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!)

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...