Snow and Escalators

On the eve of a new comics-related project (coming soon!) I have to remind myself that yes, I actually can make comics. Here are some oldies.

What better way to celebrate 90+ degree weather in NYC than with a wintry comic plumbing the depths of my heart?

In lieu of a website proper, this blog sure does make for some convenient online comics viewing/archiving. Here's another one!

WildAid

Not too long ago, WildAid sponsored a two contests (one-color and four-color), challenging folks to come up with a tiger-themed t-shirt design; 2010 being the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac and all. Long story short, my design won the one-color contest!

Maybe WildAid spokesman and avid tiger supporter Jackie Chan will come to my house and be my friend.

I hadn't had much opportunity to do a lot of graphic design since college, and it was pretty jarring to work on something that didn't have any story to it. So I made the tiniest bit of narrative for myself: tigers are on the verge of extinction (the flatline), and we can help them (flatline comes to life to make tiger stripes).

Click here to see the extra-loquacious version of that narrative, as well as the four-color contest winner and the honorable mentions. Thanks WildAid!

Fantastic Fab Four

A mostly silly idea I had one day: there are four members of the Fantastic Four, and there are four Beatles. How had no one done this mash-up before (I checked the Google.)? I changed the dimensions from square album art to that of a comic cover, mostly because I figured it wouldn't hurt to have cover-type stuff in a portfolio if I ever got one together.

But mostly I just wanted to draw Mister Fantastic's stretchy neck.

What do you think: "Please Please Me" next?

Simple Color and A Resolution

Original inked version here, or just scroll down the blog.

I'm trying to get back into the swing of things, I guess. I attended a semi-inspiring "Visionaries" artist panel with JH Williams III, Bill Sienkiewicz and Michael Golden at a comic con yesterday, talking about how they broke into the industry, among other ripe topics. I really gotta get off my duff already.

Two months later...

I had tried for a real long time to do this in a real painterly way, with rendered flesh tones and all that, but it really was going nowhere. I guess I was just looking at way too much pretty Adam Hughes art for my own good, and was subconsciously trying to emulate that. When I realized what I was doing, I scrapped that and just messed around. In the end, I had fun and I learned something. That's worth a two-month wait, right?

Promethea UnColored

Hey, I did it! Inks!

Promethea UnInked

From Alan Moore's Promethea, which I just finished reading. I don't think Mr. Moore has converted me to his brand of Hermetic Kabbalah, but there's no way you could read that whole series without being affected somehow. And J.H. Williams' page layouts! Yowza!

Inks tomorrow? I only posted this today because I was getting antsy.