Tag: Comics

Count of Monte Cristo – Pencil Roughs

I’ve had a bit of time to move ahead on these Count of Monte Cristo pages I’ve been working on just for fun.  I took my very rough thumbnails from the last iteration of this project and turned them all into 15% cyan blue via threshold –> fill in Photoshop, then I work over those …

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Have a Very E.C. Christmas!

Here’s an invite I just completed for the annual holiday get-together of our local Winston-Salem comics group, The Camel City Cartoonists’ Guild & Social Club.  I’ve already parodied this particular E.C. cover a few years ago for a Heroes Con panel on E.C./Mad Magazine, but hey, it’s a classic! …and this, of course, is the …

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40% off Sale at SLG

I normally confine my “shameless commerce” stuff to the Buy Stuff page on my site, but SLG is having a big 40% off sale at the moment, so I thought it’d be worth mentioning.  You can find everything I’ve done that SLG has published all grouped on my creator page.  You’ll get 40% off the …

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If This Isn’t Paul Pope…

…then someone’s stealing his bit. I saw this ad in a local weekly and I immediately thought, “Paul Pope.”  I think I was reacting to the loose brush-work and the way the lips are drawn in the image.  On the other hand, that gooey amorphous figure above (a snowboarder on a lift, I think) doesn’t …

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‘My Dinner with Crumb’ II Posted

Rob Ullman’s posted the second installment (the first is here) of his “Traffic and Weather” comic strip documenting a recent bizarre happenstance in which we both wound up going out to dinner and drinks with a number of folks, including R.  Crumb.  We’d just finished hearing Crumb and Françoise Mouly speak about Genesis in Richmond …

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