I used to do a lot of drawings for free at conventions, I'm assuming this is one of them. I didn't stop doing freebies, I just didn't have as much time at the table to knock them out. Back in the day there was very little on the table, a few comics and some original art priced to move. So I'd mos...
2023-10-19 00:44:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe there was another contributing factor to the collapse of the comic book distribution industry that no one knew about.
This is one of many freebie sketches I did for folks at conventions back in the day. I usually got to spend more time on them, even for free I tried to do someth...
2023-10-10 21:50:24 +0000 UTC View Post
From 1986, I believe. Drawn on a napkin while waiting for food in a Mexican restaurant in NYC, after seeing bands at CBGB's. I was drunk, which is where the alcohol connection probably comes from in the later comics.
I don't know what led me to draw these two things. I usually drew Hu...
2023-10-08 22:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Just got some very exciting publishing news. Hope to be able to share it with you folks as soon as possible. More later soon.
Hope you're all having a good October so far and the spooky season treats you right throughout.
2023-10-05 23:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to tread a line between the design of the character and the Jack Cole/Claw homage. Hopefully it's getting it across. It does need the rest of the elements, of course, to help lock things in. Drawing this thing in layers. Looks like there will be four in all. It's taking forever between rin...
2023-09-28 01:34:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I almost always draw stuff past the margins of my covers because --
1) Can't stop and --
2) Never trust my measurements. Anyway, there's Crayon Shin -chan M&C there for you on the lower left that I don't think made it into the actual cover. Published in 1997. Yeesh.
Wi...
2023-09-28 00:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm feeling so alien to drawing right now that I'm doing this cover in pieces to combine all the roughs on the litepad, then doing the tight pencils and then inks. Very. Tentative. Process.
2023-09-25 20:43:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm doing three covers for upcoming Dark Horse projects, huzzah.
And the rates are good, which is always good, because we need those checks. Or whatever they do now, transfers? Direct deposits? Late payments is what most of us call them, ha ha, I kid because everyone pays late it seem...
2023-09-22 05:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The recent social media groundswell (ground bump?) regarding The Eltingville Club pilot and comic led to both it and the Dork collection selling out from Dark Horse Comics. Also, the second Beasts of Burden volume, Neighborhood Watch , is now out of print from the publisher.
Copies ar...
2023-09-21 00:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Scanned from the original art.
If you look at the title you can see the edges of the art patch. One day I'll learn to use Photoshop to drop corrections in. Maybe. Probably not.
2023-09-19 21:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
From "Milk & Cheese's Latest Thing" (1997).
Scanned from the original art, on leftover Marvel paper.
Excelsior!
2023-09-19 01:12:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Scanned from the original art, random stupidity from the last issue of Milk & Cheese.
Because?
Why not?
2023-09-17 23:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a lot of these floating around in every artist/writer's life.
2023-09-16 22:51:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Some years back we were asked to do a custom Munny figure for a charity auction. We ended up doing a version of the Surf Mummy character we had done for a Minimates project.
I drew the basic design based on ideas we both had, Sarah did the wrap, board, "Mum" tattoo and accessories. I ...
2023-09-16 01:11:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I attended four UKCAC shows, two in London and two in Glasgow. Probably the best times I ever had on the convention trail, especially the one where there was an extended stayover for a Deadline signing tour. Got to see My Bloody Valentine for the second time, drunk off my ass and every other body...
2023-09-15 02:33:13 +0000 UTC View Post
After a night of scanning, here's 12 pages of layouts and finished line art for a comic I drew for a project called COMICS COMICS in 2018 (not to be confused with the COMICS COMICS magazine/online source).
This was a Kickstarter-funded comic from Starburns Industry Press, the high con...
2023-09-13 01:34:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't going to post #107, I think it's kind of a failure. But then again, experiments fail all the time. Let the failure be seen for what it is. Whatever it is. I don't know. It looks like it walked out of an S&M D&D session. Or something. He looks like burned sausage in boots. I usual...
2023-09-11 05:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post
David Mazzucchelli was the third artist asked to contribute to World's Funnest. Word must have spread after he was confirmed, because one night Sarah and I returned home to a message on our answering machine: "HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI"? 2023-08-31 00:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Previously unseen panel of Ace from The Presence of Others, part 2, painted in watercolors by series co-creator Jill Thompson. This is all I remember seeing from the abandoned/aborted issue, I never saw the rest of the page.
The second part of the story was eventually painted by Benja...
2023-08-29 07:50:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Started a few weeks ago, finished by making the last marks with a soft Tombow bush pen, while trying to keep the wrist relaxed. Didn't hurt that bad! Slow and steady might be the way I'll have to go if I want to get any work done before whatever happens with my hand.
Kind of came out ...
2023-08-24 23:35:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Pecuniary situation exaggerated for comedic purposes. Do not take seriously.
(The judicial information is factual, however)
2023-08-22 01:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I stumbled across some images in a file and realized they tell a story. I have probably written/posted parts of this story here already but I'm in a nostalgic mood, so, let's just go with it. For all I know I'm rewriting an old post. Revisit, rewrite. As long as it's fun to read, right?
Thi...
2023-08-19 01:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
One way to get your mind off your arm pain is to have a tooth go bad, and one way to (almost) get your mind off your intense tooth pain is to have your dining room ceiling collapse.
And I have jury duty on the 21st!
Again, proof that therapy has been good to me because I just don't re...
2023-08-13 02:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
So, carpal tunnel at the wrist. And...C5-6 radiculopathy w/denervation in the paraspinal muscles (?!?). I looked it up but it's too much for layman me to nail down. Possibly a herniated disk? Pinched nerve in the neck? I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on T.V. Some spinal thing. Demonic possess...
2023-08-03 23:35:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Last of the color pages by me and Glyn Dillon. The rest of this chapter was in black and white. Deadline often ran color pages in the front of a story, kind of like some manga, come to think of it. I wonder if that was something done in 2000 AD and other UK comics magazines at the time (Warrior, ...
2023-07-31 22:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks so much to everyone currently backing the Patreon, and to all the former backers. They can't read this but they were and are appreciated for their support. The Patreon has been a lifeline during the past few years while things have been all over the place. I try to make it worth your suppo...
2023-07-31 00:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post
One more Dorkin/Dillon page left to post after this, then I'll discuss all the ups and downs of the Vroom Socko serial that ran in Deadline Magazine (asap).
2023-07-29 21:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I have to take it easy typing because of the hand (still waiting for EMG results from the neurologist), so I'll just be posting these color Deadline pages one at a time, with the backstory asap.
Anyway, hey, Glyn Dillon inks and colors over my pencils, pretty wild.
2023-07-28 23:52:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Not a Patreon-exclusive (sorry!) but I wanted to post it in case anyone's a fan of The Ghost With A Bag On Its Head.
And my life issues. Someone I thought I was close to just disappeared on me with no explanation. It's really bummed me out. Womp Womp.
I did talk about it in ther...
2023-07-25 02:52:07 +0000 UTC View Post