moving

I decided to make the move to a big-boy website where I can do a little more, and keep the comics organized. Go there now!

Daily blog?

I wanted to try to get better at working every day, or close to it, so here's day 1. From the latest Social Sump comic I'm working on. And sorry about blurry images, I'm just using the camera on my phone instead of taking extra time to scan.

Page 9

Nothing much to say here. Took me longer than it should have to do this one. Sam & Melina posed for the bottom panel. I didn't really dump rubble on them. I unintentionally made the scared little girl look like her.

Page 9 pencils

I've neglected my poor Children of Light for so long! For good reasons, though! Mostly I've been working on Social Sump with friend Eric Nisly.

Catching up

I kinda remembered I have this blog! Mostly I've been posting the new stuff over on the Crashland Studio page. As great as it is there, There's sometimes multiple posts daily, so it can be hard to follow a continuing story like this one. So here I'll mostly post the newest pages, with some behind-the-scenes stuff occasionally. If you just want to read the story, look in the archives for the page numbers, oldest is 1st.

Page 8

Page 7
Art by Jaems Sutherland

Page 6

Page 5
Pg 5 & 6 art by Dan Barlow

#3, page 4

Page 4 here of Children of Light 3. This one took maybe the least time, but was kinda hard emotionally. When I write, I try to dig inside myself to find parts of myself to put into the characters, and poor Scott here has a lot of my pain and hurts. I also made a censored version where I cleaned up a few words. I didn’t use language to be shocking or gratuitous; it seemed most appropriate for the character and what he’s going through. At the darkest times of our lives, we hardly care to censor ourselves. I may have gotten too into the character during this page, I started to share some of his feelings! But I remembered the voice of the Lord, who promises renewed life, just as he offers Scott. No matter the past, long ago, or recent, God can make all things new!

This took about 8-10 hours total. Used sharpie, brush pen, gray tone marker, and sponge with ink. I enjoyed a Great Lakes Elliot Ness beverage during the inking.

Comic show!

I had a table at a local comic show today, went pretty good! Talked to some nice people, sold a few books and sketches, enough for me to get a few things at the show, and a few groceries on the way home even.

I did a sketchbook drawing of Iron Man for a little girl, I hope it didn't make her cry. I don't do good under pressure! I also did some sketch cards below. I did a better version of the Wonder Woman, and a Wolverine that got bought. I gave an Iron Man to a 5-year-old boy who was with a fellow vendor. He said it was him in his Iron Man suit. Good enough!



Got to meet and talk to Eric Adams who does Lackluster World. I was pretty impressed, and laughed out loud reading it there. I finished #1 at the show and had to get #2. It's not for easily offended religious types (language, indecent acts with a clown, extreme fundamentalism).