90's Week - The Maxx

Wassup y'all! Happy New Year. I had a great week off where I had a chance to reflect, relax, sleep, eat and draw. I did all of those a great deal, which in mind is the perfect vacation. I headed back home to Boston (my hometown) and got to look through my childhood comic book collection, which I haven't really done in quite a while. It's always a kick to look through some of the stuff that shaped my childhood and provided me with the inspiration to do what I do for a living. I always read comic books as a kid, but my real love and passion for the medium didn't really develop till 91' or 92', around the time of the formation of Image Comics. That whole movement really affected me. The art was so frenetic and colorful and just so . . .new to me, and for the first time in my life it made me say "wow, this is what I want do". That said, this next set of images is sort of my homage to all those great books from the 90's that I dug.

This first one is based on Sam Kieth's The Maxx.

The Cap'n.

I dunno, I was just in the mood for some Cap.

Ironman.

I've wanted to do my version of Adi Granov's Ironman for quite a while now. I did this as a warm up before working on a page of Spawn. I may try to do this more often, I dont sketch nearly enough these days.

Don't post nearly enough either, but you already know that.

Bowery Poetry Club

Another week, another party! If you're in NYC this Friday, this is the spot you need to be at. There'll be poetry, dope music, and a projector slideshow featuring artwork by yours truly. So come thru, it'll be a good time. There will of course be copies of the Black Book and t-shirts for sale (yes, I am one hell of a self promoter). Props to my man Chuck for the hook-up.

Turtles of Future Past

So, I was going through my archives, and noted that some of these TMNT: Fast Forward joints I've done a while ago have never really been shown. Let me rephrase that -- a few of these have been shown on toy shelves via packaging and what not, they just haven't ever been show by me. And, some of these are aborted character tryouts that for whatever reason didn't work or didn't fit character specs or whatever. Shokanobo himself (big guy w/ the tongue) as a drawing was fine, but the colors changed from this version to final. So here they are.

Kano VS. Kharupt: To the DEATH.

This is straight up, 100% the last time I will mention this book in this blog. For realz. Honest.

That said, if you're in the NYC region and you wanna come thru by all means do so. It should be a good time.

Still alive.

I swear, I will be updating this damn thing soon. I have a ton of stuff to put up here, but things have been so hectic I just haven't had the time to put it all up. That will change soon, promise. Within the week. Stay tuned.