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!

Holiday Gloom!

The Art Director at SCOPE Magazine always asks me to take the darker angle on the stories I get assigned, which is great.  So here, miserable Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Future.

Eva Ibbotson covers

Three soon-to-be reprinted covers for Penguin/Dutton Children's Books:

a little gore

Title pages for recent issues of Scholastic's SCOPE Magazine:

drawing monsters, part I

I've been rather enjoying myself recently, as I've been asked to draw a lot of total jerks.

Here is one recent example:
 

Dorian Gray for Scope (a teen-focused magazine).  Detail:

Good times.

don't be a-skeered, he's just misunderstood

This was a sweet gig to land.  Penguin has asked me to do covers for some reprints of a few Eva Ibbotson novels.  If'n you are unfamiliar with her work, she is a British author of some witty and winsome fantasy tales for the young'uns.  This first cover is for a new book of hers called The Ogre Of Oglefort.

It's nice to get back to my roots and draw some good old-fashioned monsters again.

Update: Eva Ibbotson sadly passed away October 20th, making this her final novel.  She seemed a pretty awesome lady, as noted here, and I'm honored to be an illustrator to her fantastic writings.

jobby jobs

 

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.