HA!
Made ya look!
This was a sample Lee Ferguson did up for a possible TF gig but ultimately didn’t get.
This is also and example of your inker going bat-shit crazy on a piece. The “space” was all my idea.
Pencils by Lee Ferguson
Inks by Me
Colors by Jordan Boyd
Here’s something I did recently that, unless I told you, no one would know that I did.
Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #2 & 3 . I did 5 pages total , ghosting over Jonathan Glapion
JG was kind enough to let me work on the issue with him and it was alot of fun.
Oh, pencils are by Nicola Scott, whose awesome, BTW.
NOT the TV channel but the vampire from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Pencils by ChrisCross. I’ll let you know when it hits the stands. We JUST started on it. :)
A new story sample page by my good long-time friend Chris Staggs.
I JUST finished off my first 4 issue mini series, Snake-Eyes, for IDW and I am HAPPY! It looks good, we’re really proud of it so all we can do is hope the rest of you like it too.
The folks over at The Comics Continuum have posted a preview of this weeks’ Snake-Eyes #2, hitting stands this coming Wed, Nov. 11th.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0911/08/idwfirsts.htm
Here’s a teaser image for Snake-Eyes #4
While I’m waiting to finish Snake-Eyes #4 for you all, I did up some of these pin-ups for fun. One was a commission, the Shazam one. I also did 3 pages for Spellbinder but I can’t show those yet. :)
Pencils by Francis Manapul
Pencils by Carlo Barberi
And finally the Shazam commish by Jon Boran
Next up! More Snake-Eyes! :)
The kind folks over at CBR are running a preview for Snake-Eyes #1
I do do commissions. It takes awhile but I do them. Here’s a biggie that has take a pretty long time, but I’m very happy with it. Pencils by Kevin Sharpe.
Just to back my earlier post up.
A few preview pages from the upcoming Snake-Eyes #1 due at the end of October. Pencils by Lee Ferguson.
Snake-Eyes #2 cover.
Snake-Eyes #3 cover
A source of frustration? You betcha! Only because it didn’t happen. Kevin Sharpe sent me these BEAUTIFUL pencils to ink up and I was EXCITED! Alas, it didn’t happen, but, oh, what could have been. :)
It has become MINDNUMBINGLY frustrating “working” in mainstream comics today. I say “working” like that because I don’t work in it full-time. If your definition of a Comics Professional is one who works on comics and that is your main source of income, which is mine, then that is not me. Do I do professional work? I like to think so. But it isn’t my main source of income. I’d LIKE it to be, but it’s just not happening. So as I “work” through the different books that I do work on, I get frustrated.
Why? For so many reasons it’s hard to even come up with a list. But I’m trying.
I’ve worked at this for the better part of 10 years now. Quite frankly I’ve worked my ass off just to be considered good enough to work for the major companies. And now that I think, others do to, mind you, that I’m of the caliber to work at the majors, none of them give a shit.
That’s hard. Especially when I’m the kind of person that is willing to give them my all. Every ounce of me, to make comics. All of my time and energy to make comics for a living. I’m willing to do that. And hopefully along the way, get better and better at what I do. Take, for instance, this past week. I got a call from a friend doing a mini-series for DC. He needed help finishing it off, he needed me to 4 pages. Not a problem. I knocked those out Monday and Tuesday. Editor was really happy. After that I jumped right back on Snake-Eyes, and knocked out another 5 pages but Sunday evening. That’s 9 pages in a week. If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’M NOT PLAYING AROUND!
In turn, they continue to hire….shall we say….other people. I’ve sent out my portfolio to them all year long, updating it with all the newest, latest, and greatest pages I can come up with. I’ve been fortunate to be a part of a 4 issue mini-series that’s been a dream come true and a great project. I even got called up recently to help out with a miniseries at DC. Only 4 pages but it was something. But it’s just about over and nothing is lining up afterwards. Nothing. Momentum is palpable in this business. One job leads to another, leads to another, and so on. When that momentum stops….it stops dead cold and it take forever to recover. And I can see that momentum approaching me and coming to a dead stop.
What am I gonna do? Hell if I know.
Here’s the piece Kevin Sharpe and I did for the Darkstalkers Tribute book. It was colored up by Boom
I believe it comes out Aug 31.
Here’s a closer detail of the pencils and inks;
I’m steady working on Snake-Eyes #2, almost done. I also have been working on an animation project for Sony entertainment for a video game called Uncharted: Drakes Fortune. It’s going to be like a motion comic like the Watchmen motion comics. It’s been pretty interesting so far.
This is pretty cool. Right at the 3:33 mark you’ll see them show the covers for Issue #1 & 2 of the comic we’re doing. I should probably mention that the Snake-Eyes mini that I’m working on is written, in part by Ray Park, the actor portraying him in the movie. It’s co-written by Kevin Van-Hook.
Finally, I can talk about it! Lee and I have been working on this in secret for a few months now, we’ve known about it for most of the year but haven’t been able to say anything, which can be really difficult.
Snake-Eyes#1 will be coming to you in October. By the time #1 drops into stores we hope to have the entire 4 issue mini finished up and ready to go. No delays, no problems. Reader-ready.
Here’s the cover;
And here’s a link to some preview pages from the inside of it.
http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=6352
Enjoy!
A bit older but I still enjoyed it. This was a real departure for me because it’s a western of some type. It was actually a tryout for Northlanders that didn’t happen. But it did make me a fan of Davide Gianfelici. I have more pages of his to do that I’ll probably do for my portfolio.
