Wood Nymph

Something a bit different--

Dark Crystal and I

In the past few months I have posted a number of images based on a movie called Dark Crystal. The drawings were samples that I did as try outs for doing a licensed Dark Crystal comic book. I can now announce that I will be doing an 8 page story for the Free Comic Book Day and after that....

Read the full story here:FREE COMIC BOOK DAY ARTICLE

Conan The Barbarian

At the start of a new year I am putting up a few of my original drawings for sale. This time it is the savage barbarian and the splash from "Oleg The Wise" story that I did for David Petersen's Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard.
Ebay listing HERE

Ebay listing HERE

For the Motherland....

From pencils to inks: Dr. Strange and Clea

Batman / Bruce Wayne

I like how you can't see the face of either one.....

Page 6...The Gulag

Page 4 ... a knock knock joke

The Human Hourglass by Charles Yoakum.

Here is the inked version of the Captain Marvel pin-up:




Together with the inked pin-up, I got a copy of Charles' "Carnival: The Human Hourglass". Charles still has a few copies available after APE and he is selling them through his BLOG.

The coolest thing is that for just a few dollars you get the ashcan AND Charles does an original sketch (knowing my love of the 70's cosmic Marvel universe, Charles did a Captain Marvel for me). "The Human Hourglass" is a great crime noir story, well told, and drawn with care. I enjoyed it and I recommend it...a lot :)

Jim Starlin Captain Marvel (Old School, Baby!)

Bronski page 2 pencils

Love, love, love...but wait.....

A start of a new project: "Bronski"

In the next few weeks I will be sharing pages from the new story that I am working on and studies from a Transmetropolitan project that I have been invited to participate. I'll be only contributing one page, but I ended-up with a bunch of ideas for it :)

So the first penciled Bronski page: Soviet Union 1938 "The Dawn of Communism".....

A Strange Ebay Auction

I have inked one of the Dr. Strange drawings and have put it up for sale on Ebay...I think it's a fun drawing that goes along with Strange's mystic. Pass it on to all collectors of original art that you know :)

Here is the ebay link : HERE

Amazon review

I got an e-mail that someone has put up a review of "Robotika: For A few Rubles More" up on amazon.

Of course I was curious and I went over to read it...ouch, a bit of a disappointment, got only 2 stars.

It would be too bad if that was the only review up there, so I would like to call on the whole "Robotika Nation" to come over to Amazon and write down your thoughts about the book. Good or bad, it will be all appreciated :)

To get to the Robotika amazon page, just click HERE

Hamlet illustrated by John Austen

I don't know much about John Austin, but a long time ago I saw a 1922 edition of Hamlet that he illustrated...it was $150adn it was awesome. He was just as decorative as Harry Clarke but not as busy, his drawing had just as much style as the work of Aubrey Beardley, but his figures were not as weird and his sense of design (I thought) was better. I could not afford the book, but I enjoyed looking at it for a while.

The cool news is that there is a new reprint edition that just got released that contains all of his original illustrations!


And the really cool news is that at amazon it is only $17...oh yeah.

IN celebration of Guy Davis and The Marquis!

For some reason, this makes me think of Al Williamson ...

Dr. Stran"G"e

I want to thank everyone who stopped by at APE to see me and Charles at our table.



Simple, but elegant....for those that are paying attention, the letter "G" is done in the style of the "old school" Michael Golden signature. Why? Because Doctor Strange #55 was great!

Table #655 at APE October 16-17

I will be sharing a table with Charles Yoakum (artist on Batman:Outlaws, The Grackle, Wardancer...and more) at APE this weekend. Come on by table #655 and say "Hi". I'll have sketchbooks, Robotika collections, originals, and new unpublished pages to show off...and of course Dr. Strange doodles :)

Can you find...Doctor Strange?

Can you find the good doctor?