My last three entries were about Godzilla, sheesh. I guess I overdid it there a little. Sorry. As an apology, here's some stuff I've been working on lately. IMAGE DUMP TIME!!
Back in April, I teamed up once again with Xylon Otterburn on a single page comic they'd written and illustrated to submit to the Locust Moon Little Nemo tribute book. I colored it and placed the lettering they'd done. It was rejected, alas, but I'm still rather pleased with it, and I think they are too. May need to do some zooming in your browser to read it, sorry.
I did this three-page comic for Burst Reach 4 that I decided I wanted to share online so that it'll reach a much larger audience than the handful of people who will buy the thing. It's called Feeling Human, and it's about people abducted by an alien that wants to understand them. More than that, it's about the way we tend to single out, exclude, and hate one another for any difference we can find, and the absurdity of it. It's not as visually interesting as the other stories in BR4, and it's way too much to cram into three pages, but I'm still very pleased with it.
That's my girlfriend's dog, by the way. Or well, one of them.
I wasn't kidding when I titled this post No Godzillas, BUT I DIDN'T SAY NO KAIJU. The week Godzilla came out, I did new sketches every day as I got amped up for it. Here are my two favorites. First off, an utterly deranged drawing of Hedorah the Smog Monster:
Followed by two of my favorite dudes, Gigan and Megalon, which I didn't get time to color. Just...just picture this: you're watching wrestling, it's a tag team match, some ridiculous hairmetal song starts playing, and these two come out. Everyone boos.
See? Godzilla isn't in either of those sketches.
Memorial Day weekend, my girlfriend and I camped and hiked in the Smokey Mountains. Specifically, we camped at Cades Cove and hiked the Alum Cave Trail. I took pictures, and did this sketch from one of those pictures, which I'm rather fond of. The whole trip was a wonderful experience and I feel like a changed man after it.
Last Saturday, the 24th, there was an event held at the William King Museum of Art. Charles Brownstein, Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, came and gave a lecture on the history of censorship in comics. There was barbecue, kids could make superhero masks, the Heroes Aren't Hard to Find and Out of Step shows were still up, and I was there doing my mutant portrait thing. I drew a LOT, but didn't get to take a single picture of what I made. However, a former teacher of mine whose studio is there in the museum and a couple of her friends had me take their pictures to draw them when I had more time, and I finished the first one of those today:
Finally, it's JUNE! That means Cannonball Fist is coming soon!
How soon, you ask? Really soon. Like, VERY SOON. Sooner than you think.
...Well, okay, not right this moment, you can and SHOULD go ahead and eat, but still.
Soon.
I can't wait, can you?
That's all for now. BE BACK SOON.
SOON