September 28th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: This is more about the business side of freelancing. How do you handle billing your clients? Do you require them to pay anything upfront? Do you require payment within a certain timeframe? What if they don’t pay you? A: Much of what you are asking depends on the client. Most of my clients are companies with separate finance departments, so the responsibility of when my fee is paid lies with a different person than the art director I actually work with on the job. Some clients pay within a week or two (rare), some within a month (most) some take longer (a few). The… READ MORE
September 27th, 2014 | Posted in General
I’ve been doing a lot of these for people bringing me a Monster Zero Ultra energy drink. I won’t be falling asleep at my booth, that’s for sure. With apologies to Shannon Wheeler for the post title. READ MORE
September 26th, 2014 | Posted in General
Stop by if you are at the Pittsburgh Comicon! READ MORE
September 25th, 2014 | Posted in News
I’m a special guest at the Pittsburgh Comicon this weekend. You can find me in booth P068 and I will have copies of my book, my two available limited edition prints “The Game is Afoot!” and “Bats in the Belfry”, a very few remaining Doctor Who “The Doctor is IN!” artist proof prints, assorted original MAD art and I will be doing commission sketches including caricatures and “Alfred as…” drawings. One caveat on that last one… I’m not sure how much my stitched up finger will limit my being able to do commissions, but I’ll do my best. I’m also going to be doing a… READ MORE
September 25th, 2014 | Posted in Freelancing
Clicky any to embiggen… This was an odd job from early last year. A design company was doing a calendar for some client and one of the months they wanted a comic book “superhero” designed that would represent a color process or technology from 3M called “Q-Def”. They wanted a little humorous look to it, rather than a more serious comic book look… that’s why they called me. We needed to explore some ideas of the look of the character, so I gave them 4 different concepts. Three human characters and a robot: Then I worked a bit on the “Q-Def” logo. I really hate… READ MORE
September 24th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This one is for Celestia Ward. READ MORE
September 23rd, 2014 | Posted in News
“Z-People” page 1- Clicky to embiggen… The last few months I’ve been hinting about this comic book project I am working on. Well, the publisher is starting to do a little promotion on the various titles he’s producing, and gave me the nod to mention it here and even show a little teaser of my art via the first page of the story (see above). The comic is called “Z-People”, and it’s a humorous zombie story written and published by television comedy writer Darin Henry. Here’s the official copy from their Facebook page: Sitcomics is a comic book publishing company started by Darin Henry, a… READ MORE
September 22nd, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a look back at the original pencil roughs of MAD‘s parody of the film “Watchmen”, written by Desmond Devlin from MAD #499, April 2009. Clicky any to embiggen: Here’s the final art. The last panel was rethought from the original roughs: READ MORE
