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Fear tartare

Originally commissioned for Dark Horse Presents #12. Colors by Bill Mudron.

Also available at SabertoothVampire.com.

His terrible thirst, revisited

 Originally commissioned for Dark Horse Presents #12. Colors by Bill Mudron.

Also available at the new SabertoothVampire.com.

The hope-shattering Season Three premiere

Also available at the new SabertoothVampire.com.

He returns, only slightly braised

Feel free to poke around the new stand-alone Sabertooth Vampire website. Barring disaster, Season Three creaks to a start there next week.

The Laden Nerd

Bill​ and I had a lot of fun illustrating this on-point Portland Mercury​ essay by Bobby​ Roberts about what you need to know going into The Force Awakens (spoiler alert: NOT A DAMN THING). Click to enlarge.

Also: In addition to our main illustration for Bobby's piece,  if you pick up the print edition, you may find a few of these “bonus faces” Bill​ and I drew for kicks hidden here and there throughout the paper. Collect all 18!
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Star Wars Is for Everyone (Portland Mercury, Dec. 16, 2015)

 

2001: A Holiday Odyssey

Drew the cover for this year's Oregonian A&E Holiday Gift Guide. Lines by me, colors by Bill Mudron. Click to enlarge.

(If you zoom in on the sky, you'll find an Easter egg for movie nerds: cross-patterned seam-marks, similar to those found on the front-projected backdrops used while filming the "2001" Dawn of Man scenes -- an imperfection described here.)

 

New comic in BIRTH. MOVIES. DEATH. -- ‘True Tales from the 1999 EPISODE I Line’

We have a 4-page comic in the December issue of BIRTH. MOVIES. DEATH.

In 1999, writer Sarah Sprague spent a month waiting in line for “The Phantom Menace” in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Devin at BMD approached me about illustrating her story as a comics memoir for a special “Star Wars”-themed double issue.

I conscripted Bill’s help on inks and colors. We had a blast getting to know Sarah and putting her script on the page.

You can order your copy of the magazine here. It’s jam-packed with Mondo Star Wars art and essays by Devin Faraci, Jenna Busch, Marc Bernardin, Russ Fischer, Scott Wampler, Rian Johnson and many others.

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Find Out What’s Inside The BIRTH. MOVIES. DEATH. STAR WARS Issue! (Nov. 30, 2015)

 

Tabling at Rose City.

I'm a guest at Rose City Comic Con this weekend (Sept. 19-20), in Booth 813 with my Periscope Studio-mates. (The show floor map is here.) I'll have the following merch on hand:

• Sabertooth Vampire t-shirts, in men's and women's sizes ($15).
• Brand-new editions of the first two "Sabertooth Vampire" minicomics ($4 for Vol. 1, $6 for Vol. 2).
• Sabertooth Vampire die-cut reusable fabric stickers ($3 each) -- I picked up a few prototypes of this when I bought my new booth banner last week. They're crazy-durable -- you can wad them up in your fist and unfold them with no ill effects.
• "Pete and Brucilla" and double-sided "Super Cosplay Dance Party" prints, with custom envelopes ($5 each).
• "Sabertooth Vampire vs. Barista" postcards, made in collaboration with my friends at Barista (free!).

Also, barring some sort of con wifi disaster, which never ever happens, I'm now set up to accept card payments.

Can't make the show? Most of this stuff is available now on my online store.

Mr. Don't, Relay Mascot

Just finished the back of this year's Hood to Coast team t-shirt. It is also a comic strip about what you can expect from your H2C experience, starring our old friend Mr. Don't. 

Drawings for food and drink.

Good Lord, I haven't posted here since March. Still working on the aforementioned long-term projects. Anyway. In the meantime, made a few drawings for some local food-and-beverage folks.

1. Drew a postcard for my friends at Barista featuring the Sabertooth Vampire as coffee pitchman.

2. You can now buy bottles of Sasquatch Brewing's excellent Red Electric IRA -- label art by yrs. truly, colored by Bill -- at Sasquatch and at specialty beer joints like Belmont Station and the Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom. I drew four more labels for Sasquatch -- I'm told they'll roll out over time.

3. Had occasion to revisit the punch-drunk Big-Ass Sandwiches mascot, which I first drew for their sticker a few years back. I really enjoy drawing him/her/it engaged in various acts of rage, disapproval and exhaustion. You may see some of these sketches turn up at their new brick-and-mortar location.

 4. And finally: Here's a slice reading a comic book, drawn for Hot Lips Pizza's "Free Comic Book Day" promotion.