Fill-In Issue: Young Genetic Freaks
GEN13 Volume 4 #26 (Dan Hipp) March 2009 New Mutants #5 (Zachary Baldus) November 2009 This week, we look at a pair of fill-in issues featuring young, mutant, super-powered cartoonists drawing young, mutant, super-powered teams. Gen-13 begins with a military unit killing a team of super-powered teenagers. The last teen dies, then wakes up with her teammates in government custody. They are Gen-14! Turns out there’s been some sort of national (global?) disaster and somehow this military unit uses Gen-14ers as training practice. It may sound...
read moreSleazy Slice #5 cover
The “dirtiest comic in the underground” is back! The latest installments of Roubin Bougie’s sex comic anthology, Sleazy Slice, and exploitation movie zine, Cinema Sewer, are now available! I love Cinema Sewer – Bougie’s enthusiasm and knowledge of film’s sordid history is unmatched. I created the cover for Sleazy Slice #5 and thought I’d show a little process since I like seeing the way other people work. When Robin contacted me about doing the cover, I was already familiar with this series. I had...
read moreLG Cup Street Fighter IV HD World Championship 2012 poster
I designed a t-shirt and poster for LG Cup Street Fighter IV HD World Championship 2012. iam8bit produced the event in LA. I’ve worked with them on a number of promotional items in the past. They gave me some guidelines, and I gave them a few rough ideas. We didn’t have a lot of time to turn this around. So I would do a few roughs, then send them to iam8bit for feedback. When I sent the image on the right, I was wrapping things up for the day. I had another idea that I thought would be the one, but before I could get it...
read moreTIME CAPSULE: Tundra
The Comics Journal has posted their fascinating interview with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator, Kevin Eastman (part 1, part 2, letters). My favorite part of the interview deals with his publishing venture, Tundra. I thought it might be interesting to read some of the Tundra coverage that Wizard magazine published at the time. If you like this sort of look back into the early 90s comics market, be sure to check Jasen Lex’s Time Capsules....
read moreDo It Yourself Doodler vs. Bloodstrike!
I picked up David Jablow’s Do It Yourself Doodler at MIX a couple weeks ago from Adhouse Books. The concept of Do It Yourself Doodler is that Jablow found an old activity book page featuring a partially drawn figure and proceeded to create a series of drawings based on this activity page. The author explains it below: Here is the blank activity page: As you can see, the figure is horizontally oriented. Jablow does a fantastic job creating 39 funny and very creative drawings starting from this template. Most of the drawings maintain...
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