Signing today!

If you're in Victoria today, come by Legends between 12 and 2 where Ed Brisson and Myself will be present with books! COME ON DOWN!!!
I'll even have a few early-bird copies of Prophet #32 with me!

Small Number and the Skateboard Park

Small Number and the Skateboard Park from The IRMACS Centre on Vimeo.

Check it out! One of the projects I've recently been working on is now UP! Look! Educate thineself!

Interview at Innsmouth Free Press

This interview came out a little while ago but I forgot to put it up!

http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/?p=19770

Prophet #32 Concept Drawings

Right after the new year, on Jan 2nd, my first solo work to be published since 2009 will be on the shelves - in the form of Prophet #32. The synopsis for the issue:

"John Ka, Earth Empire scout, has found little trace of mankind since her pod surfaced. However, when she finds a band of feral humans - and a Prophet clone who has gone native to protect them - she finds herself questioning what it means to be human."

Since the whole idea of Prophet - that of clones, bred from the same basic stock, but modified for specific missions - allows for a certain amount of flexibility in character design, I jumped right in. Here are my first tentative drawings of John Ka and the Feral Prophet.



The feral prophet.

  

John Ka, Earth Empire Scout, and various ideas for his/her "Brainfly". The first idea was that John Ka would have some sort of "Base" organism which would act as a relay between the flying "Brainflies" and John Ka's brain.


My close-to-final design for John Ka (with some cover sketches)


The instigator of the issue's plot: The Oonaka Meat Baron. In the first issue of Prophet, Prophet stumbles across an Oonaka Meat Farm, where the Oonaka have been breeding sub-sentient humans for meat. One of the concepts of this issue - What would the arrival of sentient humans (aka Prophet and friends) mean to alien businessmen who make their living off the flesh of the humans' sub-sentient relatives?

And some quick sketches for the mercenaries the Oonaka hire to hunt Prophets.


And last but not least, here's a chunk of the layouts from the issue - where most of the writing gets done!




ALSO: My co-conspirator and pen-pal Memo Koseman (AKA Nemo Ramjet) just released an amazing new book called "All Yesterdays" - go take a look!
It's been getting rave reviews since it's release a week or two ago, and it's already in the top 100 for UK Kindle sales!

Prophet 32 Preview

This issue won't be out until Dec. 19th, but here's a little taste of my solo Prophet issue - the first five pages (sans human text)

The Pacific Comics Arts Festival

This weekend, if you're in Victoria and inclined towards listening to Brandon Graham, Marian Churchland, myself, and the awesome dudes from Legends Comics (Gareth Gaudin and Lloyd Chesley) chat about why we love comics, come on down to the Pacific Comics Arts Festival!

Here's the awesome poster Gareth did!
 From the website:

Festival Within A Festival: Pacific Comics Art Festival               Sponsored by Legends Comics

The Comics Art Panel: Saturday, October 13, 11 a.m., Gibson Auditorium
With Brandon Graham, Marian Churchland, and Simon Roy. Local industry stars discuss why we all love comics, and what makes the synergy of words and images a unique form of storytelling both for the reader and the creator. $10


Meet the Creators: Saturday, October 13, 1 p.m. Room 310, Young Building
Talk shop with Pacific Comics Art Festival's Brandon Graham, Marian Churchland, Simon Roy, members of Cloudscape Comics Society, and Ken Steacy and Joan Steacy. $3 at the Door

More info can be found here:

Victoria Writer's Festival


See you there!

Original Art For Sale

AT LONG LAST! If you want some prophet pages, much of #23's pages are now for sale over at Robin McConnell's art sale site!

Check it out: http://www.mcconnellart.com/http://www.mcconnellart.com/

Continuum!

If you're in Canada, go over to the Continuum website to check out a couple of comics I drew over the summer! It's some army-dude battle action, written as the backstory for a TV show involving time travel and civil war in Vancouver. It was a total blast to work on with my unrivalled compatriots Richard Ballermann (colors) and Ed Brisson (editing and lettering) knocking it out of the park yet again.

So check it out.

Really, another "Starwatcher"?

YES.

Another tribute to the famous "Starwatcher" by moebius, done with a character from a secret project I'm working on... a colored version to come later! (drawn for Brandon's pal Shannon)

Oonaka Meat Baron

A character from a Prophet story I'm working on - a vice-ambassador of the Flesher's Union (or just one of the 'Meat Barons' in common parlance)
More soon(ish)!

Comix and Stories!

Later this month, I'll be heading over to Vancouver for the ever-excellent Comix and Stories, the one convention I've been (fairly) regularly attending for the past four or five years. Swing on by if you're in the area!


Also, if you're on the West Coast of Canada, you might see an illustration I recently did for Wildplay Element Parks, a cool company that runs a bunch of big crazy adventure parks full of zip-lines and tree-borne obstacle courses. Wild stuff indeed! Check out their site here: http://www.wildplay.com/letsplay

Prophet #32

It's months away, but the cover you see here is for a Prophet issue I'm taking on myself - full writing, drawing and coloring duties. Pictured here - an Earth-Empire scout watches the Fifth Army of the Crystal King decamp somewhere on the Deccan Plateau.