Kevin Seccia, fanfiction writer

My friend Kevin saw the portrait I did of Mike Costa and became consumed with envy. He wanted one of himself that captured his "roguish charm and zeal for life." But it was hard enough just to get it to look remotely like him... the best I could manage was an expression of deep self-satisfaction. I may not have done his roguish charm justice, but it's there in real life.



Anyway, I don't work for free, so in the mercenary spirit I made Kevin write a Big Trouble in Little China fanfic in exchange for his picture. I gave him an hour to write it. I just thought it would be funny to see a professional writer struggle with a stupid task, but joke's on me, because his story is actually VERY entertaining. You can read it HERE!

barbarians

NORTH 40 process on Comic Monsters

Comicmonsters.com asked for a little run-down of my process, so you can see it here. Thumbnails to finished page, and also some concept sketches I did in like 2007 for the original NORTH 40 pitch.

If you pick up the series, you may notice that the old Sheriff gradually becomes more handsome as I work my way through Aaron's awesome scripts and become increasingly impressed by all the cool shit the Sheriff does.

Drink & Draw catch up

What do all these things have in common? I've never had to draw any of them for an actual job. Okay, I get paid to draw robots all the time, but they're always huge ones and almost never shaped like bells, cats, or Reggie's little cousin that he dressed up in paper cones to play a prank on Archie.

Bots:







Everybody drew Cable last week. I don't know exactly what he looks like, but I have a general idea:

(the stunning background explosion was rendered by Caleb, whose name is almost Cable)




An "ugly pinup girl" for Laura:

Diddley Daddy

NORTH 40 #1 solicited in this month's Previews!

Drink & Draw catch up

Hawkman:



Sci-fi:



Two Medusas:



Self-explanatory:



Also, Driftwood Saves the Whales by James Davidge is now out. Look for my cover depicting gigantic Inuit sea goddess Sedna in bookstores across Canada!

Drink & Draw catch up

These first two are characters I came up with for a sci-fi story... to be published in the next Vicious Ambitious book! It's called TEENS IN LOVE IN SPACE and I think it's the first thing I've ever written.



TEENS:



The only life drawing I've done in a very long time...



PS: Calgary Herald subscribers, I illustrated the cover story for this Friday's Swerve magazine. Look out for it! It's free!

Sketches

I should fill up sketchbooks faster than I do, but it takes forever! I draw too small.





From a recent drink & draw (every Wednesday night at Murph's if you're in Calgary):