busy with... stuff (like this samurai jack cover)

hey, look, it's samurai jack riding RI's own big blue bug over water fire! on the RI comic con exclusive cover to #1... (want to get a copy? can't hep ya.. but want to own the original art? keep reading...)

okay, clearly it's been a few days since my last post... wrapped up my last convention of the year in portland, maine this past weekend... and busy working on things... which i can't really announce yet.

i HAVE been updating the Facebook page with plenty of art updates, and need to get better about coming here as well...

updated the art for sale section with several new sketch covers, original cover art from IDW's samurai jack and powerpuff girls, several more marvel superheroes magazine covers, batman beyond and batman '66 pinups...

kyrra is now on comixology! chapter 2 just went live (and should be on a monthly schedule at this point)... chapter 5 is getting all colored up and should be on artist alley comics in a few weeks (if you can't stand the wait!)

we should have the perhapanauts: danger down under! trade all ready to go for a january release... todd and i are working on some fun 'haps related things to be coming your way in the near (and not so near) future...

over at the perhapanauts webstore, for the rest of november we're having a $10 t-shirt blowout! (well, jersey devil is $15 and $5 goes to red cross donation) hoping to clear out the (rapidly dwindling) remaining stock to make way for new shirts in 2014...

geez, see what waiting a few months to post gets? okay, back to work...

-c

whaddaya know... a NEW sketchbook!

wow, 2 posts in one week... CRAZY!

just a quick one to announce a new sketchbook, now on sale over in the webstore (and at upcoming convention appearances like granite state, rhode island, and coast city)...

it's 24 pages, b/w with a color cover, comic book sized and limited to only 100 copies... collecting commissions, samples and more...

alright, back to the drawing board...

-c!

batman '66 commission

so, just got back from one of my favorite comic cons of the year, baltimore comic con. i've been heading down for YEARS now, with trish and kids in tow (and visiting with trish's sister and family as well)...

this year i brought a commission for my pal, brad tree (one of the driving forces behind keeping the show on track)... he'd seen some of my batman '66 samples and was hoping to get one with batgirl (which i guess would make that batman '67-8)

luckily, tom feister and i were looking to find something to do together, and he killed it on colors...

and if you don't see me posting this stuff on facebook or twitter (@craigrousseau), here are a few of the samples...

plenty more to post (like a giant batch o' legion canson paper commissions) in the future...

-c

new "sons of anarchy" tonight! (which is good, since i'm just wrapping up the 3rd series of "luther" tonight...)

kyrra chapter 5...

so, seems like it's been a WHILE since i've posted anything about KYRRA... and well... that's because it's stalled a bit.

we managed to get chapters 1-4 (and the free preview) up over at ARTIST ALLEY COMICS, but since then life seems to have gotten in the way... paying commissions,  paying work, family time, conventions...

the freedom to do a creator owned book is GREAT, make no mistake... BUT making a living doing it (without a publisher or real viable income?) gets... tricky. we'd LOVE to do this every month, but the financial realities of the situation just don't allow it (and, to be honest, it's the same with THE PERHAPANAUTS over at image comics... we'd LOVE to do that every day and have books out monthly -or more!, but sadly, our sales can't support it...)

soooo, we do what we can when we can, and try to make sure what we give you is the best we can put out...  and we understand some folks aren't on board with digital (or if they are, prefer the ease of comixology) and we're looking into ways to get this out to more readers in both print and digital.


rich and i have a pretty ambitious story we'd love to tell... and hope we can. it just might take us a while... (same with todd and me and THE PERHAPANAUTS*)

but anyway, here's the cover to chapter 5...

*speaking of THE 'HAPS, starting next monday, we at perhapanauts central are going to start running weekly $10 SPECIAL sales in our recently redesigned webstore to make way for new product in 2014... stay tuned.

-c

catching up...

so, pmc 2013 is in the books (thanks to all the folks who donated... and you didn't there's still time...  http://www2.pmc.org/profile/CR0137)

should have this year's "thank you!" print for donations done in the next week or so...

boston comic con was great (but really only a one day show for me), looking forward to baltimore comic con!

speaking of, it's time for my "get'm before i haveta lug'm to baltimore sale!"

Use discount code B4BMORE to get 25% off on all original cover art in my web store...

and ALSO speaking of baltimore, here's my contribution to this year's "art yearbook" featuring USAGI YOJIMBO!

todd sadly couldn't make it to the boston con...but don't feel too bad, he was busy in maine working on the PERHAPANAUTS AUDIO COMIC! (more info is coming soon)

sadly, i've been neglecting the blog over here (keeping an online presence on facebook   and twitter  - @craigrousseau - are time consuming as it is.)... but i have plenty of marvel superhero magazine covers to show off (and more!), so come back next time... i'll try and be better about this stuff...

