Take Me to a Park That's Covered With Trees

I didn't expect to get this page done last night, but I did. I finished drawing it, at least. I dialogued it this morning. I was stuck on the joke for panel eight, and eventually it just clicked in my head.

With this, I'm one-third of the the way through issue nine, and now I'm where I should have been at the beginning of this month. Yeah, I'm running a little behind, but I can make it up. Worry not. And the next few pages are pretty well plotted out, so it's just a matter of drawing them.

Yeah, "just."

For now, enjoy this exciting panel of two women discussing the weather.

Like "American Idol" But Everyone Loses

Last night I was a guest on the ReadComics.org podcast. They had me on for the entire show, so it's almost an hour of Thom Zahler babbling. Actually, it went pretty well. I think I was occasionally amusing and... they even got me to sing a little. Damn this blog and my clever stories about The War of Joss Whedon's Musical Words that occured at Mid-Ohio-Con.

So, big thanks to Marty and Jason and Florence. I had a great time. Go check it out.

Devil May Care

Here's another recreation of a commission from Mid-Ohio-Con. Someone came up and wanted a "devil girl." No particular character, just something with that as a theme. That was pretty cool, to have that kind of free reign to create and design a character.

It required a fair amount of tracing paper to make it work, as there were a lot more overlapping shapes than I'm comfortable working out directly on a piece of bristol. I think it came out nicely, and looks even better colored.

God, the tension is high, not to mention the smell

It's another done-in-one-day page. I must be butter because I'm on a roll.

Not that you can tell from this panel, but there are some cool art things happening. Actually, this panel with an open border is one of those things, so maybe you can tell. The empty space really gives you a feeling for the large airy area that Abby's about to fall to her death in.

Whoops. Did I say "fall to her death"? I meant "Ghandi." Or something else innocuous.

As Sledge Hammer used to say: Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

Reviews Keep A'Coming

Comics Pants has some nice things to say about the new Love and Capes:

Thom Zahler’s romance superhero book, think Mad About You with Lois and Clark, never disappoints. It comes out a little infrequently, but the humanity and heart that always shines through makes it worth the wait. That and his cartooning skills, which are subtle and skillful, keep getting better and better.

Read this, and other reviews, here.

Beautiful girls wearing nothing but pearls

Now this is more like it.

Yeah, page six only has five panels, and largely reuses the backgrounds I created for the last page, but still… cranking out a page in a morning is a good thing.

As far as what's happening, is this the end for comicdom's favorite super couple? You'll have to read the book to find out now, won't you?

I'm obnoxious and disliked, you know that, sir

Baltimore and Mid-Ohio-Con knocked me off my game with Love and Capes #9. But I'm back on the horse with page five. This is kind of a hard scene to write, since it's not as light and frothy as some of the other pages. Worry not, though, all is not as it appears.

Page six, by the way, will rock.

Elektra. Woman.

I mentioned that I did a bunch of commissions at the recent Mid-Ohio-Con. I offer color commissions, but the deal is that I need to take the original home, or you need to send me a scan of the image. Well, a couple people have taken me up on that. One was George, who had me color this commission of Elektra from Daredevil.

This one came out nicely, and I think the color really makes it pop. So I now have my third piece for the next Powerful Women collection. Only Twenty-two left to go.

And I'll probably be posting more sketchesfrom MOC and Baltimore. Sometimes I start out working on tracing paper, and as such I have tracing paper versions that I can use to recreate the artwork. And, as long as I'm mentioning the Powerful Women collections, I should let you know that I have only a handful left, and don't plan on printing any more this year. So, if you want any before they get snapped up at WizardWorld Texas, order now.

Wherever Cooler Comics are Sold

What? In stores now? Awesome!

Post #700, The One Where I'm Boring

Yup, it was another day of watching a little gray bar fill up on my Mac. This says 44 minutes left, but when it started it said ten hours. I'm transferring the final print files, with revisions, over to IDW. Turns out there were a couple of spelling errors in the book. Who knew?

Actually, I fixed the ones I knew about for the trade. The ace proofreaders at IDW found a couple more though. Turns out I can't remember how to spell the word villain. Who knew?