Pencils by Chris Sprouse. I did this just for a portfolio piece. Chris’ work is phenomenal and if you all knew how much work he puts into each and every page, you’d be stunned.
Pencils by Lee Ferguson.
This is just 2 panels from 2 different pages of Miranda Mercury that I had a bunch of fun with. MM re-launches this fall so be on the lookout and stay tuned here for more details. :)
In fact….here’s the tryptic new cover done by Lee and I.
Heroes Con 2009
As I get older leaving the family is getting harder and harder. I just miss the family too much and hate being away from them. It’s going to be cool in the coming years as they get older and then they can start coming with me and enjoying Heroes as much as I do. It’s a great show and I love it to death. It’s a comicbook/art show and the people and fans are just fantastic. One of the greatest things to happen to me was not the money I made, but when a fan comes up and says, “Mr. Deering, do you mind signing some books?” “Not at all”, I say and he proceeds to pull out multiple copies of a bunch of the books I’ve done in the past. A BUNCH. Like 4 copies of Supergirl #26. And a few others as well. Then he goes through my cheap books and buys all the ones that he was missing. That just does the heart good, you know?
Another highlight, and this isn’t even Heroes/comics related, was meeting up with my old Army buddy Cedric Tucker. We went through AIT and our first duty station, in Panama, together. I hadn’t seen or heard from him in 14 years and it was great seeing him again. This proves the power of Facebook. We had some stories for each other, that’s for sure.
I actually did some sketches at the show. So to everyone who has to stare at my crappy sketches and those 2 guys whose sketchbooks I ruined, I’m sorry.
I am a Copic marker convert. Wow! Those things are amazing.
A shout out to all my Sidebar messageboard brothers. Great meeting all of you.
On to the photos;
Cully Hamner putting together the Gaijin posters.
Casey Jones and Heroes Con frontrunner Shelton Drum chatting
Eric Canete’s piece for the Auction. Underneath you can see Cully Hamner’s Question piece. I’ve seen pages from the story and it’s awesome, BTW.
Frank Cho’s piece.
Brian Stelfreezes’ piece.
Mark Brooks’ piece.
Andrew Robinson’s piece.
Great Star Trek costume.
Great, great show. :)
Get your Heroes on! Getting ready for the show so there’s lots to do. I’ll be Tweeting/Facbooking from the show. Don’t know about live-blogging, I gotta figure out the tech on that and it all depends on the wi-fi at the show. I’ll be hanging with my bud, Otis Frampton, so drop by and say, “Hey!”
Just a little something for fun. good to hear Tom Strong is coming back.
The Inkwell Awards have gone LIVE! Please drop by and vote! This award celebrates the medium of comic book inking, a profession and art form that is often overlooked at best and blatantly dismissed at worst.
The ballots are in and official voting has now begun in the 2009 Inkwell Awards. The nominators have selected the artists they feel are worthy of being nominated, now it’s down to the public to choose the winners.
Other than Miranda Mercury, who re-launches in October BTW, I can only tease what project I’m working on. This shall remain a mystery until next month when it can be revealed. :)
Once I get a few more Miranda pages done I’ll throw up some teasing panels from that.
It’s been a while since I posted the new Podcasts that Otis and I have done. Here’s a bunch.
In this episode, Otis and I provide a scene specific DVD commentary for the third (and much reviled) X-Men film. I swear, he made me do it.
Download Words & Pictures Episode 10 – X3 The Last Stand DVD Commentary
In this episode, Otis and I talk about upcoming appearances, review the film “Taken” and make an announcement about an upcoming live webcast on my Ustream Channel!
Download Words & Pictures Episode 11 – Taken Review and Announcements
In this episode, Otis and I review the new “Star Trek” film then talk about “plot vs story”, why the Star Wars Prequels were less than what they could have been and also how Pixar ripped off Michael J. Fox!
Download Words & Pictures Episode 12 – Star Trek Review and Plot vs Story
Thanks for Listening!
Another piece for the portfolio that took me way too long to do. Jonboy is awesome. :)
It’s all in the flyer, if you live in the area, I hope to see you. Otis Frampton, D.T. Washington, Charlie Kirchoff, as well as more will be there hanging out talkin’ smack.
So I get an email out of the blue from Alberto Ruiz. I’ve known Alberto for a few years now and he’s truly awesome, as an artist and a person. If you don’t know this genius click here;
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Ok. So he asks me to ink over him for a special artbook he’s putting together for the Emerald City Comicon. He wants me to ink over him for the back cover. HELL-YEAH, I says.
If you move quickly, you can buy 1 of the 145 available at his store. [link]
Thanks for lookin’!!!!
In this episode, Otis and I provide a scene specific DVD commentary for the third (and much reviled) X-Men film. I swear, it was all his idea. He made me sit through this piece of crap and I did it. I’m such a sucker. :)
Download Words & Pictures Episode 10 – X3 The Last Stand DVD Commentary
Podcast Length: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Thanks for listening!
It just seems as if I’m not posting enough art. I promise you all that I AM doing a lot of it, it’s just stuff I can’t, or don’t want, to show yet. I’m steady working on Miranda Mercury and Spellbinder as well as 1 other thing I REALLY can’t talk about yet. So here’s something I did a few months ago for fun, something to add to the portfolio. Inks over Tony Harris’ War Heroes #3 cover. NO this will not be published, I just did it for fun. :)
Episode 9: Traditional Vs Digital and “Watchmen” is up!
There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
Theres too much confusion
I cant get no relief
Businessman they drink my wine
Plow men dig my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody of it is worth
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