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I finally got around to setting up a Gumroad store this week, and there are a few comics up there right now!
All comics I publish to Gumroad will be DRM-free pdfs or CBZ archives. For now they’re all pay-what-you-want, though the floor for that pricing will vary depending on the length of the work, the amount of time went into it, and how recently it was published. Right now my three monster minicomics have a minimum price of $0.00+, so you can totally get those for free right now if you want to (though if you want to throw in a buck or two to support the cause, I sure wouldn’t argue)! Chutney Point #1 is currently priced at $.99+ for the 23-page pdf.
You can find links to the Gumroad store in the sidebar all over the site, and if a comic in the archive is available there you’ll also find links to buy that ebook right on the comic’s page!
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Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
11×7″, pen & ink on Bristol, colored in Photoshop
Self-promotional, 2013
I’ve been meaning to do some Classic Doctor Who fan art for some time now – I’m going through and watching ALL of the old episodes in order. I’m disappointed in how many Second Doctor/Jamie episodes are missing from Season 4 and 5, since this is my favorite pairing so far (and that includes Modern Doctors). I was glad that the final episode of this story survives though, and it’s a fun one!
I’ve got the idea in my head to do an illustration like this for each classic Doctor story, but dang, that’s a lot of stories!
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An exciting piece of news today, as one of the illustrations I did for “This Is How You Die”, the upcoming sequel to the blockbuster “Machine of Death” anthology, was used in their latest preview! I’ve been wanting to share this artwork for almost a year, and now you can finally see a peek at one of the pieces I did for “Apitoxin”.
By Sidney Paget
I missed out on the opportunity to contribute to the first collection, so I jumped at the chance when it came around again. The story was a Sherlock Holmes tribute, and the request was that the art be in the style of Sidney Paget, who illustrated many of the original Holmes stories for The Strand. Now, I can be a pretty good mimic sometimes, but this one was a real challenge. The technique was more difficult than I had anticipated – I ended up doing the actual inking and composition digitally, though the pencils were done on paper. But still, I’m exceedingly proud of the final art, and I’m excited for the work to be featured in the official preorder announcement!
My frontispiece for “Apitoxin”
The book is now up for preorder at Amazon, and will be released in two weeks. Along with the frontispiece shown here, I did three additional spot images placed elsewhere throughout the story. Go order yours today, and you can see ALL of the finished images up close and personal!
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Now I laugh and make a fortune off the same ones that I tortured / and a world screams, “Kiss me, Son of God!”
Lincoln, track 18: Kiss Me, Son of God. (Listen on iTunes)
I think this was the first song I ever heard that dared to confront the entirety of Christianity, and basically call the whole scam out and shine a light on it (I hadn’t discovered Monty Python yet in 1988). Son of God always felt like a dangerous little secret to me then, with its cynical view of both humanity and religion, its warning of church as a money-making scheme, and the willingness of the flock to contribute to their own exploitation. I recognize the message here now as one of the basic tenets of any argument against organized religion, but for my early-teenaged brain at the time, this song kind of punched my worldview and showed me that music could be more than just love songs.
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