The Cake is a Lie.

Haven’t posted yet this year. I have been working on a one shot comic for an idea I had a while back. In my “spear time“ I’ve been trying to get into using Copic markers. My wife got me a great instructional dvd of Adam Hughes using them and I think they are pretty cool considering I was never a big fan of coloring with markers. I also got around to trying (and to my surprise beating) the video game Portal. My friend Chuck has been so obsessed with it that he referenced it in the speech he gave at my wedding. I’m not in love with the piece but this is the third or fourth attempt and I hate wasting a night on art and not have anything to show for it.

Xmas Galactus

Hey remember that Christmas when the earth was almost eaten by Galactus and Santa and the Fantastic Four had to team up to save all of us? Yeah me neither. Merry Christmas!

PAC IT IN?!

I'm not sure where this story came from. My parents thought that video games would rot your brain. I never really got to play video games until my teens and by then everyone had grown up devolving their gaming skills so I was left in dust. I'm still pretty bad at them to this day. I think after I saw the trailer for Battleship I figure Hollywood has just stopped trying for an original idea so why not realistic version of Pac-Man.

Late Night Lettering Fun.

By far the most boring and least artistic part of making comics. It's actually really hard to get right. It's gotten a lot easier since I got Manga Studio, still feels like forever though.

The Shell

This is a new super hero that's been bouncing around in my head. I had this idea for a guy who's powers are based on his emotions. His skin gets tougher when he's in danger or feels nervous. I just want to do a book with big dynamic poses. This was drawn really fast with a Bic pen then just tightened up with some markers and watercolor. Hope I get a chance to use him. Thanks for reading. Click to enlarge and see the whole thing. For some reason blogger keeps cutting off the left side of my pictures. Thanks. - Jim

New Project

The First page for a one shot that I'm working on with my friend Kevin Johnson. Kind of a Blade Runner/Godfather vibe to it. I still have that funny three page I warped up last week coming. Just need to find time to letter it. Let me know what you think.

Not so old school.

I have a funny little 3 pager I've been hanging on to for months. I did the layout in my pocket sketch book and decided what that hell, I'll do it on paper instead of the computer. I sort of miss ink. I just want to draw stuff I enjoy from now on and not care about if it's good enough. I'm just going to make comics I want to read.