Looker

Since I was pretty happy with how my "real world" Supergirl re-design turned out I decided to take a crack at the Looker from Batman and the Outsiders. Now Emily Briggs has had quite a few costumes over the years ,if you check out this link to her Wikipedia entry you can see just a few of 'em (she's even been a Vampire?!), but I've always been fond of the original look and figured I'd try to bring it back to where it started (with a bit of a twist).

I just wish that when I had started sketching this out ,before I realized it was going to be a finished drawing, that I had left enough room at the bottom of the page for her feet.

Geo-Force

Here's what I guess is my last post from Planet Comicon of Geo-Force! I had a blast working on this, even though I grew up reading Outsiders, I'd never actually drawn our ol' GF (who's civilian identity is Prince Brion Markov).

Thanks picking a great character to sketch, Jim. And thanks again to Doctor Fantastic for the scan.

Tho-...um.. ULTIMATE Thor!

Here's yet another sketch from Planet Comicon. This time it's Ultimate Thor. Thanks again to Luke and his lovely wife picking this up, and wandering around the show with me to track down the reference.

Conan

'Nother one from Planet Comicon. Thanks again, Shane!

JJJ/PPP

Here's a fun one from last weekend of J. Jonah Jameson giving our poor Peter Parker what for (his reflection is in the framed newpaper on the top right). Thanks again, Shane!

Question?

Here's another sketch from last weekend. Special thanks to Alex Knapp for scannin' this in. Check out his Question sketchbook. It's super awsome!

Back from Planet Comicon

Hey everybody, we made it back from Planet Comicon safe and sound so it's back to the drawing board!

We (that's me, my beautiful and amazingly supportive wife Laura, and art maestro of the Damned mister Brian Hurtt) had a great time out there, and with the exception of a crazy bit of weather on the ride home (thanks for being the road warrior, Lu) everything went off without a hitch.

Just wanted to say thanks to everybody who made it out to the show and stopped by me and Brian's table for sketches, comics, or a bit of nerdery:). You folks are tops!!

If anyone has scans of sketches I did for them over the weekend please send me a scan or, if you've got one, a link to your comicartfans gallery and I'll post 'em up here on the blog.

Today's sketch was done for "Doctor Fantastic". Thanks, Doc!!

Planet Comicon

Hey folks, if you're in the Kansas City area this weekend be sure to stop by the Planet Comicon. You can check out this link to see the awesome guest list or hear more about it on the Comic Geek Speak podcast.

KC is a great city and I'm looking forward to heading out there again, chatting with comic fans and catching up with some of my "con friends". This looks to be a really good time, so come on by and get some autographs, sketches, comics and have some nerdy conversation:)

IRON MAN

Yeah, I waaay behind on comic book news but this is just AWESOME!! I wish ol' Shell Head could look like this throughout the whole movie.

I know, I know..."MORE Batman?!"

I just couldn't help myself, I've been re-reading a bunch of old Batman and the Outsiders (or as the cool kids call it, "BATO") lately and wanted to take a stab at a Jim Aparo/Alan Davis-ish version of Batman.

When I was younger I used to wish that Bats would wear the black and grey outfit more often (You know, the one without the gold oval bat-symbol seen in Legends of the Dark Knight) and nowadays that's the costume he wears in every title. What's sad is that now that he's in his Legends getup all the time I kind of miss the old blue one. Man, I am such a nerd.

Oh, and if you can't get enough Batman check out the Batcave Companion. I'm so excited about this book, you don't even know! And it's from TwoMorrows so you know with their track record it couldn't possibly disappoint.