R.I.P. Tunis The Cat 1990-2009

Our 19 year old faithful feline companion Tunis passed away today. She had a good long life. Sweet dreams girlie girl.

Belated Spookytown Page Count

I can't believe I forgot to post this. I took this shot a few weeks ago. 37 pages in the can.

New Spookytown Promo Postcards

Every so often, I get these promotions from Overnight Prints and / or Vista Prints for 50 or 100 free postcards. So I try to whip up a new Spookytown and take advantage of the deals. Here is the latest one I created. I should have some more stuff to show in a few weeks. I am still hard at work on the book. I'm doing something each day on it. Lately that hasn't been much, but it's been something, which is better than nothing.

Whatever happened to Skunk Comics?

I was wondering this the other night and thought I'd try to see what those guys are up to these days. If you're familiar with the Dallas comic book scene, you'll probably remember them from the local shows and for their book ITA Code of the Dragon. They were around when I first started doing appearances at cons and I thought it was cool meeting some local guys who were publishing comics... Sam Bohon, Sally Ridout and Walker Plagge. I didn't get to hang out with them much but when I did talk to them, they all seemed really cool. Anyway, after a rudimentary Google search...

Walker - Came across his family blog, seems to be teaching and is married with two kids... http://dollyep.blogspot.com (be sure to check out the cool mural he did for this little boys room). And I found his deviantART page... http://cobaltmonkee.deviantart.com/

Sally - She has a website... http://soliloquy.sridout.com/

Sam - Looks like he might have published a couple ITA graphic novel, but I really couldn't find a website for him anywhere.

Maybe they'll Google themselves someday, find this post and report in. Or I bet Samax might know what they're up to...

John Tesar Image

Here is a piece I did for John Tesar, who used to be the Executive Chef at the mansion at Turtlecreek. He's using on his website (The About Us page) for his new restaurant, Tesars Modern Steak and Seafood. If you live near there be sure to check it out.

Jack Boy

Celebrated my first Father's Day this year. Hard to believe. Also, it's hard to believe how fast the boy is growing. I posted his 9 month photos over at his site. Be warned cuteness overload can be deadly. It... can... be... deadly.

Be sure to check out his sweeet kicks! Chuck Taylors!

Lutu - Warrior of the North

Here's a little pin-up I did for Lutu - Warrior of the North. A comic by Steve Coffin, published by Ronin Studios. Steve describes her...

Lutu is the main character in my new sword and sorcery comic book that is currently in production. She is the sister of a famous Warrior, who is also named Lutu, but unfortunately our Lutu is more of a culinary expert than a sword master. Lutu is mistaken for her sister and she assumes her identity in hopes of finding her.

She's not your typical comic babe body type. As he says "She's a plus size gal".

Check out Lutu - Warrior of the North

Latest Frisco STYLE Magazine stuff

Here are the most recently published Frisco STYLE Magazine illustrations. Jeff, the couple in the first one are definitely based on Heather and me. As far as the woman down in the post below you said looked like Heather. She is a real person, I wasn't trying to make her look like Heather at all, hope the woman thinks it actually looks like her!

Arrivederci Condimento

The latest offering from Dog Food Productions.

Image Dump

Here's a bunch of designs and illustrations that I've worked on lately.

Jack

I’ve done a lot of updates at Jack’s website. Way more than I’ve done here lately. But I kinda have to keep it up to date with my mom and dad living so far away. It’s the best way for them to keep up with his progress. Speaking of which, he’s really growing and changing a lot. He’s crawling like crazy, eating solids and pulling himself up on things. It’s crazy to look at his one month photos and comparing them to how he looks now. Totally different. Anyway, he’s a lot of fun. So, if you’re into that type of thing (and by “that type of thing”, I mean photos and videos of an amazingly cute kid), check him out.

Hopefully I’ll be able to post some more stuff here soon. The whole computer fiasco mentioned below really threw me off my schedule and knocked me out of any kind of creative flow I had going. I even missed three days on my Spookytown resolution. I had been doing so good, drawing something every single day but having to scramble to get a new computer and get it up and running made me stumble. But I’m back. And hopefully posts will be back too.

My New Precious

Sad news to report, well sad for me, not you. My G4 Mac, lovingly refer to as “Silver Surfer”, died last Sunday. You might can imagine my frustration and despair. But I guess I got a lot of mileage out of it since it was 7 years old. Which seems old for a computer. Especially since the guy checking it out at the Apple store literally referred to it as “vintage”. No joke.

So, obviously I had to order a new computer and that hurt. Mainly my wallet. I sure wasn’t expecting to wake up that day and spend that much money. In case you live in a cave (Batman, I’m looking at you), Macs are really... really... really... really... really... really expensive. But, my new wicked cool Mac Pro is here and ready for business. I have named him “Galactus”.

SciFi Expo Wrap Up

Big thanks to everyone who stopped by my table at the SciFi Expo this past weekend. I had a great time and did a bunch of drawings. Thanks to Mark and Ben for having me.

Huntress and Supergirl

Two new ones...

Scarlett

The companion piece to The Baroness...

The Baroness

I always dug her, so I thought it would be fun to draw her. And I was right. This is big 11' x 17" piece, I like how it turned out. I've decided to attempt to produce more ambitious "high end" drawings. Large format, filling the page, more detailed, yet still cartoony. I used to draw stuff that was a lot more detailed than what I do now, and I've had the urge lately to attempt to merge the two styles a bit and see what I can do. I'm also thinking about putting stuff up on eBay. Anyway, hope you like it.

Austin Browncoats Charity Drawings

Here are a couple of new ones I'm donating to the Austin Browncoats for one of their charity auctions. It's Wash and Jayne from Firefly in case you have no idea who these people are.

Come meet Colonel Saul Tigh. You know you want to.

You heard me, Colonel Tigh is gonna be here. Go meet him, maybe offer him a frakkin' swig from a flask. Or just come out and see me if you want. No one will judge you. Where you ask? Well, at the Sci Fi Expo of course.

April 18-19, 2009
Saturday 11:00 am-6:00 pm, Sunday 12 noon-4:00 pm.
Richardson Civic Center
411 W Arapaho Rd Richardson, TX

Media Guests include:

Michael Hogan - Battlestar Galactica: Colonel Saul Tigh,
Mark Sheppard - Battlestar Galactica: Romo Lampkin, Dollhouse: Tanaka, 24: Ivan Erwich, Firefly: Badger,
Bill Mumy - Lost In Space - Will Robinson, Babylon 5 - Lennier, Star Trek DS9, Twilight Zone the movie
Tony Todd - 24 - General Benjamin Juma, Stargate SG-1, Chuck, Star Trek TNG, Voyager, & DS9, Night of the Living Dead
Adrienne Wilkinson - Star Wars The Force Unleashed - Voice talent: Maris Brood, Xena - Eve, Angel,
Joanna Cassidy - Bladerunner: Zhora, Boston Legal, Ghosts of Mars, Heroes, Six Feet Under
Glenn Morshower - Agent Aaron Pierce - 24, West Wing, CSI, Star Trek TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, and more.

Other artists include: Brian Denham, Kristian Donaldson, James O’Barr, Jaime Mendoza, Terry Parr, Andrew Mangum, Cat Staggs, Lawrence Reynolds and Space Gun Studios

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Batman

A quick little Batman sketch I did for a guy...

Spookytown Comic Book Update

So far, I've knocked out 22 pages. It's been a lot of fun drawing all these scenes that I came up with years ago and seeing the characters come to life and interact with each other.