Atomic Popcorn lists The Hero Business as a “cool independent comic”… “because it’s hilarious.”
Check out their full Baltimore Comic-Con report here.
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Just got back from the Baltimore Comic-Con. Overall, the show went really well! My booth-neighbor was Charles Dowd – a super-swell talented guy ho does his own webcomic, Lilith Dark. Do yourself a favor and check it out!
Per usual, I knocked out a few commissions…. here’s this show’s haul…. mostly taken with my iPad camera…
“Proxy”: It’s Wendy Harris rockin’ it as Stephanie Brown’s go-to gal Friday…. on their last case (sniff).
“Firebomb”: This one is Firebomb, from the “Sentinels” series, by Rich Bernatovech. This one was a lot of fun, until my booth neighbor spilled coffee all over the page! I think we rescued it in time.
“Marvel Girl”: It’s Jean Grey, psi-teen supreme!
Jesse Quick, super-speedster!
Here’s “The Crow”, who I had to figure out how to 1. modernize and 2. convert to my style. I just imagined what he would look like if he teamed up with Scooby Doo.
This one was a little weird– a book full of Alfred E. Newman sketches! I tried to bring the funny… with Alfred as Robin and Batman wearing a derivation of the “I’m With Stupid” shirt.
A commission for a friend, from Baltimore Comic-Con. It’s U-Go Girl and Doop from X-Force.
Finally, an unsold piece. A little meta-textual goodbye from Donna Troy. (She’ll be back!)
Thanks to everyone who came out! It was great to connect to fans both new and old.
Next up: ComiCONN. It’s only a one day show, so if you’d like to be assured a commission ($20), drop me an e-mail. See you there!
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The Hero Business will be attending Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend, August 20-21.
I’m in Artist Alley at booth A184, with comics, merchandise an a commission list ready to go!The first 5 people buying ANYTHING at the booth will get a FREE Hero Business plexiglass test tube shot.
PLUS: The world premiere of the cover to “The All-New, All-Different Bravado.” What famous comic cover is the subject of this homage? Stop by and find out!
Stop by and say “hey!”
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In this week’s Rough Monday, we’re taking a look at a recent commission, where my client wanted to see the bright Young Justice crew colliding with the edgier DCnU Teen Titans!
Here’s the original pencil sketch….
Here’s the revised version… pushing the poses and expressions further…
… and here’s the final… inked and colored:
This was a lot of fun!
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Recently, the awesome “Dc Women Kicking Ass” site unearthed a late-70s super-pitch featuring girl-power punch. From “Dc Women Kicking Ass”:
“In light of all the discussion about female characters recently, today I bring you the little known story of an all-female team book that was pitched at DC almost two decades before Birds of Prey debuted. Recently I spoke to the writer who pitched it, former DC editor and writer Jack C. Harris, about the book and team – the Power Squad!”
Here’s the original pitch art, by Trevor Von Eden:
I couldn’t get this pitch out of my head. I started sketching out some of the characters…
And then, I decided to do re-do the whole thing, as a long-lost house ad… using Jack C. Harris’ original copy:
… and I had to keep the oh-so 70s female symbol in the logo….
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