It's time ...Finally!

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Icon Drawing Icons: Jim Lee Looks Back At His Twenty Year Career

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Icon Drawing Icons: Jim Lee Looks Back At His Twenty Year Career

GODZILLA Comics News

IDW will launch an ongoing Godzilla series with Toho Co., Ltd. in February.  The new series will “feature pretty much every Toho monster throughout the series,” IDW Chief Creative Officer and Editor in Chief Chris Ryall told ICv2.  Some characters have never appeared in American comics before. 

“We’ll also do miniseries and focus on other monsters in addition to Godzilla,” Ryall said. 

An all new American Godzilla movie is in development

The Answer (unrelated to Allen Iverson)

Suspense... 

A question we have all wanted to know...
...what the heck  IS  Victoria 's "Secret"? 

Finally... the Answer:

 

Ruiz inspired piece

i found this pic on the net and my wife got it as a full back piece tattoo.

Aquaman Gets Love...

http://twitpic.com/23cwm8/full

It will re-size Up if you click on it...

...After I typed it, reading "it will get bigger if you touch it" just sounded really perverted. Like something you tell the babysitter when giving her ride home :D

Practice?! We talkin' 'bout practice man...

Playing around with new ways to render. Ultimately I would like to be able to become more comfortable doing a more painted style and also add a sense of realism to my art but not to totally go realistic. I should be posting more speed paintings to track my progress.

Galactus

Canadian artist James Stokoe posted a drawing of Galactus:
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Here is a link to it at full size:
http://marley.respark.net/jamez/silversurfer/galactus.jpg

Note, depending on your browser, when the pic loads, you may need to click on it to make expand Up to full size... it's pretty big. but cool to see (IMO).

-Josh

Tron

http://www.hulu.com/watch/166953/movie-trailers-tron-legacy---trailer-2
New Tron trailer. Incidentally, the director is also doing a remake on The Black Hole and Logan's Run. Also found out that the great Syd Mead(who designed tron also) designed Johnny 5.

Marvel's Strange Tales

Check out this shizzle...
LINK: The News Story + the Art

If click the pic (above), you should be able to see it full sized.
-Josh

Miyazaki not down the Apple.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/hayao-miyazaki-ipad-use-d_n_643304.html

I thought this came out cool

Art is by a guy named Boo Cook, who did some X-Factor stuff that I thought was so-so.
If you click the pic, it gets bigger:

Here are the pencils.

Latest CG colored work, I'm in the process of retouching the faces.

Jof vs. Old Man

I feel like I'm Thugnificent vs. Granddad in an episode of Boodocks. I was helping this old man look for acrylic paints for a project he was doing. He wanted to paint a photo of his granddaughter but he hasn't painted in a while so he was asking me for tips. I told him I don't paint traditionally any more, all the painting I do I use a computer. Then this old douche says "oh you do the easy stuff". You just said the wrong thing to me old man. I wished I was on a horse so I could've strung him up and dragged his ass all over Milpitas... good thing I'm not a sociopath or there would've been some violence. You can tell me my art sucks or you don't like it that's ok with me... I'll just tell you that you have poor taste in art or that you're an idiot hahaha. But to tell me that it's easy or fake just because I use a computer to produce it.... RRAAAAARRRR JOF SMASH!!!!! Anyway... eat a 8==D oldman.

final fan service

Can't color, bad time management. Prevert concept. Still growing-

sf inks

Killer Concept art part 2

Here's another version of it.

Yahoo email got hacked

Guys disregard the email from my yahoo account that has a link,

Misty Knight Drawing

Misty Knight as drawn by William "Shi" Tucci:
http://tinyurl.com/27s226p

Killer Concept art

Here's a concept for the killer for an indie horror movie. I wanted to play around with making it look old or vintage.

