i'll tell you my story but you won't believe it

a page from the issue #2, out next week

outside

Just quickly jotting down some of the interesting shapes and colors outside. The sun set too fast to get most of it, but it was still good fun - it's been a long while since I did any speed painting... learned lots of things in the meantime, forgot some of the others.

from the sketchbook

a peek at issue two

prints!

inprnt is having a holiday sale this weekend, with 15% off all prints -- perfect time to get yourself (friends, family, secret crushes) one (or both) of these prints i've so far completely failed to promote. they did a great job printing them-  they look about a million times better than on a screen!

out today

Where is Jake Ellis #1! Read the first six pages here

original art

More original art is now available over at Splashpageart, including pages from the recent Lobster Johnson one-shot "Caput Mortuum"

where? cover #3

the closest these get to blue note covers--

sketchbook* studies

* sketchbook = loose sheets of paper lying around or under things, or falling into cracks between furniture to be found weeks or months later, sometimes with little clue to their origin or purpose

hellboy

a gift for a collector, this one.

the shadow

(gouache and ink)

where is jake ellis? #2

cover for issue 2, out in December.

caput mortuum: black and white

...is out in exactly two weeks (september 19). since the color preview is up, here's the black and white one as well:

how?

the creep #3

No longer unused. The cover for John Arcudi's and Jonathan Case's "The Creep" #3, out in November from Dark Horse Comics. It's a very good book, so you should check it out.

where is jake ellis?

interview with nathan, over on newsarama.

WHERE?

CG

I had some sketches of Cary Grant around so I turned one of them into this small painting. Looking forward to working more with real paint in the future (this was half and half). 

WOK

the lobster

lobster johnson: caput mortuum

the one-shot has been announced (as well as the trade paperback of The Burning Hand), so here's the cover for it. colored it myself again. this one just appeared whole, out of nothing... and it's pretty close to the original thumbnail too, even down to the stiff shoulders:

dinner

found under a pile of papers- drawn exactly a year ago, colored today.

zzcp

one of the two pages (and a cover) i did for this a little while ago-- a rare occasion where something's published in black and white.

lobster johnson: the prayer of neferu, black and white

--and here's the black and white original.

lobster johnson: the prayer of neferu

a cover I did for this upcoming Lobster Johnson one shot--

original art

For everybody who's been asking about original art: I am now represented by Splash Page Comic Art. Pages from the first two issues of Lobster Johnson are currently available, with more coming in the following months. No other pages are currently for sale. If you don't see the pages you want, they are either gone already or not for sale. And, as I said, art from the remaining Lobster Johnson issues, as well as some more Who is Jake Ellis? art, will be available soon.

burning hand, black and white

the final issue of Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand is out next week... preview here. 

the cigarette was freshly lit

from the pile in the corner

I was scanning a bunch of material for Lobster Johnson trade paperback today, so I threw in a few more drawings from the sketchbooks (read: loose sheets of paper found under/behind furniture).

lark dalxtrey

a quick thing for this moebius thing--

burning hand, black and white

issue four out today- only one more to go! preview here

pet peeve comics

(click to enlarge) drawn straight in pen before the first morning coffee, so please excuse the illegibility and the rough edges.

play

a small painted prelim from last week- this time it really was audrey hepburn.

painting tezuka

(click to enlarge) i wanted to use the bit of free time to work a bit with real paint (gouache in this case), and i wanted to draw this photo for ages, so i combined the two. much more coherent than the last attempt, so i'll count it as a success. here's a detail:

one more

a lobster johnson sketch--

--from the convention in my living room. drawn on impossibly blue paper.

afternoon

i had several things that i wanted to try, so i put them all in today's warmup drawing.

burning hand, black and white

issue three, out tomorrow... the heat gets turned up in this one.

cover ideas

just realized that i never posted these cover thumbnails for 'betrayal of the planet of the apes' - finished cover here. 

pill murray

until then, watching some of his movies will have to do. more sketchbook nonsense in the shape of comics. this pun has been in my head for at least six years-- glad to free up some space for useful thoughts.

burning hand, black and white

a page out of issue 2, which has been out for a couple of weeks now. drawn nearly six months ago-- slowly catching up with the present.