As mentioned in the last post, I went to the Five Points Festival in Brooklyn yesterday, which is an event based around indy toys and art. I always wanted to go to just look at stuff and maybe pony up for a toy or two) and the tipping point to go was to meet up with Sam Heimer from H&H Toys (we've never met before) and wi...
2022-06-27 23:41:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday I went to the Five Points Festival in Brooklyn to meet up with Sam Heimer of H&H Toys and he had several prototype sets of the Milk & Cheese figures on hand. Sam had them on display at his table and when I was walking around a vendor who recognized me from NYC comic shows told me that he saw bootleg Milk &am...
2022-06-27 22:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Also featuring the Stations, the Good Robot Bill & Ted, Time Thumb, two members of The Chronological Order and a couple of Second Hands. From the Marvel comic series.
Finished this over the weekend, along with some Winky cards and the HH label.
Started on the last batch of Winky cards I still owe folks (including a couple for my nephews, they're getting fancy-shmancy oversized ones), pushed the Fugazi piece forward, inked the logo for another M&C commission, inked and start...
2022-06-21 03:14:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Original is 4" x 4", I think it's being reduced to 2" x 2", so I hope I didn't over-render the textures so they'll turn to effing mud. Yikes!
Still needs cleaning up (which I can do if I have to, although I suck at it and spend way too much time sucking at it), and needs coloring (I can not color digitally).
Hey, look, I filled almost all the white spaces up.
On to colors.
2022-06-18 04:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In this installment of the ongoing WORLD'S FUNNEST retrospective, we're covering the one-page "Earth 3" sequence. Yeay! I mean, Boo! Because Earh 3...is evil.
Earth 3 is a pretty typical Silver Age concept from DC, basically, a planet where everything is reversed and wrong from what we know on Earth 1...
2022-06-17 23:14:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm working to get everything I owe everyone to them before the end of the summer.
I still have nine Winky the Pirate girl index card drawings left to do, owed to four customers, dating back to an emergency offer made in September/October 2021. On top of everything that's been going on this past year (we weren't ...
2022-06-16 01:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The first 8-page story from the Bummer Trilogy, originally published in Dark Horse Presents #118 (1997).
I recently scanned the story before shipping two of the original pages to a customer The Bummer Trilogy was collected as a one-shot single issue from SLG, but wasn't reprinted as part of a trade paperback, so I...
2022-06-14 06:57:05 +0000 UTC View Post
As teased here and recently elsewhere, here's a look at what will likely be the back sticker label for the box the two little figures will be packed in. I'm finishing up the new art for the front label.
I have to warn you...
2022-06-11 22:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Flipped an Eltingville page from 1997 that I was packing up to send to a customer, and found this. pencil sketch on the back.
General Zod hadn't been in the design pack or bible for the Superman Adventures series (for whatever reason, we never asked), so when we were working on the script that would introduce Supergirl ...
2022-06-11 20:08:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you who follow me on social media are probably aware that Sarah had a bit of a setback this week. We had to have her taken in to the emergency room late Monday night, and she had to spend a few days in the hospital. Fortunately she was able to come home today and is doing much better.
The hospital was over...
2022-06-09 22:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm down to the last six (!) e-mails that I have to respond to or deal with, which is kind of amazing (!) for me (!!!). I'm terrified everyone I've written will write back all at once, but at least I'm making progress.
I just answered a letter that I received last September. It's embarrassing and stressful t...
2022-06-05 21:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the new installment of the ongoing WORLD'S FUNNEST retrospective, this time we're finally looking at the actual Golden Age sequence after two extended introductory posts regarding the comic that was the main inspiration for the project, the two golden age comic artists linked to this section of the comic Golden Age...
2022-06-04 00:36:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Color art done for the flat magnet set produced by Bob Chapman's Graphitti Designs. I can't remember when they were released, I have a bagged-with-header keeper set buried somewhere in our archives, there's no way I'm going looking for it. I did a quick check around online but that wasn't much help. The magnets came out in th...
