Jean Grey / The Phoenix

Jean Grey as the Phoenix, acrylic and ink on paper.

Evil Supergirl (Supergirl Black)

You know what there's not enough of? Evil Supergirl! So I did a drawing of her and painted it (ink and acrylic with watercolour on paper). Enjoy!

Emma Frost of X-Men Mini Comic

Super Girl and Power Girl Mini Comic

The Archies/DC crossover madness continues with all-new Supergirl!!

Emma Frost The Human Diamond

Did some painting I dub: "For the Heck of it Fridays". Presentarle the X-Men's Emma Frost, the Human Diamond! It's hard to shake characters out of your head after rereading the New X-Men run from 2001 starring Grant Morrison (W), Frank Quitely (A), Igor Kordey (A), Ethan Van Sciver (A), Bill Sienkiewicz (A), Phil Jiminez (A) et al. A great run featuring art by all of these dudes!

Big Barda Mini Comic

New Big Barda mini comic as the DC/Archie crossover madness continues!!

DC's Knock Out Minicomic

First of the DC/Marvel/Archie crossover series! :) These comics are all half-page, brochure-fold mini's starring the wild girls of DC/Marvel in Archie-style!

Comix Gone Rogue!

I was kindly invited by the talented and multi-faceted Werewolf of New York (Edwin Vazquez) to do a comic blank cover for an issue of Savage Dragon over at Comix Gone Rogue. Here's what happened!

And check out the Rogue comix blog to see a plethora of talent artists undertaking a variety of comic blank covers!

SpaceGirl

Working on a new story, here's a character sketch and the first page in pencils!

Comic Cover Blanks - Q Edition

Taking part in a charity event for Happy Harbor Comics in Edmonton, AB, I've tried my hand at doing a couple of Comic Blank covers for an issue Avengers + X-Men and JLA.

And I ABSOLUTELY referred to the contents for each drawing, they are accurate, as crazy as they seem!

The cover of A+X refers to a scene in the movie "Office Space", where Milton misses out on a piece of cake. THIS HAPPENS TO HULK IN THE COMIC. I told you, it's weird and funny all by itself.

The second is more Archie-influenced DC comics and some of my own style-art for the back. Have to say, the paper is not the best for coloring (with paint or marker), but drawing a comic cover onto a published work was still pretty fun!

New Year, New Comics

Greetings, interwebs! It's been awhile! I have to admit that I've been fighting of an "Archie's Comics" obsession for the past few months, and the most fortuitous aberration has been making mini-Archie-style DC and Marvel comics! This marries well with my previous (and ongoing, really) obsession with DC&Marvel superheroines, some of which I am still discovering as I expand my comics collection. Characters such as Thundra (Marvel) from West Coast Avengers was an exciting new discovery! In any case, below you can see the mini's in various stages of completion, and thus far include Thundra, Medusa, Emma Frost, She-Hulk (Marvel), and Big Barda, Power Girl, Knock Out and Terra (DC). These little comics are half-page, tri-fold style on sheets of plain, multi-colored 20lb copy paper. Their existence is mostly accidental, being the result of boredom and copious amounts of cheap, colored paper.

Future plans for these minis include making print copies for sale in my online store.

SuperSexy Page 2

See page one here.

Flipbook Cosplay

Rosie the Riveter

A modern take on Rose the Riveter I did back in 2010.

Here's the original, and some info on Rosie:

"They promoted the fictional character of “Rosie the Riveter” as the ideal woman worker: loyal, efficient, patriotic, and pretty (Yellin 43). A song, “Rosie the Riveter”, became very popular in 1942. Norman Rockwell’s image on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943 was the first widely publicized pictorial representation of the new “Rosie the Riveter”. This led to many other “Rosie” images and women to represent that image. For example, the media found Rose Hicker of Eastern Aircraft Company in Tarrytown, New York and pictured her with her partner as they drove in a record number of rivets into the wing of a Grumman “Avenger” Bomber on June 8, 1943. Rose was an instant media success (Dabakis 183). In many other locations and situations around the country, “Rosies” were found and used in the propaganda effort. A few months after Rockwell’s image, the most famous image of Rosie appeared in the government-commissioned poster “We Can Do It” (Yellin 44)."

