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etrigan!

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so, i was inspired to this one by matt’s super sweet etrigan he did a while back… (and the omnibus he and squeeze got me for x-mas… thanks again, guys!)…

not much new to report, still getting back into the swing after NYC, trying to get some pages finished on the next cap story so i can fit something else in for marvel before the next one… (this 4 month gap between issues is working out well! as soon as i can spill on what’s on tap, i will)

signed off on the proofs for the first image haps trade today, so it’s coming (and so is issue 6 as soon as i finish a few pages on my story… scott and leanne and todd and jason are waiting on me… good thing it’s my name over the title or i’d be outta work)
only a few episodes of BSG left, can’t wait to see how it all wraps up.
-c

another piece for louie

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so, for a while now, louie la palombara over at geekboy press has been trying to stump me with off the wall canson commissions… the latest being “arsenic and old lace” from runaways… for not knowing the book, i guess i did okay… (next one’s gonna be straight up old school with dr. doom!)

so, had a GREAT store opening signing at friendly neighborhood comics in bellingham, ma  (owned and operated by my good pal, ernie pelletier)… great turnout and great new store (one of the nicest all around comic shops i’ve been in, really catering to the everyday crowd… not trying to take away from another fantastic shop in bellingham, rubber chicken comics – man, it’d be sweet to live near 2 great shops like that )
and for folks looking for original art, i decided to make things a lot easier on myself and have my uber art rep and hellacool guy  bob shaw over at comic art house handle sales on ALL the art (marvel, beckett, and now PERHAPANAUTS)… heck, in a WEEK, he managed to get all the haps pages from the image run on-line (i never even tried) and the new cap pages that are still available… so head on over and buy a page, will ya?
i’m sure there’s more, but work calls…
-c

back from new york comic con…

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so, made it back in one piece and back to work on my next cap story and haps 6…. it was a great show (realizing now i didn’t get to see half the folks i wanted to… and even the ones i did see i barely had time to talk to…)

random highlights include – BBQ at virgil’s (mmmmmm); dinner with todd, rich woodall, kelly yates and rod and leanne hannah (and an excruciatingly painful/funny story from rich); getting to 30 rock to see SNL (thanks yet again, scott!!); meeting new/old friends like david and julia petersen, shane glines, greg and marianne adams, and WAY too many more to mention; getting my sketchbook back from andy macdonald with a killer piece in it! (and it was extra sweet, since i thought i had lost it for good – and it had a nice piece from ‘ringo in it); selling out of most of the ‘haps we brought with us… and all the great response to the book still…

wanted to thank everybody who stopped by the table to get a book signed, get a sketch or page of art, or even just say “hey!”
and some folks who were at the show saw this color print i had done since the first issue of my marvel adventures superheroes featuring captain america comes out this week (wow, say THAT name a few times…)
okay, back to that work i mentioned. 
-c
(caught up on my friday night lights, BSG, the office, 30 rock and 24… whew! that’s damn good tv)

harry potter

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well, here’s a harry potter i did for a friend of a friend (who has, like many, been waiting patiently)… 

starting to get everything ready for the new york comic con this weekend, trying to get through a few more cap and ‘haps pages and few more commissions…
and i don’t know about everybody else, but i gotta say, tv is really hitting some high notes right now (bsg – frak!, 24, lost, and friday night lights are all delivering in a big way… and some returning favorites are as solid as ever – 30 rock, the office, earl, scrubs, chuck)

exiles

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okay, so i’ve never read the book, but i hear it’s good… so good, in fact, that one of my friends commissioned this drawing… (over a year ago, but that’s a whole different story)

getting ready for the new york comic con next weekend (feb 7-9), we’ll be over in artist alley at table M4 (stop by, say “hey!”, pick up a book or two or maybe some original art)
-c

back to tellos

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here’s another canson commission that’s been in the queue for a bit (thanks for being so patient, billy!)… srra and dani from tellos. it’s the third in a series of commissions so far (the last few years at heroes he’s asked for a color piece… the first i did at the show – rikk and hawke – and don’t have a good scan of it… the second was the koj/jarek in the gallery somewhere…)

finished up my first captain america issue for marvel adventures the other day and hard at work on the second one (looks like it’s out in early feb, so i certainly stretched the deadline a bit… the next one should be a bit easier) and getting in a groove on the next haps book as well…
besides that, getting ready for the nyc comic con in a few weeks… and lost is back tonight! (and man, talk about good tv lately, friday night lights is back in fine form, battlestar galactica too… and even  24 looks like it bounced back from the last season pretty well… woohoo!)  
-c

another old one…

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not much to report, putting the finishing touches on my last pages of the cap story, working on getting stuff together for the haps trade and issue 6 (you DID pick up issue 5 wednesday, right?)

really looking forward to both friday night lights and battlestar galactica (nerd alert – set your dvrs to record a few minutes extra on bsg... or so i’ve read)
oh, and this art is just another old painting of the beast i did back in 95 (i had done some x-men samples at the time as well, i gotta scan’m) … REALLY wish i had the time to get back to this kinda stuff… i’d LOVE to do a painted haps cover down the road… oddly, in getting touch with old friends on facebook recently, everybody’s telling me they got old drawings i did way back when… and i just cringe (heck, even the dark horse stuff makes me cringe at times)… i think i’ve got maybe 3 pre-college drawings around…

diggin’ deep…

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okay, since most of the stuff i’m doing these days i don’t wanna spoil (like the fate of poor karl… oh, leanne and rich, i fear i’ve said too much… ha!), i figure i’ll dig into the old stuff that i’m sure nobody’s seen…

back when i got out of school and was working on my samples, i dabbled a bit in painting stuff… 
like this image of chamber from generation x… ( and was clearly showing my love of bachalo and fegredo… funny that my fist comic work was so cartoony, since that wasn’t where i thought i’d end up… as you’ll see when i post some samples down the road)…
-c

hoping to get better than 1 or 2 posts a month…

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so, looking back in the archives, i realized i’d only had a few posts a months most of the year… we’ll see if we can do better this year, shall we?

okay, so i’m pretty sure i didn’t post this one before (i did it just before the baltimore convention last year)… one of those “off the beaten path” pieces, first time i’d ever done my take on gandalf… i’d say it came out okay, and david (the owner) seemed pretty happy with it…
i’m headlong into wrapping up the first issue of marvel adventures captain america, finishing a few “deleted” scenes for the haps trade and working on my story for issue 6 … and  starting to think about getting ready for the nyc show – might be time for a new sketchbook or two… and possibly get a few pre-show commissions done –  (looks like the cap book should be out by that week… and diamond says issue 5 of the perhapanauts is out next week!)
-c

one last one for ’08

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rounding out the commissions for 08 is the third zatanna piece of the year (this one was a bit more work trying for the likeness of the girl and her dog…)
okay, looking back, this year has been pretty good ’round these parts (including the sweet new site design by kieran chapman)… we relaunched the ‘haps over at image and managed to get 5 issues out (the 6th just missed by a few weeks…) and i’ve had plenty of work over a marvel as well (the x-men first class fill in as well as the spidey loves mj mini), as well as a great slate of conventions, a slew of commissions, and oddball freelance stuff… 
09 is shaping up to be a pretty good one too… we’ve got big plans for the haps (with some of our incredibly talented friends – like jason, leanne, scott, matt, christian, fred, rich, and more – pitching in to keep us on some sort of schedule) and i’ll be busy with the marvel adventures  captain america stuff and more down the line…
so, here’s wishing everybody a good 09 as well. cheers!
-c
 

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