-c

oh, LOVED stephen king's "joyland" and neil gaiman's "ocean at the end of the world"... now up is owen king's "double feature" ... and HOURS of "game of thrones" audiobooks...

boston comic con and the PMC

so, the rescheduled  Boston Comic Con is less than a month away... i'll be there all day sunday (sketching, signing and selling), but saturday i'll be busy riding my bike the 85+ miles from wellsley to bourne on this year's pan mass challenge, to raise money for the dana farber cancer institute and jimmy fund ( 100% of funds raised goes directly to the cause of curing cancer)... any donations help a great cause, 'cause cancer sucks. (like last year, donations to my ride'll get you an EXCLUSIVE 'haps print -i'll be posting it here soon!... and this year, anything over $100 gets a sketch cover... like this - your choice of character!)

here's last year's print...

and 2011's...

looking to make a donation? http://www2.pmc.org/profile/CR0137

the cover to "marvel superheroes magazine" 27...step by step

quick random things - 

1. the 'haps"danger down under" is over... and we're trying to figure out how to go forward... (i'll have a post about that soon).. anybody read it? thoughts? 

2. kyrra chapter 5 is well underway... and after a bit of down time, the ARTIST ALLEY COMICS website is back up.

3. had a GREAT trip to albuquerque with todd last month... managed to see roswell and meet new 'haps fans!

4. gotta get better about this blog.

5. doing samples for a gig that could be a LOT of fun, we'll see what happens...

6. updated both my art for sale store... and the perhapanauts web store

so, as my run on covers to "marvel super heroes magazine" winds down, i've only got a few left to post... here's the cover to 27, in various stages of sketches, pencils and inks (final colors - by benny fuentes!)

happy 4th.

quick thought or two on convention prints...

starting to get stuff together to pack up for heroescon next week... and got me thinking about artists selling prints of licensed characters (and sometimes with HUGE displays covered with prints) ... me, i've decided that's not my bag. heck, if dc , marvel or anybody else, for that matter, wanted me to draw their characters, they'd hire me - and sometimes, they do... and if they wanted to sell prints, they would... it's their property, their choice... commissions and one offs, that's a different beast.

sure i 'd probably sell a LOT more marvel prints than i do of the perhapanauts or kyrra... but i'm okay with that.

-c

so, speaking of ... KYRRA chapter 4 should be available in the next week or so (i'l llet you know)... and PERHAPANAUTS - DANGER DOWN UNDER 5 is out NEXT WEEK!

the doctor.

so, after all those "legion" sketches (there's another batch in the queue!), i got myself on a "doctor who" kick (which started with a commissioned sketch of the current doctor... and snowballed)

a few are still available for sale on the website.

as far as work, plenty more marvel superheroes magazine covers to post down the road, wrapping up letter on haps "danger down under 5" (out in june), more haps lost covers, chapter 4 of kyrra is underway...

-c

legion!

after wrapping up the final (final?) 'haps issue, getting to some commissions and outstanding stuff...

been posting these to Facebook one at a time, here they are in one blog post...

-c

by the hoary hosts of hoggoth!

as i'm wrapping up these last few perhapanauts pages for issue 5 of "danger down under"- and more kyrra - decided it was time to take on some new commissions after a long break...

first up, dr. strange!

(if you've been itching for a commission, now's the (limited) time... drop a line to bob@comicarthouse.com )

-c

another marvel magazine cover in progress...

with trying to wrap up issue 5 of "danger down under!" and keep kyrra moving along, it's been a while since my last update...

here's a cover for MSH 22 from scribbly sketch to finish (with killer colors by benny fuentes!)

(shameless plug - this cover - and many more - are for sale in the new webstore...)

sadly, i won't be out in seattle for emerald city comic con - next up, boston comic con in april.

-c

kyrra!

so, while i've been mighty busy with this latest PERHAPANAUTS mini series (DANGER DOWN UNDER! issues 1-3 are out now in print and digitally thru comixology , issue 4 is due in february and concluding with issue 5 in april!) and the MARVEL SUPER HEROES magazine covers i've been posting, i'm also hard at work on my new "digital first" venture KYRRA, ALIEN JUNGLE GIRL with my pals rich and lawrence over at artist alley comics. with any luck, we'll get on track with the last 6 ten page chapters in 2013 (sold drm free as pdfs you can read on any computer or tablet for only $0.99... chapters 1 and 2 are up now!) and collect'm all in print down the road, if there's interest...

comics are a changing landscape, and we're testing the digital waters... 'cause honestly, if your book doesn't have an AVENGERS, BAT, or X in the title, it's tough (but not impossible) to make a go in print...


we'll see... hope you're along for the ride!
-c

a marvel superheroes 20 cover... start to finish

keeping up with my effort to keep posting here on the blog more often... here's another cover, start to finish (from sketches to approved pencils, inks and kick ass colors by john rauch!) 

with these covers, i need to leave plenty of "dead" space for captions, title, upc codes, etc... and the final art is usually separated into layers, so creative giant (the guys who tirelessly put these magazines together every month) can shift art where needed...

besides these covers, i'm still working steady on THE PERHAPANAUTS - DANGER DOWN UNDER! (issue 3 hits stands and comixology next week) and KYRRA (over at artist alley... chapter 2 should finally be up by next week, and chapter 3 is well under way)

-c