APE at the concourse!

I’ll be tabling with Derek, Hellen, Calvin, Ryan, and Evan.

Ryan and Evan showed me their ‘zine Electric Ant last night.  Their inagural issue’s theme is “Your First Kiss,”with short comics/stories about first kisses, along with a gallery of dark lords, Trent Reznor ad-libs, and an insane surrealist comic by Aaron K.  It looks damn good!

Also Hellen will be debuting her comic book “Jin and Jam” at the show.  When I saw her drawing some pages last year, they depicted a fight between a girl and a pair of super-strong siamese twins joined at the head.  The story is also about friendship and stuff.

I am stoked - this APE’s gonna be great!!

Pinup for the next volume of Amazing Joy Buzzards.

Joy Buzzards created by Mark Andrew Smith and Dan Hipp.  Mark is the editor for the Popgun anthology I was in - a righteous fellow who runs a tight ship.  Dan, in addition to drawing for AJB, has a killer book out with TokyoPop called “Gyakushu!“.  I met him at Comicon - nice guy.

I’ll be at APE again this year, tabling with my homies the Bang Gang.  I dunno exactly the entirety of what I’ll bring, but above is a peek of what I have so far. We’ll just have to wait and see what kinds of other merch I can come up with - the printing will be very last-minute, contrary to what I keep promising myself every time going into this convention.

Alternative Press Expo
The Concourse
620 7th Street
San Francisco

Nov. 1st 11am - 7pm

Nov. 2nd 11am - 6pm

 Hurm.  My panties were in a bunch to find some work this past spring, and one of my attempts was to score an illustration spot in Tokyopop’s line of Blizzard-anthologies.  Sadly, my ink-splattered gang of Protoss and Night-Elves didn’t make the team.  I *was* noticed enough to find some other work though, on which I’ll update you later.  For now, here’s proof that there’s no such thing as a shiruken that’s too big (and just to combat my being typecast as “that fight-scene guy,” this sequence was scripted for me by an editor):

The rest of my sample sketches are grouped together at DeviantArt.

Oh, and check out the existing Warcraft and Starcraft manga!  I recently picked up the 1st volume of the Starcraft anthologies, and there are some undeniably sick pages within.  The cover by UdonCrew is especially juicy, as is the epic epic writing by Josh Elder on the opening story.

I posted about the first volume a few months ago.  And now, it seems, via some unspoken comics fraternity that is more networked than I’d initially thought (thanks Derek, Lars, and Mark!), I have been sucked into the second volume.  Get all the info here.  Below is the cover by Paul Pope:

And here are the first five pages of my 14-page story in it, titled “Kid Revolver.”:

FYI: I will be at San Diego Comic Con this Sunday (tomorrow!), and I definitely aim to swing by the Image booth and indulge my narcissism by signing a few copies of Popgun II.  If you give me any copies of Popgun I, Spawn, and Invincible, I’ll probably sign those as well - just to throw you off.  Have a good day!