You’re Gonna need a plan Comic-Con International…is HUGE. About 7 city blocks long and 3 city blocks deep. 600 tables? 900? more? I dunno. It’s a freakin lot. and hardly any of it these days contain ACTUAL COMIC BOOKS. It’s a pop culture convention now and that is as much… Continue reading
Should illustrators take on projects that offer “exposure” instead of cash? This is becoming an age-old question, instead of a joke people laugh out loud at. Much like every age-old con job, it seems to just keep coming back around. Up and comers ask me about it at it pretty… Continue reading
SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN CIVIL WAR YET, AND DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS, STOP READING NOW. ***UPDATED- after seeing the movie a second time…several of my complaints turned out to be me just missing things, since the point of these blogs is first and foremost to… Continue reading
The two Wizard World shows were fine. The people running them were very hospitable. More on that some other time. Right now though, because I spent two weekends in a row at comic-cons, I have some plugging to do. The new collection of Arsenic Lullaby is finally in the Previews… Continue reading
Hey, as long as you are playing racial spin the bottle… I’ve already gone over how idiotic it would be for Iron Fist to be played by an Asian actor (here). My biggest problem with Hollywood’s new hobby of changing the races and genders of beloved characters is how… Continue reading
You can draw anything you can think of, why aren’t you? I have been in the comic book industry a long time ( too long) and I have seen many upsetting and disappointing trends (too many). There is a recent trend though that is making my stomach turn. It is… Continue reading
“sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” Sigmund Freud The big controversy this week among those who don’t feel like dealing with the actual problems we have, is the upcoming T.V.show adaptation of the comic book Iron Fist. In the comic book, a white kid is out in the wilderness… Continue reading
I must be doing alright on the alternative covers for Valiant (as if there would be any doubt I would come up with fantastic stuff) I’m set to start one for X-O Manowar for them next. Funny thing about my career, way more opportunities have come to me, than by… Continue reading
I was going to do a blog on how overpriced drafting tools are on ebay, and bitch about people thinking anything old is automatically 20.00 and the price should climb from there based on them adding the word “antique” even if it’s not an antique. I had a whole vile,… Continue reading
With hashtag= traffic fantasy bloggers live in and the Deadpool movie about to come out, it isn’t much of a shock I saw a blog recently bashing Rob Liefeld’s comic book illustration abilities. As the movie gets closer we’ll probably be seeing them daily, from people trying to get traffic to… Continue reading