GuriHiru

This is a studio from Japan who are doing a book at Marvel. Their blog is prety insightful in terms of how they approach their work. Personally, I like the look of their "Thor" and "Power Pack" art.
http://gurihiru.blogspot.com/

JJ Kirby Art

Was looking on eBay and came across these character designs / turn-a-rounds. As credited to be drawn by JJ:
A: http://item.ebay.com/220547033186
B: http://item.ebay.com/300390994741
C: http://item.ebay.com/300390994741
D: http://item.ebay.com/220547037887
E: http://item.ebay.com/300391334149
F: http://item.ebay.com/220547827566

I think its interesting to see what kind of corporate-for-hire / consumer product art jobs those guys do. Obviously they helped out on the DCU MMO, but besides that, one would think they'd be drawing more comics by working at the DC Comics' art studio.

Anyways, besides being a guy we know, a good barometer for the cartoony look and emphasis on body language and exaggeration.

-Josh

Comic Sales info

At the industry's modern height, circa '93, industry sales were approx. $6 billion. After the crash, circa '95, comic industry yearly sales plummeted to $100 million. As reported by CBG.

Last weekend, at the con in Chicago, ICv2 publisher Milton Griepp delivered the company's White Paper on the current state of the comic publishing industry.

Sales of comics & graphic novels in North America:
2009 total market was $680 million.
2008 total market was $715 million.
...a drop of about 6% year over year, but still a lot better than '95.

Good arbiter showing how much the comic industry has improved, sales-wise, since the bust -- and also how much there is left to regain in order to get back to multiple chromium cover goodness.

Comics & Anime: Good News and Bad News

Good News
Chris Claremont and Milo Manara coupled to do an X-Women one-shot, coming in June or July.

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Bad News

Carl Macek, who is credited with helping to start the anime boom here in North America when he put together the Robotech syndicated series from three different mecha anime in the mid 1980s, has died from a heart attack at the age of 58. The news of Macek’s untimely death was reported by animation historian Jerry Beck on his blog. Macek and Beck were partners in Streamline Pictures, which they formed in 1988.

While Robotech was crucial in spreading interest in anime to a wide audience and somewhat controversial (especially to purists) in the way that it manipulated pre-existing anime series, Streamline Pictures released a host of brilliant anime productions on VHS tape that established the reputation of Japanese animation in North America. The high quality Streamline releases helped to create a devoted fan base for challenging adult animated stories that targeted a mature audience with sophisticated, often science fiction-themed sagas such as Akira, Robot Carnival, Lensman, Doomed Megalopolis, Twilight of the Cockroaches, Wicked City, and Crying Freeman. Streamline also released Miyazaki’s brilliant Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro, and Carl supervised the original English dub track of My Neighbor Totoro. Streamline was purchased by the financially shaky Orion Pictures in 1996 and disappeared with the demise of its parent company.

Macek returned to animation production in the late 1990s acting as a consultant for the Heavy Metal 2000 animated film, and writing the anime adaptation of Brian Pulido’s Lady Death for ADV.

At the time of his death, Macek was helping to create the English dub version for Viz Media's Bleach anime series.

The Gift

Thought you guys would like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOZkLIwbRrw&feature=player_embedded



...how was Wondercon?

Basketball Jesus

Character design for a web comic.

Sketchbook Cover

Here's how it's supposed to look.

Rc commercial

Just did this real quick pre-viz for a job I got from my
AfterEffect teacher. Lipsync is horribile now. Commercial has
to be done in a month. But on to to wondercon stuff!

Podcast interview

I did an interview for to promote the table Wondercon. I just hope I didn't come across as a total idiot. It starts at around 2:45.

http://www.fanboyplanet.com/podcast/FPP-20100327.mp3

Cover inked

Here's the inked version. I'll post the colored one once I'm done

Feel the BOOM...!

Sketch tutorial from Fraga ( http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=387814778552&ref=mf ) ...at around 4:15 on the clock, on to the end, I like the way he does the quick values of light + shadow. Made the final piece a lot stronger.

Off topic, I found out that Scott Williams is inking over Neal Adams' pencils for an upcoming Batman project -- currently being called, "BATMAN: The Odyssey".

-Josh

Cover sketch

Guys, I need some feedback quickstyle. Which layout is better 1,2 or 3? If you guys have suggestions and alternatives lets hear it.

