Away team

A concept sketch for a story idea (one of many) that I've been chewing on lately - an idea that probably violates the prime directive...

Meanwhile, in the Kingdoms of Evil...

There are more installments of the Daniel Bensen/Simon Roy Story-building extravaganza up RIGHT HERE!

Part 4 :  The Story Develops

Part 5: Character Development chat between me and daniel

Part 6: Opening notes for the final outline, and Daniel's notes...

Part 7: Layouts for the 16-page opening scene and Daniel's notes...

Part 8: New concept art and the outline of the first chapter!

TWO MORE INSTALLMENTS

Of me and Daniel Bensen's story correspondence! Read them HERE and HERE!

Story GERMS!

The next installment of me and Daniel Bensen's story conversations - now getting into some of our e-mail correspondence earlier in the year.
Click Here for the next post in the series!

Podcast - Image to Story with Daniel Bensen

The first part of a conversation between Daniel Bensen and myself concerning a story I've been talking with Daniel about for at least half a year - listen here! www.thekingdomsofevil.com/?p=2…

There will be more as the week goes on, as well as (i think) an outline of mine for the story AND Daniel's insightful picking apart of said outline!

ALSO you can check out the starting seed of the aforementioned project here: robot-blood.blogspot.ca/2012/0…

Side Note - Homo Floresiensis Illustration Published in the Netherlands!

Something cool - one of the researchers working on the tiny hominid Homo Floresiensis (of Flores, Indonesia) got in touch with me about using my painting of the little fella months ago. Lo and behold, last month, that same researcher referred a Dutch science reporter to me, and I got my illustration into a Dutch newspaper (specifically, the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad)! Thanks to Hester and Hanneke!

New Prophet Issue out today - and Art Show Next Week!

First off, we've got another issue of prophet - issue #38, in fact, made by the usual crew but with some flatting help from my talented homette Jessica Pollard - out on the shelves today! The plot thickens! Giant parrot-apes crawl around a city made on a dead giant! Long-John Prophet bounces off a giant death-jellyfish! Old Man John Prophet has a tea party with a geometric shape!



But MUCH more excitingly, I've got an art show coming up next week on Main Street in Vancouver at the Hot Art Wet City gallery! Alongside three of the greatest local talents (Tony Cliff, Rebecca Dart, and of course Brandon Graham), we're putting up a show all about the dirty little secrets of commercial art - the process! From

Here's the info:
Process Colour
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday August 16 from 7-11pm
August 14-30, 2013
With book release, talk, signing & party for Tony Cliff’s “Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant” on Friday August 30 from 7pm

HOT ART WET CITY Gallery & Shop
2206 Main Street (@ 6th Ave)
Vancouver BC Canada V5T 3C7

 Come on down and hang out!

Podcast and Vacation!

I'm currently on vacation at the moment (Pictured above - Tayte McRae and myself constructing a sweat lodge outside Pincher Creek, Alberta), but my friend Daniel Bensen has put up another podcast! "Starring" Daniel, Memo Kosemen, and myself, it's an awesome and imaginative romp through a post "war of the worlds" universe, talking about all the juicy sci-fi parallels with the colonial and post-colonial experience that said setting could provide.

Have a listen here!

Sabertooth Swordsman

I had the supreme honor to do a cover for the best comic I've read all year - SABERTOOTH SWORDSMAN (by Damon Gentry and Aaron Conley)! It's coming out digitally weekly over at dark horse, and there will be a hardcover out this fall! Check it out!

Prophet 36 Out Wednesday!

Go grab a copy! We all put a lot of love into this issue and i think it shows!

"Expectations and Scifi " part 2

The second part of Me and Daniel's conversation on story stuff! All the stuff we talk about in this episode is in the links lower down on the page, too!

OPEN YOUR EARS AND LET US IN!

A "podcast"?

Here's a the first part of a short chat between Daniel Bensen (an amazing writer and long-distance friend of mine) talking a bit about managing reader expectation in genre fiction (sci fi in particular). Forgive me in advance for being too frank or pretentious!

LISTEN HERE!

(Also, take a look through Daniel's archives - he's got an excellent few podcasts where Memo Koseman {aka Nemo Ramjet, my dino-painting collaborator} and him talk about the future of war. Nice stuff!)