Go Wings, Part 2

Here's another print from college, this time of Chris Osgood, who'll be tending goal for the Red Wings in tonight's game 7.

Go Wings

Tomorrow night the Red Wings play the Penguins in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, so here's a print I made back in college, of one of my favorite players, Dino Ciccarelli.

Gracias, España

Although I took seven years of Spanish back in high school, I didn't take any more classes in Spanish after my freshman year of college, so naturally it was all very little help at the Barcelona International Comicon. Fortunately, most of the people at the festival spoke some English. In fact, a lot of Europeans seem to speak several languages, whatever that may say about myself, the American education system, or the geographic proximity of a wide variety of languages there. In any case, the Festival also had translators on hand to help out with some of the interviews and panels. It's kind of fascinating to watch - they would repeat the question to me in English, then as I answered they would write out notes and symbols before repeating my answer back in Spanish to the questioner. I felt by the last interview some of my Spanish was coming back to me, but not nearly enough that I didn't need the help. This is a page one of my translators made for my answer to the question, 'What are you working on next?'

Thanks to David Macho and everyone else who worked so hard for the festival, to Montserrat and José at La Cupula, and to all the other guests and artists I had a chance to meet and talk with, for making it a great experience.

Change-Bots Fan Club Drawings

Over on Top Shelf 2.0, you can see a few of the drawings I did for the original Change-Bots fan club offer. I just finished the drawings for the new limited offer, which is 30 spots, each getting a hand drawn trading card. The trading cards are actually panels which make up a story called 'Balls On Patrol' that will appear in the Change-Bots sequel next year (hopefully next year, anyway).

More and More Interviews

I did a long audio interview with the website Geekocracy, and you can listen to them now: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five. You can also find them on itunes at The Geekocracy Talk Cast. I don't remember what I said, but I'm sure a lot of it was nonsense.
If you'd prefer to read the nonsense online rather than listen, there's interviews up at Curio Comics and Newsarama.
Or, if you'd prefer a good old fashioned print interview, the new issue of Filter just hit the stands with a short interview and featuring a little of my recent non-comics illustration work.

Incredible Change-Bots Trailer

Special Limited Quantities Offer

Before I got any Transformers toys when I was a kid, I got a couple Go-Bots toys for my birthday. This was one of them. Clearly, a big inspiration for the Incredible Change-Bots.

Since I have some of the materials to make Incredible Change-Bots Fan Club membership cards left, I'm going to add 30 members to the Fan Club. So if you wanted to sign up but missed the original offer, this is your chance. As of right now, there's 10 spots left. Price remains the same, but there are a couple changes from the previous Fan Club membership listed in the back of the book:
- I'm out of the minicomic, so you won't get a minicomic with this. You will get the same membership card.
- Instead of the drawing of a Change-Bot of your choice, you'll get one of a 30 card trading card set. The set will feature a lot of different characters, so you can still request a particular one, but I can't guarantee you'll be able to get that one. The 30 card set will tell a short story, the way the Topps movie card sets for films like Star Wars did when I was growing up. The cards will be standard trading card size, with a full color drawing on the front.
If you'd like to join, email changebots at gmail dot com for the rest of the information.