Inter-Fan Jam Sketch

Admiral Ackbar I did for David Gruba's new Star Wars sketchbook.

Inter-Fan Jam 2008 Recap Pt. 1

This is just gonna be a quick recap of the weekend. I have sketches to put up as well, but that will probably be tomorrow.

So this was our (Aaron & myself) first Inter-Fan Jam and actually our first real con where we had a table together. Of course, this is the weekend where the entire United States feels the backlash of Hurricane Ike so it's been raining here almost nonstop for the past 4 days. To make a long story short, a lot of streets are blocked off due to flooding, which made it a bitch to get to the Homewood Hotel, which in turn is the reason for the pretty small turnout. That's not to say this con was a bust. We still had a really cool time mingling with self-publishers and seasoned pros alike. It was kind of weird at first cause we were clearly the youngest artists there. To say the least, we got a lot of drawing done. Aaron's about halfway through his pencils for the Amazing Joy Buzzards pinup we're doing and it's looking fucking great. I got some more painting done, which is always fun. We did a lot of networking as well, which was actually the upside of the small turnout, we actually had time to talk to other creators. We of course hooked back up with familiar faces like David and Renee and met some pros like Frank Fosco (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc.) and Alex Nino (DC cover artist). Both were really cool guys. It was awesome to be able to talk to these veterans on the same level. I'd also like to thank Frank for the sketch for the food book and the free issue of the Turtles and Alex for his contribution to the food book as well. Other than that, we did some sketches for some people, sold some stuff and had a pretty good time despite the shitty weather conditions. Hopefully things will be brighter next year.

Speaking of the food book. For those of you who don't know, the food book is a sketchbook I've been compiling of drawings of various food items done by an array of comic artists from Erik Larsen to Phil Hester to now Frank Fosco, Alex Nino, and more. I've decided that when it's complete, I'm going to self publish it and sell it to raise money for a charitable organization involving food, most like the Chicago Food Depository. I'm gonna be e-mailing all the guys that have done a piece already about it and I also have permission to include Frank and Alex's drawings as well. So since I'm gonna publish it, I'll probably include a piece and Aaron will as well. I still have a lot of other artists I'd love to include in this (like Art Baltazar, Ethan Van Sciver, etc.). So I will keep everyone updated on that.

As for cons, we've decided to forgo Mid-Ohio Con. Beginning in August, we're gonna pretty much be starting our Wizard World Tour as our publishers (BLIND LUCK COMICS, MOTHAFUCKAS!) are sending us to Wizard Chicago 2009, Wizard Texas 2009, Wizard LA 2010 and Wizard Philadelphia 2010 (as well as the ones after of course), to promote Alex Ghost and the company. So we're looking forward to going away for a weekend every three months to basically draw for 8 hours a day and then get hammered and party with the professionals. We're also looking into some other cons like this one we hear of in Milwaukee as well as Motor City Con. We're also going to be doing a little mini convention in February at the University Park Library, thanks to a very nice woman named Kelley. So we'll of course keep everything updated on the Alex MySpace.

I have a lot of sketches to put up from this weekend (8 hours of sitting around produces A LOT of art) which I will do tomorrow as right now my back hurts (from sleeping on the couch; fuckin' pencillers, buncha primadonnas) and I just wanna lay down and watch some TV or something. So until Part 2, adios mofos.

DAVE

Limited Run Watercolor Prints

I did a series of three watercolor prints for Inter-Fan Jam '08 this weekend. I love the way they turned out. I made 20 prints of each, printed in high quality ink and individually numbered on nice card-stock. I think I'm gonna be selling them for like $5 each. If I have any left (and that's a big if, but would be nice), I'll sell em online as well as at Mid-Ohio Con. I made some quick scans of them to put up here. Thanks to my ass scanner, they look a little washed out. Trust me, my scanner doesn't do these puppies justice. Come to Inter-Fan this weekend and see em (and buy em?) in person.


Ghost Rider


Rorschach


Spidey

Yep.

And just for your patience, here are a couple panels from Alex Ghost #1 (just the inks and pencils, we still have to clean it up and color).



That's all for now folks. See you all at Inter-Fan Jam this weekend. Here's a little info for it:

Inter-Fan Jam 2008
The Homewood Hotel
17400 Halsted St.
Homewood, IL
Saturday September 13th & Sunday September 14th
10 AM - 6 PM

www.inter-fan.org

Peace!
Dave

A Little Taste.

<3 Dave

More Things!

Brief little update. After spending four hours trying to find an art store so I can buy some new pens (my local store just up and closed down!), I worked on inking the Alex pages up until a little bit ago. I have the first two pages done and it's looking great. I'm gonna take a break and do some more pages tomorrow before I go to work. So continuing with my barrage of Things, here's a couple more.


(God I fucking love Tombo pens. I'm so glad this new shop I'm gonna go to now carries them!)


(Clever huh?)

Until next time.
-D

"What I Did On My Unemployment" And Some Sketches I Did...On My Unemployment

So here it is, finally. My all-crayon comic strip, "What I Did On My Unemployment".









Hopefully that's the last time I have to do a comic-strip involving my unemployment.

And here's some other sketches for your enjoyment.


So as you may know, Aaron and I will be appearing at Inter-Fan Jam '08 in Homewood, IL on September 13th & 14th. Well, I was on their website the other day, snooping around, and I saw their list of artists and exhibitors. We were on there and for some reason we were listed as creators of "Percy The Nazi Whale". Where they got Whale from Killer is beyond me. So we both thought it was pretty funny so here is my sketch of Percy The Nazi Whale. Aaron will be doing one as well, I'll like to his when he puts it up (he finally got the internet back, so he can update shit!). We're considering doing a little backup story in an issue of Percy. See you all at Inter-Fan.


And here's another sketch I did of Mr. Grimm himself, The Thing, for Ivan Brandon's thread over at the Image message board. You should go check that thread out as there are some awesome sketches from the likes of Chuck BB, Francesco Francavilla, Fabio Moon, Esad Ribic and more!

So that's it for now. That was a ton 'o shit. So don't complain if I go a few days without putting shit up. I'll be spending the next two days (cause I'm off work) working on the Alex pages that Aaron sent me (they look FUCKING AWESOME). Anywho, if you're going to Inter-Fan Jam, drop us a line on the MySpace or something. Peas.

Dave

Oh Thing!

Finally the scanner is no longer acting like a bitch. I don't feel like scanning EVERYTHING tonight. But I did scan this quick sketch I did of The Thing to put into Ivan Brandon's sketch thread on the Image message board. I know it sounds like the usual story, but the scan was kinda shitty. It looks waaaaay better on paper. But anywho, I'd like to share it. Hopefully by entering that thread, I didn't just ensure me being the "kid with the shitty Thing sketch". Oh well.



So that's that. I did a Percy The Nazi Whale sketch earlier (go to www.inter-fan.org and look at the list of artists on the Inter-Fan Jam '08 section and you'll know what I'm talking about). I'll probably post that tomorrow along with (finally) my all-crayon comic strip entitled "What I Did On My Unemployment". It'll be a good way to kick off my first day of actual training at my new job. Anywhizzle, that's all artichokes!

Dave