Experiment: Panel 79
But the voices...are all familiar. I know them.
2021-08-25 20:12:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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By Request: Unused Tangled Web/Circus of Crime Supplemental Material
Here's the rest of the document I have for the Tangled Web of Spider-Man pitch with The Circus of Crime.
As you may have noticed in these older pitch/plot post, I tended to write way too much material when developing a story idea. My anxiety drove a lot of this, the obsessive/compulsive tendencies took the wheel when the anxiety was tired. I also had the notion that everything had to be laid out. Editors liked that (producers, also -- Mike Lazzo complimente...
2021-08-23 01:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostTangled Web of Spider-Man: Unused Circus of Crime Pitch
Background: I don't remember how I ended up in discussions with Axel Alonso about doing a Tangled Web of Spider-Man story. I was super-busy at the time (coming off World's Funnest and still working on Welcome to Eltingville, iirc), despite the fact that I liked this pitch very much, by the time I could push for it to move forward the series was canceled. To the best of my memory Tangled Web was sort of like Marvels in approach, only built around a single character/continuity -- exploring ...
2021-08-18 08:47:35 +0000 UTC View PostPROCESS: Ten Steps To The Headless #1 Variant Cover
Up top is the version colored by Anna Gushchina.
Below that we have the process. Let's run through it:
Image 1: Rough sketch layout for the human villain. With the basic overall layout set.
Image 2: Rough sketch layout for the demon villain. I separated the figures for a few reasons, the main one being that I wanted to jigger the positioning and size of the demon to the punk. I'm not capable of using photoshop to do these things, like most people, and Sarah's day is al...
2021-08-13 19:03:52 +0000 UTC View PostMilk & Cheese: It's A Secret
Recently drawn, and just colored by Sarah. Can't show the full image or tell you what it's for. It's not for a comic. It's...well, you'll see, if everything works out. Not the usual thing.
I have to finish up another M&C thing for another thing that's not the usual thing. And then another. And possibly another.
Looking forward to sharing., I'll try to show it off here before anywhere else if I'm able to. More soon, if all goes well, fingers crossed.
2021-08-11 01:08:33 +0000 UTC
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My Variant Cover for Headless v.2 #1 From Scout Comics
So, I stumbled across the fact that my variant cover art for the Headless series from Scout has been solicited. So, here's the final cover. I'll do a process post asap in regards to the, uh, process.
I know publishers aren't particularly well-funded or staffed, but I really wish the companies would send out the covers and solicitation info to creators so they can better plug the projects they're involved with. Just a jpeg and a date would be helpful once the solicitation kicks in ...
2021-08-03 09:19:59 +0000 UTC View PostHere's Your Proof That Darwyn Cooke Hated The Devil Puppet
This was Darwyn's copy of Dork #5, also now known forever as the "Suck Book".. Yes, he defaced the comic with a short review, and used it to write a phone number on (don't call that number, I'm trusting you kids). A mutual cartooning friend, Steve Manale, told me Darwyn hated the comic because he hated the Devil Puppet. Steve Manale sent me this jpeg and then eventually gave me the actual Suck Book. Darwyn had given it to Manale, who asked for it rather than have it thrown out in the garbage....
2021-08-01 05:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostWorld's Funnest: Mazzucchelli Pencils/Inks, A Few Additional Notes
Michel Fiffe posted a reply about the unused Earth 3 pencils done by Job Bogdanove -- I know I had a xerox copy of the art but have been unable to find it. I looked through the two sets of xeroxes I have, an 11" by 17" set of inks (and some pencils) and a print-size set (with more pencils and some lettering overlay copies). I will keep an eye out for it, maybe I ditched it for some dumb reason. I can't remember. I also thought I had more pencil copies, but there aren't as many as I thought. I...
2021-08-01 03:05:07 +0000 UTC View PostWorld's Funnest WIP 5-31-99: Breakdown, Notes, Artists (Annotated)
Background: I stumbled across this file recently. It's a rundown worksheet of sorts, summing up the project's progress. The script is just about all locked down at this point, with only a few pages still up in the air, and a few ideas still being kicked around.
Some things were revised for the final script/comic -- "Heaven" went from a panel in the "catch-all" back end sequence (where Mxy chases Bat-Mite across the remaining multiple universes and timelines, which did...
