Shaolin Cowboy and the Hellephant's Curse

I had the extreme honor of drawing a pinup for Geof Darrow's latest issue of "Shaolin Cowboy" - and here's the result! The latest Shaolin Cowboy hits stands today, so go take a look!

The Final Chapter of Tiger Lung is OUT TODAY!

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

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)

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.

BAR FIGHT!!!!!!

A comic of mine from ancient times (I mean, from about two years ago) is awake and moving again over at STUDY GROUP! Take a read if you haven't already!

"Shipwrecked with Dan the Gorilla" up on Study Group!

The first part of a story re-drawn from a 24 Hour Comic I did back in 2008 - "Shipwrecked with Dan the Gorilla" - is up on the Study Group website after YEARS sitting on my hard drive! Enjoy!

Homeward Bound

And, in other news, a short story of mine is up at the new Study Group 12 website - an online version of the print anthology! Some nice, light post-apocalyptic reading...

PROPHET 21!!!!

Oh lord, I am a neglectful blogger. But no longer! Yesterday, the first issue of the relaunched "Prophet" - and the first issue of my three-issue story arc - was released in North America! It's chock full of strange and interesting creatures engaged in all manners of circle-of-life-type activities (sex, murder, cannibalism) and features amazing colors by my friend Richard Ballermann. It was a blast to draw, and has been getting great reviews so far. Not only that, but it's sold out at the distributor level and MUST BE REPRINTED!

Also, here's the cover for an upcoming issue, drawn and inkwashed by me and colored by my pal Jason Wordie.

(plus the non-colored one)

More soon! I'll be a better bloggist!

Tiger Lung Returns

I'm slowly building up material for my paleolithic shaman adventure comic, "Dead Lands" (the previous iteration of which can be read here).
Pictured above is the cover for a self-contained 20-pager I'm putting together right now - and below, a test page from inside the story!


And lastly, an early-ish development drawing for the main character, Tiger Lung.

Oh, the stories we tell

These are two pieces from my storytelling class this semester, a class which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite. Above is a brief retelling of Little Red Riding Hood - below is a simple sequence of narrative images showing a character go from hero to villain.

What I was doing this summer

"Prophet" Cover by Marian Churchland

On "Prophet," you've got Brandon Graham writing and Simon Roy on art. What stood out for you in their pitch?

"I was a fan of Brandon Graham and his work on "King City," and his outline for "Prophet" was fantastic. "Prophet" from the outset will appear to be the biggest departure from the original look and feel of the "Prophet" that myself and Stephen Platt made popular, but it's no less amazing. The storytelling of Graham and Simon Roy is staggering. You can read the book without any word balloons and follow the story effortlessly. The look of the book is reminiscent of Moebius and Geoff Darrow -- it's a gorgeous, European-style graphic novel. Don't sleep on this book. In the original "Prophet" series, John Prophet was awakened from cryo-sleep in a sarcophagus and had to deal with the reality of a brave new world. This new series finds John Prophet awakened from cryo-sleep in a brave new world where he has to deal with a much harsher reality than anything he faced in the original series. "

- Rob Liefeld on the upcoming book that Brandon Graham, Richard Ballermann and myself have been working on this summer. And I can finally talk about it!

The last year begins.

Well, after a crazy busy summer of work and play (the fruits of the former which will be in print sometime next year, I believe), school is BACK ON. To celebrate, here are a couple pages of a short-lived experiment that I was working on back in April.

Check 'em out.

Cosmonautical Ideas

The brainstorming page for an old cosmonaut short I drew in 2008 (Which you can read below in the little flickr window...) The worst thing is that some of the ideas on this page probably would have been more interesting then the story that actually came to fruition. It's a little cliche and melodramatic, but for an early effort...

If a tree falls in the forest...

Big Henry Takes Offence

To start, this is sadly the last school-related post for the next few months. But it is also with joy that I post - I was recently given a shout-out on the blog of one of my all-time comics heroes, Warren Ellis, for one of my other final projects. (If you've never read Transmetropolitan - or even Freak Angels, the awesome project he's serializing on his site, I'd highly recommend it...)

For our final project in our figure illustration class, we were given six weeks to design a 16x32 inch horizontal illustration that highlighted the figure. For myself, I'd just seen the movie Winter's Bone (again, go out and watch it - it's the best movie I've seen in two years at least), so I wanted to do something that touched on that gritty, rural american aesthetic.


After much drawing and compositional planning, this was one of my comps from about early/mid-project.


After finally nailing down the specifics of the composition and all that, I did a few media tests (like this one here). Once I was satisfied with those, I dived right in...



...starting...



...and finishing the linework...



...and the tones in inkwash...



...finally finishing the image off with some nice light watercolor washes for color and a bit of acrylic for the highlights. Ideally I'll be able to scan this on someone's giant oversize scanner and play with it a bit more in photoshop, but for now, this cruddy little photos is this piece's only digital presence.

And I'm okay with that.

ALSO!

In the hubbub of finishing the school year, I forgot to hype a short comic I drew earlier in April! Written by Michael May and drawn by myself, it's for "Panels For Primates" over at Act-I-Vate, an awesome charity being run to help out a Primate Rescue Center.
Read our comic RIGHT HERE.

Some Watercolor Studies and a Cartooning Award Nomination!

The following are studies based around compositions using a dark foreground to highlight a light midground. More very fun stuff from my landscape classes.

But more importantly, myself and Ed Brisson, man of steel, have been nominated in the OUTSTANDING CANADIAN WEBCOMIC CREATOR/CREATIVE TEAM Category for Skimming the Till and Catching Up http://www.murderbookcomic.com/

Check out the nomination here - some real cool stuff.
http://joeshusterawards.com/awards/about/2011-nominees/

The Year is New (ish)

Well, after a very nice, relaxing little holiday, it's back to the grindstone - which means more work to put up on this blog! Above are a couple of inkwash tests for my slow-moving 'dead lands' project - and below is a cover design for my "Blood Group" comic.

I've got high hopes for 2011 - and I think she'll do good.

Happy Holidays!

Open publication - Free publishing - More sci-fi

Here's my 'Bar Fight' story, hosted here on my own website. Merry Christmas!

Bar Fight - Full Comic!

My short story, "bar fight", is up in it's entirety at www.arthurmag.com/contributors/comics/ -

Have a read!

Color pages?

These are a bunch of "Blood Group" pages I've been working on for a school project. There are a bunch more, but I'll be keeping the rest under wraps for the next little while.