Covers ideas for Jim and Jenn.

These are three concepts for the cover to jim and Jenn. I would like to hear what you all think. If you have a fav or what not. I know what one I like but I might be crazy. So please let me know!
Update: Im still on pace to have the book done for early april, with just enough time to get em printed before TCAF. Im on pace to have my first twenty page month for Feb, the shortest month of the year. Im going to kill April.

Ken Masters

Man, did you guys hear that a certain game is coming out next week? I love the Street Fighter. Ken is definitly my favorite world warrior. Im looking forward to kicking some of my friends ass' on this bad boy come next week.
So Imworking pretty hard right now. I have roughly two months to finish Jim and Jenn before it goes to the printers. I have just enough time. Im doing a page a day and my focus is pretty singular right now. Im expecting to pick up the pace when I get to the ultra exciting finale. Also during subway and streetcar transit Ive been working on some cover and font concepts. Hopefully I'll have time to do a couple nice versions of some of the better ones and share them with you. I'd love to hear what you guys think.
This is of course all to have this book done for TCAF, where I'll be a guest alongside some of my favorite comic creators. Check out the stacked guestlist! http://www.torontocomics.com/tcaf/guests.html

Starbuck, Kara Thrace, also happy 3rd birthday blog!

Welcome back BSG! Who else watched the premiere of season 4.5 this weekend. Man that was some crazy TV. Here is Galactica's premiere fighter pilot Kara Thrace, you gotta love her.
While getting amped up watching the BSG I was thinking how few good scifi comics there are out there. I ended up jotting some ideas down for a comic and now Im thinking about it all the time. Whats sucks about comics though is they take so long Ive already decided how Im going to be spending the next year and a half, with finishing Jim and Jenn and moving onto my next project. They take so long you always end up having a back log of other wicked ideas to get too. I guess thats the appeal of the 24 hour comics challenges, its the one time a year you get to spew out an entire project out of your mind in one day {most of the time, see jim and jenn and Lucy Legacy}.
Also, yesterday was the third birthday of this my first blog. I wish you a happy birthday blog. We've been through some rough times together. Hopefully the content I drop on you now is better than the content when we started together. Heres to another three years Bloggity blog.

Im Batman!

Check it out. Its Batman from Batman year 100! I really love this design. Paul Pope for me, can do no wrong. I lifted the palette from the cover of the Batman year 100 trade. So anyhow. Not much other than that to say. Still working on this here Jim and Jenn comic. Its getting there. By getting there I mean a third of the way in. The change to 2009 has really made me confront the reality of how little time I have left if I want to have this thing out for con season. It will be done. Its gotta be. Also the internet is the devil when it comes to avoiding work. Im very weak.

Windwaker 2009!

So its 2009! Hope its treating you all as well as me. Looking back 2008 was a pretty exciting year. Self publishing my first comic and hitting my first few conventions. Its been a great time. This year will see more of that. I'll be hitting a lot more conventions, this year even spreading my sphere of influence over our friends to the south, America. Spring 2009 will also see the release of Jim and Jenn which Im hoping you'll all enjoy. So keep your eyes on my blog and I'll be updating you to keep you in know about all the exciting news!
So as for these Link drawings. I was on Boingboing.net the other day and they directed me to this incredible vunderkid's version of the Windwaker theme. I've been listening to it pretty much non stop since. I think you'll love it, check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRv8gnBMiWM&feature=channel

Merry Christmas! Happy Festivus!

So heres my Chrsitmas card to you my dear readers, this ones for you! So today has been a great day, spent with family and friends. I hope yours was as good as mine! Two days ago we had our tenth annual festivus party, this year in the feats of strength I managed to make it into the finals against 9 time champion Gary Patrick. I thought I was doing well, I had him slightly over and had turned my shoulder, Gary looked at me and said, "are you ready?" Next thing I knew the table was over and we had a ten time festivus champion.... Today when sketching I wondered how the feats would go with my characters. Ray got a rough first round draw...prolly karma.
Merry Christmas and happy festivus everyone!

Prince Oberyn of Dorne

This is another in my series of "A song of Ice and Fire" pin-ups. Oberyn is barely in the books but there is one chapter in which he completly owns which is one of my favs in the series. I hope you guys like it!

The Joss Whedon centric post. With a lil BSG.

Heres that Jayne dude from Firefly. Man I love the Whedon. I wish this show got more time cause it was pretty tight. THe film was definitly the best scifi film in 2005 {I think thats when it came out} and Im not sure if theres been any films that would match it since. If you can think of any that I might of missed let me know, as I love the sci fi.
Speaking of I watched Star ship troopers 3 the other day. Its hilarious.
Anyways, look for more pinups from me in the coming weeks, as you aint seeing no Jim and Jenn. Which by the way continues to chug along. I keep adding scenes. Im a masochist.
Also heres part one of a Battlestar Galatica two parter "auto-bile" comic that costars the powers of whedon. I did this first part prolly in april or soemthing..I may not ever finish this as the second part isnt as topical as it would of been when I did the first part...it was all about how long the wait between season 4.1 and 4.2 was to be..ironically not as long as the wait for the second part of this comic...FOREVER!!

Kaneda and reaction to that Steven Grant fella.

So if your not aware yet and you pay any attention to the comics media you soon will be...
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19027
Steven Grant in his Permenant Damage article this week serves up his year in review 2008. Dreary. His main thrust is a lack of original ideas, that although we may of seen this year the best superman story ever, its still just a super man story. I suggest you read it, its a good article, very polarizing.
My thoughts on the article, it seems to be very DC Marvel centric. Comics may not be in a golden age but compared to any time before other than the kirby glory years or the two years that saw watchmen and dark night come out we're doing pretty freaking good. We have to remember when slogging through the newest civil war or final crisis that despite the lows of the popular superhero titles we're still in the primes of careers of some of the most exciting comics talents ever. Bryan Lee O Malley, Paul Pope, James Jean, Becky Cloonan, Faith Erin Hocks are all names that are in varying degrees of becoming household. World builders all of them. Mentioning those five is just the top of the top, any indie comics show or zine show will introduce you to any number of exciting new artist whose last ambition is to write spiderman for the rest of thier lives{not that theres anything wrong with that}. If thats not enough new and exciting for you, look to the web. Achewood, Perry Bible, Katie Beaton, Dinosaur comics, Transmission X, Scary go round, XKCD octopus pie..the list goes on and on.
Im onside with steven Grant when I go into the beguiling and I have to fight through eighteen tie in issues of secret invasion to find the newest invincible but saying that shows that with all the bad theres hope. I feel good about comics. So should you.

Having said all of that maybe I should of expanded those few years that saw Watchmen and dark knight come out to include the better part of the eighties which is how long it took to finish Akira. Katsuhiro Otomo finished two full length stories before heading into animation, Domu and Akira. Both deal with psychic powers and both are huge influences for me as will be seen in my newest book. Here is of course the protaginist of Akira, Kaneda.
Keep on keeping on Comics!

John Romita Sr is allllllright!

So this is a panel from the new book...I wont be using that exact dialouge but I figured I would give you my viewers a clue to the homage if you didnt quite regonize it.

So the book is chugging along. Im on pace to have this done for early march. Crazily I keep adding pages to this story. The first sequence keeps growing and growing. I think its very natural though and will add a lot of emotion and resonance with what happens later in the book hopefully.

So yes, this is a small post. Assured Im very busy and working the comic over. Im hoping to start posting more, maybe get my warm up drawings on here. We'll find out together intrepid viewer. See ya soon!