WIP: More M&C Commission Stuff
More to come on this and other drawing-type stuff.
2022-10-23 18:41:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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WIP: M&C Commission
Part of the work in process. The other part involves a polar bear. It has involved many crumpled up pieces of paper over a period of time, but finally shaping up.
Working on other late commissions, will post stuff soon. Having severe issues with my arm and hand, things have been slow. It's affecting typing/writing as well. Lots of ice, Salonpas and the wrist brace is a constant companion. If this continues this way I'm doctor-bound, but I'm afraid it'll be the same "can't find anything/...
2022-10-22 23:36:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Halloweirdos: Layouts
Process layouts for all eight Halloweirdos strips from Nick Magazine. These were done on large sheets of tracing paper. I penciled these pretty cleanly in order to keep things tight and under control, the comics ran pretty small in print and I wanted to make sure I didn't go off the handle and turn the imagery into mud with too much texturing or linework. And since these were printed in color, I wanted to leave the linework open -- and keep the lines connected -- for Sarah's coloring.
T...
2022-10-21 19:43:44 +0000 UTC View PostOut Today: BLACKWOOD LIBRARY EDITION
The Blackwood Library Edition is now available in shops. Huzzah!
The oversized hardcover book collects all eight issues of the series to date. Co-creator Veronica Fish's original covers are printed as chapter pages between the issues. The back matter includes all of the variant covers (by Becky Cloonan, Tyler Crook, Peach Momoko, myself and others), all of Veronica's character portrait back covers, process and production notes and images from Veronica Fish, Andy Fish and myself. T...
2022-10-19 20:38:08 +0000 UTC View Post
From The Archives: The Halloweirdos (Nick Mag)
The Halloweirdos was a comic strip we did that ran in Nick Mag #105, (Oct, 2004). For a time the comics section would run a strip at the bottom of the page beneath the main comics, James Kochalka and others often had that slot.
For the 2004 Halloween issue, Sarah and I contributed eight Halloweirdos strips. Below are the first two.
I wish I had access to the color files (burie...
2022-10-15 21:09:35 +0000 UTC View PostOutlining Beasts of Burden
Outlining is important. There's no doubt about that. It provides a structure for your script or story the same way penciling out a comic page provides the structure for the finished inks. Some people can wing a plot breakdown pretty quickly, they have a sense of space and story beats and what goes where. I suck at it.
I'm good with ideas, and bits of business, and my dialog isn't shabby. I suck at outlines. And all too often I fall into the trap of plotting and or/writing without ...
2022-10-10 22:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostCommission WIP: M&C Raising Cthulhu
Some details still need to be locked down in the pencils but it's pretty much all there for the inks. A lot going on in this one.
Pushing four commissions along, working on the new Beasts of Burden outline, trying to get stuff done.
2022-10-07 06:25:04 +0000 UTC View PostTear Them Apart Episode #18 Cartoon (Lake Mungo)
It's been a long time since Paul Yellovich and I got to sit down and record an actual episode of our horror movie podcast. I'm happy to say that we finally have a new episode ready, which will be available for listening tomorrow. As usual, the podcast is basically two old friends talking about, um, horror movies. We try to do a deep dive, we aren't experts, but we are enthusiastic and enjoy getting folks to check out a movie we like. Or a movie we dislike. Because those can be enjoyable, too,...
2022-10-03 00:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostWorld's Funnest: Earth S Sequence Script w/Art by Jaime Hernandez (Pg 25-27)
This was a highlight of the World's Funnest project for me, for a number of reasons.
If you know anything about me, you know I'm a huge Love and Rockets fan, and a huge fan of Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. I'm also a big fan of the Golden Age Captain Marvel comics, featuring the Marvel Family, their friends and their super-weird foes, as delineated by the great C.C. Beck and others. So, getting Jaime to draw the Marvel Family/Earth S chapter was just pure comic book h...
2022-09-29 21:06:59 +0000 UTC View PostLa Mano del Destino Introduction Essay
Sarah and I first met J. Gonzo at Heroes Con, I can't recall what year this was but he had at least two issues of his self-published comic out on his table in Artist's Alley. Sarah bought a t-shirt from his table for me -- I think it was father's Day -- and someone tipped Gonzo off about it being Sarah and she was buying the shirt for me, because it turns out Gonzo was a fan of our stuff. So, blah blah blah, we had a shirt and he gave us some comics and we talked a bunch and eventua...
