Amelia Poster!

This is also the back cover for the last Amelia book. It will debut at this years MoCCA.

Women in Horror Month

So February is Women in Horror Month
and as the month comes to a close I want to give some appreciation to my frequent horror collaborator, Jess Abston.
Anyone who frequents my blog or my flickr page that doesn't know Jess personally will certainly recognize her.

Jess also co-hosted Atomic Age Cinema night at the Main Street Museum a few years ago, as Daisy Dead. She came up with some of the best gags of the night, including a pitch for vegan brains, so you can keep that ghoulish figure.

Jess also collaborated with the Nymphonomena crew, details on that have yet to be revealed...

Jess has always been totally unafraid to put herself out there, whether it's screaming at the top of your lungs to an audience that doesn't know it's coming, posing for frightening pictures, or dealing with my squid wrangling.
she now owns and operates Who is Sylvia in Woodstock Vermont. A store I highly recommend you visiting if you're ever in Woodstock.

threadless design close up

Here's pictures of just the design for the Threadless shirt.

in black and white

in color
once again you can vote for it here

Threadless design!

I made a design for Threadless's Pin-up competition! All my friends should go follow this link below and vote the top score for me!

Amelia photo

not very christmasy.
Just messing around in photoshop.

Amelia color panel

another Amelia panel colored. From Amelia part 4.

Amelia Part 4 Printed

Printing is finished for the first batch, debuting at Dark Carnival the end of this week, and then online sometime soon after.
Here's some awesome art from friend cartoonists that appear in the back of this issue,

from Beth Hetland

from Penina Gal

More to come this week...

more photos

actually the same two, but playing around with different filters.

First, here's the screen shot from a silent movie look.

I like the old magazine look of the halftoned one, like I found this is in an old girlie mag.

Amelia mystery

Was there an old Amelia silent movie?

More info and photos coming soon.

The Vintage Sleaze

Jim Linderman over at the Vintage Sleaze is doing this "Contemporary Vintage Sleaze" series, where cartoonists are doing gag comics or illustrations for his site.
I have up now, right HERE!
He also has some nice things to say about me.

BatGirl Pin-Up

So why am I doing these pin-up drawings?
kind of just for fun, also I'm going to MoCCA this year and I think I'm going to put out a small book of fan art pin-up.
Happy Mardi Gras tomorrow.

public domain "superhero"

So a little while ago I did a couple illustrations for John Rovnack's Panel to Panel.
The idea was to update a public domain golden age character.
Here's the Original Madame Satan,
and here's my version,

The concept for her character is that she was an evil woman who poisoned her husband but was then killed by him, and in hell she marries satan and goes back up to seduce men into hell, and then reveals her skull face.
As you can see I pretty much kept the original concept and color scheme. Her Satan was really boring and generic so I made him a little more goat like, or Rosemary's Baby like. I also added skeleton hands and put her in a teddy instead of an evening gown.

Bryan Stone was part of this project, he did a post showing off his art HERE
So did Josh Rosen, HERE

We did these for a panel to panel BOOK that should be out in march. check out the Facebook page for updates.
Here's the rundown of the book, it sounds super interesting,

PANEL TO PANEL
Edited by John Rovnak

Featuring New Interviews With…
*MARK BODE: A 21st Century Renaissance Man by John Rovnak.
*GLENN DANZIG: Damn, It’s Danzig by John Rovnak.
*JIMMY GOWNLEY: Normal Guy to the Naked Eye by Rachael M Rollson.
*ALAN MOORE: The Magical Adventures of an Extraordinary Gentlemen by Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe.
*STEVE MURPHY: Comes Out of his Shell by John Rovnak.
*DAVE SIM: The General in His Labyrinth by Jon Mathewson.
*JIM WOODRING: A Touch of Madness by Daniel Barlow.

