Covered Art Show

Last night was the opening of the Covered art show at Secret Headquarters and it was a great time. The place was packed on a rainy night and there were fantastic covers hanging on just about every available bit of wall space. To check out the show yourself (or even buy something) you can go here. As the curator, I spent the last few months getting e-mails with these amazing covers sent to me. It was exciting every time I heard my little e-mail alert sound. I let out more than one audible "Holy shit!" over that time. Even after seeing scans for a month ahead of time, I still marveled at the actual covers on the wall. There are some colors and details that a scan just can't capture. If you live or are visiting Los Angeles any time this month, I would try to check it out.





Andrew Brandou and Coop, doing... I'm not sure what.

Finished Jung

After a working on this story for a few years I have finally The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung to the publisher. It will be printed in either Mome 19 or 20, which I'm guessing will come out in the second half of this year sometime. Here are two pages that I featured in rough form; now in their final version.

Uncle Scrooge Adventures 3 Covered

A little over a week ago I was commissioned to draw another Disney Ducks cover and this is the result. I would put it on my other blog,Covered, but I feel a little self-conscious having done them a few times already. It's a lot of fun drawing them this way and I liked the results, so I put it here.

Tonight I'm inking another cover for the Covered art show that will be opening at Secret Headquarters in March. It involves another famous cartoon animal and I'm excited to get it finished.

Oh yeah. The original is by Daan Jippes; Gladstone 1988.

The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung

Since I've been on hiatus from my day job in animation, I've been able to be a full-time comic artist. The first priority for me was to finish my 19 page The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung. I've been working on this off and on for years now (maybe 5) and am about a week away from finishing it. The terrible photo above are of some out of sequence finished pages hanging up in my closet/office. It's good to have them constantly hanging up. Some pages grow better over time, others grow worse. The worse ones will get reinked.

Mum

I did my first record cover over the spring and although it came out in August, I just got some copies a couple of days ago. It's a 7" done for Pure Groove record store in London and IHeartComix here in L.A. From what I've read, only 300 were made for the store (can that be right?). If you feel so inclined, you can order one here.

Taking Lessons from Johnny Craig

This is a panel that I copied from Iron Man 14, 1969.

Coffee Shop Drawings

Over the last year, I've been filling up a sketchbook with drawings I do at coffee shops. That wasn't a plan, but has just sort of happened. I've posted some of the pages on my Flickr page.

Getting Ready for Comic-Con

I've been spending the last few days preparing for Comic-Con and today I was doing the last touches on some new sketchbooks / journals that I'm going to premiere there. They are all printed on various kinds of wood veneer, similar to the postcards that I have been making. I think they would make great convention sketchbooks. I'll be at table M8 in the small press area. For those not going to the show, I have most of them at my Etsy store.

Awesomer

I have a 2 page comic story that I drew and Jon Adams wrote in the new anthology, Awesome 2: Awesomer. I haven't had a chance to see a copy of the book yet, but it looks like it has a great line-up of artists. For a sneak peek at some pages, check this out.

More Roughs

Here are some roughs for another comic I've been working on about a crisis in the life of Carl Jung when he was a kid. I've been working on this 24 page story for I think 3 years now. I did the Man Who Loved Breasts comic during this time as well as numerous other short stories. My goal was to get it finally roughed out by July. Hopefully I can do it and get to doing some final pages.