No Idea Ever Dies

This could almost go into "Wayback Wednesdays", but not really. Here's a scene from an upcoming Love and Capes scene. In it we see the Crusader and Windstar. Windstar's been seen in #4 and #8, and mentioned in #12. He's a character I created back in my teen years, and some of the slice-of-superlife subplots I created for him have found their way into LNC. This issue is the first time he's getting any serious screen time, though.

It's nice to be able to work him in. I don't know that I'll ever do a Windstar series at this point, so it's nice to be able to use him somewhere.

Love and Capes Covers, FCBD and Retail

I'm about to send the 2010 Free Comic Book Day issue of Love and Capes to the printer. As such, I've put together the alternate cover for the retail version, which I now debut here. Click on either to see them embiggened.

I'm looking forward to Free Comic Book Day this year. I should be doing a signing that hopefully I can officially announce soon. I'll let you know as soon as I can.

Women With Brooms

I'm not normally a fan of the Olympics. I'm glad we have them, and think they're great competition, but I'm just not a fan of the sports. Well, until this year.

Somehow, I got hooked on curling. Some of it comes from my appreciation for Paul Gross, star of Due Southand Slings and Arrows, who also wrote and starred in a movie called Men With Brooms. The movie was about a curling team, and was really enjoyable. Check one, or all, of them out.

The United States' women's team still has a chance to medal. The men have been eliminated, but are still playing out the round robin. I'm sure you can find an Olympic schedule if you're interested.

Darkblade Hangs Up His Cape?

Just to keep it from getting wrinkled.

Wayback Wednesday: Another Swimsuit Story

My good friend and fellow Kubert School student Sean Tiffany has been doing a series of "From the Vault" posts on his blog. In these, he brings out some old piece of artwork from school or early in his career. Always one to steal from someone smart, I'm going to do the same thing here with Wayback Wednesdays. First up is a project from my "senior" year at Kubert. (Kubert was a three year school, but I hate saying "third" or "last" since it sounds like I didn't finish.) This was actually in Joe Kubert's class. We had to adapt a TV show into comic book format, doing a cover and a couple of interior pages. I did Quantum Leap. Innovation was doing a comic at the time, and I figured this might be a nice set of samples to show them. Plus, I was a fan of the show and wanted to do the scene that they could never really afford to do.

Quantum Leap had Sam Beckett leap into the life of another character, usually at in inopportune moment. When he got there, Sam's reaction would inevitably be "Oh, boy." So I threw Sam into a skydiver. Sam leaping into someone who, literally, was leaping through the air was too good, plus the things you could do with Al were too much fun to pass up.

The cover was a parody/homage to the Kathy Ireland Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover, which had come out a couple years before. It was iconic enough, and lent itself well enough that I thought it was a great fit.

As it was The Old Days, the artwork was done on bristol board, the lettering done by hand, and the colors done with Dr. Martin Watercolor Dyes on a photocopy pasted onto a piece of illustration board. Ah, pre-computer color. There's some aspects of actually brushing wet color on paper that I miss, but all things being equal, I much prefer computer coloring.

And, as always, click to embiggen!

Send Me a Postcard

I mentioned the idea of doing postcards for this Con Season. I think I'm committed to it. I'm planning on doing a different card for each day of the show, too. The city photos are comps right now, but will be the full purchased versions when I get them printed. But I figured you might like to see what they're going to look like.

Snowverkill

Can't say what this is for, but it's definitely for something.

The Love and Capes Swimsuit Edition?

I have no doubt that this would totally happen in the Love and Capes universe, if it hasn't already. Hmmm, maybe there's a story in there somewhere.

The Dog of Steel!

In my ongoing attempt to make this The Coolest Blog in the Multiverse, and with a tip of the hat to Andy Ihnatko, I'm trying out the WordTwit plugin for my blog. Now, blog posts will be automagically sent to my Twitter feed. You'l be up to your eyebrows in up-to-the-minute Thom Zahlerishness If that's your thing.

Here's a commission I did for Jon Knutson's Random Acts of Geekery blog. He's a Krypto fan, so I decided to put Superman's real best friend in front of the Doghouse of Solitude. I'm pretty sure the Doghouse in no longer in continuity, but I'm sure DC will fix that soon.

Test Flight

I'm testing out a new sharing link on my blog, so I needed to post something. I decided to share this bit of art.

They seem pretty tan, don't they?