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This is one of my favorite pages I drew from Robots Are People, Too. Written by Jason Franks. You can view more of the book at http://blackglasspress.com/

sort of blue drawing from a new comic anthology I put together, "Robots are People" #3

When I'm at church,during the sermon, I draw. This may sound disrespectful, but it helps me listen and no one minds. Here's one of my drawings.

I drew this at SPX in 2006 — it doesn't look like I posted it — it's sort of what a convention feels like for me — if I'm exhibiting!

Found this drawing I did for work a few years ago. I kind of like it, a bit funny. My friend Rose colored it. It's always good when I can draw at the job, instead of doing computer work.

So this is my first post here in a very long time and I thought I would go again. Let's see if it works. Been busy with family (it's hectic and great fun having a 3 year old boy) and work (just finished an 8 page comic book for work, of all things, and in fact went to the press check today. it was pretty cool to see my comic printed on a 6 color Heidelberg. I took some pictures. Hopefully, I will post those pictures before another 33 weekes goes by or whatever between this post and the lastt. As for me, these are a few panels from a comic I did a few months ago. It's called Robots Are People, Too (#2). It's a 28 page comics anthology with stories by me and some stories by friends Dan Boyd, Lou Copeland, Fran Matera and more. We had some preview copies at MegaCon and the book will have a print run in Australia through my pal Jason Franks, who wrote a bunch of great stories in the book, and his Blackglass Press.

Two drawings of Kevin I did on a napkin. He was napping and we were at the Jurassic Park section of Universal. We had just ridden the Unicorn rollercoaster for kids. Which was pretty good. Kevin is 2 and a half and loved it.

For all of us "design gangsta's" out there...callin' out CMYK, FreeHand, Pantone 187 runnin' deep in yo' veins..

this is a piece I did for work and really enjoyed. It's rare I get to do any illustration so this was fun. I colored it in illustrator..

I haven't posted here in a lifetime it seems. I've been busy, but drawing a little. It was awesome to see 5 of the sketchsouth guys last week and my Tampa people.

I did come across this photo of me painting a spiderman at the Megacon. Someone bought it!




and a close up of the painting...

Hey, I'm in a new comic called Hard Words. Published by Jason Franks for Blackglass Press.

Here's the cover



The indie comics world is dominated by artist/writers... but comics is traditionally a collaborative artform. Sometimes the synergy between writer and artist yields better stories than either party could have managed by themselves. In a visual artform the writer is less apparent than the artist... but writing comics isn't easy.
HARD WORDS is an independent comics anthology that started with the writing. Five strong indie writers, producing strongly-written stories for five equally- strong illustrators to bring those stories to life. This isn't like other indie anthologies you've seen. Or heard--this anothology has a soundtrack. Words are spoken as well as written, heard as well as read.

40 pages. Written by John Cunningham, Jason Franks, Justin Jordan,Steven Mangold, and J. Marc Schmidt, illustrated by Ed Siemienkowicsz, Shawn Richter, Yuriko Sekine, Tim Twelves and Greg Vondruska. Cover by Nathan Wiedemer.

Here's my first page, without the lettering.



While I usually hand letter, Jason Franks did the lettering for this on the computer and I don't have that page handy.

Also when I was at Megacon, I was messing around with some watercolors and I started this, which I finished at home while watching Donnie Darko, so it went a bit well, dark...

So at Megacon we got Kevin an Owly from the guys at Top Shelf. Check it out. Kevin likes the tag that came with it alot, too. And now Kevin even says Owly, well, it sounds more like "dowly"

six weeks and I haven't posted, but I've been busy. Hectically, I convinced folks to do some work for a little anthology about robots called Robots are People Too. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Featuring the work of many Tampa Bay and Orlando area artists and writers,
with a few international guests, including:

Lou Copeland, Victor Claudio, Steven Mangold, Rose Wilson, Jerry Stanford, Niki Paksoy, Jason Franks, Daniel Boyd, Fran Matera, David Lamontagne, Nathan Wiedemer, Nick Abadzis, Jason Maranto
and Greg Vondruska

click the image to read more



Also had a great a time at Megacon, seeing many friends (Sketch South, yo! and Jerry, too) and hanging out, drawing and buying comics.

Happy new year. My son won't nap so I have to run to go get 'im!

doodling Just playing around with a wacom tablet in illustrator. I hadnt' used one before with the software loaded and it was fun

Just playing around with a wacom tablet in illustrator. I hadnt' used one before with the software loaded and it was fun. I actually can't believe I hadn't drawn with this before. Damn

i was so tired today, i forgot how to say bacon..i wanted the crunchy stuff, but said ham instead...

To all my friends, Merry Christmas, Happy New year, and thanks for inspiring me in 2006 with your art and writing.

These are some drawings my son, Kevin, and I did today. It's pretty cool because now if I draw a fish he says fish and if I draw a penguin, or sort of draw a penguin, he says penguin. Well, he actually says "pen -win" but its very cool.

I don't think I've mentioned Fran Matera much here, but he's an almost 82
year old cartoonist that lives close to me. And he's the real deal. Worked
with Will Eisner on Quality Comics and the Doll Man feature, worked on
"Kerry Drake,", took over from Milton Caniff on Dickie Dare and lots of
other work. A Bruce Lee feature, worked with Dick Giordano on Treasure Chest
comics in the '60's. He's got a great story about Giordano calling Fran a
sissy because he was inking with a size 4 Winsor Newton instead of a 5.
"You're a sissy, you can get those thin lines with the 5 just like a 4." Can
you imagine a size 5 brush? Ha-ha. I can't.

Anyway, I bought a page of Fran's art from a dealer at a local show a few years ago. When
I learned he lived in Safety Harbor which is close by to me, well, a few months later
I thought I would look him up. So I called him.

He's a great guy and we've struck up a friendship. I built this website to
talk about his career and put stuff online: Here's the

bio
page and also there's a bunch of other pages and images to check out there.

I've got more of his art and we've met on a few occasions at shows
and had a super time chatting comic strips and looking through art.

So check out the site and click around. There's tons of stuff on there and loads of his Chuck White material is archived here online:

P.s.

Whole stories from Fran's Chuck White

Treasure Chest material from the early 1960's are a particular favorite of mine. And there's tons of them online here

Here's my sketch of three snowmen. It's for the back of my Holiday card for work.

Oh, and if you want to help me buy Elmo toys for Kevin for Christmas you could buy my copy of Kramer's Ergot 4!
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