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...

New years! A year in review

Oh 2009, what a strange year. I spent slightly more than half the year unemployed working on my 120 page book Jim and Jenn, which remains sitting on my desk in unpublished limbo. I then spent the rest of the year working on comedy networks upcoming show Ugly americans. Its going to be pretty good, thats for sure. There were three comic conventions, TCAF, Hobbystar and SPX. All good. Less concerts than last year, more CD's, more hockey and always comics.

This years comic highlight for me was discovering Nokia Ursawa, Monster, Pluto and 20th century boys were all really inspiring works. The year began with scott pilgrim volume 5 which was heart breaking and beautiful. Lot to cover in 6 but O'malley so far has only delivered. I'm sure that will be on my 2010 best of list. Invincible is still my favorite monthly floppie. In 09 I all but stopped buying marvel and dc books. The exceptions being when Quietly and Morrison put out anything together. DC and Marvel, you guys gotta quit the events, I've never cared less. In webcomics, Scary go round ended to make way for the promising bad machinary. That is a chenge that I'm enjoying so far for sure.

In music the yeah yeah yeahs, Tegan and sara, Okervil river, Joel Plaskett, Yo la tengo and the replacements were the big sonic winners in my apt.

In a bad year for movies the popcorn flicks won the day, all the usual suspects were also rans, that made room for star trek, avatar and Up to be my top three this year.

In 2010 I promise to finally finish don river, my 20 to 30 page river spirit comic. I promise to start on my next book, either, a scifi space epic, a 21st century fantasy comic or a giant robot book. I also promise to continue brushing my teeth and making updates on you my favorite blog at least once a month.

The Bride!

Kill Bill's, The Bride!
I bought both movies tonight. I'm very excited to watch em again. Its gonna be a good time!