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Just click on Zoot Sputnik (shown at right) to enter the vault and see the most recent strip, featuring:
Update - January 27, 2007
Happy new year!!!
Update - June 19, 2003
Happy birthday, Julius Schwartz!!!
Update - January 7, 2003
I've updated the Bizarro page with info provided by Alvin Schwartz, who created Bizarro for the Superman newspaper strip in 1958.
Update - December 31, 2002
Happy New Year, everybody! Now go celebrate by visiting Fred's brand-spankin'-new sanctum sanctorum at www.hembeck.com!!!
Update - November 19, 2002
This isn't a new strip, but Bob Rozakis got in touch to answer the question of what he's been doing with his life since leaving DC four years ago. Make with the clicking for details!
Update - August 13, 2002
Ah, well. New Year's resolutions are made to be broken, right? Here's the new batch, only six weeks later than I'd originally planned for. I blame the birthday celebrations.
Update - June 3, 2002
Happy Golden Jubilee, Your Majesty!
Update - May 2, 2002
A day late with new strips, but more words than usual to make up for it. Congrats to Bob Greenberger, too, on his return to DC as a Senior Editor!
Update - April 1, 2002
April Fool's Day! Here's another batch of Hembeck silliness to mark the occasion.
Update - March 1, 2002
Sad news, folks - Chuck Jones passed away a few days ago, so I'm leading this batch with a tribute. The other three pages have four more Hembeck strips, plus a sampling of email from people just like you.
Update - February 6, 2002
Something a little different today...
Update - February 1, 2002
New strips, on time, on budget!
Update - January 1, 2002
Happy New Year, everyone! In keeping with current events, we're ringing in the new year with The Unknown Soldier, along with Green Arrow, The Vigilante, and the staff of the Daily Planet newsroom. Great googaly moogaly! (Okay, so I've been on a Liberty Meadows kick lately.)
Update - November 11, 2000
A special Remembrance Day update, with Sgt. Rock and Easy Company
Update - October 13, 2000
So much for my birthday resolution to turn these out more frequently. It's amazing how real life can get in the way of the really important things, isn't it? Sigh. Seven new pages, with eight new strips.
Update - Aug. 16, 2000
Cool your jets. The next batch isn't quite ready yet (they're simmering nicely, though), but Fred's 'Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe' title is the current pick of the week at The Comic Vault, and this li'l ol' site is the associated web site pick! Thanks, Michael!
Update - June 25, 2000
Wow. Monster update. 12 new strips, 9 new pages, and other new decorations. Plus, the requisite 3,947 complaints have poured in to warrant an addendum regarding the mysterious omission of the Detective Chimp from the Enemy Ace page.
Update - April 30, 2000
You know the drill. Six more strips, way overdue. Sigh.
Update - January 28, 2000
Happy New Year! Six new strips, including a double shot of the Atom!
Update - December 18, 1999
Dagnabbit. Where does the time go? Oh, well. Just in time for Christmas, it's time to pay homage to that great unsung series from the seventies, The Secret Society of Super-Villains! Among this batch of strips, you'll find such evil-doers as The Joker, Two-Face, Lex Luthor, Brainiac, and leading the pack, The Mirror Master! Plus, here's a little Christmas cheer for those of you who have been wondering whether I'd ever get this thing on some kind of regular schedule: the next four strips are already coloured and ready to go! All that's left is writing the commentaries for them. Happy Holidays, everybody!
Update - September 16, 1999
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner in my 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' Enemy Ace challenge! Patrick Thomas of Rockwood, PA, successfully connected Enemy Ace to Gorilla Grodd using just a single intermediary - Swamp Thing!
Update - September 15, 1999
Next batch, ready to go! There's a couple of challenges buried in the write-ups, so it's time to warm up your imaginations. (The things I do to amuse myself...)
Update - August 2, 1999
Hello again! Once more into the breach, this time leading off with a request. Always glad to oblige, and, ever looking for an excuse to solicit more feedback, y'all should feel free to wish me a slightly belated happy birthday!
Update - June 15, 1999
Ouch. I'm way overdue, aren't I? I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for your next dose of Fred. No excuses, no justifications, just my apologies. Here's four more strips. Thanks go out to David Potts for sending me a note on the site; David also pointed out a coloring mistake on the Superman Family strip, which I will correct post haste. (Watch Supergirl's skirt change from blue to red! Amaze your friends!)
Update - March 21, 1999 Four more strips!
Update - March 3, 1999 Holy re-design, Batman! Due to popular demand, I've dropped the frames, and restructured the strips pages to be a little more friendly to people running their systems at low resolutions. I think this one's a keeper.
Update - March 1, 1999 Four more strips! I'll be picking up the pace (hopefully) in anticipation of an event in the works for April, too, so make sure you check back in a couple of weeks.
Update - January 17, 1999
I apologize for the delay in adding new strips to these pages; I realize that the schedule I announced - four per month - is completely blown.
Wait a minute....maybe I'm just channeling the spirit of an old Image comic book. (Bwaa-ha-ha-ha...)
Major thanks to Fred Hembeck, by the way; he's sent me b&w copies of his original artwork, which will make things go much faster. |
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The copyrights, trademarks and publication rights to Fred's cartoons belong to DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Fred Hembeck where appropriate. Proud Robot Productions graphics, site design, Hembeck cartoon re-coloring and commentary copyrights belong to Neil Polowin and Proud Robot Productions. Oh, and the typeface shown on the intro strip at the top of this page? That's inspired by logo designer and lettering ace Todd Klein.
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