Upcoming Convention Appearances

Hey everyone, I will be appearing at the following comic conventions in the near future:

February 28 - Toronto Comicon

March 26-28 - Wizard World Toronto

April 10-11 - Boston Comicon

April 16-18 - Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo

May 8-9 - TCAF

Come and say hello!

Alas, Poor Batwoman

The opening pages of Batman & Robin #9.





The sharp-eyed will notice that this is the page I was drawing in the videos I posted several weeks back...

Batman Vs Batman - FIGHT!

Here's the big Bat-on-Bat fight scene from Batman & Robin #8, presented in the original black and white.

When laying out this scene I watched a bunch of vintage martial arts movies to get the choreography to look convincing. Hope it worked...

Batman & Robin #7 - More Layouts

Here's a few more pages of digital layouts from issue 7 of Batman and Robin.







I got a little carried away drawing Batwoman here, this was just the layout stage!



Ah, this is the page with the infamous lettering error which confounded so many people and made them think it was one of Grant's more experimental works. As you can see, the page was laid out with the characters oriented consistently from left to right, but after I'd completed the final artwork I was asked to reverse panel 3 because the dialogue (which is written after the art is completed) required Batwoman to be on the left. I did make the change but somewhere along the way the original art file was used by mistake, and thousands of readers scratched their head in puzzlement.






Note the difference in the final page - this was my first attempt at it and felt that the hand exploding from the pit didn't have the right dramatic effect with the characters standing in the background. However there was dialogue that needed to be on this page, and so the compromise for the final was to split it into two panels. I don't quite think it works as well as I'd wanted but that's how it goes sometimes...

Batman & Robin #7 - Layouts

Hey everyone, here's a few pages of my rough layout drawings from issue 7 of Batman & Robin. As I've shown in previous posts, I draw these digitally using a Wacom Cintiq tablet and Manga Studio, then print them out in blue on the artboard and then draw the finals directly in ink. These are actually some of the tighter layouts, as the deadline looms (and I start to hit my stride) they get very sketchy indeed.




(The Squire has a different bike here, it wasn't until after I'd sketched these out that Grant decided it was to have the horse's head on the front.)




(Note some of the differences between the layouts and the final printed artwork in the traffic scene. This was my first attempt at it, and I did some revisions to punch it up for the final.)





Stay tuned, I'll be posting more soon, and some black-and-white final pages also!