As mentioned in the last post, I went to the Five Points Festival in Brooklyn yesterday, which is an event based around indy toys and art. I always wanted to go to just look at stuff and maybe pony up for a toy or two) and the tipping point to go was to meet up with Sam Heimer from H&H Toys (we've never met before) and with Roger H. who was working the Marusan table and who I haven't seen pre-pandemic). It was fun, there wasn't a ton of new or obscure stuff I was knocked out by but I coul...
2022-06-27 23:41:25 +0000 UTC
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Yesterday I went to the Five Points Festival in Brooklyn to meet up with Sam Heimer of H&H Toys and he had several prototype sets of the Milk & Cheese figures on hand. Sam had them on display at his table and when I was walking around a vendor who recognized me from NYC comic shows told me that he saw bootleg Milk & Cheese figures at someone's table. I told them they were legit.
I'm really happy with how they came out, they're actually a little chunkier and larger than...
2022-06-27 22:38:00 +0000 UTC
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Also featuring the Stations, the Good Robot Bill & Ted, Time Thumb, two members of The Chronological Order and a couple of Second Hands. From the Marvel comic series.
2022-06-23 18:54:44 +0000 UTC
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Onslaught.
2022-06-22 08:30:21 +0000 UTC
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Finished this over the weekend, along with some Winky cards and the HH label.
Started on the last batch of Winky cards I still owe folks (including a couple for my nephews, they're getting fancy-shmancy oversized ones), pushed the Fugazi piece forward, inked the logo for another M&C commission, inked and started colors on the Bill & Ted commission, moved the Phil (from the Marvel Bill & Ted comic) commission (drawing a lot of those little Gremlins-style Stations from i...
2022-06-21 03:14:51 +0000 UTC
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Original is 4" x 4", I think it's being reduced to 2" x 2", so I hope I didn't over-render the textures so they'll turn to effing mud. Yikes!
Still needs cleaning up (which I can do if I have to, although I suck at it and spend way too much time sucking at it), and needs coloring (I can not color digitally).
Not sure if Sarah is up for working on it, if not I asked her for the colors she uses to give whoever ends up working on it. The back label on the box is clip art and wi...
2022-06-19 02:15:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey, look, I filled almost all the white spaces up.
On to colors.
2022-06-18 04:26:21 +0000 UTC
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In this installment of the ongoing WORLD'S FUNNEST retrospective, we're covering the one-page "Earth 3" sequence. Yeay! I mean, Boo! Because Earh 3...is evil.
Earth 3 is a pretty typical Silver Age concept from DC, basically, a planet where everything is reversed and wrong from what we know on Earth 1 (the main DC universe/world the kiddies were reading about). Earth 3 first appeared in 1964, in Justice League of America #29, and were co-created by Gardner Fox and art...
2022-06-17 23:14:57 +0000 UTC
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I'm working to get everything I owe everyone to them before the end of the summer.
I still have nine Winky the Pirate girl index card drawings left to do, owed to four customers, dating back to an emergency offer made in September/October 2021. On top of everything that's been going on this past year (we weren't public about Sarah's health situation at the time), and my stupid need to be overwhelmed by everything, I screwed up this entire endeavor in two key ways. First, I didn't...
2022-06-16 01:54:09 +0000 UTC
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The first 8-page story from the Bummer Trilogy, originally published in Dark Horse Presents #118 (1997).
I recently scanned the story before shipping two of the original pages to a customer The Bummer Trilogy was collected as a one-shot single issue from SLG, but wasn't reprinted as part of a trade paperback, so I wanted to make sure I had hi-resolution copies for any potential PC$!/HP collection I might wrangle before I take the dirt nap. I'd also like to add some new pages, but ...
2022-06-14 06:57:05 +0000 UTC
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As teased here and recently elsewhere, here's a look at what will likely be the back sticker label for the box the two little figures will be packed in. I'm finishing up the new art for the front label.
I have to warn you in advance, initial supplies of these figures will be limited, like all H&H offerings there will be an initial 'drop" and people will have to hope to snag a set (and...
