HeyJaredApple Jim
Big fun from the biggest kid you know. (AKA children's storyteller Jim Gibbons)
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- Aug 11, 2026
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Zine restock at Spoke & Word! (opens the original)
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If you’re in the Portland Metro Area and you (or a kid in your life) love free zines, make your way to Spoke & Word Books — a recent Best Of Portland finalist!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRVE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2120018-76c5-4fc5-9770-74f877eb9ff4_1444x1316.png"
Parental Units (opens the original)
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This one is more for the parents than the kids, but it’s a fun bit of nostalgia for me. I wrote this back in 2017 when I was a very new dad. At the time, I was processing the new challenges of parenthood and how they fit alongside my day job, freelance comics, and podcast work. I pitched it to a comics anthology called Planetside, and they accepted it. Matt Grigsby brought it to life with his art, Ryan Hill gave it color, and Kevin J Stanton lettered it. It’s more slice-of-life and meditative th
Mars: Space Barbarian — Labyrinthine Quest (opens the original)
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Back in 2019, Alexander Bumbulut reached out to me for advice on breaking into comics. After a long email back-and-forth of me offering tips and advice, we landed on working together on a Mars story as a way I could continue to help him fine-tune his work — a very generous way for him to thank me for the advice! I really love this story and these pages, though they’re a bit melancholy for me too. It felt like Mars, in a way, finally found its stride in this (sort of) after-the-fact story. (It’d
Mars: Space Barbarian — Orphean Trek and Extras! (opens the original)
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Parents, be warned! There’s a cuss word in these pages! Mars is definitely YA, not all ages.This final story with Andrew MacLean also ran in Savage Dragon. The behind-the-scenes pages tell the tale of Mars’ origins from initial inception to sketch work across multiple artists to printed comic — the pages themselves were designed by Adam Pruett for a limited print run of these stories. A lot of fun nostalgia here for me, and a lot of cool art for folks to see from Andrew, Guillaume Singelin, Ryan
Mars: Space Barbarian — The Myth (opens the original)
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This story, also created roughly a million years ago, set up the basics of Mars’ tale. I wanted to showcase the classic/ancient influence alongside the sci-fi setting with a story that essentially shows that great epics repeat themselves. Once again, more for the young adult crowd due to comics violence.<div cla
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