The time sure goes by fast. The Kansas City con came and went. Nice weather Friday, then with 4 inches of snow that fell late Saturday, only to all melt by Sunday night. Craziness! I hope the snow melts back home as it did in KC.
Jeff and I got to the airport on time, only to find the plane would be an hour an a half late. Also, it sucks to find out that I forgot to close the garage door before I left, only to have a nice neighbor close it for me. I Guess I'll have to meet him sometime to thank him (He's only been living across the street for a couple years. :P)
Anyhoo, the con went well, got to chat/hang with some comic art heavyhitters like Joe Jusko, Michael Golden, Mark Texiera, and Tommy Castillo. I also finally met Cynthia Martin, whom I inked over on some fill-in Blue Beetle issues. She's been in the industry a long time, pencilling Mavel's Star Wars comic back in the 80's. Purdy kewl person and artist, hopefully we'll be able to collaborate on something again in the future and I won't try to run over her pencils to make it look like Cully's art (although she says she didn't mind, how kind ;) ).
TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) Here! Have some pics of Comissions from the first day of the Con (Very Productive Day!) 1. Mary Jane Watson, 2. Serina from Magna Carta, 3. Element Lad, 4. Kinetix, 5. Rogue by me and Storm by Jeff.
*Sigh*, yes it's been a while since I've updated. I hope you all had a marvelous Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Valentine's, and President's Day. Comic work was flooding in nicely and then went away. But I'm currently catching a new wave so I don't know how much I'll be posting still, hence the title of my Blog :P
Anyhoo, I finished up a couple sketch commissions, and a few books came out in the last FIVE months (that long already?). I'll get around to plugging those sometime. I need a darn Gallery space which Blogspot doesn't seem to have. Of course, if I updated my website, I'd have plenty of room...
Updated the Convention List with new dates for Kansas City and San Diego. I still haven't heard back from Anime Central about Guest spots, so I'm not sure what'll going on there ATM.
But enough about the Past and Future! Right here in the present I'm working on some inks over Mike Bowden on World of Warcraft #18. Nice doodle-y stuff to work on, though it takes considerably more time to get through a page compared to Ludo Lullabi's pencils. Enjoy!
Something crapped out for 4chan. And I'm still not used to this "coloring line" business. It does look much better in thumbnail size though.
An unexpected package landed on my doorstep and found that it contained some comp copies of World of Warcraft Book 1.
It's a compilation of the first seven issues, in which I did some inking on issues 5 and 7. Better yet, it's a hardcover with one of those matte finish cover jackets (yeah, the ones that scratch easily :P). Inside extras is an interview with Walt Simonson and Ludo Lullabi, and a short Prologue. Neat!
PS: Wonder if there will be a softcover too? Royalties anyone? :P
The last con of the season for me, Fallcon has come and gone. A two hour trip up to Madison, then Jeff drives the rest of the way for 4 more up to Minneapolis. Along the way we took a little stop at a "scenic" rest stop off of I-94 near Black River Falls. It has a lookout view of forested area which would probably look spectacular when the leaves change. Unfortunately we were too early for that.
The guys that put together Fallcon are great, and I can't thank them enough for inviting us. Not only did they treat us to a steak barbecue again, but one of the organizers, Mike got married to his girlfriend Lisa with all his friends, relatives, and convention guests in attendance. It was a short but sweet ceremony, with a few comic-related jokes thrown in to make it memorable. Friends Cory and Amy Carani also came up from Madison for their first Fallcon experience, and we all hung out in Artist Alley like old times. Shoulda taken more pics of everything, rats...
After the convention and before hitting the road, we went to Outback and had dinner with a bunch of the local creators and some of the other out-of-town guests. I sat next to Gordon Purcell and Dwayne McDuffie and had discussions about JLA, the ol' days at Marvel and DC, Ed Benes, and Star Trek. Total geek stuff and a great time, of course 2 for 1 Happy Hour helps too. :) After that Jeff drove back down to Madison (with our Tasty Pies from Baker's Square) and I did a redeye drive back home just because I love avoiding traffic. I got back round 2:30am and went to bed round 4ish.
Totally blowing through the day recovering, watching an ineffectual Congress trying to skewer the CEO of Leman Bros., having pie for breakfast, immediatly followed by lasana for lunch, and the obligatory food coma, I got a call from Sarah at Wildstorm for some more WoW work. It must be the book that will not die, because I got to do the inks for the Cover (squee!) over Ludo Lullabi (squee!) with some Busty Woman front and center (Squee Squee!) So Issue 12 will have 9 pages of inks and the cover done by me. Nice work when you can get it. :)
*Sigh* Where does the time go? Looks like it's been just about a month since I've drawn anything in my sketchbook, and it freakin' shows!!! :( Here's a couple pages of "Bleh" and "Big Ol' Darn Heads.
First page is done for some more emergency WoW Comic work. This one's for Issue 12 and not as dire (but still pretty, considering printing times) as my first work on issue 5. Ludo Lullabi, the original penciller has moved on to another WoW project and Jon Buran has taken over. I'm not sure how they keep getting behind on the book, but I know from experience that approvals for licensed properties can sometimes be a real PITA. I'm not complaining though, keeps things interesting. :)
4 more pages to go, getting in the way of my Rock Band 2 progress... "...tangellled up in bluuuuue...." :P
