I’ll be appearing at two book festivals this weekend. The first is the Bookmarks Book Festival here in Winston-Salem on Saturday and the second will be at the North Carolina Literary Festival in Chapel Hill on Sunday. Here’re details: Bookmarks The New Frontier: Graphic Novels, Webcomics and Manga Saturday, 2:00 pm – at the DADA …
Tag: Comics
Sep 06 2009
Marvel/Disney Mashup: Steamboat Spidey
With the news last week of Disney’s planned purchase of Marvel comics came an onslaught of often hilarious “mashups” of Marvel and Disney characters. Two of my personal favorites are on display here: Gooflactus (Goofy and Galactus) and M.O.D.U.C.K (M.O.D.O.K. and Donald Duck). I finally got around to cranking out one myself but boringly I …
Aug 21 2009
Christophe Blain’s Colorists: An Appreciation
I’m about to start coloring the introductory pages of Oyster War. I generally don’t work in color, but when I do, I usually start by seeking inspiration from other comics that have color that I find especially nicely-done. These days the very top of my list of beautifully-colored comics are those of the French cartoonist …
Jul 30 2009
Oyster War Sample Page Pencils
While it’s true that I’ve not posted anything here for a good while, there’s a compelling reason I’ve not done so: I’ve been hard at work on the initial twelve pages of Oyster War (12 pages of art/15 pages counting flip). I just completed pencils on the pages and am set to start inking this …
Jul 15 2009
Shade The Changing Man Pinup
Here’s a pinup of Rac Shade, the main character from Steve Ditko’s DC series Shade the Changing Man. I did this as a “thank you” to send to the folks at Hot Sauce Productions who were kind enough to let us screen the recent Jonathan Ross documentary, In Search of Steve Ditko, at Heroes Con …
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