Mr Hart & Mr Montana

I'm a sucker for Golems. When Dennis suggested using them for the book, I was sold.
Here's an encounter between two Golems and Bull Montana and William S. Hart in a warehouse.

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Secret Project Post

I've been working with Dennis Webster (writer of the macabre) and Bill Anderson (inker extraordinare) on a secret project. No publication news yet, but we are working on it. The Silent Scream concept is very exciting and for me it was an add-on. Bill and Dennis had other ideas and that was the one they wanted me to pick. Some concept work is done and I've got thumbnails done on a 5 page story to help sell the project. I'm pencilling the pages starting this week so I'll have more to post later.
Here's what I've got so far:



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Quick Update and a Purchase

Taking a quick moment to say Hello and to post this great Alex Nino page I bought from a seller in the Phillippines. It's a great example of his brushwork from 1969. I'm working on having the page translated, but until then, it's a joy to examine and enjoy.

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NYC Comicon Update

We walked, we talked, we were jostled, we met with reps, we met with publishers, we bought artwork, we bought books, we bought toys. A good time was had by all, but man that was a long, tiring, chaotic show.

Update: I ran into my Massachusetts Amigo Craig (Perhapanauts) Rousseau. We talked briefly (don't forget this was the chaotic show) but I was able to flip through his Canson sketches and I picked up this sweet Etrigan piece. Please wipe the drool from your chins.


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NYC Comicon and the Secret Project

This weekend is the big NY Comicon and for some crazy reason I'm going. I was contacted by my old inker friend Bill Anderson and he asked me if I wanted to read over some concepts that he's putting together with writer Dennis Webster. I know Bill is a stand-up guy so I said yes. Out of the dozen or so concepts I showed interest in 4-5. The I sent that off and then I added a last minute afterthought. Well it was that afterthought that Dennis and Bill thought I would be perfect for. I'm meeting Bill and we're going to talk to some publishers and go over the meeting that he and Dennis took on Friday. Maybe I'll see something in print this year!!!
Oh and my neighbor Mike Dobbs is going with me to check out the show, buy his wife something luscious and take in the massive nerdness of Comicon.

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V1 Design

I was approached by Paul Kozub to design some ad concepts for his new vodka V1. He's a new, young entrepeneur cooking up the original wheat based vodka and then having it distilled in Poland. He had some great ideas and I took some of them and ran with it. I did 8 ads in total, but I think these 5 are the strongest ranging from edgy to safe.






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It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage

We had unexpected surprise visitors the other day. Dean Mijka and Todd Lajoie were pals of mine 25 years ago when we all worked at the Mott's Shop Rite in Westfield. We hung around and became good friends. Dean went off to serve Uncle Sam, Todd went to college and I was just finishing college. We all have our own lives now, but while Dean was in town the boys swung by and said hi and delighted my wife with the embarassing stories of our youth. Here we are 25 years ago and now. It's definately the mileage and we won't go into the 1980's stripper shorts on Todd and Dean.



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Dog Friends

After I had locked in my two core Greyhounds, DeNiro and Posie, I fostered for quite a few years. Don't ask me how many dogs, but there were a lot. Buddy came to me as a 8 1/2 yr old retiree who had been kept at his breeders Tewksbury kennel after he was retired. The State made him surrender a few Greys so we took in Buddy and he came my way. He was scruffy, needed a few extra pounds put on him and also needed to learn manners. After a couple weeks the boy was shining and he was adopted by Gary and Rachel from CT. Rachel just wrote me that the Budd'ster had celebrated his 16th birthday in December. 16 is awesome for a Grey. He's having some mobility issues and he lost an eye a few years back, but the Budd'ster is still hanging on.

Barb and Mark Draa where the first few people who welcomed me to Greyhound Options and they were the proud parents of Pandora. She was a sleek shiny little grey female with amazing eyes. She was a member of the Girl Pack. 4 female greys that roamed the play area together and ruled with an iron paw and even scared a few people too. They didn't let the boys get in their face. I found out today that Pandora had passed. She was the last of the girls; Ivy, my Posie, Jennie and Pandora. Give your furry ones a rub behind the ear today for all of our survivors and those we've lost.


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Upcoming Movies

I'm a movie geek and I do like my comic books. This year has got two comic book movies coming out that I'll be first in line for. The first is The Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ultimate graphic novel. When the individual issues were being released I was buying two copies, one to read, one to store away. I also bought the Watchmen watch, the softcover graphic novel, the special HC graphic novel and I even have a couple of the French graphic novels. Wolverine was always one of my favorite X-Men going back to my first new X-Men issue 111 by Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin. This issue blew me away and I stuck with the X-Men for a long time throughout different creative teams.
Enjoy this image I cobbled together from the Watchmen one=sheets and also this new image of Wolverine and his gang; Deadpool, Gambit, Sabretooth and Silver Fox.


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Darryl in 4C

Here's the finished piece of Darryl, glorious in all his hues.

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Mk

Darryl and the beginnings of color

Coming together rather quick.

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Here's Darryl inked up and ready for color.

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Darryl Pencils

And this morning we have Darryl pencilled and ready for inks.
I think this one came out quite well. People at the real J.O.B. described it as disturbing.

Your thoughts?
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Darryl

Now this posting has no tie-in to the Bob Newhart show. Instead it relates to a secondary character in the B.P.R.D. storylines. He's one of those funny characters that draws your attention and makes you feel sad for him and his situation. This will be one of the next pieces I work on. I have some great Canadian Birch tree reference so stay tuned.

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It's My Birthday This Weekend

I'll see you all back here on Monday.



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The Owl in ink

I finished inking The Owl piece this past weekend, dropped in the title and I've got a great idea when I go to color it.

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The Owl & The Ood

I finished up the Ood pencils last week but didn't get a chance to scan it until now. The Owl was a quick piece once I found the right photo reference for the owl and downtown L.A. Nastiest part of that piece was finding that shot of the Peacemaker barrel. Lots of side shots but none of the actual barrel foreshortening shot.




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New Artwork

I'm working on a new piece based on Robert D. Forward's cut classic The Owl, so I'll have a scam of the pencils for oyu next week. I also finished pencilling the Ood piece that I previewed earlier. For now though I'm playing fanboy.
I ordered some Guy Davis pages earlier in the month and Guy tells me that the pages are working their way East. I've picked up 2 great BPRD pages and a wonderful all villains page from the Deadline mini-series. I'm also very excited because growing up in the sixties I was exposed to a lot of great comic book talent and one of them was Jack Sparkling and one of my fave comics was Spaceman published by Dell Comics. I snagged a nice page off of ebay from issue 5. That page is paid for and hopefully next week I'll be getting a couple nice packages of artwork.


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SCARECROW!!!

To celebrate the premiere release of Disney's The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (Dr Syn), created by Russell Thorndyke, I thought I'd post my version of the good Dr. and his 2 thieving cohorts.

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Because Jeff V. Asked

I've been gone for a bit, between work, 2 weeks of the flu and my wife having some surgery. I haven't been doing much drawing, instead I've been catching up on some reading, watching some new and old TV and re-charging my batteries. My old friend Jeff Vella responded to my last post and I felt I had to show a peak at a couple projects I'm working on.


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