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)

Diddley Daddy

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

Drink & Draw

I went to Seattle last weekend for the Emerald City Comic-con! It was really great and we went to a bar that had a "wheel of drink specials" so now I think Teens in Love in Space is going to have something similar.

Drink & Draw last night at Dickens Pub was EXCEPTIONAL because Brendan McGuigan (Synthosaurus, Teens in Love in Space: The Song musician) and his friend James were DJing there. We are hoping that will become a regular thing.

TEENS IN LOVE IN SPACE

Ok, first of all, this is the greatest thing in the world: my friend Brendan made a SONG to go with my comic "Teens in Love in Space!" The song is called "Teenagers in Love in Space" and you can download it here (along with the rest of his album), which I recommend you do before reading the following comic. Can you believe Brendan made the entire thing on his computer? We are truly living in the future... sometimes I wonder if there is any point at all in making sci-fi comics.

But yeah, pointless or not, this is the first half of the 6-pager I did for the Vicious Ambitious sci-fi anthology, Rocket Juice! It's about a girl who is dating a mad lab assistant.








...to be continued!

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!