Ohio's greatest export.
While Sara and I are in the undisclosed location here in Ohio, she's been poking around in the closets and basements. Today she found some old scrapbooks that her father had kept. This one is from 1947.Along with various local stories clipped from the paper, and meticulously kept baseball statistics worked out in ballpoint, there was this page of Walt Ditzen's sports themed comic strip "Three
Gore and more.
Paul Guinan just contributed this paintographied portrait of Gore Vidal and friends to Steven Gettis' legendary collection of sketches of literary figures.
First Class Snafu.
Jeff parker reports that several early copies of X-Men First Class #6 that have pages seriously out of order. Like, the Colleen Coover cartoon falls in the middle of the book now, out of order. I assume Marvel will tell shops to hold on to these books while they make the printer fix things, but just in case watch out this Thursday. This is especially irksome because I was excited about the new
Poster Mystery.
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Mid-Ohio Con today.
And here I am in the middle of Ohio, Columbus to be exact. As noted below, Sara and I will be in artists alley. Among other business there, I'll be delivering this commission:After I drew that "trois-crayon" Wonder Woman for the WWday auction, I had a request for a Green Lantern drawing done in the same manner. Much fun to work this way, and I think I'm going to start incorporating it into my
Party Mountain Mountain Party
Portland animator/cartoonist Carolyn Main became a year older and celebrated the occasion at her home on Mount Tabor. Paul Guinan, Periscope's own Jimmy Olsen,took snaps and posted them on his site. He shot Colleen's wedding, now a birthday. I'm sure there's a bar mitzvah coming soon.Sara Ryan and I are going to be guests at the Mid-Ohio Con this coming weekend, November 24-25th. This was the
Professor Parker
"You can almost always tell an artist what really needs to happen in a scene, and she will have opinions on how that should all go down. And she’ll be taking composition into consideration, and balancing lots of visual elements. Can you do that? It’s not really necessary with a good artist, she’ll do it anyway. But if that isn’t a strength of yours, then don’t impose such notes on our artist.
Rom Paul and Jamie
Here's Paul Guinan's ROM:Spaceknight for the Bill Mantlo benefit and tribute.And why am I not hearing much noise about this in the blogosphere? This is a good cause, people. You don't have to draw ROM to participate. You can donate, too:In other news, our friend Jamie Rich has a reading tonight at Powell's. He'll be reading from his new novel Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?
That other Beowulf.
So while you're wondering whether to go see that Beowulf movie, why not go pick up Ron Randall's Beowulf adaptation for Lerner books:And for those of you who'd like to contribute to the Bill Mantlo benefit,you can click on the button below:
Matthew Clark's Crime Bible
Matthew Clark is illustrating the third issue of The Crime Bible. It stars Batwoman:and The Question:
More Roms for the Mantlo family.
Colleen Coover's Rom:Jeff Parker's Rom:And we've got more Roms by Jonathan Case and Steve Lieber. Find out why so many top cartoonists are drawing Rom:Spaceknight.
Colleen gets bookish
Colleen Coover is the latest contributor to Steven Gettis' awesome collection of sketches of literary figures.
New Rom antics
It sucks to follow Jonathan Case's awesome watercolor below, but here's my shot at a piece for the ROM art show to benefit Bill Mantlo. It helped a lot when, of all people, ROM himself showed up for one of our lifedrawing sessions. Everyone was impressed that he could hold a tough pose like that for so long.
My Pal Peter Parker
David Hahn, here. I get to dip my toes into Spidey's pool one more time in Spider-Man Family #6, due out Dec 12. The ten page story was written by Tom Beland (True Story, Swear to God), and penciled, inked, and colored by me. And Spidey does appear right-side up on some of the pages.
Space-cake, Retro Style
After 2+ years of working in black and white, it feels fab to get back to some color.This is one of the pieces that will represent Periscope at Floating World's benefit for Bill Mantlo, writer for Marvel's old ROM Space Knight series. The show opens December 6th... Mark those calendars. It's a worthy cause, and I hear there will be prints available from many comics artists, local and otherwise,
Lieber and Wolk in Baton Rouge.
I'll be at the Louisiana Book Festival this weekend talking with Douglas Wolk, author of Reading Comics. Here's Douglas reviewing the first issue of Crime Bible (published by DC Comics, written by Greg Rucka, illustrated by Tom Mandrake) at the Savage Critics review site. This comic gets an extra plug here because it's written by my bud and frequent collaborator Greg, who is very proud of the
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