freeze

Mr Freeze, from the first scene of the first issue of Gotham Central. what a good comic that was.

stallin

rico, i'll getchu the file for this later today. in the meantime, gotta zzzzzzz

starf*cker

anytime we can do a starfield, im very happy. here's process stuff for the cover Rico and i did for Latour/Klein/Shalvey's Winter Soldier run.

 Marvels art direction was "draw Winter Soldier looking badass". Jason shared the outlines of the story, some concept art, and it became clear why he invited us to the party. visual language Rico and i had developed for Loose Ends was being imported into WS- the "neon-noir" light tracers, Pac-Man symbology, flashback grids, etc.  stuff which is fun, but really hard to plan for, the only way i know to attack it is to get a clean b+w composition with some dead-space, and then vandalize it with the light tracers. i sent Rico the b+w+spot-color image, and put all the other elements on separate layers- he's got a much stronger graphic design sense, and is quicker to simplify. i make messes.

our color roughs, mine is the boring one. Rico makes bold choices, and a lot of the time the editor is asking that they be dialed back. especially when it involves pink. sissies. so, i did a straight ahead local color version (A), and din't show it to Rico until he'd came up with his (B,C,D). luckily, our editor was sharp enough to go for Rico's take with that loud green arm- in tribute to Galaxy Rangers. bottom row is just checking the combinations. 

buy this here! 

don't know much about Winter Soldier. in my head, he's the actor who played Bucky in Captain America, but as the Comedian. if i'd seen Haywire (!!!) at the time, it woulda been Channing Tater. 

 

bold n' spicy

Marvel let Rico place and manipulate the logo. super excited about that. 

                                      a sip of water please

sweet n sour

my niece did this, i think it's really good! not biased at all

smile like you mean it

PTApple

Fiona Apple and P.T. Anderson

for Famous Couples week at AshCan Allstars

 They were like Jay+Bey to me, but aren’t together anymore. It seemed like they leveled each other up, and their work at least went  together really well. Those are frogs and a paper bag in the background, which I’m sure makes zero sense if you’re not a fan.    Obviously I’d like to be the grinch of V Day. 

Here's a video they did together way back when, featuring said paper bag.  And they made a new video too. 

And the book says, "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."