New Monster Face

Halloween is coming ... The New Monster Face. I'm putting together a halloween poster. SPX was great, you can read Jeff Lok's BLOG for some details. I've got some late breaking news also. I will be at MICE in Boston next week, at the CCS table. I'll be selling my new Halloween poster, come get a poster just before October begins. Also, here's some Amelia art. A tier from the last Amelia book. As always available HERE

new sketches

most of these are straight to ink doodles. I was having a hard time working on a page so I grabbed a junk piece of paper and tried to do some freeform ink doodling. As usual I only drew monsters and girls. Here's the monsters, next post will be the girls.

Sammy

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!

New Picture

I made this as an inking demo for my Sharon Academy class.
Which ended this last Thursday. And was totally awesome. All the students did a great job making their own comics. I wish this could be my full time job.

Last year I did this drawing as my inking demo for the class.

MoCCA Post!

MoCCA is in less than a week!
If you didn't read it, IKJK sent out a press release about what's going to be at the table, including my new book. Read about it here
Here's the finished colors for the new issue.

I printed them up this weekend, and I'm pretty happy with them.

Chapter 7 previews

These are photographs of some panels from chapter 7. Out of context I don't think there's anything spoilery in them.
I switched my art supplies, having gained confidence with the brush I am using that instead of the nib for my characters.

Sammy with a face full of shame.

Sammy being treated like the little brother he is.

I'll post more tomorrow.
Also, went to a giant book sale yesterday and got some good looking stuff. Including a VHS copy of Creepers

which is the american release of Phenomena, directed by Dario Argento, starring Jennifer Connelly, I haven't seen it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

A.P.E. samples

So I put together the book for A.P.E. Chapters 5 & 6

Here's a sample not from the actual chapters, but just a little piece of filler art.


This image was the black and white cover for Chapter 5 that I put together for SPX, well now it's in color! It'll be the cover along with a screen printed title.

A.P.E. and Chapter 6

today I finished inking chapter 6, here it is hanging out at my drawing board, I'm going to run down to the CCS lab and scan them pages in, then begins the laborious task of photoshop clean up and putting the book together.

I'm on the road to Bethesda today. So this is the last post before SPX.


to find out what happens next you gotta buy the book.

slup slup

I just finished screen printing the cover for this issue, I think it turned out pretty well, I'll show you that soon.

Amelia

I'm proud of these two panels. Also, I should announce now that at SPX '08 my comics will be at The Center for Cartoon Studies table and at the Sundays table.

The Plot Thicks

2 panels , day 2

2 panels a day!!

From now until SPX I'm going to post two new panels a day from a dream sequence in Chapter 5 of Monsters & Girls: Amelia.


AND...
For today only, a picture of my parent's new puppy!

New Pin-Up art

A little fun with a classic pin-up pose and the titular character from Monsters & Girls: Amelia. Here she is holding the three mysterious objects that she's searching for in the story. she seems a little freaked out to be here.

Monster Face

based on the monster in the closet from The Brain that Wouldn't Die!

Amelia on sale at I Know Joe Kimpel

Monsters & Girls: Amelia is now available for purchase online. At I Know Joe Kimpel!
Here's the IKJK blog post about it, from Emily.

This is your first chance to buy my thesis comic outside of the MoCCA Art Fest and Vault of Midnight! This is the one place to buy it online for now! Also, it's being sold WITH the glow in the dark eyeball as a free giveaway

More MoCCA comics

so in addtion to my own book, I'll also have work in two very awesome anthologies at MoCCA.

The first, Secrets and Lies, is put together by Cat Garza, and is like almost two hundred pages of awesome.

The second, Sundays 2, is put together by members of my graduating class, I have an original all new Dishy Dora story in it.

CCS people are going to be at a bunch of different tables, the I Know Joe Kimpel Table, the Sundays table, the CCS table, the Secrets and Lies table, and more, and CCSers are going to debuting a ton of new great comics.
Oh! Also, the local newspaper wrote a story about our graduation and there's a great picture of me and Chuck Forsman hugging

they also quote me heavily.
So in other news, it's moving season here in White River Junction.
EDIT
just so people know what to look for, here's the cover for my book, Monsters & Girls: Amelia

Amelia poster

Anyone in the Ann Arbor area can buy a copy of Monsters & Girls: Ameila at the Vault of Midnight! Go, check it out.
Thanks to Mom for going to the store and doing this for me, since I'm in Vermont