Pin-Up: L'Exposition

I was invited to contribute a piece to a gallery exhibit of artwork, curated by the marvelous Maly Siri, celebrating vintage pin-up and burlesque, at La Gallery in Paris and Montreal!  If you are in Paris, you should go check out the exhibit, it's got some really marvelous pieces by some super talented artists.

Here is mine (colour adjusted in Photoshop):

I am told that the piece has sold already!

Mnemovore Redux

My friend Ray Fawkes' excellent Vertigo comic Mnemovore, cowritten by Hans Rodionoff and illustrated by Mike Huddleston, is getting a deluxe hardcover re-release from IDW Publishing in August!  There will be a gallery of pinups in the back by some amazing artists and I was kindly asked to participate.  Here's my contribution!

I documented the 5-hour process today on Instagram (username cameronMstewart):

Lineart drawn in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

SuicideGirls #1 available now

The first issue of SuicideGirls is available in comic shops today (North America) and tomorrow (United Kingdom)!  Please pick up a copy!

You can also order online from the SuicideGirls website!

Cover by me. Interior pages - layouts by David Hahn, finished art by me, colours by Antonio Fabela.

Suicide Girls #1 Interior Art

Here's a page from the first issue of Suicide Girls, from IDW Publishing.

Layouts by David Hahn, finishes by me.

Suicide Girls - The Comic

UPDATE - I will now be co-artist for the whole book, not just covers!

I've made slight mention of this in the past, but I am working with IDW and Suicide Girls on the official SG comic. I'm not illustrating the entire thing, but I designed the characters (a cast of new, fictional Suicide Girl models), and I am illustrating the covers and short 2-page backups inside each issue. The main story will be written by Brea Grant and drawn by David Hahn, and the backups I'm drawing are written by Steve Niles!

Here's the cover for the first issue, and the character models I drew for David:

Rain Dog

A quick portrait of Tom Waits done as a gift...

Monsters and Dames

A different kind of drawing today.  I was invited to be a guest at the Emerald City Comic Con next March, and they ask all the artist guests to contribute a drawing to an art book they publish to sell at the show to raise funds for a local children's hospital. A great cause and a chance to do something outside of my usual work. The theme of the book is "Monsters and Dames":

A bit more cutesy than my usual stuff but it's for a children's charity. ;)

Assassin's Creed: The Fall Released Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the day that Assassin's Creed: The Fall #1 hits stores. Frankly, the buzz around this project in the comics community has been disappointingly low, I think mainly because a lot of people are still - understandably - put off by the idea of a comic based on a video game.

My co-creator Karl Kerschl and I (and our colourist Nadine Thomas) have really worked hard on this book, and we've poured a lot of effort and energy into it, because we wanted to do something that wasn't just a shallow, cash-in spinoff. Believe me, I've worked on that type of project before, and I can admit that I've half-assed it for the paycheck. But not so here - with the amount of creative freedom granted us by Ubisoft, it really feels like this is a very personal project for Karl and I and we're very proud of the final product. We've tried to make it accessible for non-gamers, engaging for people already familiar with Assassin's Creed, and above all, the kind of comic that we'd like to read.

This is my first published work as a writer, too (aside from Sin Titulo, which is technically self published), and so it's a new phase in my career that's very exciting and I would love if it started successfully.

Assassin's Creed: The Fall #1 is out in stores tomorrow, November 10, and is available at comic shops, Target, and GameStop*. I'd very much appreciate if you would consider purchasing a copy, and letting me know what you think here. Thanks and I hope you enjoy it!

*NOTE - the edition sold in Target and GameStop is slightly altered than the direct market version, for bad language.

Batman & Robin 16 - Black and White

Hey everyone, the final issue of Grant Morrison's run on Batman & Robin is out in stores (to much media fanfare, with its SHOCK! change of the status quo), and here are my pages, unlettered and uncoloured. I would have loved to do the entire issue, but sadly the schedule simply didn't allow it so huge thanks to Frazer Irving and Chris Burnham who helped out with their amazing work!

Unfortunately, none of these pages are for sale...as they don't exist! I did this issue completely digitally, so there are no physical pages. However you can still buy pages from my previous run on Batman & Robin over at Splashpage Art.

Zudatanna

This was a page I did a while back as part of a pitch to do original webcomics featuring DC superhero characters on DC's Zuda site. I and a handful of other webcomics creators were approached and given free reign to come up with a short pitch featuring whatever DC character we wanted, continuity-free. After a lot of thought I settled on Zatanna, in a kind of Buffy/Twilight-style story aimed at teen girls.

Sadly, the pitch never gained any traction and Zuda has since been shut down, but maybe this might pop up again somewhere in the future. I think it would have been fun to write.

UPDATE: Ramon Perez has posted his Mr. Miracle and Big Barda pitch page over on his blog.

I'm Not Dead...

I've just been very busy! Since last I posted I won the 2010 Eisner Award for my webcomic Sin Titulo, had a couple of new projects announced (Thunderworld, Suicide Girls), and been deep into work on Assassin's Creed: The Fall #1 and Batman & Robin #16. Phew!

Thanks to everyone who came to see me at Fan Expo in Toronto!

Here's a random bunch of drawings I did recently. If you're following me on Twitter you will likely have seen all of these already, as that's usually where I post stuff first. If you're not on Twitter, these will be new, so enjoy!

Sketches in the front of my Too Cartoony sketchbook:




A couple of excerpts from Batman & Robin:




And some girlie drawings: