I saw True Grit, so I drew a cowboy

Dudes, I drew a cowboy. There was a full body, but it blew. So! I cropped it and here it is! I went to see True Grit, It was fantastic. GO SEE IT! This isn't supposed to be any of the characters, just some cowboy action. Hope you all like it!

Fight Song Preview

Hey guys, this is a preview of my next book FightSong! Its going to be a mini with two separate stories in it. Here are two panels from the first story. The pencils are done and I started inking it yesterday. This story weighs in at 22 pages. The other story is stuck at 10 pages penciled with at least another ten to go. Anyways, I guess the point is, that my next book for you guys will be a quite a bit fatter than Noway Jose and Don River.

In other news my website is super close to launching. Its actually already up but there are a couple things that need to be fixed before I announce it for public consumption. There are a couple tasty things I can tell you about it though.
1.It will be updating three times a week. Mon, Wed, Fri
2. The first comic on it will be the project previously known as Jim and Jenn.
3. The project previously known as Jim and Jenn has been buffed up as well, theres now tones and some of the earlier pages have been fixed up digitally for a sexy new experience.

So keep watching true believers, things keep happening!

Paul Maud'Dib

Dudes, there is way too much Life drawing on this blog nowadays! Heres a lil Paul Atreides for ya'll to mix it up. Hope you guys like it.

Life Drawing Dec 9th

Guys, more life drawing! Pretty exciting eh! Lots happening in comics world right now. Fight Song is approaching completion and my website is super close to launching. That means lots of comics online for you all too read. First up is going to be the comic formerly known as Jim and Jenn. Now called something else. Something better.

Anyways, keep your eyes peeled. I got the goods for you!

Life Drawing Dec 2nd

Here some more Life Drawing! This time with older ladies! Hope you enjoy!

A comic!

This is a one page gag strip called Patience that my buddy Adam and I put together. Adam is of course the author of "Why not a spider monkey Jesus" which I suggest for any discerning reader in your family for christmas.

On other fronts, work on Fight Song and various anthologies continue. The comic good fight continues.

Life Drawing Nov25/10

I think its slowly getting better. I hope it is! Anyways, good times. Gotta keep at it!

Random drawings

All sorts of drawings! All sorts.

Life Drawing Nov 18th, 2010

I hope its getting better..This was actually a pretty rough week. I bought these charcoal pencils, then didn't have anything to sharpen em with. So half way through I had to switch back to the blue colerase. I felt like nothing was going right this week. I didn't get one I really like till the last one. The 30 min pose in the top left. Anyways, its all a process. I will be back there on Thursday, maybe that will be my break through day!

SPOILERS! Jaime Lannister

Back to the Song of Ice and Fire fanart! This is a pretty spoiler heavy image of one of my fav characters Jaime Lannister. Over the course of the four books hes become one of if not my fav character. Anyways, here he is at the Siege of Riverrun. I can't tell you how excited for the fifth book I am. Can't friggin wait. I've been reading Goerge RR Martin's Dreamsong series and getting my fix that way, but nothing else quite fills that void. Also toats pumped for the TV series. I hope its a hit, I wanna see season three happen in particular. Its my fav book of the series. Although book four is all Jaime, he makes that book.

I realized today with Jaime, I'm getting quite a bit of SOIAF fanart together. Almost in order: Dany, Catelyn and Summer, Jon Snow, Oberyn, Sandor, Loras and my page 100 project. 8 now! Maybe I will make a mini of these all someday. Might eventually even revisit those first couple attempts. Dany and Cat never looked better!

Well what else, busy working on anthology work and my own minis. So keep coming back. Theres more for you here coming.

Life Drawing Nov11/10

I went life drawing yesterday. First time in four years. Pretty rough kick back to reality. If you don't use it you lose it. So I will be heading back next Thursday and hopefully consistently from now on. LIFE DRAWING!

In other news, finished the roughs for my Grawlix submission with A.G Pasquela, it is looking pretty good. We are also working on another one page submission for another anthology right now. Hopefully it gets in. We'll see, if not, I will be able to post it here, so win win right?

Scott Pilgrim Drawings!

drew these today while listening to the O'Malley Wright commentary on my shiny new copy of Scott Pilgrim on DVD!

Also, here is a recap of canzine guest starring me and table mate Noel Tauzon.. check it out!

The Brian Evinou action starts at 8.10!

A new banner?

a doodle for all of youze....

Hey have you guys all heard of A.G Pasquella? He is a local author behind "Why not a Spider Monkey Jesus?" A.G and I are in the process of working on a short for a anthology together. Its looking like its going to be a blast. Anyways, his book is in a competition right now and could use your vote. All you do is click here and click on his book to vote for it. None of that leaving your email or signing up junk that you have to do when leaving a comment on my blog. Super easy! So please, take a minute and throw a vote A.G's way. The book is super rad and deserves the support! Again, to vote CLICK HERE!

so yeah, hope you guys like this drawing. I got a pretty full plate now, working on Fight Song and now this anthology. Expect more drawings loyal blog fans! I will never let ya down!

Girl with Bike while other girl looks on.

