdale told them he wouldn't fight. They sent him to get his
head checked; the doctor determined he was nuts and they said they'd rather
recruit dogs than draft him." Click here to read Dave Maass' entire interview with champion Joe,
as published May9, 2007, by the San Antonio Current.
06/21/07-Ourpal Hunter Goatley
hasn't checked in for a while, but champion Joe checked into Hunter's page, and
wanted you to know that Hunter's loaded onto his site an audio interview of F. Paul Wilson conducted by champion Joe way
back in 1990. He also wants to remind everyone that he still has audio files of
Joe
reading "By Bizarre Hands" and Joe
being interviewed at the 1990 FantasyCon. [Thanks, Hunter!]
05/24/07-Mail'sa little slow here
in Mud Creek, so we haven't gotten our copy of Locus yet, but we hear it's got
an interview with champion Joe in it. So check it out and let us know, okay?
[Thanks, Judi!]
05/03/07-Author Chet Williamson
hit the Austin Music Festival with his camera. The results? Click here! [Thanks, Judi! Thanks, Chet!]
04/05/07-Champion Joe was honored
with the Grand Master Award at the annual World Horror Convention last weekend,
where he also picked up a Bram Stoker award for editing Retro Pulp Tales. Wanna see what it looked like? Click here! [Thanks, Judi!]
03/22/07-KaseyLansdale is taking
the country music world by storm! Check out this TV news feature on Champion Joe's daughter,
including an interview with Joe hisownself! [Thanks, Richard!]
03/01/07-Twenty years ago,
Champion Joe wrote a story called "The God of the Razor." That story
has become a classic in the horror genre. Subterranean Press will celebrate
that classic story with a special release in their Signature Series, scheduled
for this October. Want to know more? Click here! [Thanks, Judi!]
02/22/07-Lansdale'slatest, Lost
Echoes (Vintage paperback
original), is in stores now! Why should you get it? Because Publishers Weekly says so! Here's their starred review:
In this superior East Texas crime thriller from Stoker-winner
Lansdale (Sunset and Sawdust),
Harry Wilkes discovers after a severe childhood ear infection that he has a
peculiar "hindsight." Harry can not only see dead people but see and
hear violent events as they occurred in the recent or distant past. "It's
like I hear and see ghosts in sounds," he tells his father. By the time
he's a college student, Harry's psychic abilities have driven him to booze.
After meeting alcoholic Tad Peters, a retired martial arts expert, Harry
becomes Tad's surrogate son and student. The two forge a pact to sober up
together. Their resolve is tested when Harry agrees to help Kayla Jones, an old
childhood crush now a cop, solve her father's murder, which her boss, the local
police chief, has dismissed as a suicide. Lansdale's down-home prose erupts
with explosive twists and razor sharp insights into how "echoes from the
original sounds" can never be silenced until action is taken to defeat the
fear that created them.
02/22/07-Booklist says so, too! Here's their review: The prolific Lansdale returns, after
sojourns in pulp, sf, and horror, to work his peculiar mojo on the supernatural
crime thriller. Harry Wilkes has inherited his family's curse of experiencing
"dark sounds," full-sensory recordings of traumatic events that can
be unleashed by, for example, the banging of a toilet lid upon which a guy once
blew his brains out. Booze helps hold the "ghosts in the noise" at
bay, but his life as a drunken recluse isn't going well. He gets things under
control with the help of an eccentric sensei named Tad, but when a boyhood
girlfriend named Kayla comes home to find her father's killer, Harold grits his
teeth and journeys into the dark once more. Lansdale's prose finds the perfect
pitch between the laid-back cadences of front-porch storytelling and the
thriller's demand for growing urgency. He is a bit unreconstructed when it
comes to gender relations-or at least the vocabulary to describe them-but he's
got both the charisma and the balls to pull it off. Funny and scary, with a
barn-burner ending.
02/22/07-IfJoe R. Lansdale could
be any monster he wanted, he'd be the Wolf Man. If he could be any historical
figure, he'd be Wild Bill Hickock. Want to know more? Read
his interview with Sci Fi Weekly!
02/08/07-Kasey Lansdale will come
to you! Coming off an Italian tour, opening for Ray Price at the famous
Paramount Theater in Austin, playing throughout East Texas, the popularity of
Kasey Lansdale and The Daletones is growing. They are anxious to spread out
beyond their current programs and play new venues, and would love to hear from
anyone wishing to hire Kasey and the band, or her trio. Examples of her music
and information about this band can be found on www.kaseylansdale.com!
