May 18 2012

Monday: AlphaBooks!

On the off chance that you missed it on Twitter, this coming week begins our newest group alphabet project, AlphaBooks. This go ’round there’s a slightly different submission procedure, so be sure to pop on over to the official AlphaBooks tumblr to get up to speed. I’ll be posting my completed images to Twitter with the #AlphaBooks hashtag, as well as to this blog and my personal tumblr.

Even though it’s now Friday, I’ve got to confess I don’t really have a plan for this project. In the past, I’ve done these projects with an eye toward eventually compiling the images as a mini-comic and also toward selling the originals. Doing that, though, is a bit restrictive because it calls for uniformity of media and original. I’m still on the fence a bit, but I’m thinking I may just ditch that whole approach and just play and have fun–more along the lines of what I did with my year-long Portrait Night project. Also, I’m thinking that AlphaBooks might be a good opportunity to get familiar with digital inking with Manga Studio, which I recently purchased. We’ll see…

 

May 18 2012

Strikes!

Here’s the full Strikes story, written by Bret Parks and illustrated by me.

You can buy Strikes in minicomic form at Ssalefish Comics in Winston-Salem:

 

 

May 17 2012

Commission: Portrait/Commission of George Melly

Here’s a commission I recently completed of English Jazz singer and writer George Melly. Likenesses are always a bit of a struggle for me, and this one was no exception. I’m pretty happy with the inking and toning of this piece, though for sure. It’s headed off to its new home in Cambridge soon!

Here’re a few pics of Melly:

May 17 2012

STRIKES Mini-comic Article In Winston-Salem Journal

There’s a nice write-up about Strikes, the mini-comic story I illustrated for Bret Parks (the owner of our local comics shop, Ssalefish) in today’s Winston-Salem Journal. You can find the article online here along with a short video featuring Bret and me talking about making the book. Here’s a scan of the newspaper article featuring a panel from the comic. I’ve heard tell that the full comic has been posted over at the Ssalefish forums. If so, I’ll post it here as well shortly.

 

 

May 10 2012

Come See Me At the Winston-Salem Toy & Comic Book Show

The show is this Saturday (5/12) from 10 am until 5 pm. I’ll be arriving fashionably late (Apparently, I can’t just leave our four-year-old at home by herself until my wife gets back into town to take over). I’ll be hawking copies of some of my books and doing sketches/commissions… but–most important–you’ll be able to get a copy of the new mini about The Empire Strikes Back that was written by Bret Parks (of our local comic shop, Ssalefish) and illustrated by me.  Here’re a few panels from it: