Gargoyle Park!

I'll give you Jason's description of the series because it's much better than the silly drivel I can manage:
"Aria Evensong is home from college. That's bad news for the residents of Gargoyle Park and even worse news for her. With a plethora of supernatural beings trying to recruit her to their cause, will she survive long enough to learn exactly who she is?"

I'm having a great time illustrating this, I hope it shows.
and you can read it online right here!
Go ahead, it don't cost nothin'.

the Illest Array

Is everyone gone yet?
Okay. I've been gone for some time. But I have been productive, so I hope that counts for something.
Here's a logo I did recently for local band The Illest Array.
Go & check 'em out, they've got moxie.
I hope to be back soon with more to show.
Boy, it sure is nice and quiet here...

192. Flex Mentallo

Another great Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely book: Flex Mentallo.
I haven't read all of the run, but what I have seen I have loved.

191. We3

Crazy busy.
Here's a sketch of Morrison & Quitely's We3.
Great book, meh sketch.

190. Seaguy

Okay, now back to our regularly scheduled programming: Today is the continuation of the Grant Morrison Chronicles!
Seaguy!
Hey kids, did you hear? Seaguy is supposed to be a trilogy of 3-issue mini's ...and work has already started on the second arc. In fact, Cameron Stewart has a few pages from the second installment posted over at his Illustration blog.
Goooood stuff.

188. Gold Key covers

First off, whoops. 186, 187, 189?
Secondly, I want to do this entry right, so I'm going to have to come back to this.
Most likely, I'll do a wee-little painting.

189. Kill Your Boyfriend

I tried to do my best Philip Bond impersonation for this Kill Your Boyfriend sketch...
sorry, Phil.

187. Amalgam Comics

Amalgam Comics were nothing if not good-time, whacky fun. Maybe it's like Bill said: "This is something that worked far better as a concept than it did in execution." But he also said:"The Amalgam Comics 'events' produced some great comics and some even greater ideas, and was a simple spot of fun in an ever more complicated industry."
Once again Bill, you put it far more eloquently than I ever could have.

Also, I'd like to thank Brian Cronin for the kind words on Comics Should Be Good.
That beeping you hear is probably just the Brinks truck backing up to your door.

186. Archie Meets the Punisher

I don't think that this needs any explanation: Archie Meets the Punisher!!

185. Squirrel Girl

File this Squirrel Girl pic under: "thought it was funny at the time"

184. Speedball

oh, Speedball. What have they done to you?

183. Blue Beetle

Here we have fan favorite Blue Beetle. The last of the Ditko creations this week that were carried over from his days at the now defunct Charlton Comics.
The brilliance of Steve Ditko knows no bounds!
You need proof? Let's take a look at the most acclaimed work of Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: the Watchmen. Most of the main characters were based (at least partially) on Ditko's Charlton Comics creations.
Rorschach= a mix of the Question and Mr. A.
Doctor Manhattan= Captain Atom.
Silk Spectre= Nightshade.
Nite Owl= our very own Blue Beetle.

Steve Ditko= Creative Genius!

182. Captain Atom

Here's Captain Atom.
Let Ditko Week never end!

181. Shade, the Changing Man

Wow, I had no idea that Shade, the Changing Man was a Steve Ditko creation. I was only vaguely familiar with the Peter Milligan Vertigo version of the character. I tried to get a good mix of the two here, but I'm afraid that whenever you put that crazy coat on him he tends to look all Vertigoed.

180. Hawk & Dove

I really wish I could spend more time on most of these, Hawk & Dove here included. This one is super-rough.
Well, hopefully tomorrow.

179. Mr. A

It's just like Bill Reed said: If entry #178 was the Question, Mr. A is the answer.

178. The Question

We continue on our journey of all things Ditko week with #178 on the 365 Reasons to Love Comics list: The Question.

177. The Creeper

I once saw the Creeper described as "the Joker if he decided to fight crime... with a feather boa."

...or something like that.

176. Spider-Man

We start off "Ditko Week" with what is easily his most popular creation: Spider-Man.
As the story goes; Stan Lee asked Jack Kirby to do some pages for a new character he had been mulling over, a teenage hero with spider-based abilities. I guess there was a magical ring involved somehow too. Anyway, Stan thought Jack had made the main character too heroic in his sample pages, he wanted Peter Parker to be kind of vulnerable, so he turned to the wonderful Mr. Ditko to work up something different. I think we all know how that all worked out. Steve ditched the spider-jewelry and gave us one of the greatest costumes in comic book history.

175. Steve Ditko

Steve Ditko.
One of the single greatest comic creators of all time.
I chose to use Mr. Ditko's creation of Eternity to represent him on this list, not only because it is such a great visual, but also because I hope his work will live on forever.
I can not wait to explore some of his fantastic creations over the next few entries.