Birthday Greatness

Got some really great stuff for my b-day. A lot of good reading and watching in my future...

Big Wizard World Thanks!

Thanks to everyone that stopped by my table at Wizard World this year. I didn't think I would have a big show for some reason and it turned out to be one of my busiest yet. I think I did aroud 30 drawings over the 13 or so hours I was there.

Here is a look at some of the drawings I did. Hope you like them...

Wizard World Texas

Come out to Wizard World Texas this weekend (November 16, 17 and 18). I'll be there in Artist Alley (at table 2620B they tell me).

I'll be there Saturday and Sunday. Stop by and commission a drawing from me or buy a book or 30, I need to at least make money back on that table (half a table actually)! Or just stop by and shoot the breeze, that's cool too.

I was scheduled to participate in the Live Art Show Friday at The Ballpark, but unfortunately, I have too much stuff going on and I can't get out there. I have a lot of freelance projects juggling around I need get them out the door. If the show was 10 minutes from my house, I could make it work, but it's over an hour from where I live.

Also, new posts and new art coming soon! The above-mentioned freelance work has really sucked up a lot of my free time.

Click here to check out all the guests!

Animated New Frontier

Drool....

Subculture Comic

Next time you’re a comic book shop (or comic shopping online for that matter), be sure to pick up issue #2 of Ape Entertainment’s Subculture. It’s a really funny book and this particular issue features a pin-up by your truly. Stop by the Subculture website to get a look at what they’ve got going on. It’s good stuff.
Click here to check out their site.

Mike Wieringo, R.I.P.

An amazing comic book artist has passed away. Man, this hit me like brick the other morning. Mike Wieringo (Fantastic Four, Flash, Spider-man) died of heart failure at his home. He was only 44 years old. He was apparently a vegetarian and exercised religiously, so it was a shock to say the least.

I never met him but he was always one of my favorite artists. I usually buy stuff based on artists and he (along with Darwyn Cooke, Bruce Timm and Mike Mignola) was
one of those guys who stuff I always tried to buy. His art was so incredible and inspiring that I would study it with this strange mix of awe and frustration. Awe, because he made it look so easy and frustration, because I knew I could never be that good, no matter how much I tried.

He and I both posted work on the same artist message board, so I interacted with him there occasionally. But I only interacted with him one-on-one over a couple of emails when I had some questions about a collection of his book Tellos. I started the email with something like, “You don’t know me, my name is…” and he started his reply with something like, “Hey Cal, of course I know who you are : )” And from all accounts, that’s just the kind of guy he was. Friendly, engaging, always open to fans and supportive of other artists.

I wish I had gotten the chance to meet him in person. It had been my plan (once I finished the Spookytown graphic novel) to not only commission a sketch from him, but to see if he would read it and possibly give be a quote for the back cover.

Rest in peace, you will be missed.

If you’re unfamiliar with his work, please check it out…

http://www.mikewieringo.com/

Me and the Mrs. - Simpsons Style

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