ROCK ALL NIGHT!

More One Page Lovecraft Comics!

I'm going to try and keep this a weekly feature over at Underwhelming Lovecraft Monsters. These one page comics are a fun exercise in ink washes and crosshatching. 

What do I do?

I’m at a crossroads right now; there are four comics I need to draw and I’m not sure which one to tackle. One is a short nightmare influenced comic I have written, the second is a comic about people using their diet to control their dreams, where two meet and fall in love, the third is a very vague sequel to the upcoming Cold Crew comic that Recoil is publishing, and the last is Eddie’s Week. That is my giant comic I’ve been fooling around with for years. I have the first 30 pages done, a few more penciled, and the next 80 thumbnailed. The rest is written out, but I read it, lose faith in it, and shelve it. Other times I look at it and figure it’s worth finishing. It’s hard to tell anymore. 

Cold Crew is finished!

I still have to go back and touch up some backgrounds, but for the most part, it's really close to being scanned and set out to print. It probably won't be out in time for FLUKE, but HeroesCon for sure.

FAILURE FILES: Tragoston Tales comic strip pitch.

Here's a set of strips I did for a syndicated comics pitch awhile back. I got a mess of rejections via email, one actual letter mailed to my doorstop saying they weren't interested, and another syndicate never replied. I was hoping to sell it as a crime/mystery/monster comic strip with a large cast of flawed humans and various monsters in law enforcement. It was going to have a werewolf cop, for cryin' out loud. So, I can assume it's dead in the water, so here it is for everyone in Internetland to read. 

New Year's Day.

The Grizzly is so updated, folks..

"The Grizzly" updated at Study Group. 

Five Times: Chapter Three

HeroesCon Bound!

This weekend me and a mess of other Athens, Georgia folks are headed up to Charlotte, NC for HeroesCon, one of the more charming indie friendly comic conventions. It's a fun three day show, lots of notable guests, cheap beat-up old comics, etc., but the best thing about HeroesCon is hanging out with a lot of friends I only get to see once a year if I don't run into them at FLUKE. Sure I like finding deals on out of print books I've been hunting for year, but I really like seeing and meeting people at these shows. People are great. 

You can find me at table AA-1023 in Indie Island selling my usual assortment of stuff.

I'll have issues of Big Deal Comics & Stories for sell, specifically issues #10-13. I've sold out of the first nine issues, which collected stand alone comic strips that appeared in Flagpole Magazine from 1997-2006. So, out with the old and in with the new. These later issues are longer self contained stories with monsters, ghosts, lovers, breakups and various weather conditions. Since it wasn't ready in time for FLUKE, this will be the debut of Big Deal Comics & Stories #13, featuring "The Grizzly". It's about a bear, constellations, blackouts, social anxiety, rooftops, and mysterious whistling from the woods. You'll like it. 

I will also have my five dollar black & white sketches for sale. Most of them are of monsters, but you know what? I take requests. If you show up at my table and have something specific in mind, then I will knock that out. Still, it helps to have reference material on hand. Who wants a Ultraman that's only 56% correctly drawn? Dr. Who villains, Star Wars creatures, Banana Splits members, you name it. If you're coming to HeroesCon and you want me to do you a commission in advance, email me or leave me a message on Facebook or Twitter me or however the heck you want to communicate with me. 

Sharing my table space is Robert Newsome, co-coordinator of FLUKE; Athens, Georgia's Mini-Comics & Zine Festival. We'll have past FLUKE anthology books for sale as well as FLUKE t-shirts from 2009 and 2012. These FLUKE books are packed with some great comics from a wide variety of talented contributors. You can't go wrong with a single one of them.

Also, 11x17 prints of Box Brown's 2013 FLUKE poster, screen printed in vivid colors (NOT PICTURED AT ALL). 

Newsome will have copies of his wrestling zine The Atomic Elbow for sale too. The most comprehensive and finest wrestling zine on the market today. Of course you want to read it.                                                            

See you at HeroesCon. I mean, if you're going. If not, I probably may never see you. Tragic.

The Grizzly's here.

Copies of Big Deal Comics & Stories #13, featuring the 24 page story “The Grizzly”, are now available for sale at my website’s store.

Cover for "The Grizzly"; Big Deal Comics & Stories #13.

A twenty-four page comic about lost bears, upbeat coworkers, early sunsets, new constellations, rooftops, and anxiety. It's inked, edited, scanned and laid out, so I should have it run off pretty soon. I wanted to have it done before FLUKE, but it would have looked rushed. As it is, the comic was an exercise with inking as fast and loosely as I can without it looking like I didn't have my heart in it, so trying to reach an arbitrary deadline would've taken the fun out of inking the last half. Midways through the story, the sun sets before lunchtime, so there's a lot of dark panels which I found exciting to ink. Lots of shadows, night skies, dark buildings and such. 

More panels from "The Grizzly".

Five pages to go.

Working on another comic for some reason.

Currently working on a 25 page story entitled "The Grizzly", which will probably be printed in Big Deal Comics & Stories #13. Or maybe I'll put the whole thing online and not kill any trees or waste anyone's time at the copy shop. We'll see. I've lettered it and penciled in stick figures and blobby backgrounds and then inking directly over that as fast as I can, trying to capture the looseness that I do in my sketchbooks which I always wind up liking better than the work I plan out the most.

Breaking the Fourth Wall/Awfulness Stares Back.

Happy Romance Thing Whatever Day

Tonight I Will Kiss You

Tricking the Anemone (Part 1)

He thinks it's haunted.