New York Comic Con

I'll be at the New York Comic Con, February 6-8, at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan. You can find me along with
studiomates Karl Kerschl and Serge LaPointe at table C1 in Artist's Alley. Floorplan below:



Hope to see you there!

Doodles

Some late night scribbling.

Bub

I have an itch to draw a Wolverine story for some reason.


(I'm at home today so no scanner, forgive the low quality photo)

Marvel writers, please get in touch.

Ghost Rider

For my pal Andy B.

Seaguy 2: Process

I get frequent requests to show the pencils for my artwork and I'm unable to do so for one simple reason - I almost never use pencil. Over time I've gradually moved away from doing pencilled artwork, since I always do my own inks and doing tight pencil drawings seems redundant and time-consuming. Drawing in pen or marker is actually now much more comfortable for me than drawing in pencil.

In the past I did small layouts in pen on regular bond paper, two comic pages per sheet. I found that I would waste a lot of paper though and so recently I've switched to doing my roughs digitally. Below is an example of one of my layout pages, drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom Cintiq tablet:



Once these are complete enough for me (and my editor) to read clearly, I then enlarge them to 11 x 17 standard comic artwork dimensions, turn the black roughs into light blue (done by going into the channels and deleting Magenta, Yellow, and Black) and printing them onto bristol board.

Then comes the tricky, scary, and exciting part - I start inking. Most of the final drawing is done at this stage, I add much more definition and detail to previously vague scribbles. It's risky and I often have to go in and make corrections with white ink but this is happening less and less. It's enormously satisfying for me to work without the safety net of pencil and produce final artwork on the fly. (Long ago I read that Sean Philips worked directly in ink and I was perplexed at how it was even possible - now I know the key to doing it is equal parts practice and confidence). Below is the final page.



Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye begins in April!

Seaguy 2: Slaves Of Mickey Eye #1

On sale April 1st, 2009 at all decent comic shops.





SEAGUY: THE SLAVES OF MICKEY EYE #1

Written by Grant Morrison

Art and cover by Cameron Stewart

In 2008 alone, superstar writer Grant Morrison killed Batman, put the entire DC Universe through its FINAL CRISIS and concluded the unanimously beloved ALL-STAR SUPERMAN. But what does a writer who’s written every significant Super Hero do when he can create any Super Hero he wants? The answer, of course, is SEAGUY! Morrison (THE INVISIBLES) rejoins original SEAGUY artist Cameron Stewart (SEVEN SOLDIERS) in an all-new adventure starring the cult-favorite character!
In Seaguy’s cartoon future world, everyone is a Super Hero and no one dies. It’s absolutely perfect...Or is it? In this follow-up to the cult 2004 miniseries, Seaguy resurfaces with a sinister new partner, a hatred of the sea and a rebel restlessness he can’t explain. Why are Doc Hero and his ex-archenemy Silvan Niltoid, the Alien from Planet Earth, whispering strange equations? Why is Death so useless? And can that really be the ghost of Chubby Da Choona mumbling uncanny warnings and dire prophecies of ultimate catastrophe?
When the grotesque powers lurking behind the corporation known as Mickey Eye and the Happy Group attempt to erase Seaguy’s entire existence, can he possibly get it together in time to save a world so far gone it can’t even imagine the horror lying in wait? Find out here in Morrison’s own personal reframing of the Super Hero concept for the 21st century.

On sale April 1 • 1 of 3 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • MATURE READERS

Comic of the Year

The Apocalipstix was named Best Graphic Novel of 2008 at the Quarter Bin!



Thanks guys!

Dr Sketchy's Life Drawing

This weekend Matt Forsythe and I went to Dr. Sketchy's, a life drawing session that features burlesque dancers as models. Instead of being nude they wear costumes.





Here are some of my drawings from the class. Some 60-second sketches:



2 minutes:



And a couple of longer poses (15 minutes?):



I haven't done life drawing in years so I'm a bit rusty but I plan to make this a regular event.

Girl Fridays

Oh, I Can't Help It.

Dave's colours make me giddy so here's another spread.

Seaguy 2 pages

Here's some pages from the upcoming first issue of Seaguy 2: Slaves of Mickey Eye. Colours by Dave Stewart (no relation).