Kane & Lynch SDCC

Am told via Ben Abernathy that there's going to be a special fancy lithograph available at San Diego Comic-Con with one of the covers I did. Only 1000 of them, I'm guessing at the DC comics booth. I'll happily sign any that come my way, so just bring them over to the Image Comics area, where I'll be rooted to when not in meetings/panels/interviews/tomfoolery with my new chums, the Westboro Baptist Christian fundamentalists.

SQUIDGIRLS at SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON

Unlike 2001 A Space Odyssey, it's not full of stars.

It's full of tentacles.

Cyberman Work In Progress...

A few shots of how the Cyberman I did for my San Diego Comic-con promo  looked before it came about. ( & yeah, for those that sadly miss out on the con, I put the piece up on ebay too. )





Forgot to take pics in the pencil only stage. Here he is, all inked and I've been adding pencil tones.





More pencil and I start with the watercolour washes.





After a lot more layers and washes, I work back into it with a white pen.



How it looks as an original piece of art before I whack it on the computer.



I layer some previously painted textures and such into the image, do a bit of darkening up parts of the armour and highlight a few others. A little lighting for kicks before I add some tonal colour to get the final image that becomes my promo piece for San Diego Comic-Con. Huzzah!

5 Days to Die... with a Cyberman

You will be deleted.

Cyberman without all the text on it. I want to do all the Who villains, old and new versions, one day.

5 Days to Die

I recently did a cover for Andy Schmidt's 5 DAYS TO DIE and right now is apparently a good time to order it and as with all smaller titles, every order counts! Tis a good little book, I've read the first issue and the art suits it perfectly, by the artbot known as "Chee". It's from IDW.

Here's all the info you need, have at thee.

Andy on twitter: @comicexperience

Link to CBR article about 5 DAYS: www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26937

Podcast with me about 5 DAYS and a bunch of other stuff on Comic Book Geek Speak: www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-1124.php

And here are the Diamond Order Codes:

Issue 1: JUL10 0331

Issue 2: JUL10 0333

Issue 3: JUL10 0335

Issue 4: JUL10 0337

Issue 5: JUL10 0339

Where I'll be this San Diego Comic-con

What the poster says basically!

Click for the larger version.

are you going to be at NYC comicon?

Yes, I'm apparently a guest this year, because the NYCCC crew are awesome.

Ask me anything

Vale Harvey Pekar

"I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize."
1939-2010

Fresh Brains

Between CHOKER pages and general life stuff, to stop myself going insane I did up a few zombie sketches on some cards I found. Here's the results! Yeah, I whacked em up on ebay afterwards too:

Zombie card 1
Zombie card 2
Zombie card 3
Zombie card 4

Here's a bit of a step by step on them:



Zombie card 1 inks



Zombie card 1 watercolour



Zombie card 1 finito



Zombie card 2 inks



Zombie card 2 watercolour



Zombie card 2 finito



Zombie card 3 inks



Zombie card 3 watercolour



Zombie card 3 finito



Zombie card 4 inks



Zombie card 4 watercolour



Zombie card 4 finito

Where I am on the web & Wormwood: L'invasion des tentacules

L'invasion des tentacules !

From the fine folks at Delcourt.

You'll be able to grab it here from the French Amazon site soonish.

Expect proper news on new Wormwood in english around October or so. Yes, I'll be at San Diego Comic-con. Copies of Squidgirls, Fell & commissions ahoy!

Also, if you weren't aware of just where I infect/people tolerate my presence on the internets... check out whichever one works for you most.

My Deviantart
MyTwitter.
My main site.
My myspace.
My books!
MyTumblr.
My blog.
My Livejournal
My Flickr
My Cafepress

Ghengis Khan's geneology.

From an exhibition out in San Jose

Ghengis sure did a lot of f***ing.

Ever going to update your cafepress store?

Just for you, I did. Slightly. May The Squid Be With You. ( In mug & water bottle form just for now )

http://www.cafepress.com/templesmitharts

Ask me anything

A little bit of Cobra

Done a ways back for Cobra: Origins.

A little bit of Wormwood

DRACULA Original Cover

I did another of those "Draw your own cover" books between CHOKER pages and about a thousand other things. ( I still have a couple of these things left, plus a few other titles that may make an appearance someday. For now, this Dracula is up on Ebay.

These books are probably some of the most fun things I get to do, since they're quick, easy warm ups and let's face it, I won't be doing *actual* covers for most of the classics in the Penguin line any time soon.

Will you do a new special cover for the French vol 3 of Wormwood? I assume it's getting released (it's listed on amazon.fr). And doesn't l'Invasion des Tentacules sound like a fun title?

Sadly no...didn't have the time this time around. Always did them previously as a favour. Hopefully wen there's a volume 4 it'll have a dedicated cover again!

Ask me anything