CONVENTION TIME!

This weekend, I'll be at VANCAF in vancouver with some of my favourite comics and illustration people! From the Propheteers (myself, Farel Dalrymple, Brandon Graham) to a gang of my fellow mega-talented Victorians (Tara Williamson, Renee Nault, Laura Bifano) the lineup of guests at this thing is MIND-BOGGLINGLY GOOD! I'm so excited to be there!

Not to mention some awesome panels (including one I'll be abandoning my table to attend - Steve Lecouillard, Rebecca Dart, and Tony Cliff talking about women warriors in comics!)

And NEXT weekend, me and Farel will be bro-ing it up together at the Denver Comicon! If you're in the Pacific Northwest or in Colorado in the next two weeks, come one down!

I'm Teaching A Comics Course in July

Here in Victoria if you're interested! Its the sort of thing where you can stay in dorms for the week, too (which I'm planning to do) on location in Metchosin, which is just outside of Victoria.

So come on over!

The Final Chapter of Tiger Lung is OUT TODAY!

In Dark Horse Presents #23! Go take a look!

Eisner Noms and Mid-year Cons

 

 FIRST: Prophet is nominated for an Eisner Award for best continuing series! WOOHOO!

Second: Conventions!

This weekend, I'll be at Fanexpo Vancouver along with the likes of Steve Rolston, MArley Zarcone, James Stokoe, and Ken Steacy - the creme de la creme of comics!
May 25-26th I'll be at VanCaf, another amazing vancouver convention...

Then, at the end of may, I'll be in Denver (with Farel Dalrymple!) for the Denver Comicon from May 31st to June 2nd.

Looks like it'll be a busy month! 

Rainy Days

Two stoic, wet scythians. Drawn for fun.

GOJIRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 At the end of last year, the esteemed James Stokoe inquired as to whether or not I could do a cover for his "GODZILLA: THE HALF CENTURY WAR" series over at IDW.

Obviously I couldnt resist.

The following is the process for the piece from conception to completion. FIRST: Concept sketches!


Next - preliminary drawing!


THEN - following some guidance from Toho, the godzilla license holders, revised pencils!


Inks


Lighting test...


And finally, with the UNSTOPPABLE Joseph Bergin the Third (also of prophet) bringing his A++ game, the final colors!

New Comics TOMORROW

Get thee to a comics shop tomorrow for PART 2 of "Beneath the Ice", Jason Wordie and me playing on some ice-age psychedelic BADASSERY!

More soon!

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!
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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!