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Takk

2008-05-09T14:59:00.000-07:00

If there's one thing the Vicious Ambitious guys are really great at (there's more than one thing, but if there was only one) it's coming up with awesome looking superhero characters... and ox women.

This is Takk from Vince Smith's the "Nobodies," a superhero comic that is fresh and fun and pure of vision!

Liu

2008-05-09T00:02:00.001-07:00

Barbarella from Buenos Aires

Six

2008-04-03T13:39:00.001-07:00

Finally!! I've finished the third season of Battlestar Galactica and I'm all caught up now. Hit me with more! I need it!

I'm colouring PROOF

2008-03-31T14:10:00.001-07:00

If you haven't heard of it yet, PROOF is an ongoing Image series by writer Alex Grecian and artist Riley Rossmo, about Bigfoot and his cryptid friends (and enemies). Issue #6 came out this week, significant because it begins a new story arc that I am colouring. Definitely check out this series, the story is a rollicking good time and Riley's art gets greater with each new issue.

This is his awesome cover:

Another thing: PROOF is worth the cover price just for the 2-page installments of Kelly Tindall's superb Archie Snow strip!

Wizard Q&A

2008-03-27T07:04:00.000-07:00

Jack Hawksmoor writer Mike Costa and I did an interview for the Wizard website: www.wizarduniverse.com

Now is your chance to gain some insights!

Driftwood Saves the Whales

2008-03-08T06:38:00.000-08:00

Cover image for "Driftwood Saves the Whales," the third novel in the children's fantasy saga by James Davidge. Inuit sea goddess Sedna menaces our heroine as the Immortal Seal looks on!

The Secret History of the Authority: Jack Hawksmoor

2008-03-06T14:21:00.000-08:00

I'm currently drawing the 6-issue series "The Secret History of the Authority: Jack Hawksmoor" for WildStorm, written by Mike Costa! There is a preview of the first 5 pages up on the DC website. Check it out and let me know what you think! Go on, I can take it.

Before he was recruited into StormWatch, Jack Hawksmoor was a solitary urban hero, misanthropic and alone. While preventing a massive robot attack on the Golden Gate Bridge, Hawksmoor gets unexpected assistance from a woman he has more in common with than he realizes, then later stumbles upon a locked-room murder mystery. On top of all this, his city-born powers have been acting up — and he has a gumshoe's suspicion that all this may be connected.

Red Sonja

2007-11-19T21:05:00.000-08:00

It probably gets cold in the wastes of Hyrkania when you're wearing nothing but a metal bikini. Sometimes you have to just skin something!

No menstrual jokes please.

ROM Spaceknight

2007-11-15T22:57:00.001-08:00

This ROM is for an upcoming Bill Mantlo tribute show/book put on by Floating World Comics in Portland. I was surprised and happy they asked me to be in it! Especially because I've never read ROM and my knowledge of him was limited to the following:

- ROM is a robot

Frazer: Inncorrect. ROM SPACEKNIGHT (tm) is in fact MOSTLY robot but has a tiny portion of his humanity still inside the cold mettalic shell that makes it so hard to love him like a man should be loved.

- maybe he was based on some crappy toy?

Frazer: Correct.

- he is from the '70s

Frazer: Well, the comic is from the 80's, which I guess is YOUR "70's", so I give u half-marks for that.

- he has the power of flight, possibly

Frazer: Correct. ROM SPACEKNIGHT (tm) does indeed fly.

- ROM is a knight

Frazer: This is debatable, seeing as knighthoods are generally bestowed upon brave individuals by a KING, and as yet I have yet to find out where their king is. I think they award them based purely on the grounds that they wear metal and fight, so they COULD be called Infantry instead.

- ROM is from space

Frazer: Wrong, he is from a Planet. But the PLANET is in space, so again I award you half-marks. You have won enough points to be credible at the ROM SPACEKNIGHT (tm) event.

POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT SHOW

2007-10-24T20:48:00.000-07:00

24 Hour Comic Day

2007-10-24T20:36:00.001-07:00

"24HC 2007" was last Saturday, and I went up to Happy Harbor to take part! Thanks to everybody who supplied coffee and sushi, and Jay for letting us stay in his store overnight. And supervising us.

I came up with two stories to fill my 24 pages, one is about a killer mermaid and the other is kind of not about anything. Here are a few pics from the event (it was way more raucous in real life)! Photos by David Chapman.

Pumpkin Juice

2007-10-10T00:52:00.000-07:00

The latest collection from the Vicious Ambitious fellows is out in time for Halloween! Pumpkin Juice features zombies, unpredictable birds, cannibals, and a pinup from me.

Thank you to Charlene Chua for featuring me on the art blog Illustrophile! I don't usually look at my web stats, but I checked them today to see if there was extra traffic. I found out that the most common search engine phrase that leads people to my site (besides my name) is "skin bikini." So awesome.

SHEENA #5 cover A

2007-09-23T23:31:00.000-07:00

Ruling the jungle, saving dudes from snakes. This comes out this week!

More Sheena

2007-09-13T22:29:00.000-07:00

Cover for the SHEENA: TRAIL OF THE MAPINGUARI one-shot from Devil's Due. My cover is the variant collector's edition and it costs more! Wooo!

In other news I am drawing issue #4 of the "Trick 'R Treat" movie adaptation for Wildstorm, due out on Halloween! Will it be scary? YES.

24/7

2007-07-28T17:15:00.000-07:00

I pencilled a short story for the latest NYC Mech anthology, 24/7 Volume 2, out this week. Flux was written by Ray Fawkes and coloured by Frazer Irving. CBR did a great writeup of the book!

Check out the Ashley Wood cover:

London

2007-07-20T14:07:00.000-07:00

I've been staying at Irv's pad in England the last few weeks, doing my work in this cozy setup:

GUTSVILLE #1 is out

2007-05-29T16:53:00.000-07:00

By Simon Spurrier and Frazer Irving, GUTSVILLE is the old familiar tale of an 18th-century boat of pilgrims that gets swallowed by a gargantuan whale and sets up a puritanical colony in the belly of the monster. Published by Image.

It's not my comic, but I did some drawings for the 3-page backup! Here are a few of them. Buy the book to read the accompanying descriptions by Ray Fawkes.

Rosy types

2007-05-14T23:09:00.000-07:00

SHEENA: QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE

2007-05-05T14:54:00.000-07:00

A cover for SHEENA #2 for Devil's Due.

She has a skin bikini!

Drink and drawings

2007-04-19T16:22:00.000-07:00

Inspired by Dave Johnson's Drink and Draw book, Vince suggested a Calgary event in the same style at Murph's last night. I didn't draw on cardboard but I filled 8 pages of sketchbook. With Vampirella.

PS I'm not one of those people that draws better after beer.

Couch, Avengers

2007-04-16T20:48:00.000-07:00

I drew this in my sketchbook on vacation. It's Spider-Woman, Captain America, the Scarlet Witch, and She-Hulk. Sort of!

Driftwood's Crusade

2007-03-29T15:18:00.000-07:00

This is the cover image for Driftwood's Crusade, the second novel in the children's fantasy series by James Davidge.

Doll Steak

2007-03-27T22:55:00.000-07:00

This is a cover I did for DOLL STEAK, a comic by my friend Chris Peterson (layout, logo and stuff by him). It is one of many fabulous indy productions that will debut at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo on April 29th!

St. Mary's

2007-03-07T20:57:00.000-08:00

I live across from the graveyard:

NYCC

2007-03-02T14:28:00.000-08:00

I recently got back from the New York Comic Con, which was a really good time, although I guess I didn't spend that much time at the actual convention. This is me and Frazer at a Marvel party last Saturday night. You can't see it, but I am wearing a wristband as though I am actually supposed to be there! We met up with Genevieve as well (she's fine, everybody!).

We also visited the Museum of Natural History where I took lots of pictures of butterflies, but I will spare you.