SDCC 2009 Sketch : Visitor in Blue

marker and pen

SDCC 2009 Sketch : Dog Rod

red pencil

SDCC 2009 : For Scale

So some people may have seen my table when I posted it on Facebook.


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Here's a shot my buddy, Kennon found of me and my itsy bitsy table at Comic Con.

Don't be fooled. This is probably a 10th of the size of the con.

(I don't know where he got it yet. But I will post photo credits as soon as I do.)

SDCC Sketchbook Spread

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Most of these folks are amalgamations of people who walked by my table.*

I didn't draw any straight up caricatures because I did not want someone to go, "Hey you're drawing me!" and then end up with a whole line of those people wanting me to draw them. I mean, I could do that, but I don't want to be "That Guy."

More Con Drawn' coming.

* 'Cept for the cat. He's a race car cat. I drew him in a race car... and I.... hey Jason. Can you send me a scan of that?

1 down, 15 to go

I finished my book for Comic Con last night and sent it to the printer.

Here's the cover:



Here's a sample page:



I got an ISBN for it so if it's a flop at the con it can be a flop on Amazon too.

Rest up on the weekend and then back on to con stuff and the second graphic novel for Stone Arch books.

No rest for the wicked, they say. I must be very evil.

Comic Conning

I've been given a Small Press table at Comic Con. To be honest, I didn't want one. I wanted Artist Alley. In Artist Alley I could round up some stuff I've already got and sell that. I've been to several cons. I got that. That's easy.

No. The folks at Comic Con wanted me in Small Press. Insistent, they were.

So what do you do? You say, "Ok."

"Ok" means a WHOLE lot more work. "Ok" means something new.

And sometimes something new is something old.

I drug out proposals and stacks of old drawings, some of them going back 16 years. And while I threw most of it away, there was a set of characters I really wanted to spend more time with.

Picking the drawings from back in the day I most felt captured who they were, I put those through the filter of today.

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Dave, 2002

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Dave, 2009
In time you will know who this is, if you don't. (Meaning, I am going to tell you, not that he's going to be super famous... though that would be okay with me.)

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It is so much fun spending time with this group of characters again. Whenever I create a character, they become almost a real person. I know who they are, why they do what they do, how they do it. Have the characters defined, and the story writes itself.

It is good to be in their company again.