Toronto Comicon Day Two Sketches

I added some black linework on the Thor with a Copic after the black pencil crayon could only go as dark as a pencil on the stock used for the cover, but that was after the pic was taken.

And another Wolverine.

Toronto Comicon 2013 Day One

Sketches!!!
First day of the 2013 Toronto Comicon has wrapped and I'm off for the second in a few hours.

~R

Fan Expo 2012 Postmortem

Woot!

Still a little wiped out by the Fan Expo this past weekend.  Met a bunch of great people, saw a number of great friends I realised I missed more than I knew.  It's over for another year and the tired part of me is happy about that, but I'm also looking forward to next year.

Did a few pencil-only sketches I'm happy with -- the Wolverine above is actually an orphan piece left over after the con.

The highlight of the con was likely Darwyn Cooke's surprise visit to my table to tell me he thinks I'm an asshole.  I'm not certain whether he expected me to apologise or cower in fear, but I did neither.  I'm pretty certain these are the reasons for Darwyn's visit.

I do feel obligated to point out I've a number of mutual friends who have nothing but the best things to say about Darwyn.  I will gladly and enthusiastically support his work when it's not siding with a corporation against a fellow creator's (in this case co-creator) control over their creation.

Really miss having the time to do the weekly strips.  I'll be starting a new weekly strip in the Fall, but it won't be a return to Burning Itch since I'd rather turn to a serialized narrative and work toward a conclusion.  That's not something you can do when trying to be of the moment.

Back to work on ASHES and Bran Mak Morn!

Canadian Discontent

This week was a hard one.  The biggest news, as far as I was concerned, was the uncalled for lay-offs at Marvel, and I didn't see anything funny there.  I looked a little harder and decided the rumoured cancellation of ALPHA FLIGHT making yet another failed attempt of Marvel to relaunch the Canadian super-team with American writers had some mock to be made.

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~R

Thankful Wolverine

Did a quick sketch on a piece of old Marvel art board I used as part of the protective wrapping for a set of art cards.

There's a certain benefit to using artist grade paper for packing material here.

Bendis Board Wolverine

The Redesign Club thread started up again over at the Bendis Board. This week it's Wolverine's costume on the drawing board. When it comes down to it, regardless of whatever Logan puts on, it always returns to something like this.

Iron Man II Card for March 3

Wolvie!

Two more cards to go!

Iron Man II Card for Feb. 27

Wolverine trying to pull off Eastwood.

end of the month sketches

Really haven't had any time to do something blog-worthy for the last couple, so here's a few sketches off the desk.