"LET'S PUT IT ALL TOGETHER NOW..."

"PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ!"

ANOTHER TEASE...

--albeit minus background, ground plane and the multitude of scary characters littered on the page.

RECENT COMIC SOLICITS...

Although I've heard nothing but stellar raves about this book, I've never actually read it--dismissing it for being a generation or two behind my comprehension (yes, I'm being ignorant)--but I might've looked at it sooner had they used Dylan McCrae before. Look at how beautiful that cover is!

Oh my God; I am so happy to see these guys back in action! "Dear DC Comics, please let me do an Inferior Five book!"

"WALK THIS WAY..."

Here's another inked panel from my upcoming book.

IT'S THE WEEKEND...ENJOY.

Here's a little treat for you sicko's. The brainchild of Titmouse's BEN KALINA and DAVE GERHARD, the incredible ERIC BAUZA provided voices and CHRIS BATTLE and myself lent the designs.

I'm sorry in advance.

FUELED BY HATE...

The term "Collective Subconscious" gets thrown around alot these days...but this one reeeeeaaally hurts:

Ughhh.

This was my 'million dollar baby'--ten years gestating, started, stopped, started, pitched, started, stopped...let this be a lesson to all you creators: don't wait to put out that idea, do it. Complete it, in some form, some how. Man. This stings.

My version is soooo much better.

STILL STRUGGLING WITH DIGITAL INKS...

These are small excerpts from the new book I'm doing. I'm still pouring way too much labour into the line weights--and it shows. I'll give it a few more pages, but I'm really concerned about the line stiffness.

I'm also worried about hitting my deadline!

working from home...

"I'M AN ANIMAL!"

Just working out some designs for an upcoming issue of BATMAN BRAVE & THE BOLD. I guess it's obvious who Batman will be teaming up with this time...

I love this character! Knowing Jame Tucker and Co. like to go retro, I sketched out the above STRANGE ADVENTURES version with the scales. That being said, the modern version below is one of my favorite DC costumes of all time.

I made the mistake of thinking the super-animal rights-hero's jacket was leather.

Which version did they decide on? You'll have to wait until the issue comes out!

"IN-DI-GES-TION..."

"THE DOCTOR IS IN..."

Finally.

After stretching the thumbnails for the Doc Bizarre M.D. one-shot into a 60+ page OGN, I've begun the arduous task of inking. I'm attempting digital inks, though it's making me miss my Tombos something fierce. I feel like I'm deadening the energy of my drawings too much. I'm sure I'll eventually loosen up, but how many pages will suffer before I do?

"PLAS JOINS ARCHIE'S BOWLING LEAGUE!"

I love the fact that I keep coming up with episode ideas even though the show didn't get picked up...5 years ago.

BLAST FROM THE PAST...

I was at Target the other day, when I saw this 3-pack. I couldn't believe my eyes. Really!? They made NEW toys of possibly the most racist, unPC 'tokens' in the Superfriends (well, depends how you lean on Jace and Jan's sexual orientation). Foregoing my recent embargo on purchasing any more toys, I sort of used my son as justification. Plus, I loved that none of them wear pants.

I did this drawing out of pure giddiness.

"WHAT??"

Funny story. Swear to God.

I'm so sorry for this.

SOME IMAGES THAT MAKE ME HAPPY...

Yes. I like superheroes. So what, get off my back. But what I appreciate more than images of scantily clad babes and men in tights are artist's with their own distinct style and takes on my heroes. I just saw these recent solicits...

Doctor Strange. Brendan McCarthy. It's like chocolate and peanut butter!

Kaare Andrews, who did "Spider-Man: Reign" a few years back, is jumping on Astonishing X-Men. There's an interesting article on Newsarama where he talks about diverging from the current trend of photorealism in comics--which makes me only want to check out his work even more.
These HULK covers by John Romita Jr. make me weep. Those colors are really impressive too. Love 'em. Absolutely love 'em.

ANATOMY OF THE COVER

Since I posted the final version of the cover in the previous post, I thought it would be interesting to show the process that went into it. Above and directly below are tiny thumbnails to run past the editors. More or less variations on the same idea.
They went for this one; with the minor note of having Batman and Aquaman reflected in Ocean Master's crystal, versus eyes...
Pencils and...ink:

*In response to a recent comment posted, this cover and all of my Batman Brave and the Bold, Gym Partner and Charlatan Ball pages are available for purchase. To see more, just click on the link in the left hand column (under the teeshirt ads), or just go here.

BATMAN COVER

I just saw this solicited for release sometime in May; it's apparently issue #17 of BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD. It was the first time I not only got to do a cover for the book, but inked it as well. I'm not sure who the colorist was, but assume it was Heroic Age or whatnot. I hadn't known DC wanted it inked as well, so in the timespan of just over an hour, I ran home from work, inked it, came back, had it scanned and emailed. Good think there wasn't much detail. All in all I was pretty pleased, but realized too late that I messed up Aquaman's eye with a shard of crystal. Here, let me point it out for you...hahaha

"WOOHOO! WOOHOO! WOOHOO!"

"FINALLY THROUGH DICKING AROUND!"

Phew. As I mentioned in my response to comments in the previous post, this little 8-page story will be coming out inside an anthology book published by my good friends over at TITMOUSE STUDIOS. And even though the smaller page count was a relief, this was the first time I was responsible for every single aspect of production (in the digitally age--for those that remember, BIG HAIR PRODUCTIONS was entirely lo-fi, zipatone and all). And, as always, working digitally for me always brings agony! hahaha