2022-09-22 23:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostCommission WIP: MERV GRIFFIN! M&C Page Recreation
Plus, the title WIP, for the lettering wonks.
(The original comic's title is pretty iffy, so I wanted something more substantial-looking as well as more attractive. Because it has to fit in a fairly narrow space and I want it to fit cleanly, I decided to take it off the page and rough it out on graph paper. I'll put it on the lite pad and trace it back onto the commission board and tw...
2022-09-22 01:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostCommission WIP: M&C Vs Spy Vs Spy
I'm down to the last six or so commissions, one of which is allllmost done (I screwed something up on it and have to fix it, among other slow progress).
These are the "difficult ones", for me at least. And I guess, for the customers, because they've been waiting so long. And the later they get, the more I put into them and ache them, so, cycles and all that. Maybe I shouldn't have discontinued my Fluvoxamine prescription. Still trying to figure that out. Anyway.
They all hav...
2022-09-20 05:12:29 +0000 UTC View PostTHE ARCTIC MARAUDER by Jacques Tardi (Some Garbled Thoughts)
THE ARCTIC MARAUDER by Jacques Tardi
Published by Fantagraphics in 2011, originally published in 1974.
64-page black & white 9" x 11.75" hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-60699-435-1
I knew nothing about this volume when I found it recently at my local library, but I assumed I'd enjoy it owing to my being a fan of Tardi's work (his Adele Blanc-Sec and war comics, in particular), steampunk (to a degree) and stories that take place in arctic or cold climes (I don'...
2022-09-18 22:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal Art on eBay: M&C As Cats (???)
Continuing my experiments of listing stuff I either don't know how to price (or haven't been able to sell for a while) on eBay. I don't know what to charge for a smaller drawing of Milk & Cheese, let alone head shots. let alone head shots of them as cats.
This was drawn in the style of the enamel pin designs, after we produced the "Cute M&C" pin, which sold out pretty quickly. I did a series of new drawings including "Angry M&C", "Skull M&C", "Devil M&C" and afterwar...
2022-09-18 19:43:25 +0000 UTC View PostLettering-Type Stuff: Tear Them Apart Podcast Logo
Here's the process I went through for the logo for Tear Them Apart, the horror movie podcast that my friend Paul Yellovich and I do.
The logo, like the podcast, is casual, simple and lo-tech. It gets the jo done in telling you what's what. We do a horror movie podcast, here's a severed, clawed hand and a little blood. I would probably lose the blood if I was designing the logo now, it doesn't work for me, but maybe that's mainly in the execution. I dunno. Sarah cleaned up the ori...
2022-09-14 21:24:08 +0000 UTC View PostCommission WIP: M&C X Cthulhu Rough
The remaining commissions are all requests that I don't feel comfortable starting directly on the page. Rough layouts allow me to take baby steps and walk a final layout/pencil job into the bullseye. I can figure out the stuff that I'm not familiar with drawing (animals, likenesses) and/or figure out where the hell everything goes when there's a lot going on.
I also do rough pencils on a separate piece of paper if I'm feeling like hitching to get started or if I'm feeling like my ...
2022-09-12 22:13:37 +0000 UTC View PostCommission: Phil And The Multi-Stations (Bill & Ted #4)
Finished colors and cleaned up some inks flattened by the markers, 6" x 9".
On the drawing board/WIP:
Still inching the very late Fugazi/Deadline cover recreation towards the bullseye (sorry).
Still throwing out sketches for the M&C with polar bear and panda commission, also super late (and trying to learn to draw animals, sorry). I have reference pictures all over the room so at least that's nice to look at. When Winky isn't tossing them on the floor.<...
2022-09-11 21:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostArt For Auction: Murder Family Original Interior Page On eBay
New art listing on eBay: Page 3 of "THE OTHER WOMAN", from the last Murder Family comic, originally published in Dark Horse Presents #10 in March, 2012 (and later collected in House of Fun #1 in 2022 and the Dork HC collection in 2018).
