Some new portfolio pieces.

Pencils by Olivier Coipel.

Pencils by Khary Randolph.

*whew*
It’s been crazy busy around here for me.

First off this is the first time I’ve been employed by comics ALL year long.  No breaks, no lulls.  Straight through, every month, all year long.  It’s a crazy high, I gotta tell you.  It’s nowhere NEAR easy, but it’s a great ride.

Second, I moved.  The wife and I decided to build a home this time, because then we could be as picky as we wanted and then GET what we wanted so that she and I and our 3 boys would have enough room.   It doesn’t come without its pitfalls, though, lemme tell ya.  It was nowhere near easy.  And we’re still getting settled.

Third….well…those 2 were enough.  For pretty much the last 6 months we’ve moved and I’ve moved mountains keeping up with the deadlines and some of them were pretty nasty.  I was reminded at how lucky I am to be working at DC and other publishers at this past years’ FCBD when a local guy asked what I had set up for myself at the end of the long table and I just half-heartedly, with fatigue heavily set in, remarked how I was just showing my DC work.  His eyes lit up and he said, “COOL, man, so you’re really living the dream!  That’s awesome!”  And like cold water being splashed on my face, after months of intense deadlines and worrying, it hit me… Oh yeah!  This is freakin’ cool.  And it is.  I’m so thankful to be doing this and that people like my work,  its just hard to put into words how much I appreciate everything going on right now.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s a struggle and it’s damn hard work.

But, man, what a payoff.

I can’t thank all of you enough who have repeatedly Fav’d my work, when I actually got around to posting it.  Thank you all a ton and see you next year.

I am caught up on my commissions finally and the people I owe can finally stop cussing me out.  Because I know they are.

These first 2 are commissions pieces I did over Sunny Lee.

These next 2 are from Sean “Cheeks” Galloway.  Just some ForFun pieces.

This is a commission over Kevin Sharpe.  Crazy Fun.

Last up is another ForFun piece by my good bud, Lee Ferguson.

Life has been crazy lately but I’ll offer some new stuff and talk later.

Inks over Kyle Hotz for possible future work.

Some inks over Joe Sinnott for the Inkwell Awards Auction.

Still steady working on Legion Secret Origins, art from that coming soon. 

I will be at NYCC this coming weekend.

I don’t have an AA table but I will be around the DC and Archaia booths most of the time.

Out TODAY in comic store is Legion #16 AND Supergirl #67.  Here’s a tease from Legion.

Pencils by Daniel HDR, inks by Me.

THIS weekend, Aug 20-21, I”ll be set-up at the Baltimore Comic Con in Artist Alley at table A205. See you there!

Starting the morning off…

And to top things off, here’s our cover piece.  If you actually have a copy of The Many Adventures of Miranda Mercury, if you carefully take the wrap-around cover off you’ll see this emblazoned on the cover of the book. Pencils by Lee Ferguson, Inks by Me!

With Miranda Mercury NOW IN COMIC STORES EVERYWHERE, I’m going to continue with the art postings. 

Here’s a page from #296

Day 3 and I’m offering up a two-fer!  SImply because TODAY, Aug 10th, is the DAY that Miranda hits comic book shop shelves.  Theses are 2 as-of-yet unused covers.  The day may come though, we’ll see.  The first is a huge, biggest I’ve ever done at least, triple cover spread.  The second is another double pager cover.