I’d like to point you to another satisfying article by Sonia.

Coming to a comics shop near you soon…

It IS all glittering and magical.

SDCC MADNESS…

Although con has been over for almost 2 weeks now it certainly feels like I’m still in recovery mode. That show is always a tiring madhouse of a giant mess. But always a whirlwind blast of comics goodness. For those of you who came by my booth I hope you enjoyed the preview of what I’m currently working on but not really allowed to talk about, but no one said I couldn’t sneak peek the material

Got the chance to meet and hang with old friends, and new, to the wee hours of the morning every night.

Discovered that Antony Johnston is a Sisters Of Mercy fan like myself. We are getting few and far between these days.

Good friends got their project picked up by a major publisher. Woo Hoo For Them!!! I’ll talk more about that later when the time is right.

Had interesting discussions with Grant Morrison, Matt Fraction, Scott Dunbier, Jimmy Palmiotti, Dave Stewart. and Darwyn Cooke. Not all at the same time though.

THINGS I’VE DISCOVERED OR PURCHASED BECAUSE SDCC MADNESS…

Apocalipstix — published by Oni Press —
by friends Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart
What a completely rockin’ juggernaut end of the world thrill ride groove machine of a book. Absolutely fuckin’ loved this hilarious rock and roll apocalyptic road movie satire. Ray’s story is immediately engaging with characters that you quickly fall in love with. Cameron’s art is on fire here, using a more exaggerated style to a most appealing effect. And it’s got GIANT ANTS! What’s not to love about GIANT ANTS. I want more, please.

Mesmo Delivery — published by adhouse books–
by Rafael Grampa
Exquisitely written and drawn in a highly detailed unique style with a sophisticated but appropriately simplistic color approach. I loved this. Track it down. You won’t be disappointed.

Pixu 1 of 2 — independently published –
by Becky Cloonan, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba, Vasilis Lolos
I’ve been following these creator’s work for sometime now and just can’t enough. They are all brilliant and this cool little book justifies my opinion even more.
go to…here

Some Art Books — that you should find immediately –
Tim Sale Balck and White
Cameron StewArtwork
Michael Golden’s Heroes and Villains

The Owlship — movie prop –
From the Watchmen Movie, complete with blinking gadgets and video display monitors and welded metal and just plain cool

Also discovered, through a round-about way, a new columnist over at ifanboy.com . Her name is Sonia Harris, whose articles have an interesting vibe to them. Not just because she’s female but also because she’s a londoner who grew up reading american comics. Her perspective is unique and i could see her column becoming a regular experience for a lot of people. Go read them and see what I mean…
here is the most recent and quite funny in a surreally disturbing but entertaining way…Sonia!

A FEW THINGS…

Just came back from Dark Knight. What an astonishingly fantastic film. The plot unfolds in a very operatic fashion with character plots weaving in and out of each other to form a mesmerizing whole. There are places where Ledger’s performance as the Joker are truly nightmarish without being grotesque and over exaggerated. No camera and editing tricks to convince you of his madness. All purely done with his performance and acute acting skills. People saying that he should get a posthumous award are absolutely fucking right! It’s a shame we will never get to see a reprisal role. I loved all of the little subplot material that they really didn’t need to do, but I’m glad they did it anyway. It just made for a more textural story. And Harvey Dent’s storyline develops in a very monstrous way that completely engrosses you to an emotional and overwhelming state that you’re left almost speechless at the physical and psychological horror of it. Just as compelling as the Joker portions of the story. It really seems like we got two films in one without the loss of cohesiveness. There are a few very minor dangling threads left unfinished. Either these will be explained with the inevitable deleted scenes or they thought it better to be answered in the 3rd installment. Go see it!

OFF TO CON…

We will be down in San Diego for the next week at the “Big Show”. I can be found lurking around the NAKED FAT RAVE booth with numerous other talented degenerates. Come by and say hello to help keep me from becoming too bored with all of the usual madness that is “Con”. I’ll be doing some sketching and have some original pages with me, along with stuff for my as yet to be announced project. Sales in the online store will be temporarily suspended until I return.

THE MAGIC OF COLOR…

Just saw the initial colors for my Jonah Hex and they are amazing. But what should I expect from my cohort in crime, the incomparable Dave Stewart.

AND NOW…

Here is some images i’ve done recently (click and enjoy)…

These are for 2 covers I’ve done for some Final Crisis Superman stuff. The first one went through 3 minor variations of color adjustments…







This next one is a commission piece that I had done…

Spidey…

Been awhile since my last blog entry, mainly due to having gone a trip to Vegas to surprise visit my grandfather, and because I’ve been recovering from a nasty sinus infection for a couple weeks after that. In the mix of that, trying to get work done. Let me tell you, trying to get energy enough to work while having a sinus infection is near impossible. If you’ve ever had one you know how painful they can be. So, since I barely could muster energy for work I certainly couldn’t think about blogging. However, I’ve gotten better and can resume my life.

I thought with the last issue of Crossing Midnight coming out soon that I would post more cover variations from the last 2 issues. On issue 18, I went through a variety color treatments and sent them all to the editor. We then picked our favorite. Unfortunately when the issue came out they decided to run a preview inside the issue for another series and needed to put a banner across the top of the cover. So they moved all of the art down cutting off the bottom of the art causing the composition to be a bit off. So here is the cover in it’s “naked” form along with the variations of logo treatments I did. Issue 19 here is just basically showing the cover in a few stages. There wasn’t any real tweaking involved with this one whence it was completed. enjoy….

Part 3 of the podcast interview.

More cover process in stages (click and enjoy)…

Part 2

cover in process again…

cover in process…