January things

This month finally ended after a year.

Let’s see where this goes..

Dragonfly Man, or The Dragon Fly, or some combination of that. Created by Jamal Igle/Tom Peyer and story by Stuart Moore for Ahoy Comics. They weren’t sure how the story should be colored so they had me do it after I had drawn all the black and white. Tom Peyer was the editor and let me wail away at it. All done digitally on an iPad.

Dragonfly guy is getting hit with a what should have been a lethal dose of the villain’s “super psychedelic acid” drug. These types of scenes are always the most fun to depict… especially when you have an awesome editor and writer to work with! In these panels, the good version of Dragon Fly Man and the evil version are arguing around his head the whole time. My little add was making the evil one in the John-luc Picard pose when he says “Engage” after the 3 of them decide to pursue the bad guy.

Garbage Pail Kid art. Gouache on paper. Already sold, sorry.

It’s still happening! I’m still planning to appear at I Heart Horror Day ! I hate that they use A I for their advertisements. But it’s a fund raiser for the Deborah Heart Lung Center. AND it’s the first gig my new agent, Suzy, is arranging. Hopefully my buddy Paul will still have access to a car. It’s only in New Jersey so I don’t think it would take more than 2 hours to get there. I like roadtrips but anything past 2 hours on the road can easily get annoying.

Ink on paper. One panel from a comic book story I did about 15 years ago? Written by Ann Nocenti for DC Comics.

I’m behind in comic book work. January has been a trying month. The world has shit itself and refuses to change into some clean linen. We began January recovering from a good party, but our wire from the front room to the circuit breaker box was bad and causing shorts. The electrician came in and like a willful carpenter ant, bore holes all over the ceiling and parts of the wall as he ran new wires. He also noticed we don’t have enough power feeding in to our box from the basement. I’m sure that will be an issue soon enough but not today!

Gouache on paper. Price on request. Card art for Mars Attacks card set.

The backdrop of our government moving into full fascist authoritarian mode between turning the US Navy into pirates taking over oil tankers. Kidnapping the leader of Venezuela, threatening to blow up NATO because we need to own Greenland, and Trumps colossal embarrassing Davos speech… well anytime he uses his words, I’ve actually had several periods this month of just being so angry at the world because of the tragedy unfolding in Minneapolis I couldn’t focus enough to work. It’s everything all at once, the big picture and the personal coming together to roller derby our emotions. I think that’s why we have cat and dog videos. If they ever take those away from us the revolution will begin immediately.

Toxic Avenger Issue #10 cover. Gouache on paper.