Sketchbook 007

The man in the lower right corner is for real. So are the words he's saying.

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Sketchbook 006

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Sketchbook 005

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Prettymuchlalmostkindasorta DONE.

Well, almost. I still have to grey-tone most of it and somehow a page didn't get uploaded to fickr, so I'll have to track that one down. Also there's some spot illos for some pages that need to be done and some stat images to take care of, but fuck it. I'm done drawing the formal part of the book.

180 pages.

2 years of my life.

Goddamn.

Jude, I say.

She puts her head in my lap and I flinch, then reach to stroke her hair. I think I'm embarrassed by her sudden affection, her trust. I'm fifteen and I don't want anyone to know she's my girlfriend.

-Will Christopher Baer, "Kiss Me, Judas"

Untitled OGN page 168

Hope you all have a good holiday.

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Sketchbook 004

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Sketchbook 003

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Sketchbook 001

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Being Beauteous

Against a fall of snow, a Being Beautiful, and very tall.
Whistlings of death and circles of faint music
Make this adored body, swelling and trembling
Like a specter, rise...
Black and scarlet gashes burst in the gleaming flesh.
The true colors of life grow dark,
Shimmering and separate
In the scaffolding, around the Vision.

Shiverings mutter and rise,
And the furious taste of these effects is charged
With deadly whistlings and the raucous music
That the world, far behind us, hurls at our mother of beauty...
She retreats, she rises up...
Oh! Our bones have put on new flesh, for love.

Oh ash-white face!

Oh tousled hair!

Oh crystal arms!

On this cannon I mean to destroy myself
In a swirling of trees and soft air!

-A. Rimbaud.

Desk Shot 296

From Suicide Sisters Volume 1, #2.

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Desk Shot 295

New Sketchbook.

Went with a recycled one for the brown paper to switch things up. Also went with a smaller one, 8.5x11, rather than the usual 11x14 size that I've been using for the last few years.

Desk Shot 294

From "untitled OGN" pg 166

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Jet Beer.

For Jen S.

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"Murder City" concept art

Messing around with digital pencils to see if it's a method I want to use on the "Murder City" project.

Larger version here

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"Everything is comics"

Everything is comics. Comics are air. Cave paintings, the Stations of the Cross, the Bayeux Tapestry, woodcut novels, army maintenance guides, airplane safety cards — all comics. Comics are everywhere, the ideoplasmic universe of human culture from its dawn to one second ago and up the line until the sun goes dark. Nothing but words and pictures: but they are what define the way we frame ideas and experiences. They do anything.

-Warren Ellis

From here

Desk Shot 293

I tried out some varying experiments with layout and story-telling in this graphic novel, none of it ground-breaking, but a few things you definitely don't see too often (or often enough, as it were) in comics.


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"Okay... but the boots stay on"

Done in Sketchbook Pro 2010, like most of the recent sketches. Seemed like a fun idea in my head, thought I'd put it down and see what happened.

The Kill concept sketches 12-9-9

Dicking around with looks for characters in my book "The Kill."

Long in development. Hopefully I can get it figured out and placed somewhere in 2010.

The Kill concept sketches 12-8-9

Dicking around with looks for characters in my book "The Kill."

Long in development. Hopefully I can get it figured out and placed somewhere in 2010.

Hellboy & Liz

Kind of a boring shot, but I dream of doing a Hellboy book with Mignola where it's Red and Liz just talking. Hehe. Good luck with that, Mellon.

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More Pixie...

Still messing around.



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"It's... A gun."

Messing around in Sketchbook Pro.

Trixie

Character sketch from my next project with Hopeless

RIP Genre.

"Sorting comics by genre simply makes less sense in the 21st century, as American comics finally push past the “superheroes/everything else” dichotomy and embrace a wider multiplicity of storytelling forms."

-Dirk Deppey

Desk Shot 291

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