Hey everybody!
Eight O’clock on Saturday September eighth, I’ll be at Rocketship Comic book store along with Percy Carey, AKA MF GRIMM, signing copies of SENTENCES. I’ll have some artwork up.
Oh yeah, Brian Wood will be there signing DMZ volume III too!
Sounds like a good time…
SDCC was a trip. Shout out to all the usual suspects, you know who you are… and the great people I met out there. Kristian, John and his crazy (in a good way) wife, Brandon Graham and Corey (Reyyy) Lewis, who’s markered up sketchbook inspired this marker sketch of Juliet from Prince of Cats.
taking a break from inking Deadman to post some old work… maybe to remind myself of what I do. Thought it’d be interesting for anyone perusing the old blog.
This is something I did a few years back for the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival. I was playing around with genre, graphic narrative and space. The name of the short is Panel Space. It used the space to tell the story. You can’t get the whole deal from these images; It’s kinda like taking a picture of a sculpture or a film, feel me? I hope to explore this concept again soon and hopefully, if you’re reading this, you’ll be on hand to experience it.
Since a few people have asked, I’m just writing this quick post to let people know where they can get my work/update on the projects I’ve posted. Pictured above is my first solo “DÏ€” book, it collects all of the random Gratuitous Ninja work I did from 00-03. It’s available at lulu here.
I do my mainstream work under Ronald Wimberly (even though I signed that Grimm piece as DÏ€). I’ve done some short format work under Ronald Wimberly, but I’ve mostly done work for Vertigo; I’m featured in Lucifer vol.#9, Swamp Thing book#3:Healling the Breach and I did the covers for the Papa Midnight mini series.
So far this year I have Sentences: the life of MF Grimm coming out from Vertigo in September. I’m working on an issue and a couple of covers for Deadman.
As for DÏ€… D will be featured in a few anthologies and other “arts-y” projects this year. I’ll be in the yet announced, Meathaus: SOS book with allot of other very talented narrative designers; I’ll post the info once I have it. I’m pitching my unique way of making comics to a few cats this year… So keep an eye out, I’ll post any new info here first.
A color test/pallete sketch I did before working on aDeadman cover that won’t see the light of day.
Fanboys be damned, I made Jubilee into a butch rocker… like one of those yankee Yakuza in training (I know she’s chinese american, not japanese) I couldn’t decide weather or not to make Wolvy into a greaser… but yeah… I had fun doing it. I don’t get to do much watercolor for work, so I had a little fun before I set to work on Deadman..
you can see some of my limited pallete puddles around the paper.
PS- MARVEL!!! GIVE ME SOME WORK!!! STOP FRONTIN! you know it’s hot!
here’s some flix of the graphic poem for that “Top Secret Meathaus Project”… crazy late… hope they can use it.
Page 1&2
some panels.
I’d be interested in what people think, but I only seem to get junk from pharmaceutical advertisers… I hate those guys. At least street pharmacists don’t advertise or spam…. imagine the day when you get crack spam!
But anyway
the rest of the rough ass pencils for my meathaus book. explanation or whatever when I finish… so I won’t be around for another week or so…
grinding…
In other news… read “A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier” great book… more when I finish this comic… until then check it out.
break it up, break it up, break it uuuuup
here are a few pages of breakdowns on the strip I am currently working on, you can see me working out the characters on the left.. the main character is still evolving. I’ll consolidate in the inks.
