| Entry 96: My Favorite Things- Part 2: Six Hundred And Seventy-Six Apparitions of Killoffer |
[Jul. 27th, 2010|04:13 pm] |
Here we go, My second "Favorite Things" post. Last time I posted about Gyo. If you checked it out based on my recommendation, I hope you weren't disappointed.
This time I'm posting about Six Hundred And Seventy-Six Apparitions of Killoffer by French artist Patrice Killoffer.
The first time I looked through this book at my buddy D.J.'s I knew at a glance that it was something that I wanted and I quickly shut it as not to spoil it. The work is just so great looking, and when I finally got a copy for myself I found that it doesn't just look good. This is some masterful comic making.
The character in the book is Killoffer himself. He's visiting Montreal, his dirty dishes still in the sink back home in Paris, festering. He is a man with urges. Every attractive woman he sees he wants. He's ravenous, and these urges Begin to take on lives of there own. Literally! He sees a beautiful woman and suddenly there are two of him, one that goes about his business and the other who drops everything to act on his urge and pursue the woman.
The idea of all of these doubles of him spontaneously appearing comes about so naturally in the comic book format since a comic page usually contains multiple images of a single character existing on a page simultaneously. This simultaneity is even more apparent in the montage style pages that Killoffer uses in this book. When Killoffer divides there's no suggestion of how this happens physically, it's merely the comic character taking two different paths, existing on the page simultaneously.
With every depraved thought that Killoffer has taking on its own life, soon there are hundreds of Killoffer doubles. And they all seem to be the worst of him, horny violent slobs. Needless to say things get ugly fast. The last scenes in this book are not for the faint of heart. It's savage, disturbing, and to me, thrilling.
This is Killoffer's first work to be translated into English and I have to say, "please, more Killoffer." This book is so great, I'm anxious to see more from this guy. |
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| Entry 95: S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 Fourth Print and Ben Bates |
[Jul. 22nd, 2010|12:17 pm] |
Okay, this is starting to become ridiculous. Shield #1 sells out again and goes to a FOURTH print! What are these print runs like? Seriously, retailers, this book is doing better than you keep thinking it will. Order more copies.
I guess these reprints are good press. And obviously people buying the book is a great thing, but we are running out of things to put on the covers!
No really. Daniel, the assistant editor on the book, called me up and told me that we were going to a forth print. Great news! "But we don't have anything to put on the cover," he says. He mentioned the idea of putting a big image of the shield, and then asks if I have a big image of the shield. "Nope," I say. He says, "we'll have to think of something, let me know if you think of anything." And we hung up.
That's when Ben Bates came to the rescue.
Ben is a studio mate of mine. He's just getting started with his professional career in comics and he's doing a fine job of it.
He was recently interviewed on Newsarama for his work on S.h.o.o.t. First featured in Dark horse presents. He's also penciled issues 217 and 218 of Sonic The Hedgehog, which will be out in September and October. And he's currently working on more Sonic. Here's a link to his sight.
So after my conversation with Daniel, I got to thinking about the forth print cover and I thought it would be cool to have the shield with a reflection of Da Vinci in it. I asked Ben if he would be willing to help me out with getting it done since I was desperately trying to make a deadline and couldn't do it myself. I've helped Ben out a number of times, so he kind of owed me, and he agreed to to it. And he did a great job! He created a perfect version of the shield, colored it, and together we worked on dropping the Da Vinci reflection in.
Ben has helped me out once before, back when I did the 2 page Thing Thing story for Fantastic Four Adventures. He did a lot of the color flatting and made such good color choices I hardly had to do anything since almost all the colors are flat colors.
Just for fun, here are those 2 Thing Thing pages. I posted panels from this but never the whole thing. |
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| Entry 94: Astro Boy Fan Art |
[Jul. 20th, 2010|04:12 pm] |
Looking through my sketchbooks I realize that there are fewer and fewer drawings done for fun and more and more drawings that are for work. It's making my sketchbooks less interesting. Less fun. So I thought I'd have a little fun.
I've been reading a lot of Astro Boy lately. I've got Astro on the brain right now and once I got it in my head that I wanted to draw him it became an itch that I had to scratch. |
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| Entry 93: Massive Sketch Dump |
[Jul. 14th, 2010|04:23 pm] |
Like the subject reads, this is a massive convention commission/sketch post. I've done a few shows over the last couple month and I've managed to take pictures of a lot of the drawing that I did at those shows using my crappy phone camera.
So without any further ado-
( Lots o' drawlings ) |
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| Entry 92: S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 second print |
[Jun. 26th, 2010|06:12 pm] |
A few months ago I used a pathetic picture of my baby daughter to guilt trip everyone into buying S.H.I.E.L.D. #1.
It was a joke. She's doing fine. She's great! She is.. Partying as if it were her birthday. Sipping Bacardi as if it were her birthday. And you know what, it isn't her birthday. Yeah, she doesn't give a hoot.
Just look at this picture.
Happy Baby-
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that issue 2 has sold out and is going to a second print. While this is really great news, I just wish I could believe it was for right reasons. Not to save my baby's life, but because people actually like the comic. Oh and she isn't sipping Bacardi like it's her birthday, that was another joke.