The Comic Book Script Archive

Comic Book Scripts for one 'n all...
...online from a comics guy named Phil Hester:
http://www.comicbookscriptarchive.com/archive/

-Josh

Adobe Creative Suite 5

Just in case you didn't know this was about to hit:
http://cs5launch.adobe.com/?sdid=FDSEQ

A new Flash just for Martin + a new Photoshop for all of us.

-Josh

Classic Marvel Art

I saw this on eBay:
Mike-Zeck CAPTAIN-AMERICA #330 Cover

I remember seeing this comic racked new at the 7-11 by my house. I thought the top character looked like a Wolverine rip-off, so I purposely did not buy the comic, even though the cover art struck me enough to notice it and pick it up for a flip-thru.

Even though I bought most of the issues from the original Punisher mini-series drawn by Mike Zeck, I had not really figured out that I liked his art. Really, the only artist I only knew was the best shit ever, was Art Adams and also that John Byrne was once *it* but I was not sure he still had *it*.

I look at this art now (hit Enlarge on eBay for a bigger preview) and am impressed by the elegance in the flow of anatomy and the foreshortening that makes these guys look as if they are occupying space. The use of blacks make the characters forms pop and read easy. Weak backgrounds, shield and cap eagle wings. Rendering-wise, some of the hatching / tick lines communicate great suggested shape and texture, but others just come off as formulaic half tone. Nice diversity in the line weights shifting along the forms.

Lastly, I like the sub-dued, implied chain-mail in Cap's costume. Especially in contrast to the weird shit they've had him in the last few years.

Funny/weird that Mike Zeck went from near-Byrne level of popular penciler to a guy who just dropped off the map. Once the Image guys hit big, still working at Marvel, his profile dwindled and he may have been at DC. JRJr did the right thing by staying at Marvel, even after the Image guys left, and he's slowly gotten more popular over the years from the Cable mini-series, to the Heroes Return Thor, and then another Uncanny X-Men run, etc, etc, etc.

Zeck is arguably at least as good or better than JRJr but kinda faded away. Like John Byrne, I wonder if he was also disgusted, surprised and boggled that Rob Liefeld became a top-3 fan favorite.

But what the fuck did us kids know about it...? We liked Art Adams who was fast enough to only draw 1 X-Men annual per year at his the height of his magic art powers. I suppose that mediocre traced Art Adams was better than no Art Adams.

One career waned as another launched... and the talent of the individual was not why one succeeded and the other no longer did.

Popular Arts and the taste of its audience is a weird thing. It crosses over and applies with music too.

Nice thing about athletics (as long as no Ref fucks it up) is that the best guy (or team) will prevail and be proven to be the best. The audience's taste comes down to how beloved the champion is ...or will be... but not whether or not he earned the spot of number 1, in that moment.

Superhero Custody Battle

NY Times | LOS ANGELES | 3-19-2010

WHEN the Walt Disney Company agreed in August to pay $4 billion to acquire Marvel Entertainment, the comic book publisher and movie studio, it snared a company with a library that includes some of the world’s best-known superheroes, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Incredible Hulk and the Fantastic Four.

The heirs of Jack Kirby, the legendary artist who co-created numerous Marvel mainstays, were also intrigued by the deal. Mr. Kirby’s children had long harbored resentments about Marvel, believing they had been denied a share of the lush profits rolling out of the company’s superheroes franchises.

They spent years preparing for a lawsuit by enlisting a Los Angeles copyright lawyer, Marc Toberoff, to represent them. When the Marvel deal was struck, Mr. Toberoff — who helped win a court ruling last year returning a share of Superman profits to heirs of one of that character’s creators — sprang into action.

Pow! Wham! Another high-profile copyright fight broke out in Hollywood, and this one could be the broadest the industry has yet seen.

Last September in a prelude to a lawsuit, Mr. Toberoff — using a provision in copyright law that, under certain conditions, gives authors or their heirs the right to regain ownership of a product after a given number of years — sent 45 notices of copyright termination to Marvel, Disney and other studios. The notices expressed the family’s intent to regain copyrights to some of Mr. Kirby’s creations as early as 2014. By Mr. Toberoff’s calculation, as much as 88 percent of Marvel’s film earnings have been what he calls “Kirby related.”

