Meanwhile…

A while back, I picked this up for my wife, a bit of original art (not a print, but the actual pen-and-ink) crafted by the incomparable Skottie Young, whose work you can find in the fantastic Wizard of Oz adaptations Marvel is putting out. (And also a lot of awesome covers – seriously, just do a Google image search and spend an hour in slack-jawed wonder.) Finally got around to framing it tonight. It also seemed appropriate because of the release of the last movie this weekend.

He refers to this sort of thing as a warm-up sketch. Had I any talent with a pencil, I’d quietly keep it to myself from now on.

I’ve finished up the robot story I posted a bit of last time. I’ll let you know when (and if) it sells. I like it, and I wouldn’t mind writing more adventures for this pair of characters.

First up, my Buffy sketch from Cal Slayton. I’m a fan of Slayton’s style, and at every show I intend to get a piece from him, but never seem to get around to it. So I made a point (hah!) to do it this time.

Next is a piece I got from David Marquez. He recently had his first work for Marvel with the excellent Secret Warriors series, so I got a Nick Fury from him. It is awesome.

As I mentioned before, meeting Amanda Conner was one of the highlights of the show for me. Her line was ridiculously long all weekend, and I got to her literally in the last minute of the show. Totally worth it.

So my life has been all a tumble lately, apologies for the silence and lack of productivity. I just stopped by to point out this, an art show inspired by the works of China Mieville, which I thought was awesome.

I am particularly taken with the propaganda posters, which will likely soon take their place on my computer desktop.

It seems this sketchbook has been too long without a sketch!

I’ve been planning since the site launch to have art depicting various scenes or characters from my stories. I have received a couple of preliminary sketches from friend Katie and it is pretty exciting!