igoogle

If you missed Comicon, you may have missed Google's launch of Comics themes for the igoogle homepage. I was lucky enough to have the chance to design a theme, and created a series of drawings of my son Oscar and I.

Drawing Between The Lines

A few years ago, filmmaker Bruce Parsons shot a short documentary about me called 'Drawing Between The Lines'. Later this year Top Shelf will be putting out a limited release DVD of the film, along with some extras. If you're at San Diego Comicon though, you can see a screening of the film followed by a Q&A session with Bruce and myself. It's Saturday night at 5:45PM in Room 26AB.

Original Art at San Diego Comicon

If you're at San Diego Comicon, stop by the Scott Eder Gallery, Booth 4515, where you can see the original sketchbook that I drew
Funny Misshapen Body in. There will also be other original art of mine for sale there. If you can't make it to Comicon, you can still see some of my work online, including a number of my art school paintings...

Spanish Interview

Bighead Vs

Next week is San Diego Comicon, and one of the things you'll be able to find (while supplies last, anyway) is a free giveaway sketch card where I'll finish the drawing, sponsored by the online store Things From Another World. My card features Bighead with space left to draw a villain. With the original art, I went ahead and drew a villain and colored the piece, which will be auctioned off for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Hulk

Here's a drawing I did of the Marvel Comics character Hulk, for the March of Dimes fundraiser at the western Washington comic shop Comic Evolution. The auction is on July 18th, so if you're in the pacific northwest and can make the trip, stop by, there'll be art from over 70 artists.

Bad Milhouse

When Sammy Harkham first talked to me about doing a Simpson's Treehouse of Horror story for this year's issue, he mentioned something about the idea of taking one character and really turning them inside out, really getting inside their head. Something like that, he worded it better than I am here. Anyway, instantly I thought of Milhouse and the film Bad Ronald. There were lots of parallels to draw on - Milhouse and Ronald were both nerdy outcasts with glasses, living with single, bitter divorced parents, and capable of unintentionally disastrous bumbling often combined with poor decision making. I plotted out the eight page story and sent thumbnail layouts to Sammy, who said he couldn't understand any of it. Above is the thumbnail for page 1.
My apologies for the early posting on the progress of the page, I should be able to repost about process after the story comes out. In the meantime, check out today's (June 24) Diamond Previews and have your local comic shop reserve your copy of this year's Treehouse of horror comic.