Marvel and Mr. Toberoff entered settlement talks. But on Jan. 8, Marvel surprised the Kirbys with a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the notices — stunning Mr. Toberoff, who figured Disney, having just written a huge check for Marvel, would settle. His foes thought otherwise.

“We took the initiative because we have a very strong legal position,” said James W. Quinn, a Marvel lawyer. “There is no question that Kirby was a great artist. But that’s not the law.”

The family has since filed a lawsuit against Marvel and Disney. Aside from seeking dismissal of Marvel’s lawsuit, Mr. Kirby’s children accuse the company of depriving the Kirby estate of credit — and thus profits — from movies like “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which took in $373 million at the global box office. Mr. Quinn dismissed this claim as frivolous.

“The family has nothing to show for all of this,” said Mr. Toberoff, as he sipped hot chocolate in the lounge of the Peninsula Hotel here last month. “They just want what is fair.”

The dispute is also emblematic of a much larger conflict between intellectual property lawyers and media companies that, in Mr. Toberoff’s view, have made themselves vulnerable by building franchises atop old creations. So-called branded entertainment — anything based on superheroes, comic strips, TV cartoons or classic toys — may be easier to sell to audiences, but the intellectual property may also ultimately belong in full or in part to others.

“Any young lawyer starting out today could turn what he’s doing into a real profit center,” Paul Goldstein, who teaches intellectual-property law at Stanford’s law school, said of Mr. Toberoff’s specialty.

Mr. Goldstein said cases like the one involving Marvel are only the tip of an iceberg. A new wave of copyright termination actions is expected to affect the film, music and book industries as more works reach the 56-year threshold for ending older copyrights, or a shorter period for those created under a law that took effect in 1978.

Mr. Toberoff is tackling what could be one of the most significant rights cases in Hollywood history; it’s certainly the biggest involving a superhero franchise. Unlike his continuing fight with Warner Brothers over Superman, Mr. Toberoff’s rights-reclamation effort against Marvel involves dozens of stories and characters from about 240 comic books.

Complicating matters are licensing agreements Marvel has made over the years with rival studios for characters Mr. Kirby helped to create. Sony holds long-term movie rights to Spider-Man; 20th Century Fox has the equivalent for the X-Men and Fantastic Four. Universal Studios holds theme park rights to Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk. And more films stemming from Mr. Kirby’s work are coming: Marvel is spending hundreds of millions to bring Thor and the Avengers to theaters.

If the Kirbys succeed in their reclamation effort — and that’s still an enormous if — they would be entitled to a share of profits from new works based on any of the copyrighted material.

And the four Kirby heirs (Lisa, Neal, Barbara and Susan) could acquire a nonexclusive right to initiate new projects based on characters partially created by their father, as long as they accounted to Marvel for its share in any of them.

“This is like the Superman case times five,” said Mr. Toberoff, who predicts a three- to five-year court battle, including appeals, if the case proceeds.

MR. TOBEROFF, 54, could be a movie character himself. Alternately described by lawyers who have worked with him as a brilliant crusader for the little guy and a Svengali who asserts a high degree of control over clients, he has evolved from his early years as a producer of low-budget films into his job as a high-stakes litigator with multiple wins.

With the Kirbys, Mr. Toberoff will square off against a squadron of corporate lawyers that includes Mr. Quinn, whose most recent claim to fame was quashing Dan Rather’s $70 million breach-of-contract suit against CBS. Disney is no stranger to intellectual property fights, having spent 18 years battling a rights-infringement case involving Winnie the Pooh and ultimately winning. The company pushed so hard for an extension of copyright terms in 1998 that the resulting law was derisively nicknamed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.

