This is what a lot of M&C comic springboards looked like. I just wrote brief notes about what would happen or what they would say, there was usually no drawing required. If there's a visual jok...
2024-06-28 21:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I haven't posted a signing flyer in a while. I was in Texas for the Houston Comics Fest, a small convention that had a bunch of Dark Horse-affiliated creators as guests. I was there basically to pr...
2024-06-28 01:38:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This is how I write down most of my Dork/M&C-type ideas. Not much drawing ever goes into it, if any, mostly dialogue or directions, paced out into panels. If there's a visual gag, then I'll sk...
2024-06-25 20:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one I may have posted already. Or posted to my LiveJournal many years ago. I don't remember. I do remember that this is an actual pitched-and-rejected cartoon. I sent this to Nickelodeon Ma...
2024-06-25 00:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I may have posted this one before. Memory fails, like most jokes.
To be honest, I would have used this one in Dork if it didn't go on hiatus for a few decades. Dork #11 was all single panel a...
2024-06-23 20:17:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Prelim sketch for a four-panel gag strip that I didn't pursue any further. I must have been aiming this at MAD, because it isn't laid out along the lines of a Fun Strip -- it's a full four panels r...
2024-06-22 23:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent some time this week going through an old notebook filled with potential jokes for Dork, looking for a Fun Strip springboard to draw for the Patreon. I mostly found jokes I already used. I a...
2024-06-22 22:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The Northwest Comix Collective story was done to fill out Dork #6, which an Eltingville Club issue reprinting the first two installments from Instant Piano (#1 and #3). material from Instant Piano....
2024-06-19 20:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Scanning some pages that recently sold. This scan is of the raw inks for page 5 from the last Eltingville story. You can see traces of blue pencil underneath some of the inked lines, and the edges ...
2024-06-18 03:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know why, but this afternoon while doing some long-neglected yard work, I thought I'd sit down and type some thoughts about some of the movies I've watched recently (or fairly recently, in ...
2024-06-15 05:10:22 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while since Paul Yellovich and I recorded a new episode of the tear Them Apart horror movie podcast, and this one is a deep dive into Pontypool, a Canadian zombie film that is unlike an...
2024-06-03 13:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Testing out my new steroid-injected arm. And some new Tombows.
It isn't cleaned up and I'm really tired so hopefully there aren't any bad typos or smeared ink lines I'm not seeing. These str...
2024-06-01 10:19:57 +0000 UTC View PostA few days away. I'm still working on the episode cartoon.
Video teaser by Paul Yellovich....
I just found this image on my computer while looking for something else in one of the various Beasts of Burden files. It's Jill Thompson's first sketch for the Harrow Demon from "What The Cat Drag...
2024-05-30 11:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm sorry I haven't been very active this month, and that things have been kind of fallow since April. There's been a few things going on that have affected my work, mainly issues with my arm and h...
2024-05-23 22:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I was going through the magazine tearsheets and realized I hadn't posted the 3D cover we did for The Comic Book section of Nickelodeon Magazine. I thought I'd look for the original art and post tha...
2024-05-10 02:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ships August 14th, 2024. Wheee!
Lines by me, colors by Sarah Dyer. All the important stuff is by the nifty folks listed on the cover. Looking forward to getting the comps and reading the ser...
2024-05-04 11:20:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Upcoming variant cover. I stretched this one out a bit. Har har!
I'm happy with it. It's definitely influenced by my "Experiment" drawings from this site, but obviously slicker. I don't have ...
2024-05-03 01:16:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I was going through some Mad comps to include in book and art sale packages and stumbled across this one-page strip in MAD #13 (June 2020). This is one of the more recent "zombie" issues, the curre...
2024-04-27 02:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm bored and I didn't know what to post about. I was looking at the list of movies I've watched since March, 20th and something struck me: I watch a lot of miserable crap. And I've always meant to...
2024-04-25 05:37:42 +0000 UTC View Post
How the two-page comic looked in print. Colors by Sarah Dyer.
Bottom runner strips by James Kochalka.
Other contributors to The Comic Book section in that issue include Sam Henderson,...
2024-04-18 03:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Sarah finished the colors on a new variant cover for another Dark Horse series. One's been solicited (Operation Sunshine), another is for an announced project (I previewed the cover here a little w...
2024-04-13 23:43:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A while ago I was commissioned by Dark Horse Comics to do a drawing commemorating manga editor Carl Horn's twenty years with the company. It was weird because it was a commission, but also "work". ...
2024-04-12 00:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I was interviewed several weeks ago by Ken Reid for his TV Guidance Counselor podcast, ostensibly about my animation work, but we went all over the place, as to be expected when my brain and mouth ...
2024-04-10 16:34:46 +0000 UTC View Post
One of three on the board. Three left to go after that.
2024-04-08 03:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Found in the pile of unfinished drawings, almost finished.
Maybe it called to me.
2024-04-01 07:23:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of the characters that are briefly seen in the pilot were going to have recurring roles in the proposed series. The two ushers that kick the Eltingville Club out for trying to sneak into anoth...
2024-03-31 05:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Both card sets have been SOLD. Thanks very much!
Up for sale are two 3" x 5" index card drawings, the kind you might have seen on my Instagram. I can't do lott...
2024-03-29 22:34:08 +0000 UTC View Post
