Friday, December 10, 2010

The BUTLER!

This is way late but...
More info HERE!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Outlaw Territory #2

Outlaw Territory #2 comes out today, and I have a story in it! I've been meaning to try and help promote it forever and totally screwed the pooch. So instead of hyping it I'll just put up my promos and the line up and let the book sell itself.


The Line-Up:

A COFFIN FOR BISHELL
W - Joshua Hale Fialkov
A - Jeff Lemire

BASS REAVES
W - Shannon Eric Denton
A - Andy Kuhn

BEHIND EVERY GUN
W - Jan Napiorkowski
A - Hugo

BOX 13
W/A - Moritat

BRING ME THE HEAD OF JOAQUIN SANTIAGO
W - John Walen
A - Werther Dell'Edera

THE BROTHER'S MacKENZIE
W - Pete Doree
A - Sean Phillips

BUZZARDS
W/A - Dean Motter

COLD BLOODW - Len Wein
A - Alfio

CORRALLIN' UP A MEMORY
W - JD Lombardi
A - Noel Tuazon

DEAD MAN'S HAND
W - Mark Kauffman
A - Leigh Kellogg

DEATH OF AN OUTLAW
W - Adam Freeman and Marc Bernardin
A - Daniel Lafrance

EIGHT AND THE RAILS
W - PJ Kryfko
A - Gabriel Rodriguez

FIRST LESSONS ARE ALWAYS FREE
W/A - Connor Willumsen

FOREVER IS A LONG TIME
W - Christian Beranek
A - Vivian Lee

LULLABYE
W/A - Francesco Francavilla

MAKING OF A LEGEND
W - James Patrick
A - Dan Duncan
THE NAME ON A POSTER
W - Christopher Mills
A - Joe Staton and Rick Burchett

REDEEMER
W - M. Sean McManus
A - Diego Tripodi

RIO CHINO
W - Greg Pak
A - Sean Chen

RUSTLING UP BUSINESS
W - Rich Johnston
A - Tom Fowler

SANTA FE
W - Shay
A - David Marquez


Now I think you should support your local comic shop as much as possible but if that's not going to work you can pick it up at...

Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

New York Comic Con

I will be going to NYCC, I will be all over the place but my home base will be the table (P-1) of my friends Joe Dellagatta, Dan Quiles, and Shaun Oneil. Shaun and I also have work in Outlaw Territory #2 which is a western anthology from Image and from my understanding they will have copies!!

Also at the show will be Jorge Coelho and Renaissance man Eric Skillman. Eric wrote colored and lettered a short story I was fortunate enough to draw and I believe he will also be selling that at his table (R-11) Here is a bunch of art (the final cover + cover attempts and pages) for it!









hope to see you there!!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Making a cover

I just finished up a cover for a new project I'm working on and because it was kind of a battle and I scanned and saved numerous times I figured I would give a run through on the process. Seeing as how I can't really explain the imagery I'm hoping it'll be a quick one.

First I worked up a handful of cover sketches and sent out my favorites. We finally agreed on an image of our main character standing over New York city. In the background would be an actual street map with hands stitching the city together. Then I got to work painting old hands, our hero and drawing (hopefully) recognizable New York buildings.

Then I started putting the pieces together in Photoshop. Playing with the elements, experimenting and trying new things was a lot of fun but ultimately these just weren't working for me.
All the streetlights and glowing billboards became a mess and just didn't work. And with the figure in a profile like that he just didn't command enough attention. It was already too busy and I hadn't even added the stitching and thread yet. So I re-worked the entire design. I went in closer on the figure, muted the city a little bit, added the stitching and loose threads (which for anyone interested were made in illistrator)
and changed the hue of the background to more of a green so that the red string would pop out more. I'm much happier now. The logo is still being worked out and a part of me wishes I left more room for it, but I'm confident it'll still work out ok.

And there you go!

Friday, September 10, 2010

Criterion poster

I was asked to do a poster for the film Ne Change Rien for the cinema section of the ATP festival curated by the people at CRITERION.
It was an absolute blast and hopefully not the last time I'll be able to work with them. Criterion Art Director / Designer Eric Skillman (http://www.ericskillman.com/ and http://ericskillman.blogspot.com/) did an incredible job mocking up all the posters to look like old EC,DC, and Marvel covers. There was a ridiculous amount of talent on this project so I was humbled to be included, the kickstand kids and Jason Latour did my favorites but you can see the rest HERE!

YAY!

Monday, August 16, 2010

CBGB!

I was fortunate enough to be allowed to contribute to BOOM! studios four issue mini-series about the rock club CBGB. I got to work with Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters and had an awesome time. The work I did will be in issue 2 which will also feature some killer artwork by Sheldon Vella, and will hit stands this Wednesday the 18th! Here is the cover

here is one of my favorite panels

And you can check out a preview HERE!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

T-SHIRTS!



- It's been a long time. Been pretty busy with a bunch of stuff, some of that stuff being t-shirts. I was approached awhile back and asked to do some designs. Fast forward to now and these limited edition t-shirts from Ink Poets are available for order!

- Dan