March 1st, 2010
While building the new TX Store and the new version of the Abominable site, I started toying with ideas for another shirt design. What I came up with was this image. It was done in Adobe Illustrator as an experiment – I wanted to see if Charles Christopher and the rest of the gang could be translated in different art styles while maintaining their personalities. Turns out they can!
I wasn’t crazy about the way it looked on a shirt, though, so I decided to add some more detail and textures in Photoshop and produce the image as a fine art print – something I plan to do more of in the future.
Here’s a closer look at the full piece, as well as some zoom-ins so you can see the detailing in the textures. These are giclée printed on nice, thick 13″x19″ art paper. I’m very happy with them.
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January 21st, 2010
I’m doing four covers for the relaunch of Marvel’s new ‘Marvel Kids’ line, featuring Spider-Man! This is fun for a few reasons: first, I’ve never really had an opportunity to draw Spidey professionally (and along with Batman, he’s one of the earliest characters I can remember obsessing over as a child), and second, it’s a reboot of sorts, which means that Peter Parker is an awkward, gangly high school teenager again, and that, to me, is an integral part of the character.
So here’s the first one!
(The next one is full of ninjas – another childhood dream fulfilled)
Inks by Serge LaPointe (of course) and colours by Nadine Thomas, our new studiomate!
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December 30th, 2009
We do a secret-santa sort of thing every Christmas and I got my cousin Kirby, who is a huge Green Lantern fan, so I did this piece and framed it for him. It occurred to me later that he probably would have preferred a Kyle Rayner drawing, but I’m a Hal Jordan man all the way.
Sorry, Kirb.
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December 10th, 2009
This is what happens when people ask me for sketches of Green Lantern at conventions and signings. Usually they walk away slightly disappointed, but I think these are totally legit! There are WAY weirder characters in the Green Lantern Corps than bears and cats.
By the way, if DC ever wants to do a Green Lanternimals book, I’m in. I don’t need time to think about it.
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October 15th, 2009
I’ll be travelling around Europe with fellow TX pals Ramón Pérez and Cameron Stewart for the next month, appearing at various comics festivals and shops. If you’re nearby and can make it to any of the following events, I’d love to see you!
October 23-25
Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada na Amadora (FIBDA)
Amadora, Portugal
October 28
Kingpin Books
Lisbon, Portugal
October 31-November 1
Lille Comics Festival
Lille, France
November 2
Album Librarie
Paris, France
November 7-8
La Fete De La BD
Andennes, Belgium
November 11
Alastor Milano Fumetto
Milan, Italy
November 12
Alastor Novara
Novara, Italy
November 15
Forbidden Planet
Dublin, Ireland
November 16
Comica – ICA Nash Room 7:30pm
London, England
November 19
Orbital Comics
London, England
November 21-22
Thoughtbubble Festival
Leeds, England
More details as I get ‘em!
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