I don't usually draw commissions, but when I do...

It's easiest at a convention (so I don't have to break up my ordinary workflow). Here's a couple of ECCC (and one for an original art buyer) commissions.


Ellen Page in space for Alison Sampson!

Mike Mignola-style wolverine in the savage land

Supes and Bats at 3AM

Coming Down

Pictured here is what the emerald city comicon did for me - blew my g-d pants RIGHT APART.
LITERALLY.

Okay, well, THAT was from some power-squats at the booth, but generally speaking, Emerald City Comic Convention was amazing. Not only did I get to meet lots of the people who've been enjoying and supporting prophet, but I had the chance to FINALLY hang out with some of the prophet crew that I've been working with online. And they're pretty awesome dudes. 

Plus, we got a lot of good response to the copies of 'pilgrim' that we gave out - seattle is saturated with the thing!

Now, coming down off of the convention high and finding myself (ripped pants and all) back in the real world, the whole experience has left me re-invigorated and best of all, excited about the work I have to do. You can see a bit of the experience here at Andrew's "Art for Fun and PRophet" blog...

CBR Interview and Adventures South of the Border!

Check it out - a pretty solid interview avec moi is up on Comic Book Resources!
[link]

ALSO as I've said before I'll be at table A-04 at Emerald City Comicon (in seattle) THIS WEEKEND! Come on down and say hi to the whole g-d prophet team! 
(It'll be dope. Trust me.)

Prophet #34 Out Wednesday

This wednesday, I've got another issue of prophet out (written by/with Brandon Graham, colored by Joseph Bergin III and lettered by Ed Brisson). Pictured here: A newly awakened Siege-breaker clone gets picked up by an Earth Empire Womb Shuttle. 

You can read a preview here: [link]

And there's a page from the AWESOME back-up story within up here: [link]

ALSO: I forgot to hype it last week, but in the latest issue of Dark Horse Presents, the first section of the story Jason Wordie ([link]) and I wrote is present and waiting to be read! Pick up a copy and peruse!

Seattle and Ann Arbor!

First off, if you're in or around Ann Arbor, Michigan, anytime soon, I'll have some pieces up in the "First Contact" Art show at the Gallery Project. Here's the blurb from them:

(Image: Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, Elysium Planitia)

"Gallery Project presents First Contact, a multimedia exhibit in which 33 regional, national, and international artists explore our desire to encounter extraterrestrials, our preparedness for such an event, the event itself, and its possible consequences.

Technological development has brought us to the precipice of first contact, but has humanity kept pace? Is our search for extraterrestrial life simply a search for answers to our own existence? What makes us believe that we are prepared for a relationship with other worlds when we have difficulties on our own planet? Is it our innate curiosity or primal fear that motivates us? 'Artists," wrote Ezra Pound, "are the antennae of the race." Media analyst Marshall McLuhan expanded on that idea when he wrote, "Art as radar acts as an 'early alarm system,' as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots of time to prepare to cope with them." If art is an 'early warning system,' then what does art about First Contact foretell?

Contributors include Seder Burns, Thomas Carey, Ross Carlisle, John Causland, Debra Davis, Lynda Davis, Rocco DePietro, Zeek Earl, H.R. Giger, Brad Gieske, Clifton Harvey, Mayumi Haryoto, Dan Hernandez, Nicholas Kahn, Tanya Kavakoza, Charles Lindsay, Kevin Margo, Ian Moersen, Gloria Pritschet, Simon Roy, Michael Rea, Kris Rudolph, Richard Selesnick, Sara Schleicher, Douglas Scobel, Brian Spolans, Derek Stenning, Po-Wei Su, Mike Tarr, Jacob Tebbe, Brana Vojnovic, Lynn Whitney, and Barry Whittaker.

The exhibit is curated by Seder Burns, Lecturer of New Media, University of Toledo, and Gallery Project collaborator. "

It looks like it'll be an amazing show, and I'm sad that I won't be able to attend in person. More information can be found at the gallery's site here.

But secondly, where I WILL be in person is the Emerald City Comic Convention! WOO! Brandon Graham, Farel Dalrymple, Joseph Bergin III and myself will all be squatting at the same table (Table A-04), so if you're in Seattle in two weeks time, come on down and say hi!

A Full February

Febraury is an exciting time for me - two different books on the shelf in the same month!


First, Prophet 34, written by me and Brandon Graham, drawn by myself, colored by the stellar Joseph Bergin III, and lettered by Ed Brisson, is out this month.
Second, the first part of a three-part story by Jason Wordie and myself will be coming out in Dark Horse Presents. The story is called "Under The Ice", and is about an ice-age shaman's journey under a vast glacier - and the spirit world beneath it - to save the soul of his father.
Both are out on the 20th - so go pick 'em up!

Prophet #32 Out Today!

After much hype (from myself), my solo prophet issue is on the stands today! It also features an AMAZING backup story by the stellar artist Daniel Irizarri! Go grab a copy!

There's a lettered preview up at comics alliance you can check out, too!

A super-brief TV interview

On the local island news!  Starting at about 1:40...



More stuff soon! Not only do I have a Prophet Issue coming out on Jan 2nd (to help with your post-christmas blues), but starting in January, I've got a short "Tiger Lung" story running in Dark Horse Presents! Stay tuned...

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!