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coupla tiki con sketches…

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just a quick post, gotta keep going on these pages if i wanna take the night off thursday to go see los straitjackets … found these 2 scans online of the sketches i did the other weekend at the screaming tiki con (amusingly enough, i met fellow artist dave aikens – who does plenty of great stuff for nickelodeon and was kind enough to send a backyardigans book home for johnny – thanks again, dave – at the show and he ended up requesting 4 of the 10 or so sketches i did that weekend for his friends and fellow collectors).. not always a fan of my convention sketches, but these came out alright (shane sent another over i’ll post later this week… along with the picture of todd and me in the batmobile!)…

oh, and we have to wait HOW long for the next season of mad men?! not an earth shattering cliffhanger season finale, but a powerful character-driven episode that makes me think it’s one of the best shows on tv today…  just glad there’s still a few episodes of the shield to get me by… and i’m just getting into the first season of pushing daisies on dvd (had it on the tivo last year but the hard drive met an untimely demise… luckily, the new season is on the even bigger new hard drive)… enjoying life on mars so far (haven’t seen the bbc original so i can’t compare it)… and brian, i didn’t even bother with my own worst enemy based on lackluster reviews.
-c

tiki accomplished

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okay, back from ohio… and already gotta think about getting ready for my next trip…. not sure if i posted it here, but i’ll be attending the wizard world texas show in dallas nov 7-9. wasn’t on my radar, but since they were nice enough to invite me to come down to participate on a few panels (spider-man loves mary jane, creator owned books)  i figured why not (and heck, i can finally meet terry moore in person!)… so, i really should get some stuff done here in the meantime.

but i did have a fun trip to the brand new “screaming tiki” con in ohio last weekend (the image above is the the art for the exclusive print todd and i put together for the show… we’ve got a few left over, so keep an eye on todd’s blog for details on how to get your own)…  i got to meet folks like mark sumerak, cat staggs, mark mchale, and fellow animated batman artist christopher jones… seeing how it was their first show (and a big one at that), i’d say the folks who put the show together did a bang-up job…. really, how many times  can you say that you hung out with peter “chewbacca” mayhew and spent the weekend sketching for fans in an inflatable dome!
issue 3 of mj is out, issue 4 is out next month and 5 is well underway (same goes for haps 5, which wraps up the first arc of the image run… wish sales were better, but that seems to be the state of the industry)
so, the sox lost to tampa bay… and i really can’t say that bothers me much at all… here’s hoping the rays can go all the way!
been riveted by both mad men and the shield these last few weeks… GREAT television there.

bart in the house

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keeping with the them of this drawing, it’s gonna be a quick post… here’s another one that was done for a patient fan, dave!  (hitoshi, yours is on the board RIGHT NOW… honest! that just leaves one more tellos drawing from heroes and a few from baltimore)… i sure do miss bart…. hmmm, maybe we need an impulsive speedster over in the haps… (not like dc’s doing anything with’m)

-c
(so, sox go to game 4 of the play-offs on big jim’s anniversary – and he’s got tickets, so here’s hoping it’s a good game for you and missus q!)

back from baltimore!

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well, everybody made it back safe and sound… had a great show, enjoyed spending time with family and friends this weekend. managed to do a few sketches for folks at the show (and did a few to bring with me… this one of choopie and howard the duck was done for our good pal roger ash)… now it’s back to the drawing board, gotta get pages done on both the haps (folks we talked to seemed to be liking issue 4 ad wondering what happens next!) and the final issue of my mary jane run (wow, this job flew by… must be working with that terry moore guy)…

tv is getting back into full swing (gotta get through all the stuff we tivoed while we were on the road), but i did manage to watch the office (good stuff, back in fine form), heroes (moving at a good pace, but really all over the map, inconsistent and derivative… don’t know how much more i’ll stick around for) and listening to the new ben folds cd while i work…

a few more marvel sketch cards…

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so, first things first.. above are a few of the marvel upper deck artist proof sketch cards i’ve had a chance to do for folks (i’ve still got a few blanks left to work on here…)

baltimore comic-con is right around the corner on september 27 and 28, so we’re in gear to get  get as much done before then as possible (if you’re anywhere near the area, you ARE going, right? it’s easily one of the top 3 comic conventions i go to – heroes in charlotte and emerald city in seattle being the others – all of which have a similar family friendly, comics first atmosphere run by great folks)… i’ve had a few folks email about getting on the show  commission list (i hesitate to call’m sketches anymore, since they’re not really…), if you’re interested, drop a line and we’ll see what we can do (i’m planning on doing a  lot of the prelim stuff on the road before the show once i wrap up those last 3 lingering commissions from WAY back and heroes) 

