I Does Sequential, Mm-Hmm, Part 1

Back in 2009-2010 I did a four book graphic novel series for Capstone's Stone Arch Books imprint. The brilliant Scott Nickel penned them and I drew them. The art director on the project, Bob Lentz, is flat out one of the best I've ever had the pleasure with which to work ... work with.

Story breakdown: kid gets angry, his head turns into a giant boulder.

Here are some of my favorite panels from the books. Click on them if you want to see them larger.

©2010 Stone Arch Books

The Missing Incredible Rockhead Books Arrive

I like when boxes of books show up at my house. The final two books of the “Incredible Rockhead” series (ages 9-12)—illustrated, but not written*, by me—showed up today.

You should get them.
 * Written by the brilliant Scott Nickel.

Rockhead Covers

Here are the covers of numbers 2 and 3 of the series of graphic novels I illustrated for Stone Arch Books (Graphic Sparks). The covers (and books) were art directed by the talented and insightful Bob Lentz.

The first is available now!

Pre-order book 2. (Release date Aug 1.)

Pre-order book 3. (Release date Aug 1.)

Rockhead : Character Development

Here's some of the steps the The Incredible Rockhead (previous entry) went through on their way to final.

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Here's Chip and Spencer. Their first drawing.


The boys here are a couple of years younger than they ended up being in the book. According to the art director, Chip wasn't "awkward pre-teeny enough." They wanted him to be a little more... that.

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Troy is the bully.

This is the sort of who guy picked on me a couple of times when I was in junior high.

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Here's how Rockhead came to be himself.


He's a skinny kid, but his head is this gigantic hunk of rock.

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The Incredible Rockhead!!!

Most of what I do is wrapped up in NDA's.*

It means I don't get to tell anyone what I am working on.

"What are you doing?"

"Illustrating a graphic novel."

"Oh yeah?"

"I can't tell you about it."**

The newest has hit (online stores), so now I get to share.

Little ditty called "The Incredible Rockhead."

It's for Stone Arch Books, which falls under Capstone Publishing.


Like I said, it's a graphic novel. If you don't know what a graphic novel is, it's a long comic book. This one is written for the grade school set (grades 1-3).

I drew this one, didn't write it. The writing was done by the brilliant Scott Nickel. Bob Lentz—the art director—designed the book and it is out of this world (I wish I'd had such cool stuff to look at when I was a kid). He worked to dial in an old school, Golden Age kind of look. Also, it's available in hard cover (paperback is on the way, I've been told.)

Enough talk. Time for drawings.

Here's the character line up:



Here's my favorite panel from the book:



And here's the cover as a teensy-tiny image (it's the biggest size I can find):



I had a great time on the book. Learned a lot. We're already rolling on the second. (It's even better.)

*Non Disclosure Agreement
**All together now—"I'd have to kill you."

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Read more about the characters here.

You should buy the book. Go here.

Stone Arch Book's page on the book here.