Johnny Cash

Took a break from work. Very stressful week. 

Pulp

I love pulp heroes! They are a combination of 2 things that I love... noir / crime stories & superheroes. I still listen to my Shadow radio drama recordings by Orson Welles from time to time. They are awesome! Didn't like the movie. I have yet to read the comics. Heard some good things about the Howard Chaykin run.

The Shadow knows!

I loved the Phantom strips in the Sunday paper (I think the strip is still being published in one of the local papers). Also, he was the only thing that I loved about the politically correct cartoon, Defenders of the Earth. The Phantom 2040 cartoon was pretty good, too.

The Ghost Who Walks!

Zombies & punk rock lady! Needed a break from work & writing scripts. Females, they are hard to draw. I want to color this. Might not have time for it though. Anyway, back to work...

It has been too darn cold in the office for the past week… I opened up my locker & broke out my Arctic gear!

• Sennheiser headphones which double as ear muffs (functional fashion).
• a very long (8 feet or so) knitted scarf which my wife bought from a thrift store.
• a brown / green / orange plaid jacket, heavily insulated. bought also from a thrift store.
• black knitted gloves, a gift from my wife.
• brown beanie with white stripes which I borrowed from my niece & did not return.
• unshaven face for extra insulation (not shown)

Toasty! My office mates, they envy me.

Needed to get some blood flowing thru my hands since they're all shriveled up & numb because of the cold. So I drew this... 

Please ignore the badly drawn hands…

My bored pregnant (& beautiful! I need to put that in as not to incur her wrath... but it is true! hehehe...) wife started drawing portraits of people who attended our wedding. She draws awesomely! I did the inking by the by :)

More to come...

KKK

What is the connection between these 2 organizations? Why do they use the same initials? Is it just a coincidence? What is up with those pointy hats? Why am I so obsessed with these questions since high school?

This shall be a comic soon!

Who's Your Daddy?

I am, you 6-week-old-baby-in-your-mommys-womb you! Just found out today. Wow. The news has not really sunk in yet... This will be an exciting year indeed! Yey!

Drew this earlier...

Behold! The YETI CRAB! I have fallen in love with this guy. Expect to see some dumb strips starring... The YETI CRAB!

Okay... need to check out names for the baby now.

Happy New Year!

Hooray for late greetings! 2011 was an awesome year. A lot of life changing decisions were made. Some things came to a close. Some things have only begun. In spite of the ups & downs, I feel really blessed. Thank God for everything! Looking forward to 2012. Apocalypse here we come!

On the comics side of things,  2012 will hopefully be a productive year. The QBCCC crew are already planning on releasing more comics & we are thinking about turning QB into an imprint / publisher. We already have great stuff on hand if this pushes through. More details on that as soon as we nail stuff down.

I will be putting out ???#2 & hopefully ???#3 this year. ???#2 is 90% done. I already have ???#3 outlined & it won't be auto-bio stuff, I'm tired of drawing my face. hehehehe... It'll be a mix tape for the apocalypse in comics form. I've decided to make ???, a comic about anything. So expect an issue with short crime stories & a sci-fi issue soon. Baro Investigations will come out this year!!! Still haven't nailed down certain plot points but I really need to finish this. Baro is my baby. Started on page one last week. Will also be working on other comic projects with some of the QB peeps. Exciting times!

To celebrate the new year here is a strip of what i did in the office yesterday...

Very productive day. Influenced by reading too much Hark A Vagrant (Kate Beaton! ❤!), Forming & Xenu the mad alien dude of Scientology...

Fan Art

This made my day (2 days ago) :)

By Mike Banting, artist / co-creator of local indie komik Drop Dead Dangerous!

Baro Investigations will be finished next year! i hope... Many thanks Mike!

Portrait

Week 7 of the "Draw Something Once A Week" exercise... been drawing portraits for the past 5 weeks. a collaboration between my wife & i. sometimes she sketches the face & i ink & shade. sometimes, vise versa. i hate drawing faces, but its good exercise :)

 
this was for an office mate... weeks 4 to 6 shall be scanned soon.

The Penguin!

My dogs best friend... a stuffed-toy-zombie-penguin-zombie!

week 2 of the "Draw Something Once A Week" exercise...

previously... week 1 & week 3

Dawn & Argos

My new family :)

week 1 of the "Draw Something Once A Week" exercise...

Indiana Jones and The Yeti From Outer Space

Indy is way way way awesomer than Han! Thank you Macoy for the title of the new Indy movie. Steven & George! take note!

week 3 of the "Draw Something Once A Week" self-imposed exercise. scanned this one first. week 1 & week 2 shall follow.

be inspired! check out BOOOOOOOM!

getting married in 5 days! weeee!

It's Alive!

The March 2011 edition of Ateneo's Kritika Kultura is now ready for download! look for our (Josel, Mervin & moi) Exquisite Corpses in between the words. enjoy!

Thanks to Adam for letting us be part of this thing.

Here's another unused illustration from the project...

Corpse!

Been crazy busy with work & wedding preps... also, finally finished a project (a set of Exquisite Corpses with Josel Nicolas & Mervin Malonzo) for Ateneo's Kritika Kultura. which will be uploaded on their site soon-ish. yey!

unused art for the project...

made this in Microsoft Word. haha! will post more unused illustrations soon...

Break!

Promised myself not to draw for a while since i need to concentrate on writing my komik project (Baro Investigations). my hand was itching over an idea that popped into my brain this weekend. just had to draw it. so here it is...



Ang Maskot by Macoy. tribute to the indie komik that means a lot to me.

Back to writing.

wacomwacomwacom...

First time using a Wacom tablet (old-school, CTE-440), drawn in MS Paint. Thanks again to Aki for giving (loaning = giving) me the tablet. Spidey's head looks weird. hehehe...

Pretty hard drawing without looking at your hand. Quite enjoyed it. Will do more practice once i have some free time.