Contributed some drawings for this year’s Stumptown Comics Fest badges. Here’s the whole set of eight. Click to enlarge.
Pencils by me. Inks by me and Bill Mudron. Colors by Bill and Star St. Germain. Art direction and type by Star.
(Also posted these to my Tumblr if that's your thing.)
I'm tabling at the Stumptown Comics Fest (Table F6) Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, at the Portland Convention Center. Come on by. I'll draw you a free sketch, and I'll be selling all this stuff:
PRINTS! I'm debuting two new limited-run 12x12" prints at the Fest: "Super Cosplay Dance Party" and "Pete & Brucilla" (pictured above; click to enlarge). Lines by me. Colors by Bill Mudron. All-ages. Comes in a custom envelope printed with B&W lineart and art credits. Only 10 bucks each.
Oh, and "Super Cosplay Dance Party" (pictured below) is double-sided -- with a different color scheme by Bill on each side.
These are far and away the nicest pieces of paper I've ever put my name on, in terms of production value. Offset-printed in CMYK on nice toothy 100# classic laid paper by Lowell's Print Inn. Only ordered 200 of each. (I should also have a few uncut printer's proofs.) Here's a closeup of the paper. Here's video of the job on the presses.
POSTERS AND BADGES! Bill Mudron and I drew this year's Stumptown Comics Fest poster (at right). Bring one by and I'll totally sign it.
(Bill and I also had a hand in the Fest badges, but you should probably just write your own name on those.)
SHIRTS! I'll be selling the "Spoiler Alert" t-shirt I designed earlier this year for the PDX Browncoats. All proceeds go to them.
BOOKS! I'll have copies of both "Sabertooth Vampire" minicomics, "Santa's Lil' Gimp" and my five or so remaining copies of "Cort and Fatboy and the Secret of the Buried Unicorns."
FREE STUFF! Barring disaster, I'll have giveaways of my "Opera, Drawn Quickly" comics (courtesy the Portland Opera) and Vol. 1 of "Jaxxon's 11," my super-specific spoof (with David Stroup) of 1970s Marvel "Star Wars" comics.
I'm also moderating this Saturday Q&A session with my pal Dylan:
"A Conversation with Dylan Meconis"
Room B117, Saturday, April 27, 11-11:45 a.m.
Dylan Meconis first popped up on the webcomics scene with her French-revolution vampire comedy "Bite Me!" and cemented her reputation with dark historical drama "Family Man." Along the way she's also redrawn the "Danse Macabre" for a new generation and spun her own fable of corruption with the Eisner-nominated "Outfoxed." Mike Russell of CulturePulp.com will interview Meconis about her style and genre-hopping comics, world-building vs. storytelling, coming of age as an artist online, and her influences outside of comics.
Oh, and I think I might be in this year's Comic Art Battle at the Saturday-night After Party, but I'm not sure yet. Check this space for updates.
2013 Stumptown Comics Fest (official website)
A bunch of my old cartoon characters hanging at a Milwaukie, OR coffee shop I used to frequent, 1999. Click to enlarge.
Above: The 2013 Stumptown Comics Fest poster, by Bill Mudron and yrs. truly (with a lettering assist by Dylan Meconis).
Below: a gorgeous black-and-white “draw-your-own” Fest-exclusive variant poster, made entirely by Bill. (Be sure to take a close look at the filigree Bill designed for the borders.)
Click either to enlarge.
I'll be at the Emerald City Comicon on Saturday and Sunday, March 2-3, helping my pals in the PDX Browncoats sell that "Spoiler Alert" t-shirt I designed for them. Sneak peek at the finished garment above; click to enlarge.
I'll be taking sketch requests and signing books* and helping hawk shirts at the PDX Browncoats' ECCC table (#2609) from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 2 and Sunday, March 3.
* The PDX Browncoats will also be selling both "Sabertooth Vampire" minicomics and the few remaining "Wash Amuck" prints (pictured at right).
The Friday, Feb. 22 Oregonian A&E cover. Pencils and inks by yrs. truly. Colors (in two variations) by Bill Mudron. (They went with the blue backdrop for newsprint, but posted both online.) Click to enlarge.
So I've been working with an economist on a script for an educational comic book. Adrian Wallace is handling art chores (and killing it, BTW). Here's a preview page, posted with permission. Click to enlarge.
Here's the free "Jaxxon's 11" Vol. 1 ebook (PDF, 10 MB). And here's the explanation.
In 2003, I had a very silly idea for a comic:
Resurrect the most ridiculous character from the 1970s Marvel "Star Wars" comic books -- a seven-foot-tall green rabbit named Jaxxon -- and have him recruit a middle-aged Han Solo for one last heist.
As a joke, my then-co-worker David Stroup and I hammered out a story while driving back from a coffee shop. (This isn't quite as out-of-the-blue as it sounds -- the coffee shop was two blocks away from the offices of Dark Horse Comics, and we'd just been chatting with one of their editors.)
A few weeks later -- also as a joke -- we pitched it as a webcomic to the world's biggest "Star Wars" fan site.
Sixty-odd pages later, "Jaxxon's 11" remains the single geekiest act of my public life, and that is saying something. I wrote the script, packing it with references to the original Marvel "Star Wars" comics (which I purchased and, between occasional bouts of wincing, read). David added his own gags and drew the pages with a lunatic attention to detail.
Both David and I went through major career changes in 2004. Even though we have a full story outline, progress is sporadic at best. In 2011, I collected everything we'd done so far as a free 72-page ashcan and gave it away at the Stumptown Comics Fest. Now you can download that ashcan as a free PDF.
If you like this sort of thing, I suspect this is the sort of thing you'll like.
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Jaxxon's 11, Vol. 1: Eleven Against A Casino! (PDF, 10MB)
.... you may find it contains a single-page comic called "Ride of the Sabertooth Vampire" -- written and drawn by yours truly with colors by Bill Mudron. That is all.
... you might find a one-page strip called "Hellboy vs. The Sabertooth Vampire" on page 49.
Thanks a million for letting Bill and I play with your character, Mike Mignola.
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Dark Horse Presents #14 [ print ] [ digital download ]
The Sabertooth Vampire (webcomic)
