Sketchbookin'

Owl

Sketchbookin'

OK, Get ready for some profanity. I was flipping through an old sketchbook. This one is from about 2003. Kind of a weird style but I thought it was funny so here you go, Internet.

San Diego Comic-Con 2011

San Diego Comic-Con is almost here (July 20th - 24th). I'm really excited about this years con because I will actually have real books that you will be able to buy... using your money! I will be pretty busy promoting both PETROGRAD and BPRD: Hell On Earth. I will also have original art (BPRD, 6th Gun and Petrograd and much, much more!), a little sketchbook and postcards for sale.

Preview Night:

• 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM -- Signing at the Oni Press Booth (1833)

Thursday:

• 10:00 AM - 6:45 PM -- Signing at the Oni Press Booth (1833)

Friday:

• 11:00 - 12:00 -- Room 4 -- Mike Mignola: Worlds at War -- Join creator Mike Mignola, editor Scott Allie, and new B.P.R.D. artist Tyler Crook for exclusive insight on what has been and will continue to be an epic year in the Mignolaverse and beyond. 
• 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM -- Room 32AB -- Oni Press Panelmonium 2011— An in-depth chat with Phil Gelatt (Labor Days) and Tyler Crook (B.P.R.D) about their new historical graphic novel chronicling the infamous assassination of Rasputin, Petrograd! 

Saturday:

• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM -- Signing at the Oni Press Booth (1833)
• 11:00 - 12:00 -- Signing at the Dark Horse Booth (2615)
• 1:00 PM - 6:45 PM -- Signing at the Oni Press Booth (1833)

Sunday:

• 10:00 AM - 4:45 PM -- Signing at the Oni Press Booth (1833)

Sketchbookin'

King - City!

I spent this morning unwinding with a little King City fan art. Brandon Graham is making some of the funnest comics in the world. 

CBLDF Auction

The San Diego Comic Con is rapidly approaching. One of the really neat things that happens there is an art auction to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. They are a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community of retailers, creators, publishers, librarians, and readers. Although their focus is on comic books, their work helps to influence legal precedent that extends to all forms of free speech.

This year I was asked to contribute to their annual auction by the fine people at Things From Another World (a fine chain of comic shops). They will also be making sketch cards of this drawing that will be available at the convention.

So the point is that you are required to go to the San Diego Comic Con and to bid on my drawing so that we can save the world. The world thanks you in advance.