02/01/07-RobertBloch, Stephen
King, Richard Matheson, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Dean R. Koontz, Peter Straub,
Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Charles L. Grant,
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Jack Williamson, F. Paul Wilson, Ray Garton ... and
champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale! Champion Joe was just voted in as
the winner of the 2007 Grand Master Award for the World Horror Convention, in a
contest that had more people voting than in any previous year! Head to Toronto
from March 29 through April 1 to congratulate the Mojo man at the 2007
World Horror Convention! [Thanks, Rick!]
12/14/06-"Hisgenre-bending,
often hard-edged work never flinches in its depiction of the people he knows so
well, 'real Texans' found in his beloved East Texas." Click here to read Melissa Mia Hall's entire articleabout champion
Joe, as published December 11, 2006, by Publishers
Weekly![Thanks, Rick!]
11/09/06-Champion Joe's daughter,
Kasey Lansdale,
just returned from a tour of Italy, where she played to packed houses and
received a rave review in Liberta,
a national newspaper. Meanwhile, back home, she opened for country legend Ray
Price in Austin's historic Paramount Theatre. If you haven't yet heard her, golisten now!
11/02/06-Wantan extra dose this
week? RevolutionSF has proclaimed Champion Joe's "Night They Missed
the Horror Show" one of the "13 Scariest" for 2006.That means
you can read
it for free by clicking here!
10/26/06-Congratulationsto
champion Joe, who just returned from Italy, where he was awarded the Grinzane
Cavour Prize for Literature! (The last seven recipients were all Nobel prize
award winners, so, y'know, just keep reading and see what happens!)
08/24/06-Award-winningmystery
writer and Lansdale buddy Bill Crider filmed two short clips of Joe R.Lansdale,
hisownself, at this year's Armadillocon. Clickhere
to see a brief interview with champion Joe, and clickhere to see him reading from The King and Other Stories!
[Thanks, Rick!]
05/18/06-Didyou miss Don
Coscarelli's adaptation of champion Joe's "Incident On and Off a Mountain
Road"? Here's your second chance! Showtime's "Masters of Horror"
is now available on DVD. Click here to get your copy! [Thanks, Tarhan!]
05/18/06-ChampionJoe talked to
the folks at Westfield Comics, and they wanted us all to know what he had to
say. Click
here to read the interview!
03/09/06-DavidSilva and Paul
Olson have an early April Fool's joke for you: A spoof that ranin The Horror
Show on April 1, 1987,
complete with a sidebar by champion Joe! Check it out by
clicking here! (And Joe adds, "What's scary about Iocus
is I actually started to write all the stories at one point, and have used the
pennames Richard Dale and Keith Jordan, but, alas, never for any of the stories
I listed.") [Thanks, Andrew! Thanks, Judi!]
02/16/06-Pickup the latest issue
of The Book of
Dark Wisdom for an interview with champion Joe. [Thanks,
Judi!]
01/12/06-Joemay be the champion
Mojo storyteller, but another Lansdale is the champion Mojo songbird! Click here to have a listen to Kasey Lansdale, daughter of the Mojo
one!
01/12/06-Booklistcalls Flaming
London, Joe's latest,
"one of the wildest alternate-worlds, rip-in-space-time, sf-pastiche romps
this side of fifties B-movies." Socheck it out already!
12/22/05-JerryWilliamson died
Thursday, December 7. He had been in a coma with complications from a brain
tumor. There are two people in the entire world who have earned Lifetime
Achievement Awards from the Horror Writers of America. One is Stephen King; the
other is Jerry. Jerry was an inspiration to many writers, some of whom kept
with the trade solely as a result of Jerry's words of encouragement. He'll be
sorely missed.
12/22/05-Thefirst issue of Cryptic
Magazine will include an
eight-page comics story written by champion Joe and illustrated by Mark
Kidwell. Look for the magazine in January 2006, and in the meantime, check
out the cover here!
12/08/05-Howold was champion Joe
when he started writing? How old was he when he sold his first piece? The
answers to these questions and more are provided to you by JakeMagazine! So
click here and get the answers!
12/08/05-Joefans will want to
check out an anthology called Lords of the Razor, which will include stories inspired by champion
Joe's "Lord of the Razor" story, including writing by Stephen
Gallagher and Tim Lebbon. It also includes Joe's original story, plus a new
one! [Thanks, Judi!]
