Pip-Pip!

A short while ago, we bid farewell to a couple of friends who moved to England for grad studies.  I drew this cartoon of them as a going away treat.

Man vs. Nature

Over a year ago, my friend Ethan Nicolle asked me to create some imitation pixel game art for his latest graphic novel Bearmageddon.  However, during the time I was working on this, a little web comic Ethan created with his kid brother became an internet sensation.  Needless to say, Ethan had to commit himself full time to Axe Cop and Bearmageddon was put on the back burner   But in August, Bearmageddon finally premiered and in color!  Today the "game art" I created made its debut CHECK IT OUT.

Bearmageddon is like Ratfist, a complete graphic novel that is posted online, one page at a time.

What's It Got In It's Pocketses?

I was commissioned to make an illustration for a children's educational theater program called Ariel Theater.  The piece was for their production of the musical A Pocket Full of Rhymes.

I'm personally fond of the Spider.

Coloring Someone Else's Drawings - Not Just For Kids Anymore

My first professional comic book work is finally printed and in my possession.  Doug TenNapel's Bad Island, published by Scholastic Books.  Before I drew Scrooge and Santa, I was a Lead Colorist with Katherine Garner on what was TenNapel's latest comic.  This was the first time I had done anything professional for the comic industry.  Not to mention, the first time I had every worked as a Colorist.  I was just starting to get to know Doug when he asked me to do this, and working through it helped to develop a friendship with him.  Mr. TenNapel is a good man, a hard worker and a great guy to work under.   I also got to know Katherine and learn what an equally hard worker she is, not to mention her skills in the craft of coloring.  My position was to develop a color pallet that other colorists could work from, and together we created the base colors for Katherine to the render (shadows/highlights) and adjust.  It was a good experience and I'm very pleased with the result.
This project lead to other work with Doug, including coloring his web comic Ratfist (Lead Colorist - Katherine Garner).  This on-line graphic novel is in the works to be published by Image Comics, but you can read the entire thing for free right now!
As an extra treat, I was recently given a copy of Bad Island and a Ratfist shirt.

 Thank you Doug and Katherine for all your hard work and support.

The Mad Couple

Well, here they are.  The Mads of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Another attempt at Dr. Forester and his faithful assistant TV's Frank.

Am I Frank? No, but I play one on TV.

Finally, got around to drawing my first attempt at TV's Frank.

The other Mad of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
(Click HERE and HERE to see my other MST3K character designs.)

Conned

Well, I'm still feeling a bit sore from the weekend but overall happy with how it went.  I spent most of my time at the Acana Comics booth helping to sell books and promoting Matt Wilson and I's graphic novel, Scrooge and Santa (S&S).  Sales were pretty good and we sold over 20 S&Ss!  Matt and I also took turns performing signings of S&S, using the new poster I designed as a way to get attention.

To also help with promotion, my wife and I designed a couple of S&S shirts.  I think they turned out pretty good!

Making shirts has become a Comic Con tradition.  This year we made a shirt using my Alien E.T. comic.  It got a couple of laughs.

A busy but good Con!