DV8 #4 cover

Design by Brian, art by me!

Induced #2

Cover for an indie comics anthology, featuring characters by Paul Lavalee, Brian Guay, Jay Bardyla, Trevor Frick, Chris Hawkins and Tony Esteves.

This second volume of Induced should be available from Happy Harbor by Indie Comic Week.

Dritwood's War

This is a quick painting I did for a cover mockup for Driftwood's War, a children's novel by my friend James Davidge. We needed something to use in a catalogue, but this image isn't finished... composition sucks and I'll probably redo the background completely.

But it's still fun drawing flying creatures.

Lots more NORTH 40 stuff

Are you sick of my yakking yet? Comics Bulletin just posted an interview with me and Aaron!

They also showed the cover for #6 so I guess I'll repost it here:



I've never done a comic that's gotten so much press! I'm a bit surprised and really pleased that NORTH 40 seems to be getting a lot of attention, especially for a book with no big names attached and no familiar characters. But anyway, from now on it will be less talking and more art!

So here's a preview of issue 4!



Ah, the gory stuff is so much fun to draw. Andrew Foley can be blamed for giving me a taste for it. I have yet to draw another scene as sick and disgusting (and funny) as the thing that happens in the back of the limo in Done to Death #1. And I've drawn torn up bodies since then, but none as thoroughly dismembered as the ones in D2D #5. Memories.

North 40 #5 cover

I've seen this around the web recently so I'll assume it's ok to post it. Miss Amanda Walker! The owl on the shoulder is a loving tribute to anyone who's ever been drawn with an owl on their shoulder (there have been many).

DV8 covers

Brian Wood and Rebekah Isaacs are relaunching WildStorm's DV8, and I get to do the covers!

Here are the first 3 (of 8). The illustrations are based on Brian's designs.

Um actually, this is the N40 #3 cover

The one I posted previously (with the robot) appears in Previews, but will actually be used for issue 4. THIS is the one you should look for in September! And I think it's my favourite out of the six...

North 40 #3 cover

The first issue comes out NEXT WEDNESDAY! And you'll see the one above in September. I'll leave it to you to guess from the cover what happens in that issue.

Newsarama feature

I talked to Jamie Trecker from Newsarama about NORTH 40, finding employment, artistic influences, and other stuff! HERE IT IS

And here's the cover for NORTH 40 #2! My personal favourite character, the cool-headed old Sheriff:

To summarize

Ok, well, it's been a really busy few weeks! Three weeks ago was the Calgary Expo, where Vicious Ambitious's ROCKET JUICE debuted:



That's the sci-fi anthology in which my first TEENS IN LOVE IN SPACE strip appears! I hope to do many more.

I also did a Wolverine "Art Appreciation" variant cover for War Machine #5- a tribute to John Singer Sargent (kind of a daunting task). I painted him as Patch:



Last weekend, of course, was FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, and I went up to Happy Harbor in Edmonton with Nick, Steve Gervais and Chris Peterson for a dinner, movie, all-day sketching/signing, BBQ, party, interview with Ed the Sock and Liana K, hotel room gambling, and fried breakfast. Steve Rolston won all my laundry money again with one of his handcrafted games of chance. And Steph Chan did a really good writeup of the day for CBR.



(Steve R, me, Nick, Chris P, Steve G at Happy Harbor)

Synthosaurus

Cover for Brendan McGuigan's all-synth album. Brendan's concept for the illustration: "A T-rex wearing hi-tops and playing the synthesizers." After some discussion and beer we decided there should also be a pterodactyl, and it should also be playing synthesizers.

I will let you know when this album drops... Brendan may be releasing it on vinyl so the cover art will be extra huge, just as a dinosaur drawing ought to be.

SWERVE cover

Here are the cover and some of the illustrations I did for last Friday's Swerve magazine. The article was about teen lit.

WIP: Tales From the Harbor cover

My pal Jay from Happy Harbor asked me to do the cover for the next and final volume of Tales From the Harbor, the comics anthology by local creators that HH publishes (have you ever heard of such a great store?), and he wanted "Dogs Playing Poker" but with movie monsters instead of dogs.

So, actually not that much like "Dogs Playing Poker."

VAMPIRELLA QUARTERLY: SUMMER 2008

Look for my variant cover in stores this month (EDIT: September):



VAMPIRELLA!

Most people that know me know that Vampi is pretty much my favourite person, place, or thing to draw. This cover was really exciting and enjoyable to paint! The view of Drakulon in the background was inspired by Joe Jusko but I was going for a "classic" Gonzalez/Maroto vibe with Vampi herself. FUN.