2022-06-11 22:46:25 +0000 UTC
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Flipped an Eltingville page from 1997 that I was packing up to send to a customer, and found this. pencil sketch on the back.
General Zod hadn't been in the design pack or bible for the Superman Adventures series (for whatever reason, we never asked), so when we were working on the script that would introduce Supergirl into the animated comic series we figured he's be a good villain to revive as a Supergirl nemesis. We had to do some convoluted plotting in the comic owing to the hardlin...
2022-06-11 20:08:09 +0000 UTC
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Some of you who follow me on social media are probably aware that Sarah had a bit of a setback this week. We had to have her taken in to the emergency room late Monday night, and she had to spend a few days in the hospital. Fortunately she was able to come home today and is doing much better.
The hospital was overwhelmed and that probably caused Sarah to be there at least an extra day. She wasn't able to get a room and be admitted for more than a day. She was in a temporary observ...
2022-06-09 22:37:52 +0000 UTC
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I'm down to the last six (!) e-mails that I have to respond to or deal with, which is kind of amazing (!) for me (!!!). I'm terrified everyone I've written will write back all at once, but at least I'm making progress.
I just answered a letter that I received last September. It's embarrassing and stressful to realize a letter is that old -- I also replied to letters that were over a year old (let alone a commission, Zod help me, I'm getting them done, hold off on the drone s...
2022-06-05 21:45:18 +0000 UTC
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Here's the new installment of the ongoing WORLD'S FUNNEST retrospective, this time we're finally looking at the actual Golden Age sequence after two extended introductory posts regarding the comic that was the main inspiration for the project, the two golden age comic artists linked to this section of the comic Golden Age and a few other things (more-or-less related to the comic).
The Golden Age sequence in World's Funnest was penciled and inked by Sheldon Moldoff le...
2022-06-04 00:36:24 +0000 UTC
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Color art done for the flat magnet set produced by Bob Chapman's Graphitti Designs. I can't remember when they were released, I have a bagged-with-header keeper set buried somewhere in our archives, there's no way I'm going looking for it. I did a quick check around online but that wasn't much help. The magnets came out in the 90s, some time after the 3-D sculpted fridge magnet from (Randy) Bowen Designs.
Colors by Sarah Dyer.
2022-06-02 05:45:50 +0000 UTC
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So, hey, the background material about the Golden Age segment blew up almost as much as the original introduction, so here's another dip into things before we get to the actual script and art stuff. This part of the unexpectedly expanded intro will be about the two artists involved with the Golden Age segment of World's Funnest.
If you missed it, the first part of this extended introduction (World's Funnest: The Big Reason Why) can be read here: 2022-06-01 04:29:54 +0000 UTC
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More soon later.
2022-05-31 08:09:51 +0000 UTC
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Forget why I drew this particular piece, I think it was a commission, I want to say I did this one as a trade piece but I can't remember. I was surprised to see it was from 2008, for some reason I thought it was more recent.
FYI, the World's Funnest Golden Age segment post will pop in the next few days.
Hope you are all having a decent holiday. I'm the kind of person who forgets there's even a holiday coming up, at least the ones that aren't Halloween. And Christmas....
2022-05-29 12:17:38 +0000 UTC
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I've written before about the first time I ever attended the San Diego Comic Con in 1987, and how much more informal and relatively easygoing things were back then. I was 22, traveling with friends to another state for the first time in my life (not counting summer camp in New jersey, which I'm not counting), staying in a hotel room without my parents for the first time, debuting my first solo creator-owned comic (Pirate Corp$! #1, Eternity Comics), exhibiting in Artist's Alley, and meeting c...
2022-05-28 00:39:13 +0000 UTC
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I posted the cover a little while ago, but today the project was formally announced. It's going to be a really sweet-looking little creep out, oversized and in hardcover. And it will be out right in time for Halloween, so, it'll make a nice gift for you or a loved or tolerated one. We're hoping to bring the series back as soon as schedules and life comes together, btw. Like Beasts of Burden, there's a long game in place.
