Click to Go Big or go home. If you want to compare those pencil pages posted yesterday to what he ended up with after inks, here’s all but page 11, which I couldn’t find. So I’m including page 12, which has Red Hulk on it. And apparently he doesn’t work with inks much, which is [...]

Click to GO BIG! Thought you might like to see some of Julian Totino Tedesco’s pencils from tomorrow’s VENOM 13.3. He pencils his pages out in a loose way that has lots of energy yet already shows the acting clearly. Tomorrow I’ll put up some of the inks- the guy is simply impressive. Check out [...]

Hope you’re following the Venom: Circle of Four story, next week is part 3 by me and Julian Totino Tedesco, whose art blew me away. Here’s a preview at Comic Book Resources. Someone remind me when the issue hits Wednesday and I’ll put up some of his pencils from the issue, I think you’ll enjoy [...]

That was misleading, I admit. I don’t know how to co-create comic books. Not that this ever stops me, I charge right into working with other cartoonists to bring new books and characters into existence, hoping I’ll figure it out on the way. This subject comes up regularly at Periscope Studio, of which I’m a [...]

As if it were written and drawn just for me, Ben Dewey’s TRAGEDY SERIES appears several times a week on Tumblr. Ben draws lots of animals, and well, in the feature. He also makes prints you can order of your favorites. I’ve worked with Ben before on a story in Dark Horse Presents, and hopefully [...]

I’ve always loved “Master Bedroom.”* Thanks Andrew Wyeth for a lifetime of excellence. Here’s a brief overview of the artist from the NY Times. Though that wastes some space on debates whether he was a Sentimentalist (if I ever hear someone compare him to the Painter of Light, someone’s going in the Hudson River). James [...]

I won’t snag his worthy image when I could send traffic, but fellow Periscoper Rich Ellis did a neat AGENTS OF ATLAS piece over at his sketch blog. Rich is someone you’ll be noticing a lot more in the next few years, so you might as well go notice him now while he’s all humble [...]

And when I get back, boy will this place wake up with cracking insight and news! But I’ve got another day to go play at the beautiful Oregon Coast here in Manzanita. In the meantime, I see that one of my studiomates, the up n’ coming red-headed talent Rich Ellis did an X-Men: First Class [...]

Recently Evan Shaner got carried across the mosh-pit of the internet for his cool Charles Schulz’ Watchmen piece, seen here. Which was particularly neat to me because I did a version of the gag when I was in college, goofing around at the Student Center with friends Micah Harris and Tom Gurganus. We assigned who [...]

I don’t want to make this Complaining Week, but I just have to stand annoyed at the most horrible DVD extra I’ve ever encountered in my own collection. We watch the Disney classics at home a lot (I would even if I didn’t have kids) and it’s on the platinum edition of Cinderella. Which is [...]

In 1991 I drove across country to stay with my friend Matt’s family in San Diego, and attended a whole day of the San Diego Comicon. With only a few hours I achieved my main goals- to find two of my art heroes, Dave Stevens and Steve Rude and see if I could visit them [...]

The Newsarama Blog already linked this, but I want to too. Over at IGN artist Marko Djurdjevic walks everyone through a cover creation. I loved working with Marko on the first miniseries of X-Men First Class; I could give him the barest notion of what was to happen in an issue and he would come [...]

That defining cover image to Marvel Adventures #9 by Cameron Stewart, remember that? The Avengers as Modoks (or Modocs, as we declared it in the kill-free Adventures world)? Well it’s up on the e-Bay right now. And I’m not trying to buy it, so don’t worry, you and I won’t get into a bidding war- [...]

Checking in on the Big Time Attic blog, I fell out of my chair upon seeing the guys had updated it. And then I got back in the chair because cartoonist Zander Cannon posted some really good advice on using your sable brushes for inking. You artists out there should take a minute and read [...]