11/10/05-I'dlove to tell you all
about Flaming London, but Publishers
Weekly seems more qualified,
so.... StarredReview. Against
the backdrop of a Martian invasion à la The War of the Worlds, Lansdale's rip snorting sequel to Zeppelins
West (2001) chronicles the
fantastic adventures of two elderly authors, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark
Twain) and Jules Verne. Other members of the madcap cast include a young H.G.
Wells, Sitting Bull, a Martian ape, a steam-powered robot and an intelligent
seal (and future dime novelist), whose diary and journal entries form the bulk
of the narrative. All must deal with the havoc caused by Wells's dang time
traveler, the hero of The Time Machine, who has opened multiplying cracks in the time continuum. Seasoned
with earthy, down-home humor, Lansdale's homage to Twain, Verne and Wells is
sci-fi fun at its boisterous, silly best. Timothy Truman's delightful cover art
and interior illustrations perfectly complement the text. (Dec.)
11/03/05-ThomasScott McKenzie
talked to champion Joe about writing, publishing, and that crazy Shen Chuan! If
you want to know specifics, click here to read the whole thing, as published
on Slushpile.neton November 2, 2005!
10/13/05-Joeconfesses, "I
haven't fought zombies." If you're wondering what else Joe hasn't fought, check
out this swell interview with Norman Prentiss, as published
by Off the Shelf in September 2005. [Thanks, Judi!]
09/15/05-ChampionJoe won all
sorts of awards for his novel A Fine Dark Line. Now he may get a shot at"best
screenplay" as the book has been optioned for film, and Joe hisownself has
been tapped to adapt it for the screenplay! [Thanks, Jared!]
09/01/05-With thousands dead, and
tens of thousands left without a home, food, electricity, potable water, or a
means of earning a living, Hurricane Katrina is being called the worst natural
disaster to ever hit the US. If you're looking for a way to help, before you
pledge any money to anyone, do some quick research to see if your money is really going where you
want it to go. Two places we're sending money are SecondHarvest and MercyCorps
.
08/25/05-InMay 2006, Vintage will
release Lost Echoes, a
paperback original that champion Joe describes as speculative fiction mixed
with a crime novel. A few months after that, look for Knopf to release a new
novel from the Mojo one in hardcover. 2006 is shaping up to be the best year
yet! [Thanks, Judi!]
08/11/05-Mad Dog Summer and
Other Stories has been
nominated for a World Fantasy Award! What? You never saw it? Well, you're too late now! Next time don't wait!
08/04/05-ChampionJoe talked with
Fangoria about "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road."You
can eavesdrop by clicking here! [Thanks, Judi!]
07/14/05-Ifyou head over to RanchRecords,
and click on Rawkus, you'll find Champion Mojo songbird Kasey Lansdale! You can
hear her sing "Back of My Smile"(though its labeled "No More
Rain"), absolutely free! Check it out!
06/02/05-Success in California!
In a feat of political leadership, Jim Battin has done what most observers
thought was impossible. Shortly after 10:00 a.m. PST today, Battin got Senate
Bill 33,which will close the incest-exception loopholes in California, passed
on the floor of the California Senate, 31-1. Those following this battle know
that S.B. 33 was gutted
last week. But Battin had the bill amended back to its original verbiage before
taking it to victory. Click here to join the
celebration at Protect.org!
05/26/05-Doyou love Joe R.
Lansdale? Do you love splatter movies? Do you speak Italian? Then
this is the place for you!
05/26/05-Horror
Writers Association will be releasing a revised edition of
Writing Horror. The new edition will contain the old favorite articles by some
of the most respected names in horror-including Mojo Joe-as well as some new
material that will deal with challenges "in today's marketing
environment." No word on a projected release date. [Thanks, Judi!]
05/19/05-ChampionJoe has long
been great friends with fellow novelist Andrew Vachss. On the eve of the
release of Andrew's new novel, Two Trains Running, champion Joe conducted an audio interview to
discuss what he calls Andrew Vachss' best novel ever. Listen
to the pair discussing that novel by clickinghere!
05/19/05-Iftalking ain't enough
for ya....champion Joe and Timothy Truman are joined by fiddler Colin
Williamson for "The Ballad of a Feller Named Oscar Wilde," a song
about the true[swear on a stack of first-printing Magic Wagons]story of Oscar Wilde's trip through the Lone Star
state. Click here to hear the jam!
04/28/05-Soyou've heard about The
Boar, but can't find a copy of
this champion Joe short novel that was published in 1998 as a limited edition?
