messing about....

while i've been waiting for my new mystery gig to start up in earnest, i've had a bit of a chance to sit down and do some drawing/painting just for the sake of drawing/painting.

i was going to hold one of these back for a longer focused posting about orphaned jobs that can't be done now, but... who are we kidding?

enjoy...






some of =you= might like to note that the three of these were done on cartiera magnani's annigoni paper...

after mysterius...

i delivered the last issue of mysterius a couple of weeks ago... i kind of don't know how i feel about it. (being done i mean, the issue rocks!) i'm also having a bit of trouble figuring out what the hell to do with myself now.

luckily, though, it turns out unemployment feels a lot like work.

well... fun work.

also...

also...

also...

also...

mysterius #6...

... do i really need to tell you to order this book?

really?


a nutty big shout out to aaron and evie and aaron's pants at the awesomed by comics podcast for choosing us for panel and book of the week. here's the unwhatevered version of of the painting from said panel...

thanks kids. now go out and threaten your lcs manager with bodily harm if he/she doesn't get those numbers up mysterius...

monroe lives again...

...for now.

we just managed to squeek him into #500.

mysterius #5....

i was planning on writing a big nycc/MAD piece filled with lots of pictures and hilarious snark.

but i'm busy.

order #5. that is an order.

ps... speaking of nycc, here's an podcast/interview mr. parker and i did with tucker stone for comixology on the floor of the show... i think we may have been feeling a bit honest that day.

happy st. valentine's day...

this was for my son's daycare's card exchange...




no one gets into the romance of the day like toddlers.

mysterius in new york and on the cbc...

leaving today for the new york comicon, but yesterday (feb. 3rd) i did an interview for the cbc's "all in a day", in which i sparkled wittily, and managed not to sound like too much of an idiot.

(although you can hear me sniffling through the whole thing, so those of you opposed to dribble, be warned...)

if you're at the nycc this weekend, stop by and say hi. here's my schedule:

SATURDAY
1:30-2:30pm: PANEL – WildStorm: After World’s End (Room 1A23)
3-4pm: SIGNING - DC/WildStorm booth

SUNDAY
12-1pm: SIGNING - DC/WildStorm booth

i'd like to also take this opportunity to thank all my friends at the beguiling and all my new friends at isotope for having me and making me feel so welcome. (also thanks to viktor, nick, and kevin respectively for giving me somewhere to sleep in the bay area... and ALSO big thanks to my brother, my folks, and our friend martin for putting out fires and helping out monique on the home front while i was away, it was veeeeeeeeeerry much appreciated.)

for some pictures of the isotope show go here. though, i think it would be best if people just stopped taking my picture.