...and IT'S ON!!

Someone to fight that Barbarian....

I got into doing this series of "The Barbarian's Life..." for the back of these sketchbooks. I think barbarians are funny--esp'ly when with high foreheads and short bangs!

Stuart Ng just informed me that they sold out of their allotment of "Brushpen Breakfast" at Comic Con (hooray!).

Better still, they've asked for another ten copies. I sold 'em eleven. This is one of the "bonus" drawings I did in the back of each one (and Stuart's fave).

Another in our series of ECCC 2013 drawings.

She was a lady of a certain age, shall we say. German, I think, and dressed in this fun get-up.

Very friendly, didn't buy anything but asked if I had a biz card; when I produced one, she asked me to sign it. "You know--goot to have--just in case!"

The large fox tails made the costume, but they left me a bit...unsettled.

San Diego Comic Con is coming...I'll honor it with this sketch from Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con back in March...from the "opening minutes" (can you sense the excitement?).

For childhood pal David Sharpe. He was an Iron Man fan (Bob Layton era). I was more for Black Panther and Captain America. But who can resist a little T'Challa love?

The amazing Bobbo!

Doodles on my blotter.

For Blair's Aunt. Had to use a little white-out to try and bring the big guy to the left's eye back. He was supposed to be my version of a Victor Mature-style "hunk."

The internets: "Y'now, if you're not gonna update every day, why bother updating at all??"

Gulp.

Here's the study for Blair and Carole. This is a lot better than the final, but, y'know, pencil underdrawing...(can't have that in a real brushpen sketch!)

Blair's dissertation advisers got a book! If you look at Bob's eyes, they can be read as both looking at the statue (small and concentrated), or looking at me (big and skeptical). Do you see it? It's an optical illusion!

A different kind of brushpen piece.

More Brushpen Breakfast The Book sketches...this one for the estimable Jeff Ranjo. A Giant Robot citation, and a Pacific Rim teaser.

Ellis!