The Sweet Souvenir part 1

Well..i've just hit the halfway point on the art of my next comic, and I wanted to go about explaining what I have planned as well as give as detail as i can get without spoiling, history and a few sneak peeks of this book i want to eventually share.

This book came into my head around issue 3 of Suburban Folklore. (yes there were actual issues of them) The idea was that i wanted Suburban Folklore to be a book like Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve or Daniel Clowes' Eightball, you know, have issues of the book, and each story were to be collected in a graphic novel, so the graphic novel would be the first..5-6 issues, and then issues 6 through 9 would be the next and so on.

after the reality check of not finding a publisher, and retailers giving a damn and so on, i released the Suburban Folklore graphic novel, and went about "thinking" about what would become "The Sweet Souvenir" (if you really want to know, I intended to have at least 3 storylines of Suburban Folklore with the 4th being this "Magnum opus")



This book has similarities with Suburban Folklore, but with Folklore, I experimented with different storytelling techniques. Going back and forth in time, dream sequences, short stories that fold into a bigger storyline, with this one I wanted to tell it a little differently. I want to be able to show 2 characters lives, and hopefully if I succeed, you'll know mostly everything about them by the time the book is over. from their thought processes, to eventually why they are unhappy.

all of this, and I still haven't given the synopsis of the book. i will in the next post, stay tuned

Pan's w/ colour

i posted this a while ago, and removed it, so I decided to break in the wacom some more. in the movie Pan is less colorful, but what fun would that be. hopefully I'll get enough courage to do the swamp thing illo...thats gonna be tough

Love Buzz Pin-Up

This was a pin-up for my friend Len Wallace's book love buzz coming out from Oni Press this year. even though I have to ween myself off of graytones to practice more color illustrations, this one needed to be in graytones. hopefully in the future I'll get to do some more pin-up's...they aren't as bad as I thought

Swamp Thing for the CBLDF

my inner Seth Fisher was working on this picture for the CBLDF at the New York Comic Con this year. I hope to wacom this thing soon, but when I was drawing it I knew it was going to be hard as hell, and I'm still not comfortable w/ the tablet yet to really pop. hopefully in a few months I'll get the courage to finally color this thing

chigurh !

so i'm trying out corel painter to get a feel of it, and i must say...it's...really good. here's a little piece i did of anton chigurh from no country for old men. hopefully over the course of the year i'll get really good and start doing more insane pieces...for now..baby steps

IT'S DONE!!

So I got word from the lovely people at the Southern California Library that the book i've been working on all these months is finally done. I still have to work out the details on how you'll get it, but the book, South Central Rhapsody is drawn by your blogger here, and written by the awesome Gary Phillips (High Rollers) I'll post some pages of the book in the coming weeks, til then check out my myspace for updates

ummm this...might be hard

ok, so i'm back. i'm gonna try to update this as soon as i can. I wanna show you guys the new book i've been working on, and over the next few weeks i'll be showing some pages from that along with other pics.

so i finally got a wacom tablet, and..it looks like it's going to be a good year of getting used to this to the point where i'm happy with it. stay tunes