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hulk smash!

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so, after drawing comics for over 10 years, i still haven’t had a chance to draw many marvel characters in published books … and one i’d love to draw (but still don’t really have a handle on) is the hulk…

and like i said before, i just don’t have the time to color these yet… luckily, the boy does…
have a good weekend!
-c
(looking forward to hot tub machine tonight)

old school marvel

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okay, so in between commissions, haps stuff, star wars cards and herOes, i’ve found the time to do a few pieces just for fun (based on the iconic covers from those old oversized marvel treasury books by john romita sr.)… up first, spider-man! (wish i had the time to color these up, but i do like to sleep a few hours a night…)

-c
tv bits – 24 is picking up (and making a seemingly ludicrous plot line a bit more understandable), lost was enlightening and crazy good, justified and the pacific have become must watch shows… (and i still have all of caprica and flash forward so far on the tivo to watch when i get the chance)
about 2/3 through listening to from a buick 8 (and have no idea where it’s gonna go) and finished under the dome a while ago (vintage king)

now in color! with words!!

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so, realizing i didn’t have the time to really do it right (or this good), i got mike thomas (who colored the fred hembeck story in the halloween special as well as the recent molly one shot) to color the “poster” commission… i told him i’d been looking at drew struzan stuff a lot lately but my only instructions were “i dunno, make it look good “… and he certainly did.

and to round it out, i figured why not get todd involved and had him come up with the tagline and credits.
so there you have it.
okay, besides that, here’s a link to an interview paul tobin and i did for the FCBD iron man /nova book …
-c
working away on the next issue of herOes…

‘haps poster part 2

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okay, so been a bit longer than i thought (deadlines and all that)…

where were we? oh, yeah… onto the inks for that ‘haps commission… pretty straightforward, really… at this point, most of my detail finishing is done with the inks (kind of relaxing to do details like the hair), so the pencils really didn’t need to be tightened up … i did decide to change the shot of mg slightly.
up next, colors… (and while i would’ve LOVED to color this myself, i decided to get someone who was a. faster and b. better than me… namely mike thomas, who did a killer job on the recent ‘haps molly special.)
-c
not much else going on work-wise besides plugging away on her-oes for marvel (gotta say, it’s fun stuff… and not just ’cause they’re paying me to do it)… starting to figure out my con schedule for 2010 (tentatively -so far, it’s boston in april, fcbd at jetpack comics in nh, charlotte in june… and more likely than not, baltimore in the sweltering month of august)

another step by step… haps poster

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so, i figure since it’s FINALLY off to the very patient customer, i can show the perhapanauts “faux movie poster” commission.

but since he waited so long, i figure i’ll take some time and show it in stages… first up, pencils…
since this was gonna be a fake movie poster, i went straight to the well with drew struzan and his montage style… (and more than a bit of ‘ringo as well)…
i’ll post the inks later this week…. gotta get back to her-oes!
-c
oh, and for folks looking for to pick upon of my return star wars clone wars widevision cards, they’re up on ebay…

for a birthday girl

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another quick one with a post of a piece i did for a old friend’s daughter’s 12th birthday…

besides that, just been working away on her-oes and waiting for the snow to fall this afternoon.
-c

star wars galaxy 5 sketch cards

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so, besides wrapping up the marvel iron man/nova free comic book day book and jumping into her-oes #1, i managed to get through (what’s most likely my last ever) 100 topps star wars sketch cards…
for those not in the know, these days, topps packs the trading cards with randomly inserted actor autographed cards or artist sketch cards, usually 1 cards per case or so… since the set was wide open to any movie/story character, i tried not to duplicate and run the gamut of all 6 movies… probably could’ve done another 50 or so before getting to the even more ridiculously obscure characters, but had fun trying to do’m all in “my” style (plenty of folks do beautiful photo likeness stuff, but that’s not my bag)… i imagine it would be a lot of fun to do a star wars book someday (i know the boy would like it… and keep me on my toes if i went astray)…
back to work.
-c (woohoo, lost tonight… ’nuff said)

next up…

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is a four issue project called marvel her-oes, written by the crazy talented grace randolph… a sort of smallville-ish reimagining of some of marvel’s female heroes (she-hulk, namora, wasp) back in a high school setting… and not only am i drawing it (and having a blast), i was able to do the cover for #1 (which, after all these years drawing funny books, was the first cover i’ve done at marvel)… the first issue is due in april (and gonna be solicited in the new previews catalogue coming up)…

besides that, there’s the marvel free comic book day book with nova and iron man in may (not surprisingly on free comic book day)…
work on the haps has ground to a VERY slow crawl, which is unfortunate, because we LOVE doing it… (but also make NO money doing it at this point… heck, we lose money every issue with all the time and effort inloved)… which isn’t to say it’s done, it’s just taking longer to get done (and we want to have the next arc in the can before soliciting, so it comes out when it’s supposed to, not months late…)
have a good weekend, folks!
-c

2 more from calgary

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here’s two more pieces i did last year (wow, 2010 already?) at the calgary show…
wrapping up my iron man/nova free comic book day book this week… and jumping right into the next project at marvel (which, as it turns out, will not be the final issue of marvel adventures superheroes after all… got something else lined up, and even got to do the cover for the first issue this weekend)
-c
(yay! chuck‘s back on nbc… and 24 starts up next week… and lost isn’t far behind)

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