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.

Roughing It

In my free time, I've been working on an all ages comic that will probably not see the light of day for a few years. I think the final book will be about 40 pages or so and will have painted color, so it should take me awhile. For now, I'm roughing it out and really enjoying it. Here are a couple of pages that I thought I would share.

Restless and Rejected

A few months ago I started another blog called, Covered which features artists redrawing comic covers in their own style. The blog has gained enough popularity that I am able to post a cover a day, Monday through Friday. In fact, I get so many submissions, I have had to reject some, including my own. These are both attempts to cover Dell's Four Color 1146 (Restless Gun), that I never did get quite right. The version up top was the second version and I think better of the two, but still seems a little stiff and timid. I thought I would try it again, but instead turned to a Donald Duck issue.

BTW, this issue of Four Color features some handsome art by Johnny Quest's creator Doug Wildey.