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Hero Initiative New Avengers 100 Project Art Cover

I’ve done an art cover for The Hero Initiative’s New Avengers 100 project! My New Avengers cover features two old Avengers, because that’s how I roll. Click on the image to see the front and back folded out. The comic will be put up for auction (along with others done by about 100 other comics [...]

Free Comic Book Day at Rogue’s Gallery this Saturday

Paul Tobin and I are winging down to Texas for Free Comic Book Day this Saturday! Rogue’s Gallery near Austin is hosting us and a mess of other creators (check out the list here). Paul wrote one of Marvel’s FCBD selections this year, starring Iron Man & Nova! I’ll be signing whatever people put in [...]

Dan DeCarlo’s Jetta

I contributed this pinup to Craig Yoe’s newest book; Dan DeCarlo’s Jetta! For the first time all of Dan DeCarlo’s rare three 1950s sexy Jetta comic books are collected in one large full-color hardback volume! Plus, rare and unpublished art by Dan and saucy and fun pinups by 37 master cartoonists and illustrators! Find out [...]

Podcastin’

I am this week’s guest on Chris Sims and Eugene Ahn‘s comics podcast War Rocket Ajax! Download! Listen! Illustration by Rusty Shackles.

Last Chance To Bid For Sight

Only ten FIVE hours ONE HOUR left to bid! Three 6″X9″ watercolor & ink sketches by me, auctioning separately, are on eBay to benefit Comix 4 Sight! Bidding is over! And you know, if we had civilized health insurance in this country that covered everything, rather than forcing people who pay premiums each month to [...]

Bid For Sight

Three 6″X9″ watercolor & ink sketches by me are on eBay to benefit Comix 4 Sight! (Click on this link to see all auctions for this benefit.) Comix 4 Sight is a benefit to help veteran comics writer John Ostrander pay for surgeries not covered by his health insurance, but necessary to prevent his losing [...]

NO H8

Several weeks ago I was invited by Project Fanboy‘s James Freeman to draw this piece in support of the NO H8 Campaign, a silent photo/art protest against California’s dumbass Proposition 8, by which California voters amended the state Constitution to overturn the legalization of gay marriage. The piece is of Donner and Blitzen, a super-powered [...]

Two Years (Plus 14)

Two years ago today, this marionberry pie was present and eaten at the wedding picnic of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, who have been a couple since 1993. Life is good.

Unpacking The Con

As is the custom in the Coover/Tobin household, the week that was San Diego Comic-Con 2009 was followed by days of wandering about with a dazed look of confusion on our faces, stepping around the still-full-of-stuff suitcases left on the floor until we have the energy to put everything away. The period of post-con limbo [...]

Convention Sketch Advance Orders

I am taking advance orders for 6″ X 9″ black & white convention sketches. If you’re going to be at San Diego Comic Con and would like to request a sketch, write me an email or go to the Contact page on this site! PayPal only, please.