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.
Black and white…
Color by me…
Text treatment by me…
I found out over the weekend that Batwoman: Elegy has made the New York Times bestseller list for graphic novels. Very happy about this.
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.
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…