*BY JINGO: A Personal Meditation on the Comics of Jack Kirby by Rob Walton.
*MARVEL 14: The Incredible History of France’s Censorship of Marvel Comics by Jean –Emmanuel Deluxe.
*KEEP YOUR PANTS ON! The Rock Art of James Kochalka.
*BUDDY COPS in Full-Color by Mark Martin.
*BEAT PANELS: OR; IS THERE MONEY IN POETRY COMICS? by Stephen R. Bissette featuring the graphic poetry of Peter Money and Rick Veitch.
*ORGANIZING COMICS: How Comics Created a Community in Rural New England by Daniel Barlow.
*EUROPE'S KRIMINAL HISTORY: featuring MR. KRIME by Mort Todd with Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe.
*EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Re-Imagined Interpretations of Forgotten Characters of the Public Domain.
*MY SKETCHY SUMMER, or 5 Days Hard Labor at the Center For Cartoon Studies by Philip Charles Crawford.
*CLOVER FIELDS ON FIRE: The Intellectual Architecture of Robert Crumb and the Tyranny of the Masses by Experience Kring.
*Organic Comix presents JIM SIMON'S SHIELDMASTER.
*DEFT MASTERY: The Genius of Early 1960's Archie Comics by Philip Charles Crawford, featuring Teenage Wildlife: an interview with Craig Yoe by John Rovnak.
*MEET JOE PRIEST: A Personal Reflection on Where Faith and Comics Meet by Fr. Chris Kulig, O.Carm.
*An archive of past interviews, from paneltopanel.net, featuring DAVID MACK, LARRY MARDER, LARRY HAMA, JAIME HERNANDEZ, JAMES STURM and STAN SAKAI.
* and more....

Cover by MARK MARTIN


So it should be pretty awesome, I'll update again when it's out.

Black Swan

Yeah, I don't usually post about movies that are up for Oscars, but I really liked this movie.

pin-ups and bones

Just some old stuff I haven't posted before.
First a picture of Sammy being scared of bones.

These bones are from a church in Prague, they had so many plague bodies they made art out of them.

Next is a picture is an Amelia pin-up. I use a variation of this image for the title page on Amelia 3.


it's a bit dirty, maybe you shouldn't look at this on a work computer.

just a reminder, Amelia 3 is available Here!

pin-ups and holidays

I took a two week vacation in California. It was great, had a fun time, stayed with my family. Here's a couple pin-ups I did while I was away.

Vampirella. I bought the Dynamite Vampirella number one at a comic store in San Francisco. Can't say I really liked it, but it might be too early to tell. I bought that and the new issue of Crickets, which was great. The comic store owner was shocked and confused by the combo.

I found a box of my old comics at my parent's house, I had a bunch of the Ed Brubaker Catwoman comics. Those are great.

Halloween zombies and such

SO,

It's going to be a busy week for me, which hopefully means multiple blog posts.

First,

On Saturday, October 30th I'm going to be at Comic Boom in Keene, New Hampshire. I'll be doing a Halloween signing of Amelia 1 through 3 as well as a new 1 dollar comic (more on that next post)!! I'll be there with Steve Bissette, Bryan Stone, who will be debuting Funny Aminals 2(I did the back cover for it), and I think some more CCSers.

After the signing we're going to go to Spooktacular V! They're screening Return of the Living Dead. More details at Saturday Fright Special. They're live horror hosting it, it's going to be awesome, they'll have prizes and a raffle. I'm donating some original art to it, check it out,


Second,

This Sunday's Family Circus was super creepy by the way.


third,

Oh, did you guys see the Amelia pin-up Josh Rosen did for book 3? It's awesome.

S.P.A.C.E. in a week

Hey folks,

As you may know I'm headed to Columbus, Ohio, next weekend for the comic con, S.P.A.C.E.

I'm not done with Amelia part 3 yet, but I'm close enough to put together a con-exclusive preview of it.
Here's the cover,

For the finished part 3 this image will probably be used as the interior front cover.

sketch book

Curt Purcell, over at The Groovy Age of Horror is asking artists for drawings for a virtual sketchbook since he himself is not going to cons to get drawings in person.
I was the first one to reply, the drawing it up here.
Go check it out, and the blog while you're at it, it's cool, I like it.

Um, here's some more drawings and stuff.

Amelia

Amelia's mom

Panel from Chapter 2

I'm heading down to New York tomorrow morning for MoCCA.

Bryan Stone did a real nice drawing for me that's the interior back cover of my comic, he's got it up on his blog with a couple other nice drawings,
check it out

I'll see you in New York!

Amelia sketchbook drawing

Yet another Amelia pin-up!

This one I did in my sketchbook before starting Chapter 7, both as to practice using a brush and as a test for the bra I'd be drawing a lot in the upcoming chapter (also just for fun).

As for the graduation pictures, I took them, and I'll update you soon on them.

Also, I saw Forbidden Zone again last night. I love that movie. Why can't more movies be influenced by Fleisher cartoons?