Episode # 207 - June 19th, 2007

Hey, we're sorry.... this episode is no longer posted online. But you can see it in the second
Kyle's B&B book collection "Kyle's Bed & Breakfast: A Second Bowl of Serial".   Which
is easily available at Amazon; just click on the banner link below to get there!
      
Also, if you want to see the strip from the very beginning, you can order the first book collection,
"Kyle's Bed & Breakfast", also easily available from Amazon by clicking on the banner link below:

By the way, if you're not already a fan of Kyle's B&B on Facebook, well.... you really ought to
be! It's a great way to keep up with the B&B guys between episodes, and get all sorts of fun pics
and interesting tidbits that don't make it here to the B&B website. Just click on the banner link
below, and click on "Like" when you get there. Don't be left out in the cold!

Also, to follow Kyle's B&B on TWITTER, just click here: Follow @KyleComics

Episode # 206 - June 5th, 2007

Hey, we're sorry.... this episode is no longer posted online. But you can see it in the second
Kyle's B&B book collection "Kyle's Bed & Breakfast: A Second Bowl of Serial".   Which
is easily available at Amazon; just click on the banner link below to get there!
      
Also, if you want to see the strip from the very beginning, you can order the first book collection,
"Kyle's Bed & Breakfast", also easily available from Amazon by clicking on the banner link below:

By the way, if you're not already a fan of Kyle's B&B on Facebook, well.... you really ought to
be! It's a great way to keep up with the B&B guys between episodes, and get all sorts of fun pics
and interesting tidbits that don't make it here to the B&B website. Just click on the banner link
below, and click on "Like" when you get there. Don't be left out in the cold!

Also, to follow Kyle's B&B on TWITTER, just click here: Follow @KyleComics

My Irish Name is....

...actually, I thought my name is already pretty Irish. At least, my last name is, (Fox is an established Irish name with a long history). But, anyway, just went to one of those cute "blogthing name generator" sites to find out my "Irish Name", and, well...here it is:

Your Irish Name Is...

Gavin Dillon

What's your Irish Name?

Gavin Dillon? I guess I can live with that. Being that a large chunk of people now sweetly-but-mistakenly call me "Kyle", why not have another Celtic-sounding pseudonym to go by?

Episode # 205 - May 22nd, 2007

Just CLICK on the episode image, at left, to view it at FULL SIZE.
Well, this is a first. The Kyle's B&B website provider seems to be having some problems today; the website is still up & running, but I cannot access it to update it with the latest episode of the comic strip. Meanwhile, the other place I post the new episode of the strip, Comic Space is also having difficulties today. The whole site is down! So, what is one to do to see the newest episode of Kyle's B&B? Well, I have posted it here on the Kyle's B&B Blog! If you click on this image above, it should give you a view of the new episode at it's regular, larger size. (Don't try reading it at this size, you'll miss out on all the detail!). Click on the pic!

UPDATE: It's official...I'm going to be posting new episodes here on the blog for the foreseeable future. This has worked out so well, with virtually no one writing to complain about having problems viewing the new episode, (unlike where I used to post it), it'd be crazy to go back to the old way. So, be sure to stop back here on June 5th-6th for the next episode!

Chemical King Gets SHAFTED Again!!!

If you're a comic book reader, you may know about the current cross-over storyline going on in DC's Justice League of America and Justice Society of America books, involving perhaps my favorite super-group of all time, the Legion of Super-Heroes! I'm not sure where this story's going, but it's exciting to see that the Legion I grew up with, the one that inspired me on many levels, appears to be coming back in the form I remember them. The recent issue of JSA, # 5, features a gorgeous double-page spread of the Legion, (what are actually Legion statues), and it shows thirty members, almost every member who ever meant anything to the team. Except for one. Chemical King! They left out Chemical King!!! Once again, the man in green gets shafted! If you know about Legion history, (I can imagine many people reading this right now are thinking, "Damn, I had no idea that Greg Fox was such a comic book ultra-geek!"), you'll know that Chemical King's death was...how shall I put this? Not handled well. What had been an interesting, though under-used character, was suddenly portrayed as a strange malcontent with an inferiority complex in his final appearance, (and his death scene, miscolored by a careless colorist and shoved into a rushed, abbreviated ending to the story, was insulting to fans who cared about the character). I'm sure Breyer of Kyle's B&B would agree, as we saw he is a big fan of the character, which he discusses with Brad in episode # 187, (a portion of which is shown below):















So, all I can say is....I'm happy that DC appears to be bringing back the Legion in a form that I love, but....please....lets not forget about CK, OK?

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Self-Censorship

Came across this recently, and found it kind of amusing. In Kyle's B&B Episode # 145, (the episode where Kyle & Breyer finally have sex for the first time), when I got to drawing the final panel, I had second thoughts about just how much to show of Breyer's....um.... I guess we'll call it the "pubic area". So, I ended up creating 2 versions of the episode, which I'm showing you now, here for the first time! The original, uncensored one is on the top, and the censored, ("oh, he still has his underwear on" one is on the bottom.

Why would I have bothered with this? Well...perhaps because of the problems I encountered a couple of years earlier with a shall-remain-nameless Nashville, Tennessee-based gay newspaper. You see, in an earlier episode, (# 102), when Brad & Vincenzo have sex for the first time, there was a little rear nudity shown, (although no frontal), and a general "steaminess" to the episode. This Nashville, Tennessee-based gay newspaper ran the episode, received a few complaints from readers, and promptly dropped the strip. (Thanks, guys....um, maybe you could've just not run that episode to begin with, instead of running it and then dropping the strip when a few readers react negatively. Oh, but I digress). In any case, I was a little nervous about losing another paper because of such a thing. Hence, my "cover-up" of Breyer's manly pubic zone. However, in the end, I decided to go with the original...it seemed silly to be censoring something that shows, at the very most, a little sliver of the base of Breyer's penis. And you know what? No one complained!

What TIME is it? It's Kyle O'Clock !!!

Or, maybe it's half-past Brad? Or, a quarter to Lance? (Looks like, right now, according to the clock in the graphic shown here, it's ten after Eduardo! Or, is that Eduardo:10 ?). In any case, just wanted to let you know about the latest in Kyle's B&B merchandise .... this handsome wall clock, sure to liven up any room, is now available to order! If you'd like to have your very own Kyle's B&B clock, you can go directly to the purchase page by clicking here. Telling time was never quite so... enticing!