Archive for January, 2007

On the Floor!

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

I received word from Rod at Comic-Con International yesterday that I do have a space at the 2007 show! It’s good to get that out of the way. No booth number as of yet, but I’ll be in the comics section. Make sure to come on by and see me! By that time, I’ll have [...]

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Page-a-Day

Monday, January 29th, 2007

I don’t usually post the fourth panel of a sequence, as it usually is the punchline for the gag, but I’m making an exception here. Why? Because the punchline makes absolutely no sense without the panels before. It’s also a silent panel, which I try to do every now and again, too. They’re keep variety [...]

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"No!" Or, as the Germans say, "Nine!"

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

I’m posting two panels today. One is the representative panel from the just-finished page nine. Mark’s mocking expression, by the way, is hands-down the hardest expression I’ve had to capture in a comic. And, it reinforces why I don’t let people watch me draw. Staring into the mirror above my drafting table, making that look, [...]

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Goodbye Darlings!

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

I finished the actual lettering on my last issue of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark for Claypool Comics today. I still have to paste it up, whenever the boards roll in, and I’ll still be doing Deadbeats. But it’s a bit of a milestone. Elvira was the regular project that, as much as anything else, [...]

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Traffic and Other Steve Winwood Bands

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I try to stay away from doing too many super-stunts in Love and Capes. My mental rule is “what could a sitcom’s budget handle?” This one is as close as I’m going to get to doing superhero stuff in the book, I think. Then again I could change my mind and do an entire issue [...]

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Kidifcation

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

I just designed a logo for Catapult Online for their Catapult Kids brand. I’d already designed the kids for their Holiday Card and mousepad jobs, and now they wanted them to become part of a new logo. The logo has more variants than a 90s Marvel comic. There are full color (pictures), limited color, two [...]

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Car Wars… Nothing But Car Wars…

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

I hate drawing cars. I really do. They’re complicated, and hard to get right from every angle. But, I try not to let my art get in the way of my writing. So, page seven features Mark, Abby and Charlotte on a road trip to Abby’s family picnic. There are times I do curse myself [...]

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It's Awards Season After All

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Tony Isabella is a friend of mine. He also posts his reviews of comics, and I made sure he got an advance copy of Love and Capes #3. He’s never let his awe and admiration, or mosre likely tolerance, of me get in the way of honest criticism. You can read the full review here, [...]

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Falling Down

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Another one down… another one down… another one bites the dust. I just finished page six of Love and Capes #4. I think the narrative is starting to come together. I’m trying to make sure that characters are introduced and explained since, being part of Free Comic Book Day, it’s going to be a lot [...]

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So What Were the First Eleven?

Friday, January 19th, 2007

I’ve been watching the excellent series Slings and Arrows, produced by our neighbors to the north (Canada, for those of you in the public school system), I’m on season two, unfortunately also the last season, and it’s pretty good. If anything, it suffers from being not-as-good as the first season. Anyway, I’ve mentioned it before, [...]

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