almost Christmas.
Well. Very tired today. Very excited about my work this coming year, hoping things go well.
Good bye soon to the Oughts (better known as the Nads), hello to the troublesome decade that until 2013 won't be known as the Teens.
I started out this decade leaving New York for Los Angeles. I've still got the same car, but so much else has changed.
Knights of Hykon Designs-
Designs I made for the "Knights of Hykon" in the latest issue of Uncanny X-Men: First Class, on sale tomorrow-
Preview of Uncanny X-Men: First Class #6!
A nice preview of issue 6 of Uncanny X-Men: first Class is up - full color and everything!
I'll post the black and whites for anyone interested here too-
I really like this intro page - it's a lot of fun and harkens back to the time period it comes from, complete with header!
I don't have a black and white version of this, so the color version will have to do. Actually, I do have a copy, just as a tiff and I don't want to go through the process of converting the tiff and reducing the size, etc.
The black and white, followed by the color for each separate page. I suppose in the future, where electronic readers replace paper comics, double-page spreads will go the way of the dodo. You can see how the preview process can't deal with a double-page spread on the web, and this is just for advertising the product.
After the double-pager, we shift a bit to see how the team is doing in Westchester-
And we see the outlines of the real problem as Drowning Shadow fights Sky Song. I love this page, it turned out pretty nicely.
Oh Nightcrawler -I love his design, really one of the most unique characters in the Marvel Universe. And before anyone takes me to task on "Most Unique", I already had that conversation with Stan Lee, and he won me over - out of all the unique things, this one is the most unique! ;-)
You can pick up a hard copy of the book a scant 5 days from today! Enjoy!
some favorite pages from issue 5-
As I wait for the online preview pages for issue 6, I'll throw up some pages I liked from issue 5- I think these turned out pretty well.
I like how page 5 turned out.
Originally I had a different layout - the page had a ton of dialogue in it, all great, so I wanted to open up the page a bit to allow for the words...
I like Nightcrawler. He's a great character to draw.
She kicks Colossus through a tree. Haw.
The big introduction of two of my favorite visual creations - Drowning Sahdow and Sleeping Mist. I like all the smoke and mist swirling about her. I used that swirl-design on SK8, but upped the ante a bit. I think swirls are great!
How the heck is Ororo gonna get out of this one?!!
Probably the real life inspiration behind putting NORAD inside a mountain, instead of on a floating battleship.
I'll be sketching for charity-
I'll be sketching and signing things for the
Hero Initiative charity at
Collector's Paradise from 7pm until 10pm on December 5th, 2009. You can meet Len Wein there too! How cool is that?!!
Spider-Man Cereal Box referenced-
Someone brings up the
Spider-Man Cereal
Wolverine: First Class #21 preview.
The preview of some of the pages from Wolverine: First Class #21 - this issue is drawn by me and wraps up the series on a high note, Peter David put together a wonderful script, Jim Charalampidis did some great colorwork, letterer (and writer for the Taco Bell Cap book I drew last winter) Joe Caramagna and my hat's off to the editorial team for working extra hard!
This is the second book pencilled and inked by me out this month, and in 2 weeks (on the 9th) Uncanny X-Men: First Class #6 comes out. I've been very happy with the Uncanny issues - each issue I feel better about my artwork than the last.