Dudes, here is drawing. It is of a girl with a bike. There is a other girl, she is looking at the bike.

The BG was thrown in there in PS. It is the best I could come up with in two minutes.

Don't worry ol blog. There are more drawings happening every day. I will be back with more updates soon I promise!

This was going to be Namor, then Richard Alpert. Now?

Hello! Yesterday was the Canzine! Sad news, I have no photos from the show. Good news, the show was fantastic. We {Noel Tauzon and I} were initially assigned a shitty table in the north room. Reaching into the Nth dimension and twisting reality just a little resulted in our being moved into the main hall beside Toronto comic royalty Erik Kim, Kean Soo and across from Indie darlings Vicki Nerino, Britt Wilson and visiting vagabond Phil McAndrew. The stage was set and a great show was had, by myself and Noel at least, hopefully for others as well.

Shouts out to all the beautiful people who stopped by and bought comics. You are indeed the most handsome of comic fans. Loyal blog visitor Anthony Tam, you the man.

Comic Jam contest from previous post update- I won!!! I get a cool illustrated Frankenstien book for the win. Its illustrated by comic horror veteran Bernie Wrightson. It is one of the definitive books that Frankenstiens monsters look is based on.

I have the next month off it looks like. Work has wrapped and we have short break until the next thing gets going. I will be using this time to work on my next mini, it is going to be called Fight Song. It will be a collection of two different fight comics I've started over the last two months. They are both ten pages in and will each prolly hit the twenty to thirty range. Watch for it! Thanks again for stopping by loyal bloggers, see you soon.

Axe man.

Hey dudes, this is a drawing I did for this contest with the Toronto Comic Jam. My graphic design skill really come to the fore when it comes to font stuff. Marvel over my incredible font skills. MARVEL!!!

Anyways, this was a lot of fun to do, still messing around w the cintiq. Hope you guys like it!

ALSO! Canzine is this sunday at the Great hall! Be there!

Sunday, October 24, 2010
1pm - 7pm
The Great Hall
1087 Queen Street West
Toronto

Super-Girl!

Hey dudes, long time no blog! Whats new, whats new. I recently took part in the 24 hour comic challenge at the Hairy T/ 4th Quadrant at Younge and Steeles. It was a real good time. I did ten pages of a new comic I hope to have finished by the end of Nov. Look for some posts about that more towards that time. What else, we recently finished up Ugly Americans season 1. Its showing on Comedy, Sundays at 12. Watch for it! Coming up, we have Canzine this coming weekend. Sunday the 23rd, I will be there selling comics, its at The Great Hall, 1087 Queen St. West (West of Ossington). COme and say hi.

Hope you are all doing well out there on the internets.

Go Leafs go!

Draw yourself as a Street Fighter character?

So my good buddy JR is running this thing for the Station Gallery in Whitby called 40 Random acts of art. I guess he thinks up challenges for people, they do em, then they put em up in thier gallery. The above is the result of my challenge. I was looking at the Jim Rugg drawing the SF tribute book and thinking of maybe being clever with the challenge, but then I said F it. Its my week off. Leave the clever shit to the Educated elite. I'm going for the meat head MMA demographic.

The first season of Ugly Americans has wrapped. I am currently in the process of enjoying a week off work. I am drawing pictures and working on a short comic tentativily called Fight song. It is the dumbest book I've ever done. But I only have a week off and didn't have enough of my next big epic comic planned to start so this is what I work on. Also the reasons in the previous paragraph. Seriously, I watched showdown in Little Tokyo yesterday while working on this thing. Its almost as dumb as that movie.

P.S Dolph Lundgren for PM

Also Word on the Street is this weekend in Queens Park, come visit me and I will show you pages of Fight Song! Prepare to lose brain cells!

Fan Expo is this weekend dudes!

Dudes, Fanexpo is this weekend. I will be there with Julie of Promises Promises fame and a special guest appearance by Noel Tauzon on the Saturday I believe... I sadly will be missing a lot of the show due to moving and responsibilities and stuff. I will be there Friday evening 6pm to Close and all of Saturday though. If your only coming SUnday and are looking for me, I am super sorry. I will be at word on the street though, so another chance there eh!
Sorry I have been so lax on posting recently. You can expect more soon though as my current contract is coming to a close soon. I have been doing Story Boards for Season 1.5 of Ugly Americans and shit is real crazy busy. Its almost done though, and fans, it looks fantastic and is friggin hilarious. So watch out. THis season is such a winner.
Anyways, comics, conventions, moving. Life is wild. Keep on swinging by though, I will never let you down Blogger!

The Page 100 Project

Hey dudes. Jason Turner the man behind True loves put together this thing called the page 100 project. How it works is you grab the 100th page of a book you like, you then draw it up. Fun stuff!
I know you my dear blog readers prolly expected me to go with something super deep like Doestevsky or maybe something light like Tolstoy. Instead I've decided to go way off the beaten path and hit you with a little Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. I hope you all like it!
Be sure to check out the rest of the project over at Jason's blog. He is the man now dog.

