365 Reasons to Love Comics

I wish I would have come across this earlier.
Bill Reed over at Comics Should Be Good started (and finished) a great list of things to love about comics. In his words: "a daily, yearlong look at what makes comics great. Some reasons are obvious, some are totally obscure; all of them, however, are reasons to love comics."
I love the idea, and the list is great!
This has given me the ridiculous notion that it would be a good idea to do a sketch-a-day to go along with the list. Is it even possible? We'll find out together.

ZOOK!

Did this for the "Elemental" Jam over at The Drawing Board
Zook was the silver age sidekick to J'onn Jonzz, the Martian Manhunter and had a vast array of abilities, including the ability to change his temperature from freezing cold to boiling hot, and to change his shape at will. He could also read minds with those wild antennae.
Whatever, Happy Holidays.

Hark! The Herald Air-Walker Swings

This piece is for December's superhero jam, "Elemental" over at The Drawing Board.org.
The Air-Walker's original name was Gabriel Lan. He was a member of the alien race of Xandarians, until he was been deemed worthy to be the new Herald of Galactus.
fa-la-la-la-la-la-la.

IF: Little Things

Atom Ant!
Things don't get much smaller, or should I say little...er?

Illustration Friday: Scale

Once again I'm going to use the "sidekick" theme over at the Drawing Board to tie into the Illustration Friday subject "scale".
Here we have Etta Candy the once, how do they say... ...um, ...Rotund young sidekick of Wonder Woman during the 1940s.
She has since been retconed into a career Air Force officer. Much more respectable, but not nearly as fun & sassy.
At some point I would like to color this pic, but I guess only time will tell if I've got the... well, ...time.

IF: Hats

I'm hoping to double-dip with this post. Using it for the Illustration Friday topic and also use it for the "sidekick" jam over at the Drawing Board. Plus, I don't think you can go wrong with Jughead. Did you know that his full name is Forsythe Pendleton "Jughead" Jones III ?! The third?! Seriously?

Summer of Bleah...

Just kind of messing around with some stuff...

Continuously Variable Art Transmission

New art will be posted soon...

Not now, but soon.

More Kwiddex Protocol

Here is the next page of the Kwiddex Protocol. I think we're up to page 16 now. I know it seems to taking forever, but hey, it's better than a kick in the teeth...

JLA-A-Day

This is what I was doing when I had any free time at work last month. I was inspired by all of the great work over at the Drawing Board.org
I think this month I'm going to do an Avengers one...

Where Have You Been?!

That's right, it's Jerry... at the bar... STILL at the bar.
Not to worry, he'll soon be leaving, and that's when things get intesting!

Repercussion Comics

It’s a little rough, but I think you can gather what I’m going for here.

the Joke is on me...

The scan came out poorly but I’m just to busy right now to do anything about it.
Hopefully I’ll have time to mess with it later...

C'mon everybody, Bondersize!

Sorry I haven’t been around much lately... Don’t look at me with those accusatory eyes! I’ve been very very busy!

I thought with the recent release of the new Bond flic Casino Royale, I’d do a little Bond sketch. And it looks like I’m not the only one, those fine folks over at The Drawing Board have some pretty nifty renderings too.
Daniel Craig may just bring a hint of that 'ole Connery toughness back to the franchise.
I have yet to see the film... too busy...
Again with the eyes! ...What’s with you?!

I’ll have more updates soon. sheesh

More Psychosis! News!

Just got more news on the 56-page, horror anthology, Psychosis! #1.
The Perfessor has a pretty nice write-up. (Even if he did contribute one of the stories, he didn’t have to say anything about any of the others.)
You can now buy this critically acclaimed book at Dimestore Productions.
Oh, and the beautiful image above is the work of Melvin Ylagan.
Very talented!
You can get more info at any one of the above links.

By Crom, it’s the Cimmerian barbarian!

"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
--Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword, 1932.
You can’t state it any better than the master.
Also, check out Conan’s Official Website.

Psychosis! Video!

Wow! This is pretty damn cool.
Mark Mazz of Guild Works Productions just sent me a “trailer“ for the new Psychosis! book. I happily lent my pencil to one of the four covers.
Check out the video trailer Here.
I’ve got to hand it to Ed Flynn, he did a great job on that.
I’m told that the books will be on shelves before Halloween, so be sure to order yours from these great retailers:
Midtown Comics &
Jim Hanley’s Universe

Kwiddex Protocol Page

Here is the latest; Jerry is *still* at the bar.

...Lucky bastard.

IF: Change

It always struck me funny that comic heros would need nothing more than a pair of glasses to change their appearance. Enough so, that co-workers or even a close friend could not recognize them.
I actually tried this once, it was amazing! I borrowed my grandfathers glasses, went down to the nearest bus-stop and no one there had a clue as to who I was!
In the case of the Spirit, Denny Colt dons a “domino” mask to conceal his identity. I suppose the fact that he was thought to be dead keeps people from suspecting.
The Spirit was created by Will Eisner. One of the greatest and most influential creators of all time, not to mention, one of my personal Idols.

Beware the CREEPER!

I was just recently turned on to the practice of warm-ups, and this is a recent result. It makes a load of sense, and people have been doing it for... ... ...well, ever.
& here I thought I was on the razor’s edge... The pencil’s edge?... Marker?