YHT Strips For Sale!
I’ve posted three classic YHT strips for sale on eBay! You can check them out at the following links:
If you have any questions just shoot me a note. 
- Wes
eBay Auction For Charity
I participated in a sketch jam at the Mid-Ohio-Con, and the original artwork is being auctioned off to benefit a very worthy charity. You can find the auction at this link. Here are the details:
About The Drawing:
A wonderfully penciled and inked piece of artwork is featured on a full 11″ x 17″ bristol board. The artwork is one of a kind and was created graciously by the artists who attended the 2009 Mid-Ohio Comic Con for the very purpose of raising money for Amie’s Angels. The artwork itself features popular small press/webcomic characters, signed by the creator/artist with a link to their comic. The 11′ x 17′ bristol board features the amazing talents of and in no particular order:
Brad Guigar of Evil Inc. - http://www.evil-comic.com
Thom Zahler of Love and Capes - http://www.loveandcapes.com/
Eric Adams of Lackluster World - http://lacklusterworld.com/
Wes Molebash of You’ll Have That - http://www.yhtcomic.com/
Trevor Mueller of @$$hole! - http://www.trevoramueller.com/
Alan Evans of Rival Angels - http://www.rivalangels.com/
Jason A. Moody of Scarlet Veronica - http://jamce.deviantart.com/
Justin Greathouse of Scarlet Veronica - http://greathouse.deviantart.com/
Jason Dobbins of Tales of the 8th Grade Nothing - http://www.8thgradenothing.com/
About The Auction:
This auction has NO reserve. We hope that this will engage you to bid with an open heart for this wonderful charity and to win a beautiful one of a kind piece of art! Shipping is free within the US. All shipping outside of the US is an additional $15.00 including tracking. All Sales Final.
About The Charity: Amie’s Angels is a Relay for Life team. Created by Amie Morgan when she found out she had been diagnosed with cancer, Amie’s Angels has helped raised more than $75k for the American Cancel Society’s Madison County Relay for Life, upon many other activities such as volunteering at the Arthur James Cancer Hospital assisting other head and neck cancer patients. At age 38, after a brave and courageous five year battle with bone cancer, Amie passed away peacefully on August 28th, 2009. After much discussion, in memory of Amie and all those who she has touched by her selflessness, bravery and wonderful heart, Amie’s Angels would continue to raise money for the American Cancer Society and Relay for Life.
The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease. At Relay, teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event. Because cancer never sleeps, Relays are overnight events up to 24 hours in length.
- Wes
Newsyness
Mid-Ohio Con was a blast even though I was horribly unprepared and I was selling the same stuff for the third straight year. 2010 is already looking to be quite a bit more eventful, and I’m pretty psyched about that. The best thing about attending the Mid-Ohio Con this year was being reminded why I love making comics. It is so humbling to be approached by new and old readers who just want to tell me “thanks” for writing and drawing cartoons. I want to give a big “thank you” to all the people that came out and chatted me up over the weekend. It was a pleasure to talk with all of you.
Now on to business . . .
I received the contract from the publisher regarding the giant YHT book I told you about earlier. I’ve signed the contract and I’ll be emailing it back tonight. I’m pretty psyched about this project, and I feel like I’m being given the opportunity to create the YHT book I’ve always wanted to create. The publisher is Th3rdWorld Studios, and they do gorgeous work. Check out the new trade of Brock Heasley’s Superfogeys to get an idea of what you can expect for the giant YHT omnibus!
The next step is to draw the cover for the book so we can start soliciting it. Then I need to get all the strips wrangled together and see how many pages we have to work with. I’m not exactly sure what the bonus content will consist of until I see how much room I have after the more than ONE THOUSAND comic strips are laid out. I’ll keep you posted.
In other news, Myron and Charlie has a publisher. The publishing company is getting ready to launch in the early summer of 2010, and M&C will be posted once a week on its website. There are also some other things going on with M&C in conjunction with the new publisher, but I’ll discuss the details as we get closer to the website’s launch date. Needless to say, new Myron and Charlie strips won’t be produced until next year.
Finally, I’ve been working on a new comic strip. I’m returning to the daily strip format, and I’ve been tinkering around with ComicPress to see how much damage I can do with CSS. I’m pretty psyched about this new comic, and I’ll talk more about it later as I finish some drawings and get the website together.
- Wes
Mid-Ohio Con 2009
I will be at the Mid-Ohio Con this year on Oct. 3 and 4th. Despite not having much to hype this year, I’m pretty psyched about being invited as a guest. I’ll have a few YHT books to sell, and I’ll happily draw in sketchbooks if they’re presented to me. I’ll also be on a webcomics panel, so that should be good times. Once I get my booth location and the panel times, I’ll post them up here.