Loras Tyrell, The knight of Flowers

Hey, I'm back with more Song of Ice and fire fanart! Its Loras Tyrell, the knight of flowers! I just started listening to the audiobooks of the series at work so I'm reinvigorated to do more of these. Loras doesnt play much of a role in the first book but its pretty fun seeing these characters first appearances and thinking on how they develop in future volumes. You pick up more and more each time through with this series. George RR Martin is pretty rad.
Speaking of pretty rad. Today Bryan Lee O'Malley completed Scott Pilgrim volume 6. Scott Pilgrim got me right back into comics in a big way about 6 years ago. It in many ways is to blame for me doing my own comics. I'm so excited to read the finale and see how it all turns out. Even moreso I'm excited to see where O'Malley goes next. Congrats Mal!

TCAF '10

Thanks to Ab for this photo!
You guys, TCAF was this weekend. It ended 4 and a half hours ago as of this writing. I finally am awake enough and regained the strength to leave my bed.

What a great weekend. A hell of a show as usual. Top notch guest list, super star volunteers, wicked nice guests and a generally well run show. I was in a new area called the Small Press Schooner. It was fun. I was a little out of place in the room but I did quite well and had a blast. Sold tons of books. The crowd was there to spend money, it was nice. Of course did my free sketching as usual and had a few unusual requests, a couple of which can be found above.

The swag, oh the swag. I bought and bought. As seen above, Jim Rugg- Rambo 3.5. Marc Ellerby-Chloe Noonan, Pirates learn a thing or two about pig boy- Britt Wilson, The Ruby- Jon Chad, Ted Bear in Bare Season-Vicki Nerino, Fractured Jaw- Noel Tauzon, Lose 1- Michael Deforge, Birch Control- Laura Kenins, Feral Pizza- Phil McAndrew, A slightly Fictional History of Popcorn- Jim Zubkavich, Wilson- Daniel Clowes, Acts of Violence- New reliable Press w Ed Brisson, Galaxion- Tara Tallan, True Loves- Jason Turner, Peters Muscles- Michael Deforge.

These so far are all rad.

Sketch dump

Hey guys! I'm currently spending my days working on the out line for my next book. It is going to be rad. Once theres some news to tell, you will hear it first! You are my favorite blog after all ol bloggie.

Also, come to TCAF and say hi to me. I will be there in the indie press schooner only on the Sunday. TCAF is always the best show so make sure to look for me there!

Wizard World Toronto

Ah Wizard World Toronto. What a strange beast you were. On the upside I met "Hacksaw" Jim Duggen. He got one of my books then came back later on to tell me how much he liked it! That is wicked! What a sweet guy. It was pretty funny, there was tons of people walking around with signed 2x4's. Every 40 minutes or so you would hear hacksaw from across the hall yelling out his trademark "HOOOO". Good times.
Other good times, almost selling out of my new book despite small amounts of people at the show. Hanging with other comic artists, in particular I would like to shout out my booth nieghbours Mike Hoffman, Evan Munday, Tyrone Macarthy, Sean Lebevre and Matt Joudrey. This show had the most comfortable seats of any convention I've been to. Also, lots of room behind the tables, some shows get a little tight. Not this one.

Negatives! Sad that the shows focus was so wild and unkempt. The advertising didnt do its job. The start times were way to early, particularly on the friday and sunday. I think its unnecasary for any show to start before noon on a sunday and especially on a friday. There was a fire alarm on the saturday right around 3, the peak time. It killed the momentum quite a bit. A lot of people were talking sabotage. Who know, I know Stan Lee was announced for hobbystar on Friday. Odd timing.

Don River

Dudes! I got a new mini comic coming out on Friday! This is the cover banner! Totally come to Wizard world Toronto on Friday March 26th to Sunday March 28th. Hope to see you there!

Don River, super sneak peek!

Heres a page from my new mini, Don River. Its a 24 page little ditty. It will be premiering Friday March 26th @ Wizard World Toronto! Come swing by and visit Julie and I, and pick up a copy!

Sketch Dump!

Guys! I do all these drawing that you guys never see. I put them in this thing called a sketch book! I know. Wild right. I thought I would share some that I inked up with you guys, hope you like em.

Now, important news. I'm tabling with Julie over at The new wizard world toronto show. I'm looking forward to it. Hope you can all come out and check it out! It should be a blast.

Happy Valentines day!

Friday night Lights

Have you guys seen this show? Its the best! You should all check it out! I drew all these while watching season 1. Can you name all these characters?
I'm happy I'll have something to continue following once Lost is done.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE!?

Dune?

So I somehow managed to not read Dune when I was a younger fella. All my friends used to talk about it but it never held any interest to me. I recently picked it up on a whim. I'm now half way through Children of Dune. I love it. So good. I think it was the eastern imagary, the deserts, none of it held much appeal to me. I was way off, great sci fi. Anyways, heres a version of Paul that looks very little like hes described in the books and some phallic thing jumping outta the ground behind him.

Look for a lot more posts from me, I plan on putting up a lot of sketches now, not just more finished stuff. I havent inked in months, its all been pencils, I'm scared to see how much I've dropped off once I get back to it...