Archive for August, 2008

This is the Beginning…

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

…of this blog!

I explained myself ad nauseum over at my old blog page. But this is where you can check out new pieces of art (or really old pieces that I tell you are new) from yours truly. Cover your eyes. If you look too long, you’ll grow better taste for comic art, and realize that I ain’t it.

So here’s a new (is it?) piece. I dare you to look.

This is actually one of the very few commissions I’ve done. I would love to do more. You can find me on the internet. Anyhoo, this is of course Robert Kirkman’s Astounding Wolf-Man. It’s a fun book I look forward to reading in trade form (I got the first two issues). I figured what better way to kick off the new blog than with a piece of art I almost got paid for (I asked the purchaser to make a donation to the HERO INITIATIVE instead), of a character by a creator who definitely went out of his way to make a ton of bold statements this past week. If you haven’t heard, you can find Robert Kirkman’s video mission statement here, and his follow-up Word Balloon interview here. I really recommend listening to what he has to say. It’s not perfect, but the ideas are there, and he’s dead right about most of it.

30

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I’m old today. This is definitely not where I saw myself at the age of 30. 2008 has been a definite shit year for me, mostly of my own design. The comic thing is still a definite goal for me, but I work slowly. I want my projects to mean something personally to me. I no longer have the dreams of being a big superhero artist or writer. I would be perfectly content never having anything published by Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, etc. I still love doodling and sketching all those big heroic characters, but the stories I need to tell need to be smaller, and need to be mine. The goal isn’t fame and fortune in a dying industry, but rather longevity. Something that can sit on a bookshelf, something long-form. Nothing I do will be amazing. My genetic make-up won’t allow me to be amazing, or allow anyone to tell me that it’s amazing. But whatever I do, will be a labor of love for me, and me alone. It’s taken me a very long time to come to that conclusion, and I’m ready to face it.

Meanwhile, as I enter into my third decade, fallen out with two people I used to consider my closest friends, I’m still struggling to not completely shut myself off from the outside world. The biggest regrets in my life for the past 10 years all happened in this past year, but, it also helped me focus I think. I hope that someday I’ll be able to reconcile with the people that I wronged, but that’ll take time, and despite being what I officially consider old, I don’t I’m yet mature enough to deal with that. After all, I still love comics.

Fantastic 2: Rise of the Self-Loathing Artist

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

 

Drew this as part of an art swap for a friend of mine. He’s commissioning a ton of artists to recreate an old issue of The Fantastic Four. You can find that blog here. You can also see the super-awesome Blue Beetle page he did in return for this FF piece here. Also check out his blog at buyerbewarecomics.blogspot.com The Jack Kirby original of the page above is included.

Life Failure

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Project Rooftop had a Superman Redesign contest about a month ago or so. Didn’t make the finalists, but got honorable mention. Drawn in Illustrator..