Wild Things...inked

This piece is finished at the inking stage. Next is the color and that's when Max will pop and the Terrible Eyes will be...terrible!!!

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Wild Things!

Here's Max and all the rest of the Wild Things.

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Hobbits and Terrible Yellow Eyes

I like a lot of different styles of art. Picasso, Mucha, MIchalangelo, Kirby, Buscema, Bissette, Totleben, Muth...you get the picture. Well Justin Gerard has been added to the list. He's been doing some fine art work over at his blog. He's been tackling Tolkien. One of the most beloved authors of two of the finest pieces of literature. I recommend you check out his brilliance.
Another interesting project Terrible Yellow Eyes. It's a tribute blog dedicated to Maurice Sendak and the brilliant book; Where The Wild Things Are. Different artists invited to present their vision of Mr Sendak's amazing book. I grew up reading this book. I was Max...later on I became one of the Wild Things. Guess I'm still a bit of a Wild Thing.

Raar.

And I shall call thee...Robot God!

Part 2 of my planned 2-piece set. I'm imagining either a flip-book or variant covers.

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ROBOT GOD pencils!

I finally finished this piece. It wasn't that it was hard, the piece was in my head and travelled down my arm and then to my hand and sprouted on the page, it was just that I put a lot if line detailing into it and it took longer that expected. I also had to dig up some reference on the rifle and arm of Will Hart.

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Star Trek...I think

Major Spoilers, avert your eyes now!
So my wife and I saw the new Star Trekmovielast night. We're both die-hard fans of the Classic, and she is a die-hard fan of NextGen. We liked the new movie, but we didn't love it. They messed with the time lines too much and I know that by killing Kirk's father they change entire time-lines, but too much was changed.
Kirk's brother Sam; gone. Will never exist.
Spock's mom; gone. Killed while transporting?
Spock and Uhura snogging all over the transporter pad; stupid and meaningless.
Captain Pike placed in a wheelchair; what happened to the Menagerie?
Spock serving with Pike prior to meeting Kirk; wiped from History.
Leonard (The Corpse) Nimoy; please leave him out. WTF?
By introducing more stupid Time Travel storylines (seems to be the only way to write a Star Trek movie lately), Abrams and company open up the door that lets them play in the Star Trek sandbox but not stay within the rules/guidelines. Give me all of the cool flashy stuff, but throw away all the meaningless history and backstory that makes Classic Trek that much more Classic. That seems to be their new haiku.
As for the good stuff? I did like the flash of the movie. The new Warp effect was simple but it worked for me. Casting all around was good. Zach Quinto was made to be Spock and Karl Urban (usually a huge action star) brought us the grumpy McCoy that we've grown to love. Simon Pegg's Scotty was fun but underused. Sulu, Chekov and Uhura were all fine, just not amazing. I was confused by all of the new alien races that were put in front of us as eye candy and I had a hard time understanding why an Orion Slave Girl is now a member of the Star Fleet Academy.

Beam me out of here. Scotty

Robot God!

Robot God is part of the Silent Scream story and it all ties into the power struggle between The Trust and The Kabale. Dennis' take on Robot God is this:Robot God, the movie and the world domination concept, has souls implanted into the robots which gives them choice, except for them being turned into somnambulists by Dr. Caligari.
Here is my pencil rough and then rough blue-pencil drawing. I'll firm up The Trust faces and then start detailing with my HB pencil.


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SilentScreamtheComic.com

We got a great deal on a domain and hosting so bookmark the site. We'll have content as soon as we can.
Silent Scream!!!
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Dogboy and Fatman go to the movies

It was a warm, overcast Friday evening and our hereoes; Fatman and Dogboy jump into the JunkMobile and...aw heck, me and MIke Dobbs went to see Wolverine last night. It was good. We both thought there were some problems, but we also agreed that the characters were good, the effects were good, just...something was missing. (Spoiler Alert): I had a few problems in continuity. Sorry but Scott Summers shouldn't have been in this movie. Professor X should have also not been in this movie. I know there is a desired tie to the first three X-Men movies but I still had a problem with these characters being jammed into the movie. Jackman was very good, Schreiber was nasty, and Danny Huston was a good bad guy (duh). We also saw one of the supposed 5 endings. I look forward in seeing all 5 when the DVD comes out. Mike and I also stayed past the credits to see if there was a special ending. There was. It sucked monkey junk. What a waste of time that did not help the movie at all.

