Introducing: We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home: Chapter One, a serialized graphic novel project that David Berry and I have been working on as of late.  It is the first chapter of six, and comes in at a healthy 35 pages of graphic novelly goodness. We’ve made a few prototypes, and now it’s only a matter of setting up the assembly line and churning these suckers out. Do note, what you see above is not necessarily what the final copies will look like. There are still minor decisions to be made about usual layout / formatting issues. Read the press release here.

This chapter will be officially released and available for purchase at the Royal Bison Art + Craft Fair, November 28th – 29th, pretty much a week away.

Today Genevieve and I are off to New York, N.Y., for the American Illustration 28 book launch / party, amongst other things fun, interesting, and tasty. Do not expect to see much new on this blog in the coming week. Sorry.

In other news, something to keep you occupied: the first chapter of David Berry and I’s graphic novel project is pretty much near completion. With only 3 pages left to ink on my return, I can see the light. Read our 2 promo pages HERE in a higher, more readable, resolution. Yes, the title of the story has not been disclosed yet. Soon.

Apologies for the lack of updates lately. I’ve been very busy slamming out pages for that comic / graphic novel, and keeping with the element of surprise, I don’t want to post all the page updates on here. What I will show will be a small selection of pages that are relatively text free, such as the selection above, seen on page 13. Here we can see the protagonist waiting for the bus in shitty northern Albertan winter weather. Fun.

Today should see the completion of pages 18 and 19, bringing me that much closer to the completion of chapter one, which should end up being roughly 30 pages or so. At this rate, that should make for only a few more days of intense self-slavery…

This image is a sneak peek for a (relatively) top secret project I’ve been working on with good friend, David Berry, ex VUE Arts Editor. I don’t want to give away too many details, but a quick sum up I can try: a serialized graphic novel. You can find the above image in Chapter One, which I’ve been slaveishly inking page after page over the past few days. We aim to have the first chapter slated for release at the upcoming Royal Bison, November 28th and 29th, as well as online. Still quite a bit ahead of me…

COVERED! Blog is a blog where various artists submit their own cover versions of some of their favorite comic book covers, and I decided to give it a shot. I submitted my own take on one of the best super hero outfits out there, Alpha Flight, a.k.a., Canada’s X-Men, taking on a giant fat lady in a pink dress, Pink Pearl.

Genevieve also submitted her on take on an old Gene Autry comic from way back yonder. They posted hers just a few days ago!