Intercontinental Cuties FOR SALE!!!

The card decks are finally available for purchase on the blog shop.
Come and get 'em!

The Cards Are Here!!

54 Intercontinental Cuties have arrived!


Which means we'll have them for sale tomorrow at Action Figure Freddy in San Francisco.

And then at San Diego Comic-con Booth 4800!

San Diego Comic-Con BOOTH 4800

Myself, Josh Cooley and all 54 Intercontinental Cuties will be at booth 4800 at the San Diego Comic-Con next week. Booth 4800 is my usual location on the show floor along with Scott Morse and Jeff Pidgeon. This time around we'll also be joined by Jim Capobianco!

In the Program guide we should be listed as Red Window.

Hope to see you there!

Action Figure Freddy

Josh Cooley and I will be making a pre Comic-con appearance at Action Figure Freddy in San Francisco on Friday, July 16th from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. One night only to sign books and prints.

Action Figure Freddy is at 112 Waverly Place in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Now, I can't promise anything, but there is a chance that we'll have our playing card deck with us. That's right, "54 Intercontinental Cuties". Only, and let me stress "only", if we get them in time. They may in fact arrive from the printer all the way from China on that very day. If they do, you will get a chance to pick up the card set before anyone at Comic-con and make them insanely jealous. But only if they arrive. No promises.

Here's to hoping.

I will have the third and final Action Figure Freddy limited exclusive Redhead print, guaranteed. Long over due I know, but we'll have it that night along with the previous exclusives and Bookplate Betties.

Intercontinental Colors

Here are the first batch of finished full color cards for "54 Intercontinental Cuties", a pin-up playing card deck by Josh Cooley and myself. They will be available for purchase at Comic-con this year then shortly thereafter here on this blog.








If you haven't seen Josh's process for making his cards yet, check it out. It's very educational.

"Iron Man By Design"... By Design

IRON MAN: LEGACY #3 came out yesterday, the one with my variant cover on it. To celebrate I thought I'd post some of my preliminaries. My original idea was to use the clunky Mark 1 suit since it seems more WWII, and I could put a flying fortress kind of spin on it. I thought the nose art worked better for it. I also tried some flight jacket inspired designs with the nose art on his back. Marvel liked the sleeker designs so I went in that direction.



I haven't managed to find a copy of the issue with my variant cover yet, apparently there's only one every twenty five copies. If anybody out there has an extra they'd like to part with, let me know.

Intercontinental Process

This time I thought I'd show some process all the way through to the final product. If you're just tuning in, these are for an internationally themed pin-up card deck I'm producing with Josh Cooley.

These are some of my first thumbnails, not all of the pieces started out this way but it definitely got the ball rolling.



You can see a few of the early ideas for the Egypt card above but I later settled on Cleopatra. As you can see by the roughs below I did some exploration before I found a pose I liked. I knew I wanted to have Cleopatra swooning over a photo of Marc Antony, but how exactly took a little trial and error.



Ultimately I decided with this version since it seemed the most queenly.



The composition wasn't quite working right with the way the corner suits were falling so I flopped the image when I inked it.



And the final card with color.



Here's the same process again with the Vietnam card.





When I inked this one I separated the foreground elements from the background. Just for ease of inking mostly, but it came in handy when I was coloring too.



And the final colored composited card.



The deck will be available to buy at the San Diego Comic-con in July, then shortly thereafter will be available for purchase here on the blog.