2nd Printings!

Attention!

Will be reprinting issues #1 & #2 of ???, some time within the week... I hope. For ???#1, I've added some of the strips that I have been posting on this blog, plus 4 or so new pages (if I can finish them). The comic is now 7% more "random"! Here is the cover, which will be printed on colored paper. Hooray!

???#1, 2nd print

Also, fixed some things for #2. Particularly the lyrics to the Bob Dylan song. My wife is now happy!

???#2, 2nd print

The comics will be available at Josel Nicolas' table (buy his stuff!) :)

Conan! The Barbarian!

I had those over-sized, black & white Marvel comics when i was 7 or something. The only thing that I liked about those comics were the gorgeous art & the pretty ladies. Never really understood why these half naked, beautiful women were throwing themselves at this oafish looking brute...

More than 2 decades later, I find out Brian Wood (he of Northlander, DMZ, Local, Demo, Channel Zero fame) was gonna be adapting the Queen of the Black Coast story along with Becky Cloonan (Wood's Demo). I am a fan of both creators... so why not give their Conan run a shot? I did. Bought the first 5 issues & i highly enjoyed it! I'm really liking this brash, innocent (to a certain degree), young version of Conan. Got bored with the first 3 issues tho, but it was mostly a setup (Cloonan's art was fantastics!). The story started getting interesting with the new arc (with very dynamic art by James Harren, Dave Stewart does some solid coloring for all the issues).

Here's a quickie fan art ...

 

Brush pen & some water colors... no feet (because I suck at drawing 'em), generic dungeon background. :)

Bought a very cheap Orion action figure 2 weeks ago. Sculpted based on Jack Kirbys design. It is lovely. Orion is now buddies with Homer-head.

Dino-burgers!

Finished my initial draft of a project I'm working on with Josel Nicolas. It's a sci-fi story involving cybernetic dinosaurs, cloned movie actors, kung-fu action, explosions, fast food weirdness & some other things. There will be other comic guys that'll be joining us for the project. More details soon...

Here's a sampling of sorts, a mock-up ad by Jim Faustino!

  

Off to write some Baro Investigations...

My favorite samurai from the movie... the cool, calm, man-of-few-words, bad-ass, Kyūzō! Played by Seiji Miyaguchi. Poster number 2.

Poster 1 is here...

June 4, 2011

Happy 1-Year Anniversary, my lovely wife! Looking forward to a new year :)

P.S. - This was part of ???#2.
P.P.S. - Apologies to Bob Dylan & my wife for screwing up some of the lyrics.

My second favorite Kurosawa movie. Of all the Kuroswa films I've seen him in, Kambei Shimada (the leader of the seven) is probably Takashi Shimura's best role. He played the cool, grizzled, battle-hardened-but-wise samurai to a T.

 More of samurais to come...