From the DHC press release (link below, with more info):
2022-05-26 23:06:12 +0000 UTC
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EDITED TO ADD: This piece has sold, so I'm unlocking it so it's no longer exclusive to the Life's Great Rewards backers as an offer. Thanks so much to the purchaser, thanks everyone for looking and I hope you enjoy/ed looking at the art in the post. Bye, Medusa!
The original pencils were published in the Jack Kirby's Heroes and Villains book from Pure Imagination in 1987, as part of a sketchbook Kirby presented to his wife, Roz, as a gift (...
2022-05-26 22:56:14 +0000 UTC
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FYI, Paul Yellovich and I will be doing a live videocast tonight on Youtube starting at 8:15 PM EST, we'll be discussing some horror movies we've been watching, some horrible movies we've been watching, maybe some books and whatever else creeps in to the creepy conversation. We both watched one of the earliest shot-on-video messterpieces ever made, which is so rare and ridiculous it isn't even on IMDB. Even better, it's a goldarned Bigfoot movie! So we got that going for us tonight.
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2022-05-26 22:06:32 +0000 UTC
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This is a nostalgia-laden sequence which, for several reasons, has become a nostalgia-laden entry. So, despite the Golden Age segment only lasting two pages in the finished comic, the post I planned about it will be broken down into two parts. Basically, the introduction to the GA post went so long that I decided to make it a separate post. Once it became it's own entry, it went into some new directions I hadn't planned on, and ballooned up and got out of hand all over again. I'm a shitty...
2022-05-26 04:23:15 +0000 UTC
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Finished this up last night. It's always funny what M&C shtick gets picked up on by readers, this is the first "Get That Fly" commission I can remmeber. Not complaining, I like when they yell stupid stuff. Which...is always. Always!
Woke up after three hours sleep feeling absolutely awful. This past month or so it's been hard to tell what's going on in my head and body, is is related to the Fluvoxamine withdrawal, the transfer over to Ritalin (big wash out, just too many stron...
2022-05-24 00:43:01 +0000 UTC
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Several commissions and the last of the Winky card drawings are passing around my hands like a sushi conveyer belt, ink dries, grab another, white correction ink sets, grab another, cross-hatching starts to hurt my hand (Like the Fugazi background, oy) grab soemthing without crosshatching, screw up a card, start another. Speaking of which, Winky is harder to draw than you'd think because I get anxious with simple shapes looking "right" so if they look off I scrunch up the card and toss it. Ev...
2022-05-22 20:13:38 +0000 UTC
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I don't have any idea what I'm doing. Apparently the recent one I posted went through okay, today I've been trying to make a PDF of a M&C CXC poster and I can get it to the right DPI (I think) but I have no idea how sizing works, in regards to what's a good size for people to use and I can't figure out the PDF exporting thing this time around because I'm trying to do it in Photoshop but it keeps telling me something's not compatible or something. I just draw the damned things, I wasn't su...
2022-05-21 23:09:08 +0000 UTC
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The story you are about to read is true. At least, in this case, this is what I was told happened. To protect the innocent, or the guilty, as it may be, and err on the side of caution, names of individuals involved will not be used.
Today's installment is a brief little bit of embarrassment, both in terms of career circumstance and choice of words:
Back in the 1980's, a friend of mine went to the apartment of a well-known Golden Age comic book creator to co...
2022-05-21 22:34:49 +0000 UTC
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This is apparently a pretty deep dive into the Eltingville animated pilot. production and...legacy? I guess that's an apt word if people are still discussing it two decades after it aired one time at 11 P.M on a Sunday Night before the Adult Swim was paid any attention to (it only aired two or three times afterward, at most, these were scheduled during even later, deader slots, iirc).
I haven't listened to it, but I've meant to drop a link to it here because from the promoti...
2022-05-18 22:08:20 +0000 UTC
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I have been working on the latest entry in the World's Funnest retrospective (The Golden Age sequence), and the introduction has, over the last four hours of typing, blown up into its own post. My plans were to dash off the introduction and scan the materials needed (copies of Sheldon Moldoff's art and Tom Orzechowski's overlay lettering), drop in the script (only two pages, but so old these always need 'fixing" because the format is corrupted) and post a LOT of DC comic book covers from our ...
2022-05-16 22:30:46 +0000 UTC
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