one last one for '08

rounding out the commissions for 08 is the third zatanna piece of the year (this one was a bit more work trying for the likeness of the girl and her dog...)

okay, looking back, this year has been pretty good 'round these parts (including the sweet new site design by kieran chapman)... we relaunched the 'haps over at image and managed to get 5 issues out (the 6th just missed by a few weeks...) and i've had plenty of work over a marvel as well (the x-men first class fill in as well as the spidey loves mj mini), as well as a great slate of conventions, a slew of commissions, and oddball freelance stuff... 

09 is shaping up to be a pretty good one too... we've got big plans for the haps (with some of our incredibly talented friends - like jason, leanne, scott, matt, christian, fred, rich, and more - pitching in to keep us on some sort of schedule) and i'll be busy with the marvel adventures  captain america stuff and more down the line...

so, here's wishing everybody a good 09 as well. cheers!

-c

 

... and one more for ya...

okay, so here's the last (for now) holiday card i drew back in 2000... (and the caption inside read "season's bleatings")...

and while i'm at it, here's a recent wonder woman commission (really dig that battle armor...).

-c

new years 98...

so, knowing i was gonna miss getting christmas cards out BY christmas, i went for the extra week and did a new year's card ( and it should come as no surprise to anyone that the quote inside was wishing folks one helluva new year... )...

and the latest marvel solicitations are on-line, and wouldn't ya know, they're doing a hardcover collection of the spider-man loves mary jane (i've posted the direct market cover here... the "regular" one features the art from the cover of #1 along with terry's name in HUGE letters ... you'll be hard pressed to miss it )... looks like it's a plain ol' "premiere edition" which means no extras or bonus stuff...

okay, back to work, hear we might be in for some snow this weekend!

-c (awfully disappointed that pushing daisies only has a few more episodes left...)

christmas '97

okay, so next up is the card i did back in 97... so, i was already working at dc at the time (and the main reason i know this - because my mind is like a sieve when it comes to dates - is that i drew this on a dc board)... the caption inside read  "this ain't no pillow, baby... it's 100% claus")...

hope everybody had a good weekend (i practically slept the entire weekend - shaking the ick i most likely got from the kids), looking forward to tonight's holiday themed chuck (and yeah, i'll end up watching the end of this arc of heroes...)

-c

christmas '96 x2!

okay, trying to keep up with todd's cards through the years progression, here's not one but TWO christmas cards i did in 96 (wow, crazy how much time a guy without kids had back then)... the "alien" card had the oh, so quippy "merry X-mas" inside (but with the x being a copy of the then in vogue x-files logo)... and the giant angry santa gorilla card (don't remember what the caption was inside, but come on, it's a giant angry santa gorilla)...

and since it was a LOT easier and cheaper than full color back then, these were b/w on card stock with red and green letraset foil ironed on...

have a good weekend! 

-c (hey, this "mining old stuff for posts" thing is a heck of a lot easier than having new art to post) 

christmas 95

okay, so following up on the christmas cards, here's one i had done in 95 (or so the date on the art itself says)... the caption read along the lines of  "wishing you a real gonesville christmas, daddyo"...

but ya know, i'm pretty confident i never actually got these cards finished. go figure.

funny how much i played with patterns around this time (you'll see more of this kind of stuff when i get to the "tall tales" b/w stuff), now it's all about open linework.

-c

oh, yeah, todd... two can play that game...

okay, for all you folks who've been reading todd's blog entries about his homemade holiday cards, i figured i'd chime in as well since he's up to the point i started making my own cards for a few years (before the kids and deadlines took hold of whatever free time i have)... the first one i did after college was pretty simple in b/w (on red or green card stock maybe? that sounds right... but i can't seem to find a copy of the card). anywhoo, the art here is a colored version i worked up later...

oh, and i figured since it's off to image (finally!), i figured it's safe to post the new and improved, actual cover to perhapanauts 5 (on sale in finer comic shops early in 2009)...  

and while i was digging out the old holiday card stuff, i did find and scan some other pre-comics odds and ends that i'll be posting here as well...

-c

!annataz rehtona ,kool, yeh! *

*okay, for all the non-complete comic nerds out there, it's "hey, look, another zatanna!"  backwards like the way she casts her spells, get it?... and would you believe the next one in the queue is zatanna as well? go figure (besides that, i've got one last one of dani and serra from tellos hanging over my head, then i'm done with the commission backlog... well, if you don't count that exiles one for jim... or the "REALLY long overdue but with any luck it'll be done by the time you have your baby" one i owe one of my oldest friends (yeah, bobbby, that's you)

so, here's yet another LONG in the works commission of zatanna and scarlet witch for the very patient hitoshi amano (it's been laid out for months but i never seemed to find the time to finish it)

putting the finishing touches on the last 2 pages of haps 5 and sending them to rico to work his usual magic, layouts for the first marvel adventures cap story are moving along... 

finally got around to finishing the update to the canson paper galleries (6 pages already?) after working out a few kinks with the web hosting server.

seemed weird last night to NOT sit down to a new episode of the shield... sigh. (yet, i still watch the heroes i'm tivoing in the hopes it might get back to being mediocre... but it's like watching a new trainwreck every week... at least chuck is still pretty fun - just rewatched all of season 1 this last week while working and enjoyed it even more the second time)

took the kids to get a picture with santa today... maybe next year we'll manage to get'm both to smile at the same time...(but cat not crying in the picture this year was nice)...

well, these comics don't draw themselves... back to work.