Fan art!

The Awesome Colleen Frakes left this picture on my desk last week!

Unfortunately for Vermont Colleen is moving to the West Coast in September.
Fortunately for you she is having a moving sale at her Etsy store, Check It Out!

Chapter 11, October and horror

SO,
I'm going to Bloomington for the Dark Carnival Filmfest. I'll be tabling with Werewolf.
It's going to be a lot of fun, I'll give you more details about it as the time comes.
But, I wanted to talk about Amelia 4. Which will be debuting there.
Here's some samples from Chapter 11(You'll remember chapter 10 samples here and here). Relatively spoiler freeish.

Amelia scared of someone, in the print version I'll remember to fill in the black on the knife!

A disgusted Sammy with arms full of snacks.

Amelia being spooky

And finally a mysterious new character.

So that's it for now, I'm well into drawing book 5, and want to have that finished soon also.

But, for 4 and 5 I'm looking for friends and fellow artists to help me out with some pin-ups for the back of the book. This is an open call, anyone who gets there art into the book will get a thanks in it and a free copy.
Thanks for reading!

Dark Corners

A few years ago now I made a Sammy spin-off story for Dark corners, it got reviewed HERE if you need a refresher.
Well I'm probably not going to reprint the story any time in the near future, so here's some panels from it.

Young Sammy upside down vomiting.



Young Sammy having some pretty viscous hallucinatings

Sammy looking more like the kid we know now.

Fleischer scans

Last week was the Create Comics workshop at CCS.
I taught a character design class that I think went really well.
Here's some scans I used or were scanned but not used.

Popeye

Popeye and Olive Oyl

Original Betty Boop

Dog eared Betty

Another old Betty.

There's more over on my flickr.
Thanks to Dakota McFadzean for doing the scanning and drawing with me in class.

sketches

The beginning part of thumbnailing for me is always drawing in my sketchbook.
Some of the stuff makes it into the comic and some doesn't. Here's some examples from my sketchbook.

Sammy

Cartoon Art Museum yeterday.

When I got to the Cartoon Art Museum yesterday I saw

My name on the door!

So I sat down and sold comics! I really like this museum.
It was the same day as the Gay Pride Parade. The town was full of energy and excitement.
There wasn't much of a cross over, but we had an okay crowd. Everyone in rainbows got into the museum free.
I Had a good time. They have a new permanent collection, a Berekley Breathed exhibit, a Green Lantern exhibit, and an Art of the movie Howl show.

I met a Museum student whose putting on her own Con in Berkley on July 10th, info about it HERE!

After the event I went to a Giants game with my Dad, we had a good time! All in all a good day!

Cartoon Art Museum.

So if you're in San Francisco this coming Sunday, which is the day of the Gay Pride Parade, come and see me at the Cartoon Art Museum.
I'll be the Cartoonist-In-Residence there from 1 to 3.
I'll be doing drawing for people and selling comics.

I'm excited to be there!
Cartoon Art museum check it out!

wolf face colored

Hands

Amelia and Sammy hands from chapters 8, 9, and 10.