Trickster Promotion

from the Trickster blog:

A bunch of contributing artists to Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection will be at Big Planet Comics in Vienna, Va., this Sat., May 15, for a signing from 2-4 p.m. In attendance: Matt Dembicki, Andrew Cohen, Evan Keeling, Paul Zdepski, Chris Piers, Jacob Warrenfeltz, Mike Short, Jerry Carr, Rand Arrington and Scott White. We'll also be doing sketches and giving away artist trading cards featuring Trickster critters (see below)! I'll also give a very brief talk about the project. Come by and join the fun!

See you there!

Bug Bomb page 1

page 1 completed

BubBomb 4 tiers of panels...one more to go

Some more work on "Bug Bomb" page 1 tonight. I like these panels. you can also faintly see the layout of the final panel on the page. not sure if my scanner could suck worse though. Apologies for the crappy looking scan and weird blotchy areas. it's amazingly bad...the big gray bar in the middle of the bottom part of the page is mind blowing. not sure how that got there. really annoying.

Trickster Nominated for a "YALSA"

From the Trickster blog,

Trickster was recently nominated for the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

I'm amazed and excited by some of the press and reception this book is getting.

Links

Some links Kevin snowed me today

Mars import comics and whatnot
League of Movable Type open source fonts

Reference: Presentation tools

I do a lot of presentations at work and found a couple cool little apps from the Duarte Design blog

The first one is a visualization app for streaming/showing live twitter feeds during a presentation - visible tweets
the second is a slick presentation tool called prezi. It makes really nice transitions and allows you to zoom in and out really easy. Here's one I did jsut to play with it. Took me about 30 minutes.

drawing process on Prezi

a little more page 1

working on a tier-a-night getting more comfortable with the washing technique. Right now I'm not happy with the backgrounds but I think everything will look ok when the word balloons are added in.

Two tiers

Bug Bomb top tier page 1

here's the first three panels of page 1 of "Bug Bomb" (written by Kevin Panetta). Kind of a bad scan - bluryness in the second panel. But overall I like how this is coming out.

roachy heads and whatnot

sketch book

Trickster is Available

Reposted from Matt Dembicki's blog:

Trickster is now available at Amazon.com. You can order here.
It will very soon be on the shelves of major bookstores and indie stories.
Thanks for your support!

Greg Rodgers and I have a story in there called, "Giddy Up Wolfie" (Page 111) Check it out!

sketch book

Reading a little manga got me geeked to draw. so I did a version of Monster fight's Cassie with my watercolors.

old tttfomb page

here's an old page from an old unfinished project.

doodles and scanner hate

is there anything worse then dropping a couple hundred on new hardware and it's a piece of shit? I hate my new scanner. SO I went to plug in my 10 year old canon even though it only worked in spurts....well too bad for me, there are no cano scan drivers for mac so it's too bad for me. Whatever. sticking with the crap for now but god it sucks.

Anyway, for your enjoyment, here is a crappy scan of a mediocre sketch.

sketch: dirty dishes

back to work: colors for Monster fights 1

Been a while since I had a working computer, tablet and photoshop all working but I finally got it all last back together again so I can get back to coloring. Here is the latest page of monster fights one that I drew last year but still haven't finished coloring. more soon.

into the black : more bits and pieces

OD Carved out

OD Rocky

Touched up drawing

into the black inks

sketch: into the black 2

another perspective