Feb 28 2011
I have really good luck with commissions. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a commission that involved drawing something that I didn’t really like. Most recently, I got a commission to do a pinup of the great Mike Allred/Peter Milligan superhero team, X-Statix. The book started in the early 2000s (initially as X-Force) and it …
Jan 11 2011
Here’s another one of my superhero mini-pinups: Trapster. Unlike some of the other b-list characters I often find myself drawing, I actually have a real fondness for Trapster. Like a lot of comics-reading folk my I age, I grew up reading the John Byrne Fantastic Four and I recall really liking the issue where the …
Dec 28 2010
There’s been a whole slew of blogs cropping up lately featuring cartoonists and illustrators “covering” a comic book panel, comic book cover, or even just the little corner/logo. I’m working on a submission for the Covered blog at the moment, but just before Christmas I submitted something to the Repaneled blog that was accepted. Since …
Dec 14 2010
Yes, here’s yet another of my mini-superhero pinups of a B-list Marvel character: The Red Ghost. Once again, I didn’t know a whole lot about the character before setting out to draw him. I did know the important things, though: 1) created by Jack Kirby 2) super-powered apes. Like 94% of all Marvel characters from …
Dec 08 2010
I’ve got a new policy for end-of-the-day sketching: if it takes me more than about thirty seconds to decide what to draw, I’m just gonna randomly grab an old issue of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and do a mini-pinup of one of the characters. I really enjoy drawing them and they sell …
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