Ink on paper. A pre-ordered convention sketch for Emerald City Comic Con 2012.
Thursday Sketch: The Riddler
Heroes Con 2012
It’s now officially official that Paul Tobin and I will be guests at Heroes Con 2012 in Charlotte, NC this June 22-24!
A color pre-ordered sketch from Emerald City Comic Con 2012
As I did for Emerald City Comic Con last month, I will be taking pre-ordered sketch requests. Pre-ordering is highly recommended, because I can only handle a very limited number of sketches on site. Also, pre-orders measure 9″X12″ and color is available, while on site sketches are 6″X9″ an black & white only. To make a pre-order request, write me at colleencoovermarket {at} gmail {dot} com. PayPal accepted.
Pre-order pricing:
Black & white, single figure: $60
Color, single figure: $90
Mercury Rising
Two years ago, former Marvel Comics bullpen member Steve Bunche posted a comics try-out page submitted to Marvel in the 1990s by an unknown hopeful. The page, while lacking in polish and technique, nevertheless had very clear storytelling, and, as Bunche notes in his blog post: “While this guy would never have gotten work in a professional comic as a penciller, I have to admire his talent for creating an instant classic of a non sequitor:”
artist unknown
You are not imagining this. Wolverine stalks through the wilderness, searching for we know not what, and finds the late Freddie Mercury, frontman of the band Queen.
The page has since been rattling around on the Internet, occasionally reposted and retweeted, chuckled over and admired by people like my studiomate Jeff Parker, which is how I originally became aware of it. And it just kind of got stuck in my head. For TWO YEARS.
The story as presented raises a number of questions. What is Wolverine looking for? Agents of AIM? Peace and solitude? Or, as my other studiomate Memorial artist Rich Ellis suggested: is he looking to find Somebody To Love?
And how and why does Freddie Mercury appear at the end of his search? Was his tragically fatal illness miraculously cured, perhaps by an alien symbiote? Has he just returned from sailing the Seven Seas of Rhye? Or more simply and perhaps most logically, has Logan found himself in the presence of the worldly manifestation of a literal God of Rock?
And so, I have decided to explore these mysteries by recreating the original story, correcting some of the technical blunders on the way. I invite other artists to do the same, by which exercise we may one day come close to the fictional Truth of the matter.
My recreation of the original story.
Wednesday Sindiecate: CHEW
This week on the Sindiecate:
Wednesday Sindiecate: Queen & Country
This week on the Sindiecate:
Greg Rucka’s Queen & Country!
Tuesday Awesomeness: DIY Marvel Women Coffee Table
This photo was sent to me by Ricky, whose girlfriend Megan hot-rodded an Ikea coffee table with blown-up pages from my intros to Girl Comics!
Creepy!
Creepy Quarterly #8 came out yesterday, featuring (among other creepy things) a horror story by my old X-Men First Class partner Jeff Parker and ME. One page in particular was a bit of a challenge to lay out, so Parker just did what he does, grabbed a pencil and sketched it for me. Check it out (click on the images to enlargify):
Rough sketch by Jeff Parker
My layouts, drawn digitally in Manga Studio
Final art in ink wash on paper
Tuesday Sketch: Yvonne
Yvonne.
Ink on paper.
Wednesday Sindiecate: Witch Doctor
Witch Doctor by my Portland homie Brandon Seifert with Lukas Ketner.
If you’re in Seattle this weekend, you can swing by the Emerald City Comic Convention and meet Brandon in person.
(I’ll be there, too, at table J-12!)
Tuesday Sketch: Peg
Peg
Ink on paper.
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