So, if you’re gonna be in Columbus on Oct.3 and/or 4th, why not stop by the show and give me a yell? I’d love to meet you!
- Wes
Boys Will Be Boys
Last night I spent the evening with an awesome young lady, and we discovered through conversation that we are both members of the Chrysalis/Emmaus community. Not only had we attended Chrysalis weekends, but we’ve also served on a few teams. This brought to my memory one of my favorite stories from my days serving on Chrysalis teams.
If you’re not familiar with Chrysalis/Emmaus allow me to give you a quick description of these ministries. Chrysalis is a three-day spiritual retreat for teenagers designed to show them the awesome love of Christ. These weekends are called “Flights”, and the caterpillar’s metamorphosis into a butterfly is used as an analogy for the kids spiritual journey during the weekend. There are weekends for boys and weekends for girls, and during the weekend the teens hear 15 talks addressing issues related to school, peer pressure, parents, etc. Emmaus is the “adult” version of Chrysalis. It’s a little more laid back and the talks are geared more for an older, more mature set of individuals.
In 2002 I served on a boys’ flight in Washington Court House, Ohio. I was one of the music directors and I had a blast rocking out with the other two musicians I served with that weekend. I’d have to say that this particular weekend was one of the more memorable weekends I ever had the privilege of being a part.
At a certain point during the Chrysalis weekend, all the boys have the opportunity to anonymously write questions on pieces of paper to be answered by the two spiritual directors (usually pastors in the local area) during a special Q&A session. These anonymous questions usually open the door for a lot of discussion, and the conversations get rather interesting. Furthermore, considering the room is filled with pubescent young men, the majority of the questions center around premarital sex, pornography, and masturbation. These are the three “hot topics” that cause the Christian church to curl up its toes and scream like an 8-year-old girl.
So, there we were in Washington Court House and the question-and-answer session had begun. The first couple questions were some of the typical fodder: “Why does God let bad things happen to good people?” and “What does God think of other religions?” But the third question was the atomic bomb of questions – the question it seems no pastor is ready to answer head on: “Is it okay to masturbate?”
BOOM! There it was! The mushroom cloud was glorious!
It was that blunt, too! There was no trying to be discreet. There was no skirting the word. The person asking the question just dropped the M-bomb, and he dropped it loud and proud! Every dude in the room leaned forward, their attention fully in the hands of the two youth pastors standing in front of them. Even the old guys in the back put down their Geratol and AARP magazines to see how this question was going to be handled. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, and it was apparent to everyone in the room that this Q&A session was going to be a battle of epic proportions!
I gotta give the youth pastors credit – they danced around this question like Mario Lopez for a good five minutes. One of the pastors talked about how masturbation is driven by lust, and lust is very much a sin. The other pastor countered by saying that if given the choice between masturbation and sex, masturbation is the lesser of two evils. The dance was beautiful and, despite being put together on short notice, was very well choreographed. The only problem is there was no clear-cut answer being given as to whether or not masturbation is a sin.
During one of the pastor’s speeches about how to control lust, a young man – we’ll call him “Kyle” – stuck his hand into the air. The pastor stopped mid-sentence as his eyes shifted to Kyle. Slowly all the kids in the room turned to look at Kyle with his long, slender arm floating in the air. Now that I look back on the event, I’d say Kyle wishes he never put his hand in the air that day. I bet he is sitting in his home right now wishing he’d kept his thoughts to himself. He’s a grown man now, Kyle. But I’m sure the consequences of his comment will forever plague his life.
The youth pastor nodded at Kyle to share his heart (that’s what Christians do – we “share our hearts”). Kyle’s eyes sparkled as he confidently made his statement:
“My pastor told me that if you think about cheesecake while you masturbate then it’s okay.”
The two youth pastors stared blankly into space. Everyone in the room shifted their attention back to the pastors to see if there would be any additional comments to either support or contradict this claim. There was only silence. Soon the silence was filled with a few snickers. Then a giggle. Then the giggles became all-out laughter, and for the following ten minutes the room was chaos.
Kyle wasn’t laughing, though. He was as serious as a heart attack. Sometimes I wonder if Kyle fantasizes about cheesecake. This is why I do not eat cheesecake anymore.
To add insult to injury, Kyle lost his name that weekend. The other boys stopped referring to him as Kyle and began calling him “Cheesecake”. It was not uncommon to hear someone say, “Hey, Cheesecake, let me borrow your pencil” or “Hey, Cheesecake, you got any extra paper?” I’ll be honest – I can’t remember the poor boy’s real name! I would recognize him if I saw him on the street, but I’d have to address him as Cheesecake and I’m sure that’s a memory he’s trying to repress.
So that’s my story. Hope you enjoyed it. And the next time you’re thinking about having a piece of cheesecake, just remember that the cheesecake could be somebody’s daughter, you sick perv!
- Wes