Same with that old zombie Western classic, Dead in the West? Night Shade Books is here to save the day!
They've just published trade hardcovers of both. Click
here to learn more!
04/28/05-This guy must have
started reading Freezer Burn-but,
clearly, he didn't make it to the end. Check out 'Everybody thought he was nuts,' from the 4/27/05
edition of the Chicago Sun-Times.
04/21/05-And if that's not enough
Bubba news for you, click here to see the Bubba Ho-Tep action figuresfrom NECA![Thanks,
Rick!]
04/21/05-Lotsafolks like Joe for
his stories, but just as many like him for the way he kicks butt. Ol' butt
kickin' Joe has written an introduction to the book of another butt kicker,
Mike Casto, in which Mr. Casto teaches you how you can kick butt. To find a copy of that martial arts
book, called A Pondering of Principles, clickhere!
04/21/05-"Eachstory is about
eight pages in length. When you finish one, you can't help but reach for
another one." That's what CNN had to say about champion Joe's short-story
collection, Bumper Crop. It's
available now in trade paperback, so go on andget it!
04/07/05-Beenhankerin' for more
big-screen Mojo since you caught Don Coscarelli's adaptation of champion Joe's
"Bubba Ho-Tep"? Well, you can just keep waitin'. But in the meantime,
you'll want to keep your eye on the little screen. Showtime is launching a new
series called Masters of Horror, and one of the first six episodes is
Coscarelli's adaptation of champion Joe's "Incident On and Off a Mountain
Road." Click here for more information! [Thanks, Judi!]
02/04/05-OssieDavis died today at
87. Champion Joe writes, "I met him briefly on the set of Bubba Ho-Tep, talked to him a little, enough to discern he was
the class act I suspected all along. What a wonderful and incredibly talented
man. Damn. A guy that could do anything and everything, and did. And did it
well."
11/18/04-Whileyou're making up
your holiday wish list, think about this: You can get a champion Joe book
directly from the champion hisownself! And he'll sign it, too! For a list of
what can be yours, click
here![Thanks, Dale!]
11/18/04-BigJim Sweeney's Mojo
e-mailing list is five years old, and we're celebrating with a special offer!
You can subscribe now for free (for a limited time only)! Just think: you'll be
the first on your block to learn all the latest about Joe R. Lansdale. For more
details, click
here!
11/18/04-The Mojo list ain't enough
for you? Need another fix? Here's
the place to click!
10/14/04-Champion Joe has been
honored by the folks at the Mid-South Booksellers Association, who have named A
Fine Dark Line the best novel
of the region. We always said them Mid-South folks have far better taste than
them folks in the Right South or the Left South. Thanks, Mid-South!
08/05/04-"Thosethat see
Texas as idyllic or as the pit are both wrong. It's both of these
simultaneously." Read all of Joe Mammy's interview with champion Joe by clicking
here.
06/17/04-Hungry for some Hap and
Leonard? Get a taste of the next book-not due out until sometime into the next
decade-called Blue
to the Bone! [Thanks, Dale!]
06/10/04-Winningthe Bram Stoker
Award for Superior Achievement in a Screenplay is [insert drum roll here] Don
Coscarelli, for his adaptation of champion Joe's novella Bubba
Ho-Tep! If you want to read
that screenplay, grab a copy of the signed,
limited-edition Bubba Ho-Tep book ! [Thanks, Judi!]
06/03/04-Protect, America's first
political lobby for child protection, has had a victory in Tennessee! They've
eliminated the incest-exception law in that state. Read
all about it here!
06/03/04-TheBubba Ho-Tep DVD is out, and it's hot! It climbed as high as#2on
Amazon's bestseller list. Go get yours today! [Thanks, Rick!]
05/13/04-"Eachstory is about
eight pages in length. When you finish one, you can't help but reach for
another one." That's what CNN had to say about champion Joe's latest
short-story collection, Bumper Crop. Readwhat else they had to say here! [Thanks,
Kim!]
04/08/04-Wherewas champion Joe
born? What did his father do? Who was his inspiration? These questions and more
are all answered in the totally comprehensive article on the Mojo one in the Houston
Chronicle! Check it out! [Thanks, Kim!]
04/08/04-PublishersWeekly likes champion Joe's latest novel, Sunset and
Sawdust, which they call
"wild and wooly....The book opens with a cyclone, ends with a plague of grasshoppers
and in between there's insanity, extreme violence, sex, grotesques aplenty and
an excellent dog. What's not to like?" So go get it, already! [Thanks, Kim!]
