About the Comic
When newlyweds, Mac and Fee, begin house hunting in the sweet little town of Greenwood, they get more than they bargain for when they enlist the help of their long-time friend, D-Love. Thanks to D-Love's "masterful" negotiation skills, before they know it, Mac and Fee find themselves to be the proud owners of a Victorian, five bedroom, three bathroom, portal to hell.
Once the portal is opened, an ancient evil comes forth, ready to wreak havoc. In order to stop the apocalypse, Mac, Fee and D-Love team up with a host of oddball characters ripped straight from the pages of "Magic Marker Mustache Mayhem and Other True Stories." Jumping into the fray, all your favorite characters, Bull, Buttons, Cousin Leroy and of course, Troy the Naughty Wizard, help make Doomsday a true extravaganza!
About the Creators
Josh Vassallo |
Damon Sipe |
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Josh Vassallo lives in Columbia, SC with his wife, Erin. He spends his days " working" as a graphic illustrator and he spends his nights making excuses not to draw at home either. When he's not making excuses, Josh is penciling, inking, coloring, and lettering the weekly comedy/horror comic, Mustache Mayhem's Doomsday Extravaganza. Aside from being an amatuer comic book artist, Josh is an amatuer writer. To date, he has published one book, "Magic Marker Mustache Mayhem and Other True Stories." He also continues to write his "true" stories right here on MustacheMayhem.com . . . when he's not making excuses, that is. |
Damon Sipe lives in Columbia, SC, with his wife, Kristin, his son, Brayden, and his dog, Tater. Though he majored in English at the Citadel in Charleston, Damon somehow wound up in the IT field as a Server Analyst. In an attempt to validate the cost of his education, Damon vitalized his quirky and outlandish story telling abilities to take on the role of co-creator and co-writer for Mustache Mayhem's Doomsday Extravaganza. Aside from co-creating and co-writing The Doomsday Extravaganza, Damon owns and operates his own website, which can be found here - www.damonsipe.com |
The Ture Story of Mustache Mayhem
In fourth grade I made the transition from "husky" to "chunky." In an effort to prevent the move to "woah" my parents bought me a bicycle. I had to ride it everywhere I went. For a while, I hated it. Then one day I rode my bike down to the Hazelwood Market, a crusty little convient store several blocks from our house, so that I could buy some "Now & Laters". But when I got to Hazelwood Market, I was immediately drawn to the comic book rack. I'd never paid it much attention before, but on that particular day, I just couldn't look away.
Right smack dab in the middle of the latest issues of Archie and Garfield, was a bright and shiny Punisher War Journal #17. Jim Lee's cover artwork was the single coolest image I'd ever seen. Just based on the cover, I knew that The Punisher was like Rambo, Commando, and Braddock from Missing in Action all rolled into one single ass kicking entiry. He was everything a ten year old boy could possibly admire, so I knew, right then and there, that I had to have that comic.
From there, my fascination with comics began and rather than riding my bike, I'd spend hours in my room drawing The Punisher, trying my best to mimic Jim Lee's style. I never quite got it right, but I still loved drawing. I knew then that someday that when I got old enough, I'd make my own comic . . . just like someday I knew I'd get taller and thin out like my mom kept telling me I would.
Ten years later, I was a sophomore at Lander University. I was much taller, but sadly, I hadn't thinned out. Sadder yet, I was finally old enough to make my own comic, but I'd abandoned the dream altogether to pursue other interests, namely, radio broadcast. At the time, I had this thought that it would be "cool" to be DJ. I also thought Hawaiian shirts were "cool" at the time, so what did I know?
While working on a project for a Radio Production class I was taking, I teamed up with my buddy Drew to produce "The Bull and Mac Morning Show." The show was an idiotic, "John Boy and Billy" rip off, but my professor loved it.
A year later, while taking a screenwriting class, out of sheer laziness, I decided to re-cycle "Bull and Mac" and use them as the protagonists of my first screenplay, "Lesbian Robots". The screenplay was juvenille and pandered to the lowest common denominator, but once again, my professor loved it . . . like I said, I went to Lander University.
After college, I slowly but surely found myself getting back into comics and I started "thinking" about doing a comic based on "Bull and Mac" because that was the extent of my creative limits. So in 2002, I started putting together character sketches and fleshing out a rough story outline in which Bull and Mac move into a haunted house. But before I really got started, I wanted to take some time to really "think " about the comic . . .
A year later, I was still "thinking" about the comic when Damon Sipe asked me to write for his website, Gravybiscuit.com. At the time, I figured it would be great to write some stories about Mac, to help develop his character, while I was " thinking" about the comic. Sooner or later, the stories I wrote for Gravybiscuit.com evolved into a collection of short stories that I decided to self publish in my first (and only) book, "Magic Marker Mustache Mayhem and Other True Stories" back in April, 2006.
After the headache of publishing my first book, I took a break from writing. A long break. Too long of a break, actually. I was out of the habit for so long that I couldn't get back into it to save my life. I wanted to sit down and finally write the comic I'd been "thinking" about for so many years, but I had writer's block. That's when I decided to enlist Damon's help. Since we had worked so well together in the past on Gravybiscuit.com, I knew that together we'd get the comic written in no time.
By the end of September, 2006 we'd written a five issue mini-series titled "Mac & D-Love's Doomsday Extravaganza." Going along with my streak of being highly creative, it had the same basic story as "Bull and Mac " with a few obvious differneces . . . like the title. So once the story was finalized, all that was left to do was draw that bad boy and my life-long dream of creating a comic would be fulfilled. The only drawback was trying to find the spare time after work to sit down and pencil, ink, color, and letter all 24 pages of the 1st issue.
The task at hand was overwhelming, to say the least. Everytime I started to make some headway on the comic, something would come up and the next thing I knew it had been weeks since I'd drawn anything. These little breaks were a curse. Each time I went back to the drawing board from a break, I looked at what I'd done previously and hated it. So, I spent the entire year of 2007 drawing, re-drawing, writing, and re-writing the comic. With each revision I made, the goal of completing the first issue of the comic got further and further away.
As I watched my dream slip away again, I stumbled across the weekly web comic, Atland by Nate Piekos and my outlook on the comic completely changed. Rather than taking on the task of banging out 24 pages at a time, I could do 1 page per week, just like Nate was doing with Atland.
So with that in mind, in January, 2008, I re-booted the website (after taking the time to acutally learn what I was doing) and got to work on the comic, with a new goal of producing a weekly webcomic and finally after years of "thinking" about making my own comic, getting it finished is actually a possibility.
My only hope, once it's all said and done, is that some "chunky" kid somewhere will see this and be inspired to make their own comic . . . after they've " thought" about it enough, ofcourse.
So until then, keep checking the site each THURSDAY for new episodes!
Thanks again for checking the site,
-JMV