nothus
Quasi-bio: Has worked innumerable useless jobs (techie crap, mixing drinks, ad work, et al.) and is currently (still) supplementing his writerly ambitions with more clerk-work.
Is a fast reader (220 pg. novel in 3 hours), but a slow writer (there ya go, it evens out).
Older than he looks, but younger than he feels.
A typical product of the post-Watergate era, is about as anti-authoritarian as you can get on a limited budget.
Is very glad that "Michael Murphy" is as close to a pseudonymous name as it gets; although certain college-era bullies may have already forgotten about the incident with the reversible vacuum cleaner (with the baby powder in it), or getting barricaded in their dorm rooms on a four day weekend, or that other time that I... well, anyway, Mike's just glad there's a lot of guys with his exact same name.
Last notable work: Co-writing Jade Fire and Barbarossa & the Lost Pirates with friend Brian Augustyn for Kandora Entertainment before said publisher went belly up without paying or giving proper credits (sigh). I also worked with fellow Comicspacer Steve Sanchez on two different issues of a certain Image comic.
Re Comics - Childhood faves: Spidey (when there was only 3 books to buy a month), Thor, FF, Warlock, Conan, Omega the Unknown, Pogo, Englehart & Rogers' Detective run, John Byrne's Charlton work, anything by Kirby, Carl Barks, or Neal Adams.
Teenage faves: Nexus, Miracleman, Uncanny X-Men (pre-1987), Elsewhere Prince (anything by Eric Shanower or Moebius basically), Valerian, Corto Maltese
Current faves: Finder, Sillage by Morvan & Buchet, Casanova, Fear Agent, Wake (Morvan & Buchet), Alan Moore's ABC work, anything by Matt Howarth, and Don Rosa's work in general.
Published work that I don't mind people knowing I did :
GI JOE Battle Files #2 (the satiric "Join Cobra" brochure done with Eric Wolfe Hanson)
Barbarossa & the Lost Corsairs #2 (uncredited by the publishers on the credits)
*Made some additional notations to the archived projects in the Galleries as a few people weren't paying attention to the text identifying Sheldon as the artist and not myself :P
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Hulk submission
My friend Sheldon wanted to submit samples to the Hulk editor so I wrote a nearly wordless script for him related to the "Planet Hulk" event.
All characters (massacred or not) © Marvel Comics
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Dragonbane
Another comic project (sans lettering this time) by Sheldon & myself. We were playing around with high fantasy stereotypes (or rather would have gotten around to it)...
© Michael Murphy & Sheldon Mitchell
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Random pics 
This a great pic that my friend Eric Yong (who should join) drew up after I sent him a page's worth of off-color Bucky jokes....
All three of these doofuses © Marvel comics
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[ Posted by Age on Mar 21st, 2007 5:39 PM ]...
Yeah, yeah i'm up here! Still have to figure how to use this site? |
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[ Posted by losman3inks on Mar 19th, 2007 10:48 AM ]...
All hail the Murphster...The Mrphster is KING!!!!!!!!!!lol!!!!!!!!!!!!
hows that for a comment!!!..Los |
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[ Posted by PalisadesPress on Feb 25th, 2007 6:29 PM ]...
Hi, Michael,
Great meeting and talking with you at NYComicon! I enjoyed the stories in the gallery!
Paul
http://www.femforce-femfans.com/vavavavoom/ |
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[ Posted by StaciePonder on Feb 22nd, 2007 9:25 AM ]...
You're right...there's no escaping me.
None! |
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[ Posted by bat_blog on Feb 21st, 2007 11:59 PM ]...
If you're a BATMAN FAN then check out the BAT-BLOG!
There's a ton of Batman-Related articles featuring Vintage Toys, Desktop Wallpapers, Videos, Comic Art, etc..
http://www.bat-blog.com
We also have a BATMAN FAN Message Board!
http://com3.runboard.com/bbatblog |
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[ Posted by bloodfirestudios on Feb 21st, 2007 11:38 AM ]...
Thanks for the suport for Intergalactic. BFS |
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[ Posted by lifesucks on Feb 20th, 2007 6:43 PM ]...
Thanks for the add! Glad you like my stuff! |
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[ Posted by rainboworchid on Feb 20th, 2007 6:02 PM ]...
Hello! Yes, still sold out - but will be availble in its entirety.. one day... :-) |
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[ Posted by ericwolfehanson on Feb 20th, 2007 2:28 PM ]...
I like your running commentary on Scavenger. |
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[ Posted by ramoskaiju on Feb 20th, 2007 11:45 AM ]...
Cool, I should be at the show Fri and Sat. and knowing me Sunday too.
Wilson. |
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[ Posted by PeterPalmiotti on Feb 20th, 2007 11:44 AM ]...
Hello Mr.Mike,..see you at the show!
cheers..........peter. |
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[ Posted by Sanchez on Feb 20th, 2007 11:04 AM ]...
Heya Mike, good to cya here. Hope you enjoy making new friends and sayin hello to some of the old ones. Now start checkin around. :) |
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[ Posted by ericwolfehanson on Feb 20th, 2007 8:25 AM ]...
<<<Ok, so anyone else we both know on the site? (Not know of, but actually know :)>>
I dunno, you can use the search feature to look for specific folks.
Many of the people on my list are folks who I've met or talked to maybe just a few times, but not a lot of people who'd loan me money or drive me to the airport. =)
The rest have friended me for one reason or another, or if I friended them, it's because I checked out their page and really liked what I saw. There's some really incredible talent spread over this site. Many are people I hadn't previously heard of, so it's been pretty enlightening. Particularly cool is the large number of awesomely talented female artists on here....that's just great to see. Maybe the comicbook industry sausage party is slowly....um...de-sausagifying.
All these great artist are kind of inspiring at first...makes me want to draw. But then I usually just get depressed at how shit my work is compared to theirs and I just go in the kitchen and eat my feelings (beer is technically food).
So just look around, and if you see folks you like, friend them and maybe you'll get to know them. |
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[ Posted by ericwolfehanson on Feb 20th, 2007 12:52 AM ]...
It's the Mike! |
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