So I was cleaning out my browser bookmarks today and among the things I encountered was this old post over at Blog Flume about a Wendy’s kids meal toy that allows you to generate a Peanuts comic strip by inserting pre-printed panels into a little “frame.” I bookmarked it not just because it’s cool (which …
Tag: Comics
Jan 25 2009
Thor Pinup
Here’s yet another pinup I’ve done to send along with my art dealer up to the New York Comic Con in a few weeks. This piece is based on a panel from Thor #337, the first Walter Simonson issue. Simonson’s run on Thor was one of my absolute favorite series when I was a young …
Jan 22 2009
Pinup: Alpha Flight
The New York Comic Con is fast approaching. Alas, I’ll not be going in person; however the good folks from A Cosmic Odyssey, who sell my original art work, will be attending. I sell at least a page or two of original art from my graphic novels at each “indie” convention, like SPX, but at …
Jan 20 2009
Obama’s Spider-Man Reference?
While the current Obama/Spider-Man buzz making the rounds is Marvel’s (supposedly pretty ham-handed) “guest appearance” by Obama in a current Spider-Man issue, here’s something a bit more subtle that recently caught my eye. Last Sunday’s Parade Magazine newspaper insert contained a contained a letter/essay from Obama to his children entitled “What I Want for You …
Jan 05 2009
Sunday’s Rex Morgan Freakshow
Even if Rex Morgan, MD were a top-notch plastic surgeon, I doubt he’d be able to do much to fix this bizarre beast that appears in the opening panel here: Look, I know kids can be hard to draw. Even really, really good artists can occasionally draw some wanky-looking kids sometimes–for exmaple, Jeff Smith’s recent …





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