More Sherlock.

In a Sherlock mood today.

The Octopus.

Wolverine in snow.

My first Threadless submission! Inspired by my leaf-blower happy neighbour and if it gets enough votes it may be turned into a T-shirt. Have a look and leave a vote if you like it!

More art.

This was for one of Warren Ellis' Remake/Remodel challenges: Aquaman as if produced by HBO.

Remake/Remodel of Wonder Woman (in a berserker rage of course).

It's about time I post more stuff isn't it? I have all this art sitting around, many from the ongoing Remake/Remodel challenges on Warren Ellis' board so let's start with some of those.

This challenge was to create a poster for a silent film production of Steampunk Batman.

This was for a pulp comic book character known as The Magician from Mars. I drew her having just arrived on earth.

Here's an older one of Two Face, it was for an artist's thread on the Bendis Board.

More coming up.

Latest Remake/Remodel Challenge over at Warren Ellis' boards.

Captain America

Revenge of the Sith is on TV for like the billionth time and while watching that scene where Obi Wan and Anakin crash land the giant ship on Coruscant something occurred to me: the ship breaks in half on entry over a planet that is essentially one giant super-city. So while our gleeful Jedi wrench the front half to a grinding halt on a runway, the back half, a massive chunk of metal the size of the Titanic, falls to the surface of a heavily populated area and somehow doesn't create a mile wide crater, wiping out thousands of people, disrupting the economy and the very government that oversees hundreds of planets?

Clearly it doesn't because the politicians are lauding the cocky Jedi, going about their usual business and attending wacky Cirque Du Space Operas.

Whuuut?

Warren Ellis posted his geekiest Remake/Remodel Challenge ever: The Thirteenth Doctor. You can see a larger version here.

I had this image of coloured tile like you see in tube stations or old institutional buildings in the UK so I went for that with the walls. And how could I not include Sally Sparrow?

Had lots of fun drawing this, and now I need to get back to work.

Back from San Diego, we just finished a week of teaching kids how to make comics at VPL's summer book camp, attended the Anime Evolution show at UBC over the weekend and now finally have some time to think and work... except there's this ridiculous heat wave going on that's making it damn near impossible to do anything in the office (the building's ancient electrical system can't handle air conditioners apparently). This is where I have to send thanks to Mayor Robertson and the City of Vancouver for demolishing our neighbourhood pool. It's not like such a thing would have been at all popular what with climate change making each new bout of summer even hotter than the last.

My brain isn't just cooking from the heat but also with plans and schemes and as soon as it cools down a bit I'll be back at the tablet getting those ideas out. Can't wait.

Also, ignore the Japanese spambot in the comments section. I'm trying to figure out how to block him without having to put up annoying security walls.

We're in San Diego! So, the pub quiz was a bit of a bust but we'll try again soon. Currently fighting a bug. I'll be staying in a bit today to try and burn it off. I'll also be finishing commissions. I'll be at the Elephantmen booth today at around 5pm and if your piece isn't done by then I promise it will be over the next couple of days. Bear with me on this. I feel pretty iggy and am doing my best.

My first try with the ipad Sketchbook Pro app last week wasn't very good, so this morning I decided to try again, this time with photo reference. Took about 5 hours. I like it.

And now to bed. More work on commissions and sketch requests tomorrow.

Good news everyone! San Diego Comic Con is coming up and leading up to the big weekend I'll be taking commissions. I'm limiting it to ten right now just to be sure everything will be ready for the show. It's a hundred for an inked piece, and if you're looking for a quick free sketch hopefully I'll be able to do some at a booth to be announced (still working on details). If you're interested, toss me an e-mail at hellkitty3@hotmail.com.

Back to work.

Hey, looks like things are up and running here again. Had a lovely year and some months off. Worked on interesting projects and now getting ready for more. If you're looking for the FAQ and links pages, fear not, they'll be back up shortly. Still fiddling.

In the last post's comment section I was asked to post about our month long stay in London.

London is fun.

The Canadian Content show is doing swimmingly in Leicester Square, getting great reviews and making audiences quite happy. Ian and I have been walking all over town checking out museums and parks. I made it out to Montreal for the Hugo Awards where I lost to the wonderful Phil and Kaja Foglio, met the enormously talented Paul Cornell and ate a lot of egregious food. The weather has been nice, if a bit muggy and hot at times but nowhere near as bad as the crazy heat wave we just missed back home. Had a fantastic overnight trip to Brighton for some sea air. Got to hang out with Tony Lee and his lovely lady Tracy and dished on Doctor Who.

This month has also been very frustrating.

Barely three days into the trip and we get word from Vic that Kinsey is at the vet hospital with another embolism in her leg. After several harrowing days, lots of calls back and forth at odd hours, lots of crying and wringing of hands and what do you know, Kinsey the Wonder Cat pulls through. Only a week to go before we see her again.

Plus there's the sushi withdrawal.

Thursday we're off to Cardiff to visit Mike Collins to talk shop over lunch. It's been an interesting month.

So what exactly am I doing these days?

A few months ago I came to the realization that I needed to take time off from comics. I've been feeling drained of enthusiasm for the work for a while so in order to keep myself from never picking up a pencil again I decided to set the pencils aside and just do other things.

I've been writing, sleeping, walking, swimming, auditioning, picnicking, tending a sick cat, playing and experimenting and it's done a world of good. Those of you who follow the Remake/Remodel threads on Warren Ellis' site may have seen a few of those experiments, all digital. I'm finally trying out a medium I haven't had the time to explore until now... and totally digging it. I may even switch over completely, we'll see how it goes.

As for future stuff, Ian and I are heading out to London for the month of August. Canadian Content is putting on a sketch/improv show in Leicester Square and it's looking awesome. If you're in that neck of the woods check it out.

Where it gets interesting is around mid-August when I fly from London to Montreal to attend Worldcon (where I'll cross my fingers at the Hugo Awards ceremony, hee!) and then fly back to London for the remainder of the month. We're back in Vancouver in September, then out to New Brunswick for the Canadian Comedy Awards in October (Ian's been nominated!)... and I'm sure I'm forgetting things.

Oh yeah, San Diego. It's a bit too much this year so we're skipping. I know, it's killing me not to go (David Tennant is going to be there along with the Mighty Boosh and Miyazaki!) but... there's always next year. And hopefully I'll have a shiny new project to show off then.

For now, it's back to playing and prepping. I'm still working on sketch requests, a couple more went out the door this week (again, thanks for everyone's patience on those).

More soon.

Okay you cheeky monkeys!

I've been working on sketch requests this evening, got a dozen here ready to go out the door, and I'd like to request or reiterate a few things. First, DON'T SEND MONEY. Seriously. I don't do commissions right now and it won't make your request turn up any quicker. Thank you for the thought but I really don't want your 'donation' to get lost en route. Second, can we maybe limit the amount of characters per request to two or three at the very most? I just got one here asking for three sketches, two with doubles and a third with something like 5 characters in a group shot. Maybe I'm just cranky tonight but...nuhhhh. Third, please put in the name of the person the sketch is for. I've had a few requests tonight alone that asked for a sketch for their brother or wife or friend and then there was no name attached. And yeah, part of the reason is so that it doesn't end up on e-bay but the other is because, well if you're making it a gift, why not make it special and have it personalised? And last, for now anyway, if you want your sketch to turn up for a specific date like a birthday please write TIME SENSITIVE on the back of your envelope and in your letter let me know the date it needs to get back to you by. No abusing this now, I'm doing my best to get to all these asap.

Thanks everyone, and now back to the grind...

This made my day.

Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talent
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