Link to auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255717069379?hash=item3b89ecd243:g:bhAAAOSwISJjGnQI
Art measures 11" x 17", pen an...
2022-09-09 00:07:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unseen Comics: Meanwhile (Feat. Kid Blastoff/Special Guests)
Back in 1998 my friend Brian David-Marshall (the original publisher of Pirate Corp$!) was trying to put together a comics supplement project called Meanwhile, which would be a weekly comics package with continuing stories.
Brian was aiming to pitch the package as a supplement like Parade, or the Eisner Studios' Spirit magazine section. He put together a prototype featuring a number of creators, and the contents page was designed by David Mazzucchelli.
Brian asked Sarah...
2022-09-07 23:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blasphemous Tome #9 Is Upon Us!
If you're a table top roleplaying gamer, and a fan of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG in particular, you may be familiar with The Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcast, featuring Scott Dorward, Paul Fricker and Matt Sanderson. The three hosts all have worked on various Chaosium projects and have written play scenarios for CoC and other game systems. I stumbled across the podcast some years ago while looking for inspiration while working on my horror comic scripts. And I'm glad I did, because i...
2022-09-05 20:38:23 +0000 UTC View PostI Am Your Fan: On First Meeting Walt Simonson (1984)
On the occasion of the great Walt Simonson's 76th birthday, let me tell you about the time I first met the man. I'll try to keep the gushing to a minimum, and I know I will fail, so, forgive me, because as a creator and as a person, Walt Simonson is and has been a very important person to me. He's always been kind, generous with his time, fun to be around, full of stories about life and the comics industry, good to his fans, and someone who continues to push his craft and work the hell out of...
2022-09-03 01:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostNight of the Living Dead Cemetery Ghoul pinup on eBay
Some of you have probably already seen this drawing, at least in an earlier version without the background texturing. I had lost track of the drawing a few months ago and just found it filed with some other art. I was bored and added a thousand or so lines to the background while listening to a podcast a few days ago.
Then I got sick from my second Covid booster on Tuesday and spent two days in bed watching horror movies and sleeping and petting the cat. Not at the same time, I te...
2022-09-01 19:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostCommission Inks: Phil From The Marvel Bill & Ted Series
Still needs colors and little touch ups.
Fun fact: The customer for this piece is the person who the character of Phil was based on, waaaaay back in 1991 or so (thank you, Boy genius!). Wyld Stallyns needed a bass player because in my (comic) book, Death just wasn't going to cut it (har har) and that's why Phil entered the scene. He was the only applicant that had talent, but Bill and Ted were also impressed that he spoke in coherent sentences, unlike the others who answered the a...
2022-08-29 02:48:49 +0000 UTC View PostA Little Bit About Lettering (From My Limited Perspective)
Recently I've had enough folks here ask me about my lettering (such as it is), that I thought I'd put up some posts about...well, my lettering. As well as logos and story title and SFX lettering and all that. This will involve some design work, which I'm not known for, mainly because it's not one of my strong suits, and like lettering, it's something that grew out of necessity. I don't refer myself as a letterer or as a designer, but when you're a cartoonist, a lot falls under that heading. S...
2022-08-27 22:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostExperiment #99
Who are the people in your neighborhood?
It depends on the neighborhood.
And the time.
One thing's for certain, though. It's very hard to make plans around here.
2022-08-25 19:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostAdvance Copy Photos: Blackwood Library Edition
Yesterday I received an advance copy of the Blackwood Library Edition from Dark Horse, and I'm very pleased with how it turned out.
The hardcover book is oversized, measuring app 8 1/2" by 12 1/2". It collects all eight issues of the series to date. Co-creator Veronica Fish's original covers are printed as chapter pages between the issues. The back matter includes all of the variant covers (by Becky Cloonan, Tyler Crook, Peach Momoko, myself and others), all of Veronica's characte...
2022-08-22 19:43:05 +0000 UTC View PostAsk Me Anything (8/21/22 Edition)
If I don't feel up for answering a particular question for whatever reason, or don't have an answer, I will say so. I'll check in and answer any/all questions as long as any appear in the comments.
Have at thee!
2022-08-22 00:11:38 +0000 UTC View Post