Nuff said.

SRB in ink

I laid down the ink the other night and I think Mr. Steve came out alright. Let's see if it gets picked as the winner in the challenge/contest over at Mike Dobb's blog.

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SRB

Mike Dobbs is running a Contest/Challenge over at his Blog. Draw your best Steve R. Bissette portrait and you might get it either published or win a swell prize. Check out Mike's blog (it's rad) and also check out Steve's Myrant. You can find them over there on the right of your screen under Where In The World.

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Would You Buy A Comic Book From These Guys?

In anticipation of some publisher absolutely loving our proposal, I drew up portraits of the creatives on Silent Scream;
Dennis Webster; plot and script • Bill Anderson; plot and inks • Mark Masztal; plot and pencils.
I've been told that I look sinister.

Update: Bill has tweaked his portrait digitally so I thought I would post it here in place of my illustration. I'll tweak my art and re-post at a later date. Bill sent this over and it's perfect...Bill:

One little picky thing re: the portrait - the line coming up from the collar and the removal of the jawline indication at the bottom of the earlobe (I've got one, honest) make it look a bit like I've got a goiter. I did a quick touch-up to the jpeg that I think is a little more representative of my face (tho' I wish I had the square jaw of your pencilled version of me), see what you think...

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Casting Call...Inked!

Finished this up over the weekend. It will be helpful once I start working on the Silent Scream web-site for images and content.

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Perhapanauts

I completely forgot about this piece. I was originally going to go to the Boston Comic Con last weekend but Life Interruptus and I didn't make it. I wanted to swing by and talk to my Massachusetts buddy Craig Rousseau and to see if he was interested in this pin-up for an issue of The Perhapanuats. I didn't get a chance to give it to him so I'll probably ink it up and send it out to him.

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Casting Call

To keep track of all of the characters we have in Silent Scream, I decided to do up a little Silent Scream Bible so I can refer back to it when I need to draw a character to make sure I didn't forget anything about his/her attire or hair style.


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Silent Scream Pages 4-5

Done. Got all 5 pages finished and I've gone over them with a fine tooth HB lead. They'll be going off to Bill Anderson to work his ink magic and in a month or so we'll be sending the whole package out to prospective publishers.



BTW, for the funnybook challenged few that read this post (Tony), the "X's" I mark are black areas that will be filled solid with ink.

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It's Mine!

There are certain artists that I respect and then there are the artists I highly respect. In this latter list is Steve Bissette, Tom Mandrake, Tim Truman, Mike Zulli, Ryan Sook, Guy Davis and...John Totleben. Well I have original art from most of these artists. The only one missing currently is Tim Truman because I just recently picked up this beauty by John Totleben. It's from Vermillion #8, page 5. The description was alien sucker face...consider it SOLD! after that description.

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Frakkin' Good

The Battlestar Galactica series finale was on last night...It was frakkin great! The attack on the Colony was a Wam-Bam-Frak-You-Man Spectacular!!! I'm happy with all of the resolutions of characters storylines. I must admit after devoting 5 years to watching this series, I got a bit melancholy and misty over the ending of the series and where some of our characters ended up. Now I have to find something else to watch on Friday nights at 10:00 pm. At least we still have the Caprica mini-series and the BSG: The Plan movie coming later this year. It was a great 5 years, my thanks to Ron Moore, David Eick and all of the crew and especially the cast for making me a BSG convert.

So Say We All!

Page 2

Sorry about the pages being out of order. I started drawing page three due to the challenges of establishing characters first before tackling their environment. I think the first panel has that SteamPunk feel we're going for. Of course the dirigible doesn't hurt. My father-in-law is again playing our Jedediah West and I acted as model for the hands.

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Silent Scream pencils

Here are pages1 & 3 from the Silent Scream concept, plotted by Dennis Webster & Bill Anderson with a script by Dennis Webster. It's a period piece, 1920's, so I'm using a ton of reference material so I get the correct feel of the era. It slows me down a little bit, but I think it will be worth it. I want to thank my father-in-law, Ed Korovae, for modeling for me. He's the sharp dressed Jedeiah West wearing the fashionable overcoat and bowler.


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