Making Comics! Podcast

My friend, collaborator, and fellow studio mate Jeremy Barlow makes his first appearance on ‘Making Comics!’ along side Travis Hanson.  Have a listen and you’ll gain some valuable information on what goes into producing web comics and some interesting thoughts on how the industry is changing. Or should I say thoughts on how it changed?

-Making Comics #10 Part 1-

You may recognize Jeremy for his work writing several Star Wars graphic novels, Metalocalypse comics, and recently the Kult mini-series.

OR you may learn to associate him with this short 10 page horror story he wrote and I illustrated titled; ‘The Stain’.

Read it -HERE- on his website!

And let me know what you think!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Crusaders- Shield

The ‘New Crusaders’ are coming.

Over at Comic Book Resources you can read this article on Shield and learn just how old he is. He’s pretty old.

 

 

Mega Man Issue 9- Dr. Wily Villain Variant Cover

Hey I’m posting this Dr. Wily cover late, Mega Man issue 10 actually just came out this month. Its the second issue of the ‘The Return of Dr. Wily’, a four issue arc adapting the classic ‘Mega Man 2′ NES game. Its also the second issue I was lucky enough to pencil interiors for. Inside Mega Man battles Crash Man, one of my favorite robot masters from 2! If you read this issue, you should let me know what you think about the Crash Man pages.

Back to issue 9, I was thrilled to get to draw this Dr. Wily Villain Sketch Variant! Here it is without title text, bar code, or anything-

 

 

I originally came up with three possible ideas for the cover and quickly sketched out a set of thumbnails for Editor Paul Kaminski to choose from. Here’s what I sent him-

Option 2 here was playing around with the original ‘Rock Man 2′ box art-

It might be kind of hard to see in my rough but you’ve got Mega Man way down at the bottom along with a Met to the left. In the final I wanted to draw all the enemies on the ‘Rock Man 2′ cover in the same positions, along with the explosions. Could have been a lot of fun.

And here’s the winner-

Paul wanted something just a little more evil from Dr. Wily so I gave him these options-

You can see in the final I flipped Dr. Wily around to prevent Mega Man’s helmet from covering the “Sketch Variant” text that would eventually be placed next to the logo. (I also shrank Crash Man down because I wanted to draw his cool arms.)

And bam, thats a sketch variant!