2022-06-02 05:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post
So, hey, the background material about the Golden Age segment blew up almost as much as the original introduction, so here's another dip into things before we get to the actual script and art stuff. This part of the unexpectedly expanded intro will be about the two artists involved with the Golden Age segment of World's F...
2022-06-01 04:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Forget why I drew this particular piece, I think it was a commission, I want to say I did this one as a trade piece but I can't remember. I was surprised to see it was from 2008, for some reason I thought it was more recent.
FYI, the World's Funnest Golden Age segment post will pop in the next few days. 2022-05-29 12:17:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I've written before about the first time I ever attended the San Diego Comic Con in 1987, and how much more informal and relatively easygoing things were back then. I was 22, traveling with friends to another state for the first time in my life (not counting summer camp in New jersey, which I'm not counting), staying in a hot...
2022-05-28 00:39:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I posted the cover a little while ago, but today the project was formally announced. It's going to be a really sweet-looking little creep out, oversized and in hardcover. And it will be out right in time for Halloween, so, it'll make a nice gift for you or a loved or tolerated one. We're hoping to bring the series back as soo...
2022-05-26 23:06:12 +0000 UTC View Post
EDITED TO ADD: This piece has sold, so I'm unlocking it so it's no longer exclusive to the Life's Great Rewards backers as an offer. Thanks so much to the purchaser, thanks everyone for looking and I hope you enjoy/ed looking at the art in the post. Bye, Medusa!
The origina...
2022-05-26 22:56:14 +0000 UTC View Post
FYI, Paul Yellovich and I will be doing a live videocast tonight on Youtube starting at 8:15 PM EST, we'll be discussing some horror movies we've been watching, some horrible movies we've been watching, maybe some books and whatever else creeps in to the creepy conversation. We both watched one of the earliest shot-on-video m...
2022-05-26 22:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a nostalgia-laden sequence which, for several reasons, has become a nostalgia-laden entry. So, despite the Golden Age segment only lasting two pages in the finished comic, the post I planned about it will be broken down into two parts. Basically, the introduction to the GA post went so long that I decided to make ...
2022-05-26 04:23:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Finished this up last night. It's always funny what M&C shtick gets picked up on by readers, this is the first "Get That Fly" commission I can remmeber. Not complaining, I like when they yell stupid stuff. Which...is always. Always!
Woke up after three hours sleep feeling absolutely awful. This past month or s...
2022-05-24 00:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Several commissions and the last of the Winky card drawings are passing around my hands like a sushi conveyer belt, ink dries, grab another, white correction ink sets, grab another, cross-hatching starts to hurt my hand (Like the Fugazi background, oy) grab soemthing without crosshatching, screw up a card, start another. Spea...
2022-05-22 20:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostI don't have any idea what I'm doing. Apparently the recent one I posted went through okay, today I've been trying to make a PDF of a M&C CXC poster and I can get it to the right DPI (I think) but I have no idea how sizing works, in regards to what's a good size for people to use and I can't figure out the PDF exporting t...
2022-05-21 23:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe story you are about to read is true. At least, in this case, this is what I was told happened. To protect the innocent, or the guilty, as it may be, and err on the side of caution, names of individuals involved will not be used.
Today's installment is a brief little bit of embarrassment, both in t...
2022-05-21 22:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This is apparently a pretty deep dive into the Eltingville animated pilot. production and...legacy? I guess that's an apt word if people are still discussing it two decades after it aired one time at 11 P.M on a Sunday Night before the Adult Swim was paid any attention to (it only aired two or three times afterward, at ...
2022-05-18 22:08:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been working on the latest entry in the World's Funnest retrospective (The Golden Age sequence), and the introduction has, over the last four hours of typing, blown up into its own post. My plans were to dash off the introduction and scan the materials needed (copies of Sheldon Moldoff's art and Tom Orzechowski's overl...
2022-05-16 22:30:46 +0000 UTC View Post
