First come, first served to purchase this 9x12 full color original of Ultra Boy and Phantom Girl from the Legion of Super-Heroes for $80.00! Buy by 2:00pm, February 5 and save $20!
Havoc and Polaris Valentine Art Available!
First come, first served to purchase this 9x12 full color original of Havok and Polaris. $80.00! Buy by 10:00pm, February 4 and save $20!
Hawkman and Hawkwoman Valentine Art Available!
First come, first served to purchase this 9x12 full color original of the Winged Wonders. $80.00! Buy by 3:00pm, February 2 and save $20!
My #NYCC 2016 Schedule
I'll be at New York Comic Con this week. I'll be at C12 in Artist Alley the whole show, excepting… Thursday 3:00-4:00pm: Signing at the IDW booth
Friday 12:30-1:30pm: I’m doing a teaching workshop Family HQ – 1E16
Also, my "Captain Kirk and His Ladies" piece will be auctioned at the NYCC charity auction. The original and a giclee print (24x6, full color) are a package. This is the only place you can get the green wrap shirt Kirk.
I'll have two giclee prints with gold shirt Kirk for $75 at my table. And then a more in the smaller 18x5 size, the same as my Doctors Who print at the table for $15.
Also at the table I'll have Love and Capes, Long Distance, My Little Pony and more, including original art, sketchcards and more. I'll be sketching all weekend long, and being a mildly amusing conversationalist, too!
My SDCC Schedule
My SDCC schedule:
THURSDAY
3:00-4:00 MY LITTLE PONY SIGNING
IDW Booth
FRIDAY
MODERN ROMANCE COMICS
2:00-3:00 Room 32AB
Once a staple of the Golden Age, romance comics have faded into the background in recent years, but now they're making a comeback and tackling a wider variety of love stories than ever before! Carrie Sessarego (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books), Janelle Asselin (Rosy Press publisher), Sarah Kuhn (Heroine Complex, Fresh Romance), Thom Zahler Cartooning (Love and Capes, Long Distance), and Cecil Castellucci (Shade the Changing Girl, The Plain Janes) discuss both classic and new romance comics, some of comics' most enduring love stories, and the challenges and joys unique to creating romantic stories in comics!
SUNDAY
2:00-3:00 MY LITTLE PONY SIGNING
IDW Booth
EVERY OTHER DARN MOMENT OF THE SHOW
Booth 2000
So I Got My Apple Pencil
My Apple Pencil finally arrived last week. I've been experimenting with it in whatever free time I have. Overall, I like it quite a bit. It paired easily and charges quickly. It's got a great feel to it. Mostly, I've been drawing in Procreate, which I like quite a bit. It does a lot of the things that Photoshop does and has a pretty quick learning curve. I do wish it had a straight-up magic wand tool to select an area.
I adore the different brushes, especially the pencil, graphite and chalk ones that create a really natural tool. They're better than anything in Photoshop and at least on par with Painter.
The problem I've had so far is line fidelity. The iPad Pro is almost too good. I'd like to be able to tweak it so there's a little more smoothness to my line, the way that I've done with my Cintiq and Manga Studio. I can make a pretty crisp line with a brush, but the Apple Pencil isn't a brush and doesn't have the same feel.
I'm following the same learning process I did with the Cintiq, Manga Studio and my Nostromo where I forced myself to do a drawing a day using that tool. That's been helping a lot. The Captain Cold sketch below took almost two hours to do. The Wonder Woman one took less than an episode of Castle. That's improvement.
The iPad Pro is doing what I expected it to do. Ultimately, I wanted what I call an Eighty Percent Device. Something where I could get 80% of the way to finished. With my current setup, I'd be able to at least create tight pencils for projects. I'm working on getting my inks where I want them. And I'm finally going to be able to sit on the couch and color comics pages! That will work well for me. Ultimately, I'll still need to take it over to the desktop and tweak and finish those files off, but being able to do 80% of the work on the iPad when I need to makes my convention travel schedule a lot more manageable, so I'm definitely happy with my purchase.
My Weekend at Alter Ego Comics
This past weekend, Marc Bowker invited me to his store, Alter Ego Comics, in Lima, Ohio. I've done a few events for Marc, and they are uniformly excellent. They're a lot of fun, Marc's staff is delightful and they all take care of me. If you're a creator and you get the chance to do something at Marc's store, jump at the chance! (Marc also has an unerring ability to find great places to eat, too.) Saturday's event included a screening of my Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors episode, a Q and A afterwards, and lots of signing and sketching afterwards. Lots of people came by and I had a wonderful time meeting and chatting with everyone.
Photos are courtesy of the Underground Video Network, who also interviewed me. The interview is linked here, too.
Long Distance #3 in stores TODAY
Long Distance #3 is in stores and at Comixology today! We're past the halfway point and everything feels comfortable… and everyone knows that's when things change. This issue features an alternate cover by my friend Mike Collins. He was kind enough to do it for me and I think it looks great.
Enter the Long Distance Contest… if you can!
There's a secret Long Distance contest. Well, the secret is how to enter. The first twenty five people who can figure out how to enter will win this awesome print, featuring the covers for all four issues, standard and variants. It features artwork by Lora Innes, Sean Tiffany, Mike Collins and Tony Fleecs as well as, of course, me. The contest runs in every issue. Right now about ten people have figured it out, so there are still almost fifteen chances left!
Long Distance Comic Contest
Tomorrow sees the release of the first issue of Long Distance, my new project published by those fine people at IDW. I could use some help getting the word out, and so I turn to you. Tweet something about the comic, along with the hashtag #longdistancecomic and I'll enter you in a drawing for a two-character color commission of your choice. Tweet a picture of the comic along with it, and that will count for five entries! The contest will wrap up on June 17, 2015 at noon EST.
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It's my first brand-new thing since Love and Capes, so I'm both excited and nervous. Thanks for your support.