The Penguins

Last month I was working as an artist at the Phoenix Comicon where I witnessed two people together dressed up as The Batman villain The Penguin. Now seeing people dressed up as a comic book baddie is nothing strange at a comic book convention, cosplay kids live for that shit. These two however happen to be a man and a woman, each dressed in a particularly unique Penguin outfit. The man, short with the traditional black tux, purple top hat, monocle and big ass nose, arriving as if the dude had resurrected Burgess Meredith himself. The woman actually towered over the guy, and she was dressed up in the Bruce Timm BTAS design, with the long hair that was inspired by the crappy Tim Burton goth remix. So the two of them stood near my table just shooting the shit about each others outfit and previous conventions they attended and such. The crazy thing was, while they were talking together, each of them stayed in character the entire time. The woman did this terrible Danny Devito impersonation while the guy finished every sentence with the whole "WhA-wha-wha." Even crazier, both of them were taking breaks from speaking to each other to take imaginary drags off of their long fake plastic cigarette filter holder thingamajig. They were honestly pretending to fucking smoke! People are wierd.

Cloak and Dagger

Power Girl Color 01

This Power Girl picture is something I have been working on for the Phoenix Comicon in late January. It'll be sold as a 5 X 7 inch postcard.

Hulk

$3.25 for a Box of Tampons!

Yesterday was comic book day, and after picking up our weekly fix the gang and I went over to Best Buy to get our greasy mits on the Dark Knight DVD. As we were walking back to the car a slightly disheveled woman in her mid twenties approached us. "Hey can you guys spare any part of the $3.25 for a box of tampons?" she asked. In response, Pat shrugs and says "Nah, I only pay with a debit card" while I mime fumbling through my empty pockets to feign an interest in contributing and then reward her with the face that expresses "I got nothing." That interaction started a converstaion on correct bum etiquette. Would it have been smarted for her to lie about what she needed the money for or was the request for tampons a simple ploy to prey on men's sensitivities about the whole creepy menstruation subject? If she really needed tampons, why didn't she ask a woman, I am sure she would have been much more successful. Most likely the woman would just donate one to her from out of her purse, but then the begger would be out the $3.25. So what did she really need the money for?

Wizard's War Heroes Cover Competition

I participated in Wizard's War Heroes Cover Competition in the summer (for those of you reading this that voted for me thanks again) and was lucky enough to learn from Wizard's website that I was the winner. Unfortunately, Wizard has yet to officially contact me about winning the contest. I've sent emails to everyone listed on Wizard's website's "Contact Us" link, I've left messages on Wizard's voice mail, I have written Image Comics, I have even met and spoke to both Mark Millar and Tony Harris, the creators of War Heroes (both of whom are very nice and have nothing to do with this contest besides judging the final four), all to no avail. No one has officially responded to any of my attempts to connect which has left me quite confused. If they still intend on publishing the winning artwork as an alternative cover for War Heroes number four you'd think someone would send over the release paperwork and request a hi-res image. War Heroes #4 was supposed to be released this month, but they are well behind schedule and issue three has yet to come out, so we'll see what happens. Anyway, here's my submission along with some preliminary stuff I did for it.

Let's get this started!

Finally. I have had this Blogspot for over a year now and it has shown nothing more than my name in the title for the entire time. Now that I've got off my ass, I will kick things off by posting some character designs for an imaginary animated project based on the Lost TV show.