issue 4 of the ‘haps will be out that week and we’ll have that as well as the other image books, ti shirts, the trading card prints and STACKS of original art for sale …
work on issue 5 is moving right along too (we’ve obviously taken a hit in the monthly schedule, but we’re trying hard to get it out as fast as possible without sacrificing quality AND making sure you get your $3.50 worth…)
working hard on getting issue 4 of mary jane wrapped up (response seems to be okay… i knew going in there’d be – a. fans who miss the anime look (’cause this ain’t it), b. the three of you out there who’d buy it since i was drawing it, c. terry moore fans who’d buy it no matter who was drawing it…) but i’m happy with the way it’s turning out (some brilliant coloring by guillem mari), and i’m pretty sure the folks at marvel are happy too (we’re talking about my next gig already…)
been watching a LOT of tv on dvd lately while putting in a lot of late nights  (season 4 of the office which went off the track for a bit but managed to pick up towards the end of the set, heroes season 1 holds up pretty well in a short viewing as opposed to spread out over the year… we’ll see about season 2… and 3)… been loving the shield this season (nothing good can come of all the plotting and manipulation going back to the very first episode) and trying to get into sons of anarchy (but so far, all the characters are so deeply flawed and criminal i’ve got one to root for)
on the comics front, not so much getting me really excited about my weekly trip to the shop (the goon, b.p.r.d., criminal are still some of the best books around… most dc stuff leaves me STONE cold these days, while marvel’s so hip deep in skrull stuff – good god, it’s been SIX issues of a beautifully drawn mini-series that has about TWO issues of content – and i’m not about to read all the other marvel titles connected to have to get the rest of the story…)
-c

hellboy trophy wall

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here’s another commission that’s been in the pipeline for a good long time… chris has an AMAZING collection of pieces with the “trophy wall theme” (some have got to bee seen to be believed… chris’ comic art fans gallery) and asked for a hellboy wall… and while his first thought was rasputin and the cthulhu tentacle type stuff, i knew it had to have von klempt, head in a jar collecting other heads… wish i had the time to color this one, but gotta keep moving on haps 5 and mary jane 4 (both of which are coming along  nicely, thanks for asking)… 

also figured i’d set up an account on deviant art (’cause all the cool kids are doing it), should have some stuff posted over there later this week.
oh, and tv starts back into swing this week with the final season of the shield on tuesday (gotta finish watching the new dvd set to refresh my memory)… looking forward to a lot of returning shows in the coming months (… and trish, well, she’s looking forward to the new 90210…)
-c

like i need a reason to draw hellboy…

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here’s one that i finished a while back between ‘haps pages and mj pages (which is whittling my outstanding commissions down to a few VERY patent customers)… interesting pair… i’d buy that book (or draw it… you  know, if they asked )…

dark knight returns

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okay, just a quick one.. gotta keep working on mary jane and the ‘haps!

here’s a coupla pieces i did a little ways back for my pal, inker extra-ordinaire, art collector (and all around great guy) tim townsend…
-c

spider-man loves mary jane 1!

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so, issue one of the 5 issue mini-series hits tomorrow! having a blast doing it, hope folks enjoy it… it’s clearly not american manga this go-around, but still a fun and light-hearted style that (if i was successful) suits terry moore’s story.

ADDED – and for the folks that have been asking, pages from this issue (and the x-men first class issue) are now up for sale over at comic art house 

dark knight… and other stuff

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so, one thing about the bosstones performance the other day i forgot to mention was straight outta “spinal tap”… during the final song of the set (“let’s face it”…?), the bosstones dropped the banner with their logo on it to reveal a banner of barack obama… or at least, it would’ve, if one corner of the banner hadn’t gotten stuck and hung up, half obscuring obama, no matter how hard the crew tried to pull it loose (and oddly, the up-until-then-very-enthusiastic crowd booed … pretty loudly. go figure)…

both bands put on great shows (if i had to choose, i’d say i dug the bosstones better, but that’s me… but clearly a lot of folks were there to see the dropkicks tear it up … heck, to a good chunk of the audience the bosstones would be classic rock… ugh)…

and besides that show, it’s been work, work work (mj and haps are chugging along) … oh, and running up to the imax theater north of boston to see the preview of “the dark knight”… wow. i’ve certainly made no bones about my dislike for plenty of the first movie, but this was in a whole ‘nother class. fantastic, brutal, thrilling, chilling, action-packed, poignant, character-driven, perfectly acted… you name it. practically everything was note perfect – the batman, harvey dent, gordon, the joker…i won’t spoil anything, but man-o-man, was this the movie i was hoping to see… (and believe me, i wasn’t expecting it to be as good as the hype)… and in imax, it was even more intense (not to mention the fact that this imax theater has subwoofers in the seats so you could feel the tumbler roaring down the streets of gotham)…

so, in keeping with the dark knight, here’s the second mini-comic for general mills… (after seeing the movie i’m kinda surprised they wanted these as cartoony as they did… )



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