Vikings are finished! 2:30 PM

Well, at least I'm done with drawing them... for now. I really enjoyed illustrated this book. It played to all of the things I love drawing! non-fiction historical detail, swords and shields, combat,  and whiff of fantasy. Tolkien was heavily inspired by Norse mythology and legends when he created middle earth and in my research it shows (and hopefully in my drawing)

Now, got to prep for MoCCA!

Vikings! RIPE! Ripe Vikings (I suspect that goes without saying) 11:59 AM

What do you do when you're a viking who has just been ambushed by 15 or so bandits? If you're Egil Skallagrimsson you fight until you lose your weapon and then beat them with rocks. All of them, including their buddies who show up later.

This is one of 40 illustrations I've been working on for the next book in the Guts & Glory series by Ben Thompson published by Little Brown.

I'm drawing vikings all day, every day. Life. Is. Rough... and by rough, I mean AWESOME!

This upcoming weekend I'll be exhibiting at the Rhode Island Press Expo! or... RIPE. I'll be selling comic books, silkscreen prints, and drawing VIKINGS! Come check it out!

Character Design and Development of Nero Noir 3:25 PM

The process of developing and designing “Nero Noir” the anti-hero private investigator who’ll make his debut in Zombie Cat #2- which if all goes as planned will be ready for the MoCCA Festival 2015. 

This was a tough one for me, usually it just comes to me- a couple of sketches and good to go, but I knew this I wanted this character to be iconic, so he had to be just right.

LA Zinefest was Good Fun cue a Boxing Wiener 3:38 PM

Ah LA. if I wasn't nearly freezing solid in Brooklyn I doubt I could remember your warm, palm lined, streets in which I sat endlessly in traffic with more fondness. I mean really, I can run five miles faster than I could drive there. That said.

LA Zinefest was excellent! I really had a great time and look forward to it next year. It was an awesomely diverse collection of self-publishers of every ilk and medium! Reminded me of the early days of the MoCCA Festival. Totally worth leaving freeeeeezing New York for a few days to exhibit and hangout!

Please enjoy a boxing wiener! why? cause I've drawn a lot of boxing animals but never a dog (still no boxing cat yet either) Someone asked why I didn't draw a boxing Boxer? "cause that's obvious" I responded indignant, masking that I didn't think of that really obvious decision

World War II pencilling! 3:24 PM

Pencils for the cover of a book about World War 2 that I'm doing for Little Brown. Love drawing the P-38 Lightning- quite possibly the coolest plane ever. EVER

LA Zinefest! woot! 2:36 PM

I'll be exhibiting for the first time at the LA Zinefest! Along with my studio-mate Jen Tong, Her BF Joel Alter, and former studio-mate, good friend, and new LA resident Sung Yoon Choi! I'm really looking forward to it and it's SOON! Just more than a month away. I've got to get busy! I'm not a fast zine maker, quite the opposite. Aside of my illustration, comic, storyboarding, silkscreening, and GTA V work, when it comes to zine making I am ponderous. I spend a lot of time just sketching and mulling over an idea before it ever becomes real (anyone who follows my comics understands that I'm slower than a frozen snail). It's not that I want to be slow or that I lack ideas, it's just when I do get an idea... for lack of a better analogy. I percolate on it until... until it makes a good cup of coffee.

IF you're in the greater Los Angeles area I expect to see you in a month! Meanwhile- I have no idea what or how or whatever I'm going to do with this rad Medusa drawing but something must be done!