Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 4

At last! I just finished up the last page of the 'Miserable' strip for the Caretakers Tales. Again, I can't post it here...not until the book is released. So, I've posted page 4 of that Vex strip from the 80's.

Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 3

Yep...definitely a strong Breyfogle influence.

Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 2

Here's page 2 of that late 80's Vex strip.

I'll post the whole strip to keep the blog updated while I'm finishing off the 'Miserable' story.
As you can see I was heavily influenced by Norm Breyfogle. Probably one the greatest 'Batman' artist of the modern era...and so underrated.

His artwork on 'Detective Comics' was simply amazing...not since Will Eisner has there been anyone that breaks the mold in panel layout like Breyfogle.

Just my opinion anyways..for what it's worth.

Another Vex Splash!

I think this one might have been done in '89.
It was the second part of a story that appeared in a self-published comic 'White Heat'.
I named the book after my favorite James Cagney movie.

80's 'Vex' again!

Another 80's 'Vex' piece.

Notice the writers name. That's right...'Frank Moore' and combination of Frank Miller and Alan Moore. Yep, I was such a pretentious so-so back then.

I'm not that bad (At least I think I'm not!) today.

Miserable - Page 15 - Inked Panel!

Only one more page of 'Miserable' left and then I move on to the second tale of the anthology. It's a pretty funny one too and it's got Zombies in it.

Sweet!

Another 80's Oldie

Yep.
Another piece from the 80's.
This was going to be a poster with one of the 'MainStream' issues.
Looking back...I like some elements of the picture. Theres a nice balance between dark and light and I love the simple pattern I used on Danielles jacket. I look back at a lot of my old artwork and realise that the older I've gotten the less creative I've become in certain areas...either that or I'm just gettin' old and jaded.
I wish I still had that same gusto and enthusiasm I had years ago. Oh well.

Miserable - Page 14 - Inked Panel 1

Another image before the weekend begins.

Miserable - Page 13 - Panel 2 Inked!

I'm nearing the finish line on this tale. Only 3 pages left!

Miserable - Page 12 - Inked panel!

Page 11 done and dusted. Didn't show a panel from that page...but here's a panel from page 12.
Only four pages left on this tale and then a really cool 'zombie' second tale.

Miserable - Page 10 - Inked panel!

Another snippet. This one from page 10. Page 10 is complete on this story. The next few pages are a lot of fun to draw too. Again...I can only show teaser images.

Another oldie!

Another oldie but goodie. This is from 1989!

I was obviously trying to imitate a Creepy/Eerie/Vampirella vibe on this. I think I used a panel from one of thoses books and put in my own characters. I wanted to see if I could learn something by doing something similar. Might have used Gonalez for this. Can't remember...it's all muddy!

Anyways, the character is 'Vex' (Jason Velacroix) and his 'sidekick' Danielle Kowalski. This was going to be a cover for 'Mainstream'.

I later revamped 'Vex'...moved him into an alternate stempunk type future and renamed the strip 'Inquisitor Vex'. I have some pages from that revamp...I'll post them at some stage.

Miserable - Page 9 - Inked Panel!

First post of the New Year.

Another inked panel from 'Miserable'.

Miserable -Page 8 -Inked panel

Cleaned up final panel of the ruff one below. Only got around 4 pages left of this strip. Really enjoying drawing this. Rich's script is genius. One funny guy.

Miserable - Page 8 - Ruff panel!

I got page 8 completely pencilled. Just have to ink the page. I'll slap up the inks for this panel as soon as I'm done.

Comic Racks - Color Final!

Ta-Da!

Colors by Rob ...Rich McAuliffes friend and mine too! He does all the cool stuff for the Cardiff City Football Club.

Napoleon

An oldie but goodie.

I did this a good few years back for a game night get together with some old work buddies. Yep, you guessed it...we played RISK!

Yeah, I know...what a neeeeerrrr...duh!

Miserable - More Inks!

Nice wittle Jawas!

Miserable - Page 6 - Panel 2 - Inks!

Just a teaser panel from page 6.

That's what I'll do from now on until this story is finished...and then for the second and third stories I'll post a few pages, then ruff pencils then inked panels...just like I'm doing with Miserable.
Got to keep the Blog fed...it's a monster.

Deb Bonair - Ruff Colors!

Here's the first page of the Deb strip with preliminary colors by Kevin Volo. The colors are too dark and need some tweaking. Probably need to change the alien crew mates color and the ships captain too.
A tractor beam effect also needs to added.

Overrall...it all needs to be lightened up, but as a start...not too bad.

The strip should look fantastic after everything is complete.