There is nothing corporate about Mr. Toberoff. A graduate of Columbia’s law school, he practiced briefly in New York before ditching the law profession to become what he describes as “a glorified go-fer” for the director Robert Altman. Mr. Toberoff got a quick education in Hollywood’s rough-and-tumble ways in 1987 with “Zombie High,” a horror picture he made on a minuscule budget with student labor.

“I’ll cut your throat!” Mr. Toberoff recalls Aziz Ghazal, a partner on the project, screaming in one disagreement. Mr. Ghazal later became infamous, Mr. Toberoff noted, as the suspected killer of his own wife and daughter before he was found shot to death in an apparent suicide.

In 1994, Mr. Toberoff met an heir to the writer-producer Robert Pirosh. After looking through old papers with his new friend, he discovered that the Pirosh estate owned hitherto undetected movie rights to the TV series “Combat!” It was the first of about 10 old shows, including “Fantasy Island” and “My Favorite Martian,” that Mr. Toberoff helped to recycle as movie projects.

A short leap later and he was back in legal practice, handling film rights cases. One included a suit in which he won an injunction blocking Warner from releasing a big-screen version of “The Dukes of Hazzard.” A judge ruled in 2005 that Warner had failed to secure rights to an earlier movie, “Moonrunners,” on which the new film was partly based. Warner settled for a reported $17.5 million.

Three years later, Mr. Toberoff won a ruling that allowed the heirs to Jerome Siegel, a co-creator of Superman, to reclaim their copyright from Warner and its DC Comics unit, though complex accounting issues in the case have yet to be resolved and the studio recently hired a new legal team. The heirs still haven’t seen any money.

Mr. Toberoff’s aggressive style has been controversial at times. Edmée Reit, the widow of Seymour Reit, a co-creator of the character Casper the Friendly Ghost, said Mr. Toberoff called her soon after her husband died to propose a rights lawsuit.

“Seymour was literally not even buried yet when this man started calling,” Mrs. Reit said in an interview. “I just felt this man was really an exploiter.”

Mr. Toberoff sharply disagreed with Mrs. Reit’s version of events. He said he contacted her at a time when she was expected to be a witness in a court case involving Casper and told her that a rights waiver her husband had signed before his death ran counter to the law.

“I thought this was wrong and informed Mrs. Reit of her rights in the process of investigating this situation in defense of my clients,” Mr. Toberoff wrote in an e-mail message last week.

Lisa Kirby said Mr. Toberoff began representing her after they were introduced by a mutual friend some years ago. She says that she is braced for a long fight, and that she believes that her father, who died in 1994, would have wanted the copyrights terminated.

“In the end, my father became consumed with the fact that he was not properly compensated or recognized for his tremendous contributions to Marvel, and sadly, he died without either,” Ms. Kirby wrote.

IN many ways, the Marvel case is simple. It turns on whether Mr. Kirby was working as a hired hand or whether he was producing material on his own that he then sold to publishers. The Copyright Revision Act of 1976, which opened the door to termination attempts, bans termination for people who delivered work at the “instance and expense” of an employer.

Mr. Toberoff and Marvel disagree on the circumstances under which Mr. Kirby created or co-created the trove of characters.

Pressed by Mr. Toberoff for a settlement, Marvel got fed up and sent the first volley with its January filing against the Kirby children in Federal District Court in Manhattan, seeking to end their efforts to regain long-term rights to the various characters. “Any contributions made by Kirby to the works at issue,” the complaint reads, “were works made for hire.”

Case closed, as far as Marvel’s lawyers were concerned.

The Kirbys fired back on March 9, filing a lawsuit with the Federal District Court in Los Angeles that argues the opposite. From 1958 to 1963, the period of Mr. Kirby’s prolific career that is under scrutiny, “Kirby worked solely on a freelance basis out of his own home, with his own instruments and materials, and thereby bore the financial risk of creating his copyrighted materials,” according to the lawsuit.

Mr. Toberoff is poised to argue that Mr. Kirby — and, by extension, others like him — were selling their work on a freelance basis, rather than serving as hired hands.

