The Beast At Black Rock, Page Six

Here is the final page of the story arc that I contributed to in Denver Brubaker's Tales Of A Checkered Man printed edition, which is available now. I's like to give Denver a big thanks for letting me play for a bit in the Checkered Man sandbox. It was mucho fun!

Beast At Black Rock, Page Five

Here is the page five teaser for the story arc that I did for Denver Brubaker's Tales Of A Checkered Man's printed edition. You can go to his site here to order your copy now! The final artwork for this story will have all the text, narration and gray tones done superbly by Denver. Check it out!

The Beast At Black Rock, Page Four

Tomorrow is the start of C2E2 and the premier of Denver Brubaker's Tales Of A Checkered Man printed edition. So, make sure you stop by his table in artist alley and say hi. Above is the fourth page teaser of a six page story arc that I contributed to for the volume.

The Beast At Black Rock, Page Three

Here is the page three teaser for my six page story arc in Denver Brubaker's printed edition for his Checkered Man web comic. The final version will have all the text and grey tones done by Denver.

Beast At Black Rock, Page Two

Here is the page two teaser for The Beast At Black Rock story arc featuring the character Vic Torrious, that will appear with text and grey tones in Denver Brubaker's printed volume of The Tales Of A Checkered Man. The book will make it's debut at next weekend's C2E2 convention in Chicago.

This was my favorite of the six pages to do. Working from Denver's layouts, this one has a nice feel to it and flows well. I can't wait to see this in printed form!

Vic Torrious, Page One

As some of you may know, a couple of years ago I did a guest panel for a story in my cartoonist friend Denver Brubaker's web comic, Tales Of A Checkered Man. In that story arc, a flashback scene involving a side character, Vic Torrious, showed him in battle with the dark demon M'htrew. At the end of last year, Denver asked me if I could contribute a six page story that involved the same characters for his printed volume. I've been trying to flex my black and white/inking abilities some, so heck yeah, I was on board. The guest panel had a silver age/John Buscema kind of feel to it and although I had that in mind for this project, I think it took on more of the cartoon look that I am currently doing. I think it's effective and I sure hope that Denver and his fans think so too!

This six page story arc will be in the printed edition of the web comic and will make its debut in Chicago at C2E2 on April 26-28. The book is called Tales Of A Checkered Man, Vol.1, so pick up a copy. It's a great comic with some cool characters and has many wonderful and in-depth tales. Check it out!

I will be showing the panels that I did leading up to and beyond the show as a teaser. The finished art, complete with Denver's narration and grey tones can be seen in the book. Denver took my crappy art and made it all look palatable, ha, ha! It looks sweet, it really does, so again, check it out!

I will also have another C2E2 related project to announce soon, as well. Even though I won't be there, I seem to have a couple of projects that are debuting there at the end of the month.

As usual, click on the image to engorge.

Halloween Pin Up

Over at Denver Brubaker's Tales of a Checkered Man he is having other cartoonists dress their own characters up as The Checkered Man for Halloween. This, of course, sounded like fun, so here is Muck man dressed as the acrophobic crime fighter.

Did you really think it wouldn't be messy?

You can check out this piece, as well as other cartoonists, such as Jay Fosgitt and Tom Dell'Aringa take of their characters dressed as the Checkered Man here. And check in all month long for more cartoons from more cartoony people!

Wizard World Chicago Recap

It's been almost a month now since the Wizard World Chicago show and I wanted to do a post on the weekend, so here it is. Better late than never.

I love cons for the little things that happen and make for good stories. Our first morning found Bill and I at the Hyatt for their breakfast buffet. The man who sat us sounded just like Lo Pan from Big Trouble In Little China and we had a good chuckle at the coolness of that. After we made our way the the buffet line and started to eat, I look over and who was coming in at that moment for breakfast? Lo Pan himself! Well, the actor who played him, James Hong. And he sat down right behind us. Love it!

The 1960's Batmobile in the lobby of the conference center.

                                            A cool night time shot of downtown Chicago.

Cartoonist Denver Brubaker and his lovely fiance, Jillian stopped by my table to say hello. h

He couldn't miss my table. He knew to head for the pink and the glitter, as you can see across the way.

 Brian Pulido, who was an awesome neighbor to have brought Lady Death with him on Saturday.

                                        And the Blues Brothers came by to say hello, as well.

                                                More pics to come in a couple of days!

Muck Man #12

The latest episode of Muck Man has our hero wishing a Happy Birthday to another crime fighting vigilante, a hero created by fellow cartoonist Denver Brubaker, The Checkered Man (which may or may not be his real moniker). Denver created Tales of a Checkered Man and the strips began running one year ago. So, happy birthday to Tales of a Checkered Man and make sure you check out the bi-weekly adventures here. Click on the image to engorge.