Put on that Bobby Womack.

Whudup!

I’m in the end stretch of getting Prophet #26 done. Here’s how that page I put up half finished last time came out:

I did the stars by blowing sideways into the tip of a painters pen, and then making a negative image of it in Photoshop:

normally I do up the page in black and then use white paint. but now I live in the future.(also I’m on a deadline)

Here’s an old comic I did about the stars from the intro to my 1999 book. Universe so big.

I used to wear glasses you see.

Here’s the cover to that book. I did the colors by photocopying onto and then pasting together blue, brown and white paper and then using markers and paint over it.

I like that trick that Egon Schiele would do, poping out and image by just adding white paint over brown paper.

Here’s a schiele picture I like:

I like how finished it looks with just white red and black.

My pal Ludroe just visited, from his far away land. Here’s some stuff he drew in my sketchbook while he was here. She Ra’s Nemesis Hordak, some TMNT and Batman with a mustache:

Something I dug up that Ludroe drew on his last visit — one of his childhood characters– Butler butts. If anyone is thinking of getting a regrettable tattoo , I added some photos to help your decision along. Nuthing says butler with his butt on a platter like …

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Here’s some stuff I drew in my sketchbook this week:

I went with my misses to a restaurant that had these Elephant chopstix.

and some fan art of Adam Warren’s Empowered:

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Speaking of Warren, I got this Dirty pair page from him in Seattle. Which is a huge deal to me. It’s inked onto some kind of see through- frosted vellum.

Here’s Warren’s deviantart: http://adamwarren.deviantart.com/

also also someone showed me this Free comic book day panel by Gene Ha, with King city and Warheads graffiti.– he even drew Pete and the Ti fighter on his shirt– I am a huge fan of both Ha’s work and Graff.

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I ran into this Quartet manga that I like the look of:

It was an arcade game originally, with 4 characters. A quartet even. I had the Sega Master system version when I was a kid. In that version They’d taken out the main hero protagonist dude and the mustache cop. Leaving us with the big black dude (Edgar), after he’s been shot with a honkey gun that turned him into Telly Savalas. and the lady(Mary) changed into Buck Rodger’s own colonel Wilma Deering.

How low rent is a 2 man quartet…

But I do like the idea of taking out the main types- the Lion-o/Mr fantastic  and Tigra/Human torch, leaving the focus on the Cheetarah/Sue Storm and Panthro/The Thing characters.

Anyway, I loved the game– I like in the comic how at the bottom of each page they show items in the story that relate to the game. This one has different power ups you can get–

I like this creepy robot dude.

The whole thing is up here:

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=5761&image=1

Here’s some Gall force and Dominion model kits: (and more here– http://www.gearsonline.net/series/gallforce/hitbit/

And  a Frezzato image someone sent me. I was looking at Frezzato’s robots to come up with some of the Prophet mech– I like the Bode looking feet he drew.

and some manga covers: I like the Comic festival with the weight of all the characters climbing on the artists hand. “my hand is killing me/ I got neo Tokyo on it”

Also, Eric Stephenson, who runs Image has been writing some really good stuff about Kirby and the Avengers:

http://it-sparkles.blogspot.ca/

I’m really happy to be working with someone so outspoken about things I feel like need to be talked about in comics.

I get really snarkey about corporate comics, but it’s really nice to see creators, shops and publishers speak out about unfair treatment of our comic book heroes. I’m sure the Avengers is entertaining and I don’t fault anyone for going to see it or enjoying it and I don’t fault anyone making comics @ DC & M, (With maybe the exception of the Before Watchmen bullshit) but I want to spend my life in this industry and I really feel like the way the people who run Marvel and DC have been acting is fucking gross. We can do a lot better.

Roger Langridge just announced that he’s quitting taking work from them:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/11/now-roger-langridge-quits-marvel-and-dc-comics-over-ethical-concerns/

I like this what he said-”I think it’s beholden on the creative community to ask themselves what kind of industry they want and act accordingly.”

yup.

be excellent to each other.

In every line I drop.