(http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/rosie.htm)

CanZine West 2012

November 17, CanZine West hits Vancouver at the spacious W2 building in Gastown! For an admission price of only $5, visitors can meet and browse through dozens of goods by indie zine, comics, art and craftmakers for a one-of-a-kind indie experience! The admission price also buys you a copy of the much-lauded Broken Pencil Magazine (mmm....magazine!), and lets you participate in panels, talks and a giant drawing project hosted by Vancouver's own Alex Stursburg and Brennan Kelly. With easy walking access to skytrain, downtown buses, helicopter and boat, CanZine 2012 is going to be one of the most exciting shows to hit Vancouver since VanCAF back in May! Come out, show your support, and check out what your friendly neighborhood zinesters have been doing while locked away in their apartments and lofts!

Here's some of the highlights from the W2 Community Media Arts website:

1-7pm: Zine Fair – Over 50 of Vancouver and BC’s best zines and underground
publications!

1-7pm: Get in Where You Fit In – A Participatory Drawing Show with curators Alex
Stursberg and Brennan Kelly.

2pm: 1-2 Punch Book Pitch – Live on our main stage in front of a crowing crowd, you get two minutes to pitch your book to our panel of judges. They get one minute each to tell you why you’ll never get published in a million, billion years, or why they want to see your manuscript in their inbox ASAP.

4:30 Dissent Chill: The Chill Against Political Dissent in Art

As the conservative government threatens art grants and rejects funding for artistic
projects and centres that support projects it sees as anti-government or “glorify[ing]
terrorism,” are artists and art centres afraid to create controversial works for fear of losing
funding? Our panelists will discuss the perceptions and realities surrounding this topic.

With Marcus Youssef, Charlie Demes, and Shannon Rupp. Moderated by Derrick O’Keefe

6pm: W2 Real Vancouver Writers Series at Canzine

Oh but wait, there's more!

Come visit me at CanZine and I will be giving away FREE SKETCH CARDS drawn while you wait or while you browse! One per person please!

I will also be giving away coupons for FREE DOWNLOADS of my Digital Comics!

Additionally, if you have zines or comics you would like me to review for Peaches and Zines Zine Reviews and/or Syndicated Zine Reviews, please bring them by and tell me about your work!

SEE YOU THERE

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CanZine West

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

W2, 111 West Hastings Street

Vancouver, BC

Canada

Sketches: Hands, Women

Sketches: Faces, Eyes, Feet

Sketches: Mouths, Characters

Powers

I saw these two old photographs posted on http://prosthodontia.tumblr.com  and http://weird-blog-for-weird-people.tumblr.com/, and thought that what if these diseases/transformations were a form of a superpower? The rickets-inspired character would have deft, bird-like fighting abilities with the hind-leg power of an ostrich, while the enlarged legs of the other character would be outfitted with metal plated boots held on with elastic leggings. I guess I like the idea that anything outside of the commonplace could be considered powerful…maybe even a superpower.

also on: http://boobsofvalor.tumblr.com/post/32254821430/superpowers (for super big versions)

Supersexy, Page 1

Possible cover for SuperSexy

After a few months of doing other comics and projects, I've gotten reinvigorated to finish SuperSexy, my DC fanfic spectacular. Plans are to have the digital version posted here and available for free download! I am loving adding color to my sparse drawings, and I'm thinking they should become a necessity in the future. Because obviously my drawings look like they were torn straight from an adult coloring book!

and here's one of the interior pages (probably be tweaked) of Starfire diving away from a shark, while trying to save PowerGirl!