All and all

Hey yo,

I’m headed to the Vancaf con in the morning in Downtown Vancouver. My pal Robin got 3 tables that I’ll be sitting at along with a bunch of artists whose work I like: Prophet dudes: Farel & Simon, Mr Orc Stain: Stokoe and Muggles, Steve Rolston & his mustache And Morgan of change fame– and a bunch more.

 I just did this cover for the Image reprint the Warheads Oni press printed in 2007, along with the original porn short and the MW short that was in Escalator (and some new stuff) it’ll be 80 pages and out in September. I was worried that it was looking too much like a Cosmopolitan cover. but maybe that’s not a bad thing–  take back the night and all.

 

 

 

 

Here’s the table of contents for a Gossip girl themed anthology mr inkstuds put out. I watched a whole episode.  My Friend Marley looked at it and said “oh look you avoided drawing the hands and feet” —curses.

 

I also didn’t like the dude in the show so I drew him as a ham. ham Solo.

I never thought I’d sink solo.

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My pal Emily Carroll did this self portrait one morning and I did one too. Comic book monsters. rarrrrr!

 

And here’s a rough I started today for a poster I’m working on for my Walrus show in Amsterdam. (I’ll get it done after the con.) The idea was to draw a truck with tusks but it’s looking less like a truck.

 

Here’s a photo of the Walrus books. See, It is a real printed thing (I don’t have any yet though)

 

And here’s some of the back of pages for the 2nd Prophet trade. Some Farel sketches:

and some by Giannis:

We’ve got 9 pages of back up sketches in this one.

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I’ve started reading Keiichi Koike”s  manga Ultra Heaven this week. About a future with these drug bars –called Pomp bars -(I assume there are also circumstance bars) -that make mood altering drugs.–so you can control how you feel all the time. I’m about half way through book 1 and I dig it so  far. It’s nice and meandering but still interesting– and I like the Otomo looking style Koike draws in:

 

 

You can read it here.

 

And I just read my pal Corey’s Layered Jacket #3

 

My favorite part is the Peng hackysack short.  PF

 

His action stuff is nice. I like the 3 kicking panels with no boarders — and I like this panel in panel circles at the end of the story.

 

It reminds me of the Buck Rogers intro:

Also I got this Sam Vanallemeersch’s Big mother. He’s an artist out of Belgium. Really cool stuff.  It’s a big 11 by 17 giant of a book.

 

His work gave me the same kind of kick as Paul Pope’s work in the 90’s.  I like the smoke and ink of this barber shop panel.

The whole book feels like a perfect sketchbook.

 

Anyway, I have more I wanna type about sooon but now I sleep and then the con and more drawing.Here’s some Aki Uchiyama early Sothern cross designs:

 

 

 

 

 

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