Hellllllllooooooo,

I need to type on here more. It was taking me a minute to adjust to working on a monthly schedule but I’ve adjusted. I’m on my –The more I draw the more I draw– mantra.

It seems to work that way for me, or at least the more fun I let myself have with it the more I’m into drawing all day. Today was a really nice day and I caught myself just hoping the sun would go down sooner so I could really jump into the pages.

I drew this thinking about one of the joys of hunting for comics being finding something crazy. I was looking at the shelves wanting something seriously different. so yeah, A call for risk.

I’ve been having a fun time working on Prophet. Good to ditch my crutches– in the past I could rely on drawing sexy lady art and jokes so my Prophet issue has neither of those. I’m just aiming for straight up robot space adventure.

Here’s the not quite finished page I was inking tonight. Jaxson robots flying up to an Earth empire built ring around a planet. and the ring has got these space slugs feeding off of it. This was drawn listing to more GNR & Aerosmith than I’d like to admit.

I’m about 5 pages from done with this issue. and then I’m going back to working on Multiple warheads. If all goes as planned the new Warheads will start coming out through Image starting in October.

And here’s a page by missterrr Giannis Milonogiannis with colors by Joseph Bergin III for the next Prophet issue #25 we just turned in–out in a month:

Here’s a couple of my sketchbook drawings–I did this one in a coffee shop.

annnd this was drawn mostly off of other pictures

Here’s my last grocery receipt with some T2 on it– and a coaster I grabbed from the Seattle Emerald city con where Mr Pen Ward of Adventure time fame drew me.

and Speaking of Adventure Time, my homie Tom Herpich(who works on that show) drew this rad Prophet pin up:

Tom’s site: http://herpich.blogspot.ca/

 

And thissss Prophet by Lin Visel:(her site– http://chipperwhale.tumblr.com/

And there’s the Prophet Fan art site:– so much cool stuff on there.

http://prophetsharing.tumblr.com/

And because we’re past the first big reveal I’ll show some of the roughs I was passing Simon. This a pieced together mess I sent him to show what I was thinking for the end of #23–

and What Simon and Richard Ballermann, on colors did in the end–

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Here’s some pages from a comic by Paul Bohm that I like the look of:

More on his site: http://defcatbooks.tumblr.com/

and some 80′s manga covers I like.

And here’s a sketchbook collaboration between me and Craig Thompson:

Craig’s site– http://www.dootdootgarden.com/

Aight, I will leave you with a page from this Naitou2 (F4U) Kisai no Yoru porn manga I like these little troll dudes and how well the artist uses the sound effects to show movement.

I bid you a dude.

 

What is up.

Another notch

Hola,

I’m getting ready to head out in the morning for the Seattle Emerald city comic con.I should mention my dear sweet Marian isn’t going to make it to the con. She will be there in spirit. I’m kidding, her spirit is off getting an expensive gentleman’s hair cut.

It should be fun. I’ll be at table C-05 and lots of panels (that I’ll type at the end of this hulabalooery.)

Stuffs been busy on my comic book island. Here’s a 2 page thing from the Prophet issue I’m drawing. #26. That’s a Jaxson robot who grows new parts when he eats living matter.

Prophet’s been really fun so far, I’ve been reading up on how radio waves work and trying to figure out the messes with faster than superman space ships and worm hole/Boomtubery.  The series is making me work to do what I want with it.

We just sent off #24 with Farel drawing and Joseph Bergin III on colors. Here’s a page from that:

See the tail? yup. tail. I’m so thrilled with the work these dudes are doing.

farel’s site http://fareldalrymple.com/

and Joseph’s http://www.flickr.com/photos/sayunclecomics/

The back up for this one is by Matt Sheean Malachi Ward. (Teran will be back next next issue) Here’s a page from that.

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Their websites are at:

http://malachiward.blogspot.ca/ and http://mattsheean.blogspot.ca/

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I haven’t typed about my King city signing in Portland. It was cool, my pal Robin took a lot of photos of the thang:

http://www.inkstuds.org/?p=4031

Kahlil Robinson sent me this photo of his lady friend wearing a Justa phillips made Marmoset hat, for days like this:

There was also a lady at the Portland thing with a King city Earthing tattoo on her leg.

