HexComix and Hex11

So it's not far from a year since my last update? Well time flies when you're making comic books! I started a production company last year with my partners in creativity Lynly Forrest and Kelly Sue Milano, culminating in the October 2014 release of our new comic book, HEX11. It's a story about a future world where magic is a new technology being fought over by modern day witches, evil corporations, and arrogant demons. The creation of it has been a dream come true and the reception has been overwhelming.

Since it's debut, we've done a few West Coast conventions (Comikaze, Phoenix FanFest, Long Beach Comic Expo) with more to come (WonderCon, Wizard World Las Vegas,  Phoenix Comicon, and the big one: San Diego Comic-Con in July).

We've met some amazing people along the way, been nominated for the first ever Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in comics, and released Issue #2 last weekend at LBCE! I'm now hard at work on Issue #3 and as such, won't be updating very much on this blog for the time being. So if you're interested in new artwork, please visit HexComix.com, or follow us on our social medias: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. All news and art is regularly updated!

Thank you!

Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe

Two spreads from Poe's "Hop-Frog, or, The Eight Chained Orangutans."  Click to enlarge:

This was a kinda nostalgic project for me.  The full circle, for those interested: Graphic Classics took a chance on this once-starving illustrator for their very first issue and my very first publishing job about 10 years ago, for the very same Poe story. Back then, Graphic Classics was in black & white, and I only produced a handful of spot illustrations rather than a full graphic novel.  How far we both have come... le sigh.

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Haven't had much time to do any art for art's sake of late, as the fast-paced world of children's illustration has been keeping me on the edge of overwhelmed.  As such, I thought it was time to add some illustration onto this here blog.  It means I'll be updating more often, at least.

So, to begin, here's the cover image and a couple of spreads for a forthcoming "Musicians of Bremen Town" comic, published by Stone Arch Books.  I found that a surprising number of people had never heard of the story, a Grimm's fairy tale about a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster just trying to find some happiness and peace in this wicked world.  Spoiler alert: it all works out nicely for them in the end.