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Stephen Bissette art!!

All around awesome guy Steve Bissette has done amazing portraits of two of my main characters. Steve knew who I was drawing influence from. So heres Vincent Price as The Mustache Man and Peter Lorre as Sammy. See, that's why Steve is awesome. Anyone could have figured out that the Mustache Man looks a lot like Vincent Price, but who else would have figured out that Sammy was drawn from Peter Lorre. I actually have old sketchbook drawings from before Sammy appeared in the comic where I was trying to figure out his look and he was much more Peter Lorre then. Before I added the Nosferatu influence to him. These sweet drawings are available inside the pages of Amelia parts 4 and 5, both will be at MoCCA this weekend.

Amelia 4 color cover

I realized I never posted a full color picture of Amelia Part 4. So here it is.

And a colored panel from Chapter 12.

New Amelia picture

I'm penciling Chapter Nine of Amelia right now. Here's a small sample from the 1st page.

Amelia imitating The Mustache Man.

Chapter 7 scanned

I finished the front and back covers last night then went and scanned all of chapter 7!
Here's a randomly chosen panel from chapter 7,

I haven't done any clean up yet. Do to my tiny lines and still some pencil marks I think this will be a difficult chapter to get ready for print. But I'm more than on task to have it printed for MoCCA.
Also, today the freshmen had a BBQ, and I attended! And I had fun, and played Bocce ball!

In the next couple weeks I'll be showing a lot more panels. I'm going to have to come up with a good way of showing exciting images without being to spoilery. I'm really proud of this chapter, as it's the first one I've done using the brush, but I also don't want to give much away.

Chapter 7 previews (2)

These are from the first few pages from Chapter 7.

Amelia alarmed

The Mustache Man being shady

So I ended up watching Phenomena instead of Creepers. I liked it a lot, but it got mixed reviews from the room. John was right that it's weird even for Argento. And as Steve said, watch out for CHIMP!

This week I'll be at The People's Academy teaching comics to sixth grade through high school students. Wish me luck!

I'm inking the cover of the new issue now, so far so good.

Mustache Man is...

So sometimes characters I draw end up looking like my friends.


photo from Joe Lambert's flickr account, panel from Chapter 6 of Amelia.

This usually happens by accident. This is something that came up in comments way back in December of '07 when the Mustache Man was thought to look like my friend John,here

Do other cartoonists do this by accident also?

Happy Holidays!

Hey all,
I'm in Silver Springs, MD for christmas, staying with my cousin Suzie and her husband Steve. I'm having a good time, Steve brews beer and I've been helping him empty a keg so he can start brewing something new. It's hard work, but as a good guest I do what I can.

I did this illustration as a submission for SuperGrrrl Adventure Comix 2 a zine put together partially by CCS freshman Jen Vaughn.
click on it to go to my flickr page and see it embiggened.
The character SuperGrrrl is (c) Rachel Edidin and Jen Vaughn. And the Mustache Man is my character, so I hold the copyright on him. This is his first appearance outside of Monsters and Girls: Amelia. Line art was done with brush and ink and color was done on photoshop.