2021-07-28 12:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostA Project That Never Went Anywhere
Skulky Bones, Private Eyesocket was an all-ages comic series that I kicked around a lot back in the day before abandoning it. Made a bunch of notes, drew a bunch of drawings, but just didn't feel it was going anywhere past the basic concept. No plots sparked for it, which is a sign of a generic concept based on visuals more than ideas.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if you're kicking pun names around for settings and characters, but still not figuring out what the charac...
2021-07-24 04:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostTear Them Apart Ep 16 Title Card (Belated, Again)
My schedule's a mess, everything's late, I'm full of stress, sorry for the wait.
That's pretty much how everything is right now. There are some good things going on right now, and some things we're hoping will just dry up and blow away. I hope to be able to announce a few oddball things that might make some of you happy, non-comics but comics-related (specifically House of Fun comics, more specifically, two little violent alcoholic dairy products). Two of these projects are under way, a...
2021-07-22 12:13:49 +0000 UTC View PostE-Mail Excerpt From 1999 That Made Me Laugh
"Evan, I got your back. I fucking HATE Village Comix. Even more than
Forbidden Planet. I don't know how you feel about St. Mark's, but I think
Mitch (for all his creepy behavior) runs a good shop. If Village pulls some
shit, I'll score us some ski masks and baseball bats and we'll go to town."
Some of you may remember the flap over my Comics Journal interview. It's a long, stupid story. Maybe I'll post some of the funnier/stupider exchanges about the subject. I just wi...
2021-07-15 09:53:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Experiment: Panel 77
It takes a village to raise a nightmare.
This one actually creeps me out. It looks like a rejected Monster Manual entry. Ick.THis thing has to end up in the story somehow.
2021-07-09 14:28:12 +0000 UTC View PostExperiment: Panel 76
It's always worse when they're aware.
No one should have to die more than once.
2021-07-09 10:19:29 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I Forget: Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory #4 Now Out
Wrapping up the latest arc, which I am really happy with. Look at that beautiful cover by series artist Benjamin Dewey! Love this series, honestly do. Sarah and I did the variant, which I'm pretty happy with, but Ben killed it. I've never been great at covers, at least not "straight" covers. I like the way the DORK covers were looking, and the two Eltingville covers. I'm okay at that sort of thing. I don't do good "poster" work when drawing in my "straight genre" style. Or whatever the hell I...
2021-07-08 10:59:31 +0000 UTC View PostOnce When: Taskmaster Pin-Up I Traded For a Set of Rapidographs
I was pretty broke at the time, whew boy. Last year I bought an unused set off e-bay, and I have to admit, I was happy to pay for it because there wasn't a sense of desperation in the transaction that was there when I bartered for the previous set. I ordinarily love bartering for stuff, books or art for other books or toys or whatever, we used to do that a lot back in the day. But that was largely because we could afford to do it, having a serious need to do it was emotionally wrecking me bac...
2021-07-08 10:42:51 +0000 UTC View PostEngine Trouble: Before The Metal Men Mini-Series Crashed And Burned
BACKGROUND: I often forget that I've saved more of my work-related e-mails over the years than I thought. I was doing an e-mail search for something and stumbled across e-mails dating back to AOL days, including some exchanges over the METAL MEN series I was writing for DC with my editor, Bob Schreck. I had forgotten that Dan DiDio didn't immediately cancel the series (for lateness, and, supposedly simply disliking the inherited project), that he had issues with my writing/dialog, and tha...
2021-07-07 07:29:27 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Eltingville Pilot Sketches on the Back of Dork #8, Pg 1
Early character sketches and random malarkey when I was working on the Eltingville pilot. Some proto-Iron Jaw and Ward doodling. Two characters mentioned didn't appear in the pilot but were in the bible -- Sal was going to be Joe the retailers' nemesis, who owned the other comic shop in Eltingville. Gary the Dirtbag was a local weirdo, the type that exclusively hangs out with kids and talks shit. He also is a collectibles mercenary who uses kids and toy store contacts to hoard toys and ...
2021-07-05 12:04:53 +0000 UTC View PostStrange Page: Oh, No, Naz! (1989)
I've been going through my art files to look for pages that people have asked about, and also to pull potential pages to add to the art list. I came across this page that was done in 1989 (and ended up in the first issue of Dork in 1993) and I think it's the oldest page of original comic art I have now. I destroyed all the Phigments pages and sold off all the Eternity Pirate Corp$! pages (largely in one big lot to one buyer a long time ago, I think the pages averaged out at $10 a pop or somet...