THE Kirby case is virtually certain to reopen the much-chewed-over history of Marvel to an examination even more intense than it has received from comic book fans. Many fans believe that Marvel and Stan Lee — who once wore varied professional hats, including editor in chief and publisher at Marvel — assigned too little credit to the contribution of an artist they like to call “King Kirby.” Mr. Kirby has drawn lavish praise from such luminaries as the novelist Michael Chabon, who has described him as “the Shakespeare or Cervantes of comic books.”

Mark Evanier, who worked as an assistant to Mr. Kirby and wrote the book “Kirby: King of Comics,” said he expected to be called as a witness in the case and declined to comment. Mr. Evanier testified in support of the Jerome Siegel heirs in their suit against Warner.

Mr. Lee, now 87, will surely have his own version of past events and is almost certain to become a witness in the case if it goes to court. Mr. Lee — who notably fought and won a profit-participation lawsuit with Marvel a decade ago — declined to be interviewed for this article.

If Mr. Lee is called to testify about Mr. Kirby, his testimony could be complicated by an expanded business relationship with Disney. On Dec. 31, Disney announced that it had paid $2.5 million to increase an already existing stake in POW Entertainment (for Purveyors of Wonder), a company in which Mr. Lee is now a principal and the chief creative officer. POW develops new characters and stories for use in comic books, films, digital media and elsewhere. At the time, Disney said the investment was meant to obtain Mr. Lee’s help in mining the Marvel library.

If Mr. Toberoff has his way, the picture painted in court will be one of chaos. He says that during Marvel’s early days — when Mr. Kirby was creating his superheroes — the company was a shoestring operation that was barely afloat.

“There was no bullpen; there was a one-man office,” he said, contending that an industrywide decency code put so much pressure on Marvel that few at the company were worrying about contractual niceties with artists like Mr. Kirby that would have tidied up all of the legal issues surrounding work arrangements. “It’s easy to imagine that nobody at the time was thinking about work for hire.”

Color Shifts

Hey guys, just a 411 that I changed some of the colors to be easier on my eyes. If anyone hates it or can't live with it, we can experiment with some other color themes...
-Josh

Don't Call It A Come Back!

Don't call it a comeback
I been here for years
Rockin my peers and puttin suckas in fear
Makin the tears rain down like a MON-soon
Listen to the bass go BOOM
Explosion, overpowerin
Over the competition, I'm towerin
Wreckin shop, when I drop these lyrics that'll make you call the cops
Don't you dare stare, you betta move
Don't ever compare
Me to the rest that'll all get sliced and diced
Competition's payin the price

Uncanny X-Men #522 drawn by Whilce Portacio, on sale 3/24/2010

San Diego 2010

Hello Dudes,
FYI that San Diego Con Pro-Reg opened last week and the Hotels have begun selling out. So if you think you are going to attend this year, you ought to get room booked ASAP.

Related News item:
The Manchester Grand Hyatt is a spot of some controversy — Gay rights groups have been calling for a boycott of the hotel due to controversial owner Doug Manchester’s monetary support of California’s anti gay marriage bill. (Although Catholic, Manchester was himself embroiled in a messy divorce.) While the Manchester Grand Hyatt has long been seen as indifferent at best to the Comic-Con’s parade of oddity, it is THE go to place every night for the Nerd Prom after party and if you’ve never waited 30 minutes for a weak vodka tonic there, you haven’t really done Comic-Con.

In addition, the Hyatt is the largest hotel on the waterfront on the West Coast, and its 1625 rooms are a huge part of the available room supply. Losing it for the con — for those with no social conscious — is a serious matter.

I will not be available to go this year, so I won't be able to assist with cost/room-sharing, etc. Hopefully in 2011, I can go if I want to.

-Josh
PS: Jim Lee confirms his attendance at Wonder-Con for Friday and Saturday only... but I dunno about Kraig.

Another baller

More basketball practice and cross hatching.

Will the real Steve Rogers please step up...

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Marvel has already crossed a number of names OFF their list of potential actors to portray Captain America.

Actors who are “still in the running” include Wilson Bethel, Mike Vogel, Garrett Hedlund and Chris Evans.

