Nov 13 2012
Phew… AlphaBooks is over–twenty-six weeks of alphabetical literary characters. First off, thanks to everyone who participated–especially co-administrators Andrew Neal and Rich Barrett–and a big congratulations to everyone who finished a full alphabet! I’ve assembled all of my illustrations into a single gallery that I’ve posted below along with a few post-project thoughts. (And you can …
Nov 12 2012
OK, before you call me on suddenly deciding that last names are now legit for my Alphabooks entries, note that “Mi” in the novel Planet of the Apes is a fictional honorific, like “Dr.” or “Mrs.” In the book, the character is referred to as “Zaius” or “Mi Zaius” throughout. Anyway… Z is for Mi …
Nov 07 2012
I’ve never been a very confident drawer or designer of female comics characters and I’ve always struggled with them. One of the main characters in Oyster War, Lourdes, is a design that I’ve gotten less and less happy with as the story goes on and I’ve pretty much decided to re-design her head/face and redraw …
Nov 07 2012
Here’s yet another illustration I did for the Aquarium Drunkard music blog’s Lagnappe Sessions–this time of the Swedish band The Amazing: You can check out The Amazing covering Tim Buckley and R.E.M. at the blog here. The original art for this is for sale here.
Nov 05 2012
Y is for Yang Xiong — from Water Margin by Shi Nai’an Well, I had to once again break my self-imposed rule of doing only characters from books I’ve actually read. And, again, I could have easily avoided this with a bit of advance planning. Ygritte from The Song of Ice and Fire series would …
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