I was asked to draw the cover art for an upcoming ska comp featuring cover versions of songs by the band Bim Skala Bim. If all goes well Sarah will be doing the colors. According to Dan Vitale, Bim's lead singer, it's been 21 years since we did any art for one of their projects.
This ...
2023-03-30 23:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Two days after posting about the mostly-reprint MAD #30, today the mail brought contributor copies of something called MAD Treasure Trove Of Trash vol. 5 (2023 Barnes & Noble Edition). Which is all-reprint. And reprints much of the material from the also newly-released MAD #30. Which is why w...
2023-03-23 22:57:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This list does not include any MAD book collections because they're in another category on my bibliography. And I forgot about them and am too lazy to go do it now. They're reprints except for the Dave berg book, which they had a few folks draw new versions of old comics Berg did.
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2023-03-23 00:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post
About two weeks ago I was surprised to receive an unexpected, anonymous-looking package, which at first I thought might be from the vestiges of Bongo Comics. That's because a staffer from Bongo reached out to former contributors some months ago with the promise of a holiday gift being sent out, a...
2023-03-22 05:39:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I have to call a credit card company next week. Kill me now!
2023-03-18 11:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post
"The shit half of Harvey Dent" is, to me, perfect Staten Island trash geek-a-nerd speak. If I do say so myself.
2023-03-12 08:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
If a man screams in another reality, and there's no one there to hear it...
2023-03-09 01:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Use where applicable, obviously.
But honestly, too often it feels like there's a generic fallback position so many comics make in regards to setting and atmosphere, which has nothing to do with budget or logistics, as it does with film or radio drama. You don't need a rain machine, a ...
2023-03-08 02:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I liked the word balloon version, but the sticker dimensions were getting thrown off, and the vintage radio microphone threw off the balance of the design for me. I wanted to keep a radio item in the design and went with the vintage radio. I liked the boombox but it was iffy to stand the fox on i...
2023-03-07 07:09:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Nice handwriting, kid!
I only ended up getting three of the four issues from my subscription, because one issue never arrived in the mail. It may have been because my family moved....
2023-03-06 00:12:24 +0000 UTC View Post
From my first year as a full-time comic book professional/freelancer.
1991 was a good year for me in many ways. Anything seemed possible. Oh, well!
2023-03-04 03:16:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Raw inks for a planned DJ premium for the upcoming WFMU fundraising marathon. Due to an unfortunate circumstance (that didn't involve the art end of things) the premium will have to be banked for (hopefully) next year's marathon. DJ Fox is going to use the image for her WFMU home page and stuff i...
2023-03-01 11:44:30 +0000 UTC View Post
In alphabetical order, including unproduced scripts and series bibles. Should be complete as far as the main points go. It would be nice to be able to add something to it someday but I'm not holding my breath. We stumbled into most of this work through comics and never actually threw ourselves in...
2023-02-28 22:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The last signed/sketched Blackwood Library Edition orders are all packed up to go out this coming week, save for one overseas shipment (I've contacted that customer about the status of their order). I'll be e-mailing customers when their books hit the post office (with USPS tracking numbers).&nbs...
2023-02-26 08:09:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in the day, Sarah was planning an Action Girl Queen-Sized Special, which would have been a co-ed giant-sized one-shot, kind of like an old mainstream Annual.
It looked like it was definitely going to happen, even though it was always something that was on the back burner. We alre...
2023-02-26 02:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Ask and I shall cut and paste. Here's a list of my album/CD/DVD artwork. Okay, one person asked, but it's an easy ask.
Some of the early color artwork is buried in the past as they were colored like animation cels. I had no head for production or anything like bluelines or full proces...
2023-02-23 07:16:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Process sketch for something I'm drawing for something.
I went through a lot of revisions and ideas for the overall design. Finally hit on something I liked a few days ago, got the go ahead, finished the pencils and started the inks. Unfortunately, something happened (or didn't happen), so ...
2023-02-23 03:27:01 +0000 UTC View Post
While cleaning up the office last weekend I found the EC Library volume that I got signed by Al Feldstein.
2023-02-18 02:40:42 +0000 UTC
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Sarah and I met Gene Colan at a New York Comic Con, I can't remember which one, I can't remember what year. he and his wife, Adrienne were very nice to talk to and generous with their time. Sarah had the beginnings of a sore throat and they gave her a cough drop. We bought a page of art (from Mar...
2023-02-16 02:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Join Paul Yellovich and myself for some jibber-jabbering LIVE on YouTube this Thursday February 16th at 8.15pm EST.
https://www.youtube.com/live/n9MzawiXgp8?feature=share
I think we're mos...
2023-02-16 00:44:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't remember where or when this card was handed to me, 90's convention, I'm sure (most likely SDCC). Like so many nifty-sounding comic industry get-together projects, it didn't go anywhere. We couldn't get a bunch of Kirby-inspired drawings published (character rights issues? organizers too bus...
2023-02-15 01:51:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Finding some odds and ends while cleaning up the studio, including an old notebook with some very random notes about comic books and stuff. I used to make a lot of lists like these because there's some bad patches of meat in my skull that make me do pointless things. The only thing that probably ...
2023-02-11 23:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to everyone who responded to the recent sale of signed/sketched copies of the Blackwood Library Edition (offered to backers at the two top tiers).
All the books have been sketched in (see above for examples) and I'm signing them as I am able to pack them up for shipping (and fi...
2023-02-11 04:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm cleaning up the studio (not because I want to or am procrastinating, but because it's gotten to "that point") and came across my file booklet where I keep old business cards.
I always forget what I have in there. There's a lot of folks I met once, or worked with for a time on some...
2023-02-10 01:34:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been on another deep Weird Fiction kick lately, picking up and tearing through Weird Tales collections, rivals of Weird Tales collections, Victorian ghost story anthologies and the like. Which is why you're getting a background and process post on Calla Cthulhu today, out of the blue.
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2023-02-09 00:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post
So, here's some things I've never shared before.
I like to joke that I knew Frank Cho back when he was still a human being. Anyone who follows the comics world more closely than is necessary will probably have an inkling of what I'm talking about.
Sarah and I -- along with...
2023-01-29 23:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post
A while back I posted my black and white photocopies of this old comic dating back to 1991. A Patreon backer very kindly provided me with files of the story as it originally appeared in color, for which I'm grateful. I meant to post these earlier but apparently misplaced them in my document...
2023-01-23 02:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A 9"x12" color M&C pinup is up on eBay, the last one I'll be putting up (I expect) for a little while. You can see the auction listing at: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255938330383
I've got the remaining commissio...
2023-01-21 01:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post
