Friday, April 20, 2012

New Sketchbook Back In Stock

Emerald City Comicon was fantastic. I sold out of the new Volume Two, which I did not expect. The re-order just came in, so go on over to the store if you want a copy. As always, I will include a free sketch in any book bought.

Thanks so much!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Emerald City Comicon 2012 Starts Today!

ECCC starts today!. As you can see from the link, it's shaping up to be a great one this year. I'll be at table P-31 in Artists Alley. I'll be selling both volumes of my sketchbook, the Monsterpedia anthology, and various prints. Come on by if you are in town and say hi.

Show hours:

Friday: 2:00pm - 8:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am - 7:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am - 5:00pm




All the surplus will be sold at my store after the show.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Sketchbook Volume Two


Volume two of my new sketchbook has been delivered. This volume comes in at 94 pages, with color throughout. You can expect to see some of what's been on the blog in the last year to be in there, but also much, much more. I decided not to post a lot of drawings so they would be exclusive to the new book. There are just a few older drawings in there that didn't make it into last years Volume One to round things out.

They will go on sale March 30th at Emerald City Comicon. Afterwards, I will put the remainder of the stock up on my Storenvy site. I hope anyone in the area can come out to the show. It should be fun!



Monday, March 12, 2012

Moebius Blood

My thoughts about Jean Giraud's death are hard to express. Many artists, far greater than myself, have written beautifully about the man. It's difficult to think I could even bring anything to the table. I'm a very small fish in a huge sea of overwhelming talent. But, perhaps I just need to write this for myself.

When I was a kid I saw Alien (Is nine to young to see Alien?), and Tron far before I ever knew of Moebius - but the seed had been planted. Around the same time, I'd seen Heavy Metal on the shelves of Walden Books (back when they didn't care, or accidentally displayed them at the eye level of kids), and thumbed through a few issues while my Mom wasn't looking. There was excitement on those pages. Untapped worlds. Unbridled imaginations. Spaceships. Boobs.

A few years later, I traded a couple of albums on cassette tape to a schoolmate for a few issues of Heavy Metal. That was my first pure taste of Moebius. I was hooked as a hooked thing could be. At the end of high school, I might have had six issues in total. My hometown was lousy for comics exposure, so it wasn't until college that I scraped together just enough to get Metallic Memories and Chaos at a shop across from campus. I still have those very same issues of Heavy Metal, and damned near the entire run from '77 to '05.

Look, I think it's fairly obvious to see what Moebius's influence has had on my artwork. Just hit any old random page on this blog. I am in debt to him. His blood is in my veins, and I'm sure thousands of people feel the same. I am sad that he is gone. I always thought he would make comics into his late 90's and still manage to make all of us look like fools. I'm sad that won't happen. However, I am truly grateful and overjoyed of the legacy of art he has left. Thousands upon thousands of spectacular images are available for anyone to enjoy, and be inspired by. To be of that calibre is something to aspire to.






This image was done when I was 24.







The last two, at 39.

Yeah, he made an impression.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Retro Game Night

Here's my piece I did for Retro Game Night in Seattle at Piranha Shop. It's Geon from King of the Monsters.

If you are in Seattle, or visiting, go check out the show. There's some really great art on the walls for this show.