(I need to start bringing cameras to things)

Here’s a recent Marian post of things she wants (she wants them you see) I was drawn as a space hamster in this.

Marian’s site– http://hchom.com/

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I read some comics recently too ( I do that)

I really dug E.K. Weaver’s road trip dude romance  –The less than epic adventures of TJ and Amal.

I like this scene–

She pulls off such a smooth trick that the comic has sex but  the characters and story seem to outweigh it’s importance. It’s part of the story, not the main event. Impressive.

After awhile she does a scene silent, and by then you know the characters well enough to understand how they operate.  I like this page–

and there’s these great pages that bookend scenes–

I bow to this artists mastery of the art of middle finger jokes.

You can read the whole thing up here:

http://tjandamal.com/index.html

Also, I got a hold of Shirow’s Gun Dancing. A short cop comic he did that comes with a CD with a version the comic on it with added dumb sound effects. I think it stars a young Briareos from Appleseed and Deunan’s father is in it too.

It’s mostly just exciting to me because it was one of the last Shirow books before his soul got eaten by a computer that only makes porn. RAAAA beep!

The bottom panel on this one has one of my favorite tricks Shirow does– where he shows s half of the panel stationary and the other half in motion. I feel like it reads(right to left) like something is speeding up.

I like the geordi laforge cyberpunk dancing girls in the dark horse comics bar on this page:

And I like this sexy lady drawing on the side of the building and young Bri setting up some kind of claymore mine bathroom attack.

more on it Here:

http://www.shirowledge.com/gd_pu.html

And my pal Joe showed me this dude, Huang Jia Wei who I think is a Chinese artists making comics for France. I like the muted colors on these:

and a couple more:

and

Here’s some Sylvain Despretz Red Dwarf art of Holly and the Cat.

more here: http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/gallery/index.cfm?page=sylvain-despretz

Here’s a Look out Yamato cover. I like those spacey glowing xmas tree hills and the Dirty pair on the right side.

And Here’s some old pencils by my misses Marian, back when she did a short Conan. Sooo Good.

Here’s a Moebius page from the Incal– I like that you can see the paste ups and white out on this–

Non!

Here’s the panels I’m in this weekend, I will be the dude in the Brandon Graham suit:

Image Comics – 20 Years of Creator-Owned Independence Saturday, 12pm, Room 4C3-4
Ed Brubaker (Fatale), Joe Casey (Butcher Baker, Officer Downe, Haunt), Brandon Graham in a Brandon Graham suit (King City, Prophet), Joe Keatinge (Glory, Hell Yeah, WRESTELING!! ), Emi Lenox (Emitown), Nathan Edmondson (Who Is Jake Ellis?, The Activity, Dancer), and Natalie Nourigat (Between Gears)

Comics Influencing Comics Influencing Comics Influencing Comics Saturday March 31st

Room: 3AB Time: 4:00 – 5:00

Me, Justin “Moritat” Norman, Nate Powell &Michael Allred Hosted by my homie Robin.

Sunday April 1st ECCC Spotlight Series: Brandon Graham and Adam Warren (and Brian Lee O’Malley)  in Conversation (also hosted by Mr Inkstuds)
Room: 211
Time: 1:00 – 2:00

Ok I’m going to get ready for the roaddd- Wish me luck.

The long goodbye.

Out the door

 

Hello,

It’s 3:30 in the AM and I’m getting ready to head to that comic book mecca, Portland Oregon in a few hours for the  King city book release party

It’s Friday, Mar. 9th, 6-9pm at Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

http://www.floatingworldcomics.com/main/

I will be selling off pages and drawing things in books. It should be fun.

