Lucky Boy: Tempting Fate

After decades of work Lucky Boy: Tempting Fate is finally done!

It's now available for purchase in hardcover format from https://stuartngbooks.com (in English), www.ankama-shop.com (in French) and also on my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellesNWhistlesPinup

Termite Bianca

This is another pin up I did a couple years ago that is also seeing the light of day. The character is Termite Bianca from an Italian sci-fi comic of the same name created by Marco Bianchini, Marco Santucci and Patrizio Evangelisti.

My piece is for Fantasia Termite Bianca, an international tribute book which will also feature the very intercontinental assortment of Katsuhiro Otomo, Katsuya Terada, Akemi Takada, Yoshitoshi Abe, Foo Midori, THORES Shibamoto, Maya Miyazaki, Sho Murase, Bob Eggleton, Bryan Talbot, Oscar Martin, Daniela Uhlig, Otto Schmidt, Lokman Lam, Paolo Barbieri, Maurizio Manzieri and Mario Alberti.

The book will be available next week at the Lucca Comics and Games festival in Lucca Italy. And online shortly thereafter here.

Skadi

I jumped at the chance to do this pin up a couple of years ago for the very awesome Katie Rice because I'm a big fan of her work. She and Luke Cormican do this hilarious/ridiculous web comic called Skadi. She's a barbarian girl on a quest to eat of every meat.
This pin up has finally seen the light of day in their new book compiling the first two years of Skadi web comics. It's premiering at APE this weekend in San Francisco. Look for it!

Out of Stock (temporarily)

It looks like I've already sold my entire supply of Comix Buro Presing: Sketchbooks. They went much faster than I anticipated.

If you missed out, don't worry, I'm expecting a new shipment of inventory from the publisher. As soon as I get them I'll put them back up for sale here on the blog.

If you already ordered your copy before I disabled the button, no worries, it's coming.
Thanks for waiting!

"Presing: Sketchbooks" are here!

The day has come, I have a limited supply of my sketchbooks from Comix Buro and they're for sale right here on my blog. Just click the "add to cart" button on the right hand side of the window.

They're all signed and numbered to an edition of 900. 48 pages, about 7 x 8 1/2 inches. Contains almost entirely unpublished material and even some stuff I've never even put on the internet.

Angoulême 2012!

I'm back from Angoulême! Wow it was fun. Exhausting but fun.


I'm officially part of the Comix Buro sketchbook series!





At the booth.



Signing with Ned!



I can't believe how many dedications I drew.
Here's a few of them.







Thanks to Etienne, Olivier, Camille and the rest of the fine Comix Buro crew. I had a blast!

Comix Buro

A few pages from the Comix Buro sketchbook.
I'm hoping to have them for sale here on the blog once they become available. So keep your eye on this space.





Sketchbook Presing
Author : Bill Presing
ISBN : 9782916518534
Format : 18x22 cm (roughly 7 x 8.5 inches)
48 pages - Paperback

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Sketchbook PRESING

Coming soon from Comix Buro!
I'll be signing them at the end of the month at the comics festival in Angoulême.
January 26th - 29th.



You've seen some of the contents here on the blog, but for the most part it's all unpublished material.

Topless Summer Love Girls

A while back I did a couple illustrations for Leslie Cabarga's humor book "Topless Summer Love Girls; A Gentleman's Guide to Women, Relationships, and Breasts".

To quote the PR machine:
"Topless Summer Love Girls is a zany, pop culture commentary on growing up male in the era of Playboy, feminism, and swimsuit editions. Arming men with new insights into themselves and the eternal battle between the sexes, this hilarious and sexy book filled with hundreds of titillating photos of half-naked women is a passionate and unapologetic examination of men, women, and breasts."

These were my attempts at playboy style gag cartoons for the book.
Gags written by Leslie Cabarga, art by me.




The book has been officially released, get it here!

Artists Sketchbooks

You may know Bobby Chiu as the talented illustrator and concept artist but he’s also the mastermind of Imaginism Studios and Schoolism. Now he's announced his newest project - ArtistSketchbooks.com! It's a place to discover new sketchbooks and artbooks from your favorite artists, both physical and digital. You'll find a wide selection and database of artbooks as well as iphone apps.
Check it out!

Dan DeCarlo’s Jetta

I'm a huge Dan DeCarlo fan and if you know his work you can see why. One of my favorite DeCarlo characters is that "high school sweetheart of the future", Jetta. Who is Jetta you ask? Well you're about to find out. A mountain of gratitude goes to Craig Yoe for compiling, for the very first time, the entire Jetta comic book run in one retro futuristic edition.
And I got to be a part of it! In Pin-up form that is.
Here's my contribution to the book:


And the study (not in the book, I don't think)


The book has a ton of other awesome Pin-ups, like these for instance:


Craig McCracken, Jenny Lerew, Justin Ridge, and Katie Rice respectively (Katie's is genius btw).

The full list of pin ups:

Alan Gutierrez
Andrew Pepoy 
Becky Dreistadt
Ben Tan
Bill Morrison
Bill Presing
Brandon Ragnar
Colleen Coover
Clizia Gussoni
Craig McCracken 
Craig Yoe
Danny Hellman 
David Reddick 
Dominic Marco 
Fabrizio Pasini 
Jay Stephens 
Jenny Lerew 
Joakim Gunnarsson 
Hedvig Häggman-Sund 
Justin Ridge 
Kali Fontecchio 
Katie Rice 
Leslie Cabarga 
Luke McDonnell 
Mark Frauenfelder 
Mike Maihack 
Molly Crabapple
Paul Guinan 
Robert Ullman 
Ryan Hungerford 
Scott Tolleson 
Stephanie Gladden 
Stephen Silver 
The Savanella Sisters 
Tracy Mark Lee

The book will be released to comic shops Wednesday, April 14th, and to regular bookstores shortly thereafter. Or you can always order it on Amazon. Here's what the cover looks like, so keep your eye out for it.

APE! this weekend.

I will be attending APE this weekend. Splitting space with Scott Morse as usual, tables 315 and 316.
I've finally received a supply of my new book from Fluide Glamour! They're imported from France and I've only a limited amount of them, so I'll be selling half at APE and saving the other half for CTN.


I've also got a new print to sell, my recent Flying Tiger piece.

Art of UP

I finally got my copy of the Art of UP book. A little late I know. I usually don't like to mix my work at Pixar with my personal work here on the blog, but I'm very proud to have some art in the book. I loved working on this film and this book is a great memento for me, plus it's a chance for you to get a glimpse of my regular storyboard work.



Now if only they'd spell my name right.

ARTBOOK

I just got my first copy of my new French published artbook. I think it looks really great, Fluide Glacial did an amazing job with it. I even got a really awesome quote from Arthur De Pins on the back.




The book is essentially a new edition of the out of print Belle du Jour but the art is arranged in all new page layouts. It looks pretty slick.

Announcement

I'm very excited to announce the re-release of my sold out book Belle du Jour! It's being published in France in May 2009 by Fluide Glamour (a division of Fluide Glacial). It will be part of their art book series, a follow up to the Arthur De Pins art book. Which is quite an honor, Arthur is one of my favorite artists.

The book will contain all of the same art but with a different format, presentation and layout. It's going to look really spiffy, I can't wait for everyone to see it.


This is Fluide Glamour's 2009 catalog used for the recent BD festival at Angoulême to promote the book. It was an exciting surprise to see my drawing on the cover.