Thursday, January 07, 2010
Friday, December 18, 2009
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.
Labels: cover
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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.
But it's still fun drawing flying creatures.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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.
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.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
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.


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


Thursday, July 02, 2009
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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:
And here's the cover for NORTH 40 #2! My personal favourite character, the cool-headed old Sheriff:
Monday, May 11, 2009
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)

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)
Labels: cover, FCBD, rocket juice, teens in love in space, wolverine
Monday, February 16, 2009
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.
Labels: cover, synthosaurus
Monday, October 13, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
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."
So, actually not that much like "Dogs Playing Poker."
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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.

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.
Labels: cover, vampirella