The book is out and I’m really happy with how it printed– here’s the cover again-

I did some book marks for the copies of it they were selling my nearest and dearest shop, RX comics:

 

And just as this comes out I’m finishing up the first year of Multiple warheads issues. (I’ve got 4 issues with #4 all drawn but with a couple days worth of coloring left on it)

Here’s an uncolored 2 page  thing I just finished drawing:

And here’s some sketchbook pages drawn by me and my lady, dear sweet Marian(she drew all the ones I marked with red M’s– scarlet letter!) Marian is off being a Space sniper deep in Mass Effect 3 this week — God speed MTC, god speed…

And I drew some scenes out of a Rakim video I like:

and the video:

Rakim

Ok, now I’m going to find socks and try to sleep before my ride gets here.

 

 

 

Solid Core

Oh helllloo,

Here’s the cover of Prophet #26 that I drew this week. This is going to be the first Prophet issue that I write and draw by my lonesome:

And the thumbnail for it:

I like the idea of these Prophet covers to not just be rehashing what’s inside the issue but showing some image that hopefully make the reader think about the expansive sci fi universe we’re trying to set up.

I like these Japanese sci fi covers:

Here’s a sketchbook page I did today– with some drawings by my pal Emily carrollon the left.  Tank girl, Harry dean Lantern on the right.

And a cat drawing I drew over breakfast for my pal Frank’s misses–

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Recently I’ve been wrapped up in thinking about the bullshit side of comics, the awful pre watchmen, Marvel’s legal shitting on Gary Friedrich.  bullshit on bullshit.

Today I just read some good comics to remember why I love this shit.

I got an issue of The Elsewhere prince #1 and skipped right to this 2 page Moebius comic in the back of it. No time to fuck around, today we need the hard shit.

This comic is my favorite kind of Moebius nonsense. Serious nonsense.

 

“and finally I hate your bathrobe!” nice!

I followed it up with these books:

mannn, I like Ken Macklin’s work.  When I was a kid I got really into his covers on Critters, his Dr. Watchstop and my favorite of his– this one shot Summer special from 87: about 2 Contractors hired to rescue a bird from space pirates.

Here’s a couple pages, I like how the pirate hordes in this act like Jim Henson Muppets.

Such pretty pages.and here’s a sheet on the main characters in the book:

nice nice–

and then from Johny Chambers in 1973 –Little green Dinosaur. It’s about the last dragon in a forest in the middle of a future war between mice and pirate rats.

I like this scene:

and in the middle of the book it’s got an out of nowhere sex scene between the dragon and Sugar mouse. I love that level of whatever you want in old underground comix. ORK! ORK!

In the back of the book there’s a great short, BLOODLUST that was done by Chambers and local Vancouver comix hero George Metzger. It starts out as a Conan style barbarian comic whose main character breaks the 4th wall and asks the artist drawing for a break:

yeah, this is comic strip heaven.

I also read this Tony Takezaki AD police that Marian’s mom was nice enough to get me for Xmas (she got me contractors too)

I like this jerk of a Blade runner billboard turtle:

It almost reads like a fan comic with all the references to other cool sci fi and manga of the era– Here’s a robot that shows up looking like the post apocalyptic Akira Caretaker robots(even with #28 on it):

Later in the book there’s a chapter of the main AD cop lady having to fight her way out of a building that’s been taken over by terroristas with a Die hard nod:

That scene is like no bra cyborg lady cop fan fiction. and I like this Booomer taking over the building–

RAAAA!!

and here’s some Enki Bilal pages that I ran into on this internet– showing an unfinished page that eventually got reworked into 2 pages. I definatly prefer the newer version of her Alien manfriend being allergic to light and all bundled up.

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My pal Frank Santoro was just in town to promote his Santoro Correspondence Course. he crashed at my place for a week and wrote about it on the comics journal:

here:

http://www.tcj.com/west-coast-tour-diary-finale/

and Frank’s site:

http://coldheatcomics.blogspot.com/

and we did a live Inkstuds episode that you can listen to here:

http://www.inkstuds.org/?p=3910

Also I should mention that my giant KING CITY collection will be out on the 22nd (in 4 days) along with Prophet #22– thanks.

if anyone needs me, I’ll be in comic strip heaven.