I just got word that Steve Purcell was working on a new comic project called Spudvision, a sort of collection of various work Purcell has done over the years for various things, including some unreleased Sam and Max concept stuff. After a little Googling, I came across this page on Tantrum Entertainment’s site, dedicated to Spudvision. What do they say?

From the warped strata of Steve Purcell’s visual archives comes Spudvision. Steve Purcell has worked in the fields of comics, games and animation, as well as feature development and story for Industrial Light and Magic and Pixar.

This book contains reams of otherwise unseen visual development from Sam & Max and other puzzlingly obscure projects along with a range of gleefully unhinged mental burblings, all presented through the eyes of Spudvision sole proprietor; Starchie Spudnoggen.

The site also has a picture of Spudvision’s cover, and a handful of samples of the awesome Purcell art that will be contained within. They also talk briefly about Sam & Max 2, which is unfortunate. Spudvision is apparently going to be available sometime in 2004. And as for a new Sam & Max book, well, we’ll see.

On the Internet there is a site called Tantrum Entertainment, and they sell signed Sam & Max posters. You can order them here for $20 (the set of two). The two posters are a large painted version of the “Something’s Not Right Here” artwork, and a huge blown up version of the Sam & Max Outlaws comic from the old LucasArts Adventurer magazine.

Tantrum Entertainment looks to be primarily a comic/graphic novel publisher, co-founded by Maniac Mansion designer Gary Winnick, and artist Frank Cirocco. They also sell Sam & Max posters. Unless I’m wrong (I could be), Gary Winnick and Frank Cirocco were also the two responsible for Mindflight Entertainment, the website which hosted the short Sam & Max animated flash toon a while back.