Back by Popular Demand!!! (Well, it was Sam Popular and he didn't really demand it... but y'know)...
Anyway, since getting back into my groove through this thread, the sketchbook thread and most importantly the 11 O'Clock Comics Anthology thread, I wanted to bring this thing back to life and start putting a few more things into it. I'm sorta back "in" with drawing comics and there will be some real pursuits here in the near future, so I thought I'd share a few things again, even though some of these are repeats from other threads... but there's some new stuff too... and some things to come...
Starting with the things from other threads, first from Andy Tom's Sketchbook Challenge thread:
Andy, if you're looking in, I hope to be back with the Sketchbook challenge thread starting with June...
Next from the 11 O'Clock Comics Anthology thread:
The last page here, which features Flight of The Hawk, has actually been augmented with a few more grey tones for the final printed book. I'm still holding off showing the last three pages until after the final book has been printed. And now here's the color print that I did for the Kickstarter program:
Some new stuff (or at least some stuff that I haven't shown here):
The above was done as a favor for R.J. Carter who's my editor for my movie reviews over at
The Trades R.J. knows Marv Wolfman (who created Bullseye in Daredevil) and wanted to make a little joke about a cross pollination between Marvel characters with a Disney/Pixar style and asked me to draw Cowboy Woody's (from Toy Story) horse Bullseye, but decked out in the Marvel Bullseye costume. This was fun and very quick to do (if memory serves, I think I finished the whole thing- pencils, inks and colors- in about 3 hours time). R.J. sent it to Wolfman, which later got shown on
ComicMix and in turn even got picked up as a sort've story on
IMDB which just thrilled the hell out of me, but even more thrilling was the fact that Marv mentioned my name and said that he liked the piece.
This was a piece I did for a job tryout with a local company here in St. Louis. The company revolves around a sport called Disc Golf and the tryout involved showing Bugs Bunny with their products and making some sort of line about Easter or whatever. Unfortuantely, I didn't get the job, but still I was proud of the piece, considering I've never drawn Bugs Bunny before and the fact that I did this whole thing in about 4 hours.
Now for the upcoming. Thanks to the 11 O'Clock Comics Anthology book (and again, a BIG thanks to Jonny the Homicidal Drummer for putting the whole damn thing together), I've really gotten the bug to do a comic again and am in the planning stages now. But before the original stuff starts, I thought I'd put together a book that reprints some of the stuff that writer Dan Wilson and I did together (that's copyrighted to us). This book is tentatively being titled
Footnote Comics & Stories and before the whole thing is said and done, I hope to have a 48-52 page comic ready to go, reprinting the four stories that we did together that saw print, a failed proposal piece (with an 8-page preview story) and some other goodies. Even though it's reprinted work, I'd be willing to bet hard cash that at least 98% of the 11 O'Clock forum members have never seen this stuff before, so I'd say it's still new to you, but I digress. What follows are the first pages for four of the stories:
From Malibu's Shattered Earth #3, the first page for Doc Apocalypse:
From Malibu's Shattered Earth #6, the first page of Prophet and Laws:
From Big Bang Comics #11 (Image), the first page to our first installment of our own character, The Absolute:
From Big Bang Comics #16 (Image), the first page to the second Absolute installment:
The above pages are being digitally re-mastered (though these are lo-res versions) so we're hoping that they'll print even better in the new comic. As a side note, these Absolute pieces which first appeared in 1997, were the very first time that I did digital production with any of my own comic stuff. For BB#11, it was mostly scanning in my art and then lettering it digitally, but also providing digital "finals" for printing. For BB#16, I did the same thing, but this was also the very first time that I ever did dot-pattern grey tones with Photoshop. Needless to say, the technique stuck.
Anyway, it's your literal deluge of
stuff and I hope to keep adding more along the way...
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