Sunday, April 19, 2009

FCBD Mania

Free Comic Book Day is coming up on May 2nd and I have a couple of things going on. Firstly, I've been asked to be a part of a FCBD download anthology, the cover of which is above. As you can see the theme is ancient civilizations and my 5 pager is about ancient Egypt and the God Anubis. You can Download the whole book filled with a bunch of talented people on May 2nd at this website. ancient.wideawakepress.com Here's the official blurb.

The Ancient Age presented by Wide Awake Press
On May 2nd (Free Comic Book Day!) revel in a pantheon of illustrated lore from the ancient age. This free comic download gathers fantastic stories about the world's earliest civilizations, as told by the mighty sequential artisans of today. A monumental mix of new and classic tales featuring heroes, philosophers, creatures, and gods. It’ll be spectacularly epic, epically spectacular, spantafically epilacar—it’ll be good!

And here's a list of the people involved.

Dan Boyd
Michael Bresnahan
J Chris Campbell
Andrew Davis
Andrew Drilion
Patrick Dean
Paul Friedrich
Alexis Frederick-Frost
Justin Gammon
Bernie Gonzalas
Brad Mcgintiy
Corinne Mucha
Dusty Harbin
Mike LaRiccia
Joe Lambert
Josh Latta
Pat Lewis
Rey Ortega
Katie Skelly
Steve Steiner
Ben Towle
Rob Ullman
Jeff Zwirek

It's a strong group of cartoonists and I want to thank J Chris Campbell, (the man behind Wide Awake Press) for allowing me to be involved.

In addition to the download I'll also be doing some work at the Roselle Public Library, who are having several comics people doing talks and workshops for all the kids. I'm going to be doing a presentation on comic drawing, and on getting published...or at least self publishing. Should be a good time with free comics, and buddy Elliot Serrano will be on hand to talk about his writing prowess.
http://www.roselle.lib.il.us/

I'm almost out of portraits to post so I suppose I'll be going back to posting once a week or so with whatever I'm currently working on. Lately I've been lucky enough to get some commissions that have put some money in my pocket, and I've been doing lots of writing (in my head at least) for the next long form comic. Before starting that though, I'll put doing more short comics, like the one to appear in the Ancient Age, and I'll have a piece in the new Big Ass Mini BAM 2 anthology.

In related news, the bindledog guys and myself have recently landed a legit job producing cartoon shorts for ESPNchicago.com Those should start appearing soon, and I'll post them here for people to check out.


For anybody who might be missing them, I am planning on getting back to the cartoon excersises from Ivan Brunetti's book, so stay close.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Tink

Tinkerbell from Peter Pan flying past Big Ben. Done for Mandy's Birthday.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Wendy Bird



Wendy Darling from Peter Pan. Part of a present for Mandy. Tomorrow Tink.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Ceaser Chavez

Civil and Labor Rights activist Ceaser Chavez. Tomorrow Wendy Darling.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera, celebrated painter and muralist. Tomorrow Ceaser Chavez.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Fridah

Fridah Khalo, one of three commissions of Hispanic icons. Yes, she has a mustache. Tomorrow, Diego Rivera.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Speed and Rex

The brothers, Speed and Rex together again, at last. As seen hanging in Van's room.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Racer X

The mysterious masked Racer is actually Speed's brother Rex Racer. Tomorrow the brothers framed up.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Here He Comes...

Speed Racer from my sons favorite cartoon of all time, Speed Racer! Done for his 3rd Birthday. Tomorrow the Masked Racer.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Mr.Anderson Vs Mr.Smith

The Matrix Portraits all framed up and sweet looking. Whoa. Tomorrow Speed Racer.