Speaking of The New Frontier

Enjoy one of my favorite songs of the 80s. Donald Fagen's "New Frontier" and it's great late 50s / early 60s era style...

Angels and Nightmares

Recently, I was asked to contribute to an upcoming book titled "The Book of Angels and Nightmares". The concept is simple. Each artists get two pages, one page to draw something angelic, pure and good. The other to create something evil, profane and bad. They even got James O'Barr, creator of the Crow to contribute.

I tried doing the literal angel piece but I can really pull off the whole fantasy style artwork thing. So, I got the idea of doing more of a crime film noir piece. Posted here is my angel image. The publisher of the book asked us not to show both pieces, but to save them for when the book comes out. It's scheduled to come out sometime in the Spring. Click on the image below for more details.

DC: The New Frontier, Absolute Edition

When this series came out a few years ago, I was drooling. One of my favorite artists, Darwyn Cooke, writing and illustrating a mini series focusing around the Silver Age heroes of DC. Well, when this Absolute Edition was announced the drool commencd again.

This oversized, hardcover, slipcase edition runs $75, but of course you can get it at Amazon for $40 and something. It conatins several new story pages, annotations by Cooke, alternate sequences, sketches, action figure designs, photos, pinups, all the covers fro the series and more.

I'll be the first to admit that Marvel has much cooloer characters than DC. But when a talent like Cooke gets his hands on these DC heroes, it can't be beat. He somehow manages to mix the turmoil of the 60s with the wimsical feel of the Silver Age at DC. The art is stunning and the story is even better when read in one collective edition.

If you love great art, a great story and Darwyn Cooke, this is a must have.

Pirate Chick

Here is a new commission piece I recently did. It's based off a woman's Halloween costume. She wanted the piece as a gift to her husband. I took off the logo portion from the top that she requested so I could diplay just the art.

A Few New Pieces

First up is a pin-up one of the guys at Ape Entertainment asked me to do for their second issue of the very funny comic "Sub Culture", this is of the main female character Noel. Click here to check out their comic!

Next up is a commission piece for a friend, she gave it to her fiancé for Christmas. It's from a photo of them, taken in Estes Park.

The last one is another commission for another friend. This one was a gift for her husband, it's a decal for his yellow vintage hot rod.

Girls From My Past

Well, my comic book past anyway. Some of may know, but most of you probably don't, that I used to draw a comic book series called "Shades of Blue". It was created and written by Jim Harris and I worked on 13 of the 15 issues of the series. It was about a teenage girl named Heidi, who woke up one day to find that not only had her hair turned blue, but she had electrical powers as well. Long story short, villains started popping up in her town with powers and her two best friends talk her into becoming a super hero if only so they could be side kicks.

It was a lot of fun to work on and recently I realized how much I missed drawing the characters. So I thought I'd draw Heidi and K.T. just to see how they'd look if I was drawing the series today. This wasn't meant to be some super cool drawing or anything, just an exercise in visiting the past and seeing how time has changed how I draw. Anyway, hope you like it. I had fun drawing it. Man, I miss those crazy kids.

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