wow, 2 posts in one week… CRAZY!
just a quick one to announce a new sketchbook, now on sale over in the webstore (and at upcoming convention appearances like granite state, rhode island, and coast city)…
it’s 24 pages, b/w with a color cover, comic book sized and limited to only 100 copies… collecting commissions, samples and more…
alright, back to the drawing board…
-c!
so, just got back from one of my favorite comic cons of the year, baltimore comic con. i’ve been heading down for YEARS now, with trish and kids in tow (and visiting with trish’s sister and family as well)…
this year i brought a commission for my pal, brad tree (one of the driving forces behind keeping the show on track)… he’d seen some of my batman ’66 samples and was hoping to get one with batgirl (which i guess would make that batman ’67-8)
luckily, tom feister and i were looking to find something to do together, and he killed it on colors…
so, seems like it’s been a WHILE since i’ve posted anything about KYRRA… and well… that’s because it’s stalled a bit.
we managed to get chapters 1-4 (and the free preview) up over at ARTIST ALLEY COMICS, but since then life seems to have gotten in the way… paying commissions, paying work, family time, conventions…
the freedom to do a creator owned book is GREAT, make no mistake… BUT making a living doing it (without a publisher or real viable income?) gets… tricky. we’d LOVE to do this every month, but the financial realities of the situation just don’t allow it (and, to be honest, it’s the same with THE PERHAPANAUTS over at image comics… we’d LOVE to do that every day and have books out monthly -or more!, but sadly, our sales can’t support it…)
soooo, we do what we can when we can, and try to make sure what we give you is the best we can put out… and we understand some folks aren’t on board with digital (or if they are, prefer the ease of comixology) and we’re looking into ways to get this out to more readers in both print and digital.
rich and i have a pretty ambitious story we’d love to tell… and hope we can. it just might take us a while… (same with todd and me and THE PERHAPANAUTS*)
but anyway, here’s the cover to chapter 5…
*speaking of THE ‘HAPS, starting next monday, we at perhapanauts central are going to start running weekly $10 SPECIAL sales in our recently redesigned webstore to make way for new product in 2014… stay tuned.
-c
so, pmc 2013 is in the books (thanks to all the folks who donated… and you didn’t there’s still time… http://www2.pmc.org/profile/CR0137)
Use discount code B4BMORE to get 25% off on all original cover art in my web store…
and ALSO speaking of baltimore, here’s my contribution to this year’s “art yearbook” featuring USAGI YOJIMBO!
so, the rescheduled Boston Comic Con is less than a month away… i’ll be there all day sunday (sketching, signing and selling), but saturday i’ll be busy riding my bike the 85+ miles from wellsley to bourne on this year’s pan mass challenge, to raise money for the dana farber cancer institute and jimmy fund ( 100% of funds raised goes directly to the cause of curing cancer)… any donations help a great cause, ’cause cancer sucks. (like last year, donations to my ride’ll get you an EXCLUSIVE ‘haps print -i’ll be posting it here soon!… and this year, anything over $100 gets a sketch cover… like this – your choice of character!)
6. updated both my art for sale store… and the perhapanauts web store
so, as my run on covers to “marvel super heroes magazine” winds down, i’ve only got a few left to post… here’s the cover to 27, in various stages of sketches, pencils and inks (final colors – by benny fuentes!)
happy 4th.
starting to get stuff together to pack up for heroescon next week… and got me thinking about artists selling prints of licensed characters (and sometimes with HUGE displays covered with prints) … me, i’ve decided that’s not my bag. heck, if dc , marvel or anybody else, for that matter, wanted me to draw their characters, they’d hire me – and sometimes, they do… and if they wanted to sell prints, they would… it’s their property, their choice… commissions and one offs, that’s a different beast.
sure i ‘d probably sell a LOT more marvel prints than i do of the perhapanauts or kyrra… but i’m okay with that.
-c
so, speaking of … KYRRA chapter 4 should be available in the next week or so (i’l llet you know)… and PERHAPANAUTS – DANGER DOWN UNDER 5 is out NEXT WEEK!
so, after all those “legion” sketches (there’s another batch in the queue!), i got myself on a “doctor who” kick (which started with a commissioned sketch of the current doctor… and snowballed)
a few are still available for sale on the website.
as far as work, plenty more marvel superheroes magazine covers to post down the road, wrapping up letter on haps “danger down under 5” (out in june), more haps lost covers, chapter 4 of kyrra is underway…
-c
after wrapping up the final (final?) ‘haps issue, getting to some commissions and outstanding stuff…
been posting these to Facebook one at a time, here they are in one blog post…
-c
as i’m wrapping up these last few perhapanauts pages for issue 5 of “danger down under”- and more kyrra – decided it was time to take on some new commissions after a long break…
first up, dr. strange!
(if you’ve been itching for a commission, now’s the (limited) time… drop a line to bob@comicarthouse.com )
-c