Archive for April, 2009

Diego Jourdan Pereira did this great pin up art based on the sketch of Chelle and Jill dancing. It was too good not to share it. Thanks, Diego!!

As I’m finishing up book 9 of Jane’s World it’s time to get started on a “fresh” sketchbook. It’s one of my traditions to get a new blank book after wrapping up one of the long story arcs. But that first sketch is always the hardest. I’ve had this book full of empty white pages sitting on my desk for 3 weeks now and today I finally made the first marks in it. This may sound weird, but I always skip the first two pages… too much pressure… I’ll go back and do something on them later, after I’m well into the book. As for that first sketch, as I said, it’s the hardest so it’s best to do something comfortable… I decided on a nice scene with Jane by her trailer. Whew. Now I can get started using the rest of the book to work up the ideas for book 10.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

The Martian Confederacy got a Trophy Award nomination for Outstanding Small Press. Check out the Stumptown website for all the other cool comics that got nominated for stuff. And if you’re at the show this weekend in Portland be sure to drop by table 83 and say hello to the comic genius who wrote TMC, Jason McNamara.

Oh, and there’s a nice little write up, with artwork, on Comics Reporter dot com.

I was looking through last year’s sketchbook and came across these two sketches of Jill and Chelle dancing. At some point I was going to have a story arc where they were all at a club and so there would be dancing… but that never made it into book 8. However, looking at these sketches made me really miss seeing Jill and Chelle together. I guess I was more invested in their relationship than I thought… and who knows what will happen now that they’re all descending on that cabin in the woods at the same time. Readers might assume that I have a handle on everything that happens in Jane’s World, but sometimes even I get surprised. (And that’s a good thing.)

This was another pen and ink drawing that I discovered when I cleaned my office. It was an illustration I did for an Op Ed piece that ran in The Atlanta Constitution. I can’t remember the exact story that this illustratated, but I always liked the way the lone cow, stepping away from the herd, turned out.

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.” – Archibald MacLeish