Monster Workshop

This morning at 10:30 I'll be at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library for 24 hour comic book day!
I'll be running a 3 hour workshop on making comics and monster for kids.
Details about the the whole event Here

Here's a little sample of some of what I'll be showing the kids.

art by Jim Steranko, reproduced strictly for educational value,

not werewolves!
I'll be posting more later.

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.

Chapter 11 samples

some more panels from Chapter 11.
Hypno-dancing



just decided to color a panel for the heck of it. I used much the same colors on Amelia that Colleen Frakes chose for her Amelia drawing. I had never picked the colors for her outfit, I like what Colleen picked. I'm definitely not an awesome colorist.

book four will debut at the Dark Carnival Film Fest!

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