Tuesday, February 2, 2010
star wars galaxy 5 sketch cards
so, besides wrapping up the marvel iron man/nova free comic book day book and jumping into her-oes #1, i managed to get through (what's most likely my last ever) 100 topps star wars sketch cards...
for those not in the know, these days, topps packs the trading cards with randomly inserted actor autographed cards or artist sketch cards, usually 1 cards per case or so... since the set was wide open to any movie/story character, i tried not to duplicate and run the gamut of all 6 movies... probably could've done another 50 or so before getting to the even more ridiculously obscure characters, but had fun trying to do'm all in "my" style (plenty of folks do beautiful photo likeness stuff, but that's not my bag)... i imagine it would be a lot of fun to do a star wars book someday (i know the boy would like it... and keep me on my toes if i went astray)...
back to work.
-c (woohoo, lost tonight... 'nuff said)
Friday, January 22, 2010
next up...
is a four issue project called marvel her-oes, written by the crazy talented grace randolph... a sort of smallville-ish reimagining of some of marvel's female heroes (she-hulk, namora, wasp) back in a high school setting... and not only am i drawing it (and having a blast), i was able to do the cover for #1 (which, after all these years drawing funny books, was the first cover i've done at marvel)... the first issue is due in april (and gonna be solicited in the new previews catalogue coming up)...
besides that, there's the marvel free comic book day book with nova and iron man in may (not surprisingly on free comic book day)...
work on the haps has ground to a VERY slow crawl, which is unfortunate, because we LOVE doing it... (but also make NO money doing it at this point... heck, we lose money every issue with all the time and effort inloved)... which isn't to say it's done, it's just taking longer to get done (and we want to have the next arc in the can before soliciting, so it comes out when it's supposed to, not months late...)
have a good weekend, folks!
-c
Monday, January 11, 2010
2 more from calgary
here's two more pieces i did last year (wow, 2010 already?) at the calgary show...
wrapping up my iron man/nova free comic book day book this week... and jumping right into the next project at marvel (which, as it turns out, will not be the final issue of marvel adventures superheroes after all... got something else lined up, and even got to do the cover for the first issue this weekend)
-c
(yay! chuck's back on nbc... and 24 starts up next week... and lost isn't far behind)
Monday, December 28, 2009
that other xmas gift...
since paul already got it (and dropped a nice note), here's zatanna.
hope everybody had a happy holiday !
-c
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
'twas the day before the night before x-mas
just a quick one, got plenty to do before the holiday gets in full swing... even though this is one of the 2 commissions i did for x-mas gifts for folks, i figured i could safely post this iron man one, since i doubt the 4 year old recipient frequents this blog...
i'll post the other one after the holidays, don't wanna spoil the surprise for a friend...
besides wrapping up that us army comic featuring captain america (written by paul tobin), i've been working on a couple of other fun adventures books (which, since i just saw both solicited, i guess i can mention now)... out on free comic book day (may 1, 2010) iron man : supernova FCBD 2010 edition (written by paul tobin... yay!) featuring iron man and nova fighting red ghost and his super apes! and in the latest solicits, it's the final issue of marvel adventures superheroes 21 (again with that tobin guy...!)... and there's other stuff in the works, but that's a while away.
work on the haps has been slow going, but we really hope to get things rolling again in 2010.
happy holidays.
-c
Thursday, December 10, 2009
two fer
black widow and supergirl. 'nuff said.
(well, not really... due to a misunderstanding, turns out this wasn't really the look for supergirl the commissioner wanted... so i'm gonna throw him a second supergirl as soon as i get a chance)...
hard at work on the next marvel gig, hoping to make headway so i'm not stuck working over the holidays (well, i'll still have the haps to keep moving along...) as well as the next script already waiting here...
-c
Monday, November 23, 2009
... now with more captain america! (and even some invaders)
so, while most folks might never see this book (seeing as how it's not gonna be available in comic shops), i had the privilege of working on a WW2 captain america holiday themed story with paul tobin and sweet colors by chris sotomayor (and a modern framing sequence by richard elson) that's gonna be distributed by the US army... it's got cap, bucky, human torch, soldiers, submariner, nazis, and more ... what more could you want?
since wrapping this one up, i've been working on another one off book for marvel (again with that tobin guy!), that i figure a lot more folks will be seeing next year... as well as getting a good chunk of pages done for the next issue of the haps (which will be out next spring or so, but in the meantime you'll be seeing the haps molly special by scott weinstein and jason copland!), getting a few more commissions done (or, well, more done than before) and more...
i'll try to post again before thanksgiving, but hey, if i don't.... happy turkey day!
-c