04/08/04-Andin case you didn't
know, Sunset and Sawdust is
also available as an audiobook, read by champion Joe hisownself. You'll
find it here! [Thanks, Kim!]
01/08/04-ChampionJoe says,
"James Grady writes with authenticity and heart. I can't wait to read what
he writes next." If you want to find out what James Grady willwrite next, click
here-and tell him Champion Joe sentya!
09/11/03-BubbaHo-Tep won a People's Choice Silver Award! Read
all about it here. [Thanks, Judi!]
08/07/03-Whenchampion Joe is
looking to read an excellent Western, he'll grab one of Jory Sherman's
books-and he suggests you should do that, too. Find out more about Jory by clicking
here.
06/12/03-AFine Dark Lineby Joe R. Lansdale, narrated by Dick Hill, has received
an Audiofile Earphones Award. This is the mark of a truly outstanding audio
program. Congratulations to all who were involved in this recording-most
notably Dick Hill, Laura Grafton, and Mikael Naramore! [Thanks, Rick!]
06/05/03-Evenin Hungary they're
hungry for a slice of Mojo! Checkout this
Hungarian website, which includes two books by champion Joe!
[Thanks,Judi!]
04/10/03-Justbecause you live in
France doesn't mean you have to be a world away fromMudcreek, TX. Champion Joe
is available en Francais, at Entre-deux-Noirs!
03/06/03-Youprobably haven't yet
seen Bubba Ho-Tep, Don
Coscarelli's film adaptation of championJoe's short story. But those who have
are raving about it-including the judgesat the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, who
honored Coscarelli with BestScreenplay, and star Bruce Campbell with Best
Actor.
02/20/03-Youthought we called champion
Joe a champion simply 'cause of his straight teethand thick coat? Heck no! He's
a champion martial artist. But don't take ourword for it-go visit the TexasMartial
Arts Hall of Fame and see for yourself! [Thanks, Danny!]
02/13/03-Thehits keep rolling in!
A Fine Dark Line-champion
Joe's latest-hit #10 on the LosAngeles Times bestseller list, and #5 on the Denver Post bestseller list. Rock on, Joe!
02/13/03-MojoJoe, for those who
don't know, lives down in Nacogdoches, Texas-the town that was showered by the
shuttle Columbia last week. Here's what occurred, in champion Joe's own
words.[Thanks, Kim!]
01/09/03-ChampionJoe isn't just
an outstanding writer-he's also a stand up human being. And if you want to
stand beside him, the place to do it is Protect.org.
Our very own Mojo man is anadvisor to the organization-and he advises everyone
to get involved!
01/02/03-Stepback in time to hear
an audio
interview with Champion Joe from September 15, 1990.Recorded
at Fantasycon XV in the UK,this41-minute interview is downloadable in RealAudio
and MP3 formats. [Thanks, Hunter!]
01/02/03-JoeR. Lansdale isn't
just a great writer-he's a great storyteller. Find out for yourself by downloading champion
Joe's reading of "ByBizarre
Hands," courtesy of Admiral Hunter Goatley!
11/28/02-Andspeaking of Thanks
and writing ... champion Joe is thankful for the writing of Neal Barrett. He
says you should go check out the free story posted at NealBarrett.com.
Enjoy!
10/17/02-Jesuis un grande canard!
Even the French love champion Joe! Check it out! [Thanks, Gratiane!]
09/12/02-ToastmasterJoe laid it
down solid for attendees of Armadillocon 24--though there appears to be
something in his cheek, and we're sure hoping it's his tongue. Read the transcript of his toast here. [Thanks,
Rick! You suck!]
08/08/02-Lookingto have more
sleepless nights? Get the God of the Razor model kit to decorate your bedroom! Check
it out here.
08/01/02-JudiRohrig went to
Conestoga, and all she got was a day of shooting with champion Joe. She
uploaded these here
pictures, so you wouldn't have to make the trip yourself.
[Thanks, Judi!]
07/11/02-LongtimeJoe readers will
recognize the name Neal Barrett-he's one of the Mojo man's collaborators! Bad
Boy Barrett has a new one out, Piggs. Read what The AustinChronicle has to say about Piggs, about Neal and Joe, and about unibrows by clicking here. [Thanks again, Judi!]
07/04/02-ChampionJoe and his
daughter, killer Kasey Lansdale, rub elbows with Bruce Campbell. Click
here!