Monday August 16th 2010, 12:32 am
I played hooky a bit tonight from work to go see Scott Pilgrim vs The World. I’m a big fan of the book, and O’Malley in general. So I really wanted to see this. Now that I have, I’m shocked that this movie is not selling through the roof!! This deserves to be a mega hit. Its fucking genius! Period! The book is genius too, and I was super impressed with how well it translated to film. The people who made this movie clearly loved the source and gave us something that matched the essence of the book. I’ve not seen anything like it. A truly unique film experience. Vivid and funny. I caught myself just purely smiling through almost the entire thing. It just feels good.
So this is my rally cry! Everyone to go see this movie! If you love the book, go see this movie. If you’ve seen the movie and love it, but not read the book, go buy it. Right now! If you done neither, go do both. Go. Right Now! Quit reading this!! And GO RIGHT NOW!!!!
Thursday August 05th 2010, 10:22 am
A friend of mine has a new web comics project starting to today. His name is Ryan Burton and he’s a talented writer. So check out his stuff…
UFO
Monday August 02nd 2010, 10:28 pm
Look everyone, I’m famous in my home town!
Local newspaper.
Friday July 23rd 2010, 9:52 pm
I’m here at NotCon, hangin’ with friends and family and I got two phone calls tonight stating I just won two Eisners, Best Cover and Best Artist. Now I’m feeling quite high at the moment, celebration ensues. I have to thank everyone for supporting my work this past year, it’s been grand. And I hope the new material coming soon will please just as much. Love to all.
Wednesday July 21st 2010, 9:37 pm
Black and white…
Color by me…
Text treatment by me…
Sunday July 18th 2010, 11:48 am
I found out over the weekend that Batwoman: Elegy has made the New York Times bestseller list for graphic novels. Very happy about this.
Monday July 12th 2010, 11:20 am
We seem to keep losing great artistic visionaries of late. Harvey Pekar has passed away. Very sad to have read this today. His comics were always very intriguing and uniquely rewarding, and Harvey clearly was an insightful man. His perspective will be sorely missed.
Tuesday July 06th 2010, 8:17 pm
Wonder Woman! A variant cover homage to Wonder Woman number one. The goal of this was to do a cover celebrating DC, there are several of these being produced this year by various artists on various titles across the DCU. Mark Chiarello asked me to do one of these months ago and I chose the Wonder Woman number one cover from the selection of choices that were presented from editorial. At the time I had no idea of the plans DC had with changing her classic iconic image, so this was not done as a statement about that. It’s just a bit ironic that this will be out soon now that they’ve revealed her new look. I hope I don’t get into trouble by saying that I think her new look is less than appealing. It seems that what made her iconic and instantly recognizable has been taken away. I can’t help but be a little sad about it. To me, Wonder Woman’s design is as relevantly iconic as Superman or Batman, there just seems to be something magic about it that works. I know there is a lot of concern that she doesn’t look politically correct when looked at through the corporate microscope, but the number of female fans that I’ve talked to about the new change exclaim to me just how much they loved the classic Wonder Woman design, and feel that this new version is a mistake. But I will reserve my judgment until I actually read the material the new look will be associated with and hope for the best. I’m just happy that I got a chance to draw the iconic version of her I know and love again. I do want to get other opportunities to find my footing with this character visually. I hope you all find this illustration worthy of the character.
Black and white version…
Text treatment by me. At the time of doing this I didn’t know who was going to be the artist, so thats why it’s left with just the writer be listed here…
Color by Dave Stewart
And here are a couple rough con sketches I did a while back…
Friday July 02nd 2010, 2:07 pm
These both were done by phone.
CBR
USA TODAY
Tuesday June 29th 2010, 10:48 pm
Today sees the release of the Batwoman: Elegy deluxe hardcover. I’m extremely proud of the work Greg Rucka and I did on this and even more so now that I’ve seen a copy of the hardcover version. It reads beautifully as a single body of work and has more resonance in this form than reading it one chapter at a time each month. It feels so much more like a book now than before, a more substantial singular reading experience, not just a collection of individual issues. I’m really happy with that aspect, it’s what we were hoping for and worked toward. My time working with Greg on this was a real pleasure that I will always cherish. I’m also amazed at how superior the printing is on this compared to the stapled comics. It looks so much nicer! Not because it’s larger sized, but because there is so much more clarity of detail. Dave Stewart’s colors have so much more vibrancy, and some of his special fx are so much more prominent. The tonal work I did on the black and white art shows up much better, in the stapled versions we had places where it was blackening in a bit, thats not happening anymore. Its very interesting to me, and a bit frustrating, just how much was being lost in places on those stapled versions. But it’s nice to see it correctly now. If you have the stapled copies and you do go and buy this as well, I think you’ll be very happy you did when you compare the quality of production. The book also has a very nice introduction by the wonderful Rachel Maddow, and there is some script samples along with black and white printing of some of the art. A nice package, especially when comparing the printing quality to the stapled comics.
The image above is the real cover for this, don’t believe anything else you might’ve seen for solicitations at various webstores. The cover is designed and colored by me, and I designed all of the text for it as well.
And in honor of this book coming out, below are photos that were taken a few months back at our local comic shop’s grand opening event. As you’ll see there was a lot of surprises and geek out madness to be had. The photos were taken by Daniel Kessener.
Heidi Kessener as Kate Kane
Batwoman attacks!! Heidi Kessener is under that mask and thats me she’s smacking around. The costume was made by Teresa Ozuna. She did a wonderful job I think!
She’s roughing me up!
She’s making me squeal now.
I’m done for!
Now that I’m beaten, she wants a signed comic, she won so I had to give in to her demands.
Local Forte business owner gets it!
Now they’re friends.
Batwoman and me posing with costume maker Teresa Ozuna.
Batwoman with our friend Christina.
Batwoman has made new friend.
And she’s made even more friends.
Batwoman is here with Red Sky Comics shop owner Mike Smid, he looks a little overwhelmed.
No one can get the drop on her.
She single handedly defeats Scott, Red Sky Comics business partner.
Victorious, Batwoman rides off into the night!