Here is the cover for the reprint. |
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| Entry 90: Blast From The Past-Part 7 |
[May. 29th, 2010|11:45 am] |
Well it's high time I did another blast from the past post, and as you can see it's more WildC.A.T.S. stuff. (see even older wildcats stuff in blast from the past part 4) Why Wildcats? Well it's obvious that the Wildcats were a kind of X-Men rip-off, but since they were new they didn't have all the convoluted continuity that the X-Men had. They also seemed a little darker and cooler than the X-Men. It was one of the first series that I collected starting with issue 1. During it's first few years it was my favorite comic book. And as I mentioned in past posts, Working for Wildstorm and drawing Wildcats had been a goal of mine from the age of 13, and at this point I still hadn't shaken that desire. This was in 99, so I was 20. It would be several more years till I actually realized my dream of working at Wildstorm and eventually worked out my Wildcats fandom with a very ambitious pitch. (things to come in a future blast from the past post) |
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| Entry 89: Free Comic Book Day 2010 |
[May. 2nd, 2010|11:34 am] |
Hi. Yesterday I did a signing for Free Comic Book Day at Tony's Kingdom of comics in Keizer, Oregon. It was a lot of fun and I did a lot of sketching. This post is all the sketches I was able to get pictures of, but first I just want to take a little moment to tell you some other appearances I have scheduled. First I'll be at Madness Games & Comics at 3000 Custer Road #150 Plano TX on Saturday May 8th.Then I'll be at the Spokane Comicon on Saturday May 22. Then I'll be at the Florida Supercon in Miami on June 18-20. After that I don't have solid plans, but it's not unlikely that I'll be doing San Diego this year and I'm determined to make it out to New York for a show. So if you want a sketch similar to the ones you see here you can get one from me at one of those shows.
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| Entry 88: S.H.I.E.L.D. 2nd printing |
[Apr. 13th, 2010|02:11 am] |
So apparently my last post really worked! People DID buy S.H.I.E.L.D. #1. It sold out!... Now I feel a little guilty about using my daughter to get sympathy sails. I didn't actually think it would work. You guys should know that Lucy is fine. She's not hungry or unable to see a doctor and we're actually considering home schooling. So, sorry if you went out and bought the comic really fearing for the life of my baby. I didn't know you cared so much.
What I've posted above is the cover for the 2nd print of issue #1. It will be a wrap-around cover. Pretty sweet! I'm excited. The book is doing well and everyone seems to like it. It sold out really fast. I think if you look through my posts you can see that I've been pretty uncertain about it. I mean, I thought it was cool but I wasn't sure if everyone ells would like it. I was fully preparing myself for it to totally bomb and to take a beating from reviewers and fans. Part of me is still waiting for the other shoe to drop. There's still issue 2 and 3 and so on. People could turn on me at any moment. But as things are right now, I actually feel good about myself.
Here's the marvel announcement of it selling out-
Marvel is pleased to announce that S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 has sold out at Diamond (though copies may still be available at the retail level) and will return with S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 Second Printing Variant! Eisner Award nominee Jonathan Hickman teams with red-hot artist Dustin Weaver on the book that peeks behind the curtain and unveils secrets of the Marvel Universe! With the craziest inventions from history’s greatest minds, S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 Second Printing Variant features jaw dropping interior art from Dustin Weaver on a new cover! Critics are raving about S.H.I.E.L.D.! “This is a top-notch debut, and I wish all superhero comics were this good. Highly recommended.”
-Greg McElhatton, ComicBookResources.com “With gorgeous art and near-lyrical writing that cuts to the secret heart of the Marvel Universe, this is an opening issue that really does deserve all the hype.”
-The Best Shots Team, Newsarama.com “…after only one issue I'm already comfortable calling S.H.I.E.L.D. the boldest, most creative and exciting Marvel comic on the stands.” – Dan Phillips, IGN.com So thanks to everyone who bought the issue. And thanks to everyone who went online somewhere and posted something positive about it. I read a lot of those comments. I can't help but check out message boards. It has hurt me in the past, but I just got's to know.
I'm going to keep doing my best and this is just the beginning.
Thanks! |
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| Entry 87: Please Buy S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 |
[Apr. 6th, 2010|09:48 am] |
I didn't want to have to do this but... Her name is Lucy Fitzgerald Weaver, she's 7 months, and, other than a nasty headbutt and an ability to latch onto hair and not let go, she is completely helpless. She's a baby who's only mistake is being born the daughter of a comic book artist. She's lost in an unforgiving world where one day is the same as the next. I know you've thought of getting one of her father's comics, put it on a nice to-do list of things to do that are nice, but somehow you never got around to it, even though the comic shop is right there. Maybe you forgot because you were picking your nose, maybe you're stupid, but Lucy doesn't have till the 12th of never or even the 23rd of soon. No, she has only to the first of now. When you buy S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 this Wednesday you'll know she has a school to go to. You'll know she has a doctor to see so she wont DIE like thousands of children did last night. Now I've got your attention. Do something wonderful, buy S.H.I.E.L.D. #1. It's the best thing that can happen to 3 dollars, 3 quarters, 2 dimes, and 4 pinnies. God knows they don't wan to be in your wallet against your ASS. Ever think about that.
( More S.H.I.E.L.D. preview art under the cut ) |
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