The Reporter also reports that Marvel Studios wants to sign its Captain America star to a 9-picture deal, with The Avengers film being the second movie. The Captain America movie is set to debut on July 22, 2011.

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None of these guys strike a bell in terms of being a name actor or star who I recall or am familiar with, already.

Just my 2 cents, but what about using MaCauley Culkin as the pre-super soldier Steve Rogers and then using Brock Lesnar as the post-op Steve Rogers. Just do some morphing CG for the transition and be done with it. (...this is a joke)

I think it's a good thing that Brad Pitts/Matt Damon/Marky Mark has gotten a bit too old to pull off the part. I wonder if that's also true for Ricky Schroeder or Mark Paul Gausselier...? They have the blonde hair and blue eyes coloring of Steve Rogers.

Other than that, there is no one on my radar. Hope they get the costume right, that's an easy one to fuck up in the process of making changes so its movie-fied coo.

-Josh ^_^

THIS made me Laugh!!!

You may need to click the 'Enlarge Pic' button to read to read the word balloon text.
http://cgi.ebay.com/SPIDER-MAN-Original-Art-Pencil-and-Ink-Tom-King-Signed_W0QQitemZ380187412370QQcategoryZ3986QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DDLSL%252BSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%252BDDSIC%26otn%3D20%26po%3D%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8451555602403045026

-Josh ^__^

Zealot

This is one of the sketchbook drawings I scanned and provided to Martin for the potential WonderCon book him and Joff may be doing.


Zealot by ~MacrossJXS on deviantART

-Josh

General Newsy Things...

This is the work of a Penciller named Ivan Reis:
http://theartistschoice.com/reis.htm

Excluding Khari, I think he is doing the best modern work in comics right now, and he has been monthly (or close) for a number of years. I see his style using a mix of classic Neal Adams and a bit of Bryan Hitch. This is one of the guys who I fail understand is not a Super-Star commanding his own way, like John Byrne did or the Image guys back in the day (not including Jim Valentino).
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Job Openings at Warner Bros. Animation + Nickelodeon:
http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-animation-job-openings-warner-bros.html
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Frank Miller launched his own website:
http://frankmillerink.com/
Nice remembrances from having worked with Brittaney Murphy.
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-Josh

WTF did she do...?

Does anyone know what happened to Sandra Bullock's nose? I was watching the Oscars and when that sucker is not lit with the Hollywood umbrella's and carefully planned, reflected light, it is wonky with potatoey shapes that look manufactured and unnatural. I wondered if her plastic surgeon studied Pat Lee's anatomy.

And then you look at her chin, and with the cleft it looks like Michael Jackson's "new" chin that debuted in the video for "Bad". And then you realize tthat her whole face looks sorta of man-ish.

She must have started out with a snout like ALF or Howard Stern. I will say that post-op, her nose is slightly more realistic looking than the drastically horrible nose on Morgan Fairchild's noggin. But it's still weird.

The end result is.... now I don't want to see "Demolition Man" again for awhile.

Overall, the Oscars ignored "Star Trek" too much. IMO, the single best picture released theatrically in 2009.

-Josh

Basketball jones

Still trying to incorporate some fluidity.

Baller

A warm up sketch. Trying to get some fluidity in my drawings. Not there yet just gotta keep workin on it. 

Double Page spread

Here's the rough pencils for it.

Now the final version. What do you guys think?

Goldilocks

It be fun if she had a pet skunk. Not going to have that equation, just filling space.

... I'm your huckleberry...

My piece for western week. You guys are coming up with good stuff hopefully I didn't embarrass myself hahaha.

Little B'_ lunch

Western Week

-banditos

Environment Speed Paintings

Some environment speed painting. Trying to play around with a cold atmosphere. I don't think it totally worked.

Archangel Concept art

Some conceptual paintings done in Photoshop. The character is for an animated music video that I'm working on but it's on pause for the moment.

Sketch 1: loose figure work at the beginning of the day, in order to keep my figures fluid and not too robotic/rigid. Sketch 2: Afro sketch for a brotha' work became a casualty to the last Namco layoff.