2021-07-05 08:22:47 +0000 UTC View PostWorld's Funnest: Rejected Vertigo Sequence
BACKGROUND: When WORLD'S FUNNEST was being written (and was referred to as "Last Imp Standing", the title of the actual story), I had several ideas for sequences that never made it into the final comic. One was a multimedia sequence that would be done as fumetti, using photographs instead of illustration. The gag would be to integrate/show the DC "media" universe, seeing if we could get the rights to use images from the 1966 Batman series, the Superman movies, the 70's Wonder Woman series...
2021-07-02 23:38:15 +0000 UTC View PostSuperman TAS/Adventures: Invasion! (Unused Plot #7)
BACKGROUND: This was designed as an annual, back when they did annuals for the animated books. And were doing the actual animated books, I guess. This is the seventh and last of the fully-formed Superman Adventures pitches we did. It's the one I would like to have written the most because, for me, it's a love letter to the Silver Age, to king-size annuals, to JLA stories where tons of characters were off doing things, and endings where a goofy scientific (or pseudo-scientific) detail or a...
2021-06-30 03:09:07 +0000 UTC View PostStrike That. Reverse It. (Unused KS Art Update, Now In Color)
A day or two after I posted about the unused Kickstarter illo, Sarah asked me if I was 'awake enough to look at a file" (it was early afternoon, I had just got out of bed after my latest insomnia-thon). I had no idea what she was talking about but my initial guess was that she had been working on a Teepublic T-shirt design, either the Pirate Cat or the "Get Out of Comics Free" design (which has been back-burnered along with other designs due to life complications). To my surprise it was...
2021-06-30 02:45:58 +0000 UTC View PostUnused Kickstarter Illustration
A while back we were asked to contribute a color illustration to a Kickstarter project -- I think it was for a supplemental book/stretch goal. I inked the drawing, I'm sure I was late with it but the specs and deadline information were also slow in coming. If I remember correctly the person who was originally editing the book left, and one of the people behind the main KS project had to jump in and they didn't have publishing experience and things got a little stretched out and vague wh...
2021-06-25 09:31:31 +0000 UTC View PostExperiment: Panel #75
I've actually figured a few things out. A couple of elements in this panel have something to do with whatever's going on, at least they fit in with what's currently in my head. Might have to do some design work on those two kids I drew a few times back when this all started. Also better learn to draw the town they live in. Or at least fake it decently. I should have just drawn everything in generic tunnels.
2021-06-23 10:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostMilk & Cheese Commission: Death To Humanity!
Good Zod, I am behind on my commissions. But I'm happy with how they're coming out and hopefully they are worth the wait. I've got several more that will drop soon. I just need to glue my ass to the drafting chair and lay down a lot of lines and colors. Hopefully no Covid shots, dental emergencies, dental emergency art sale fundraisers, invading Pirate Cats, vet visits, as well as a few life things that I will, against my yappy nature, not discuss in public. Things are weird. For everyone, re...
2021-06-22 06:41:33 +0000 UTC View PostI Forgot To End The Dental Hijinks Art Sale. So.
Thanks to everyone who responded to the Patreon art sale. It was successful and will help out a lot, although I still don't know what the hospital emergency visit will ding us. We've had two dental visits since then, I have at least one more with an oral surgeon as soon as I can schedule it. Fingers crossed, the insurance situation is under control. And since I'm basically flying solo as an artist for a while, all income helps, so thanks again.
If you've contacted me previously to...
2021-06-20 02:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostSuperman TAS/Adventures: The Dream Engine (Unused Plot #6)
BACKGROUND: Not much to say about this one, other than I wasn't keen on working on something like this too close to World's Funnest coming out. Silver Age overload. As it went, we didn't use any of the seven plots we submitted for consideration because of schedule issues. I really would have liked to have been able to write these stories. Other than that, for some reason Dr. Bedlam is one of those second-class villains that took a hold of me. Mostly the nutty name, perhaps. Anyway, one wa...
2021-06-17 22:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Eltingville Club #2, Page 20: Layouts, Writing, Finishing, Regretting
I found the layout for this page after pulling it from the portfolio to pack up for an art customer. Thought it might be of interest for the process folks.
I never scripted any of the Eltingville comics. I pretty much wrote all of my solo projects during the layout stage, or winged it on the board with a basic idea of what was going on for however many panels (laziness, not confidence).
I tend to work my pages as complete sequences, even if they're part of a continuing scene...
2021-06-13 10:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post