 Evening all, Hope everyones Halloween weekend has been an extravaganza of ghoulish fun and fright. The weather today has been incredible and the leaves on the ground are crisp and crackle with each footstep. Yes indeed, it definitely feels like Halloween. So in celebration of this glorious holiday of mixed feelings and historical ambiguity I thought I'd post an illustration that's recently emerged from the depths of the drawing board. The little beast we have here is in collaboration with Richard Pitaniello's short story "Celestial Death-Match", which rests within the pages of issue #112 of the great and long-lasting Space and Time magazine. On stands now. Thanks all, enjoy and of course Happy Halloween! - D
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 Ladies and gents... TONIGHT is the night. Steve, Jesse, and my comic HAUNTED has now been published online at Top Shelf Publishing's website TOP SHELF 2.0! If you'd like to check out our 12 page suspense-driven ghost story you can click with eerie delight right HERE! Thanks all, hope you enjoy it, and be sure let us know what you think! - D  Good evening all! Found out just the other day from the grand mack-daddy of writing Mr. Steve Ekstrom that our second comic book together titled HAUNTED will be making it's debut from the mighty Top Shelf Publishing! And to be exact, it's being published online at Top Shelf 2.0 this October 25th! Just in time for All Hallows Eve. We've been shopping it around for a little bit now and to have it picked up by these good ladies and gents is a beautiful, beautiful thing.  HAUNTED is a 12 page tale of eerie suspense written by Steve Ekstrom (author of BREAKFAST), penciled & inked by moi, and colored by the extremely talented Jesse Turnbull. Jesse and I went to college together at ye ole' MICA, where he studied under the exquisite colorist and gentleman Mr. Jose Villarrubia. It was great working with these fella's and I hope to do so more in the near future. Here's a brief synopsis from the Ekstrom himself. He describes HAUNTED as... “a suspenseful ghost story about trust and how people perceive the truth. Steve is a troubled young man who decides to divulge a dark, lifelong secret to Samantha. She wants to believe his story; but, does Steve’s frightening revelation illuminate a dark corner of his past or is he casting shadowy aspersions on their somewhat tenuous relationship?"  AND for those that don't know Top Shelf has published a SLEW of awesomeness. Ranging from Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell's FROM HELL, to Nate Powell's Swallow Me Whole, to Andy Runton's Owly, to the newly released B.B. Wolf and the Three LP's by JD Arnold & Rich Koslowski (which I just picked up at the New York Comic Con last weekend and it's incredible. ALL should check it out. Seriously).
Included right here are a few panels from HAUNTED and as soon as time allows I'll most certainly upload a few of the actual pages in the Sequential Art section of my website. In the meantime you can check out the always enjoyable Top Shelf 2.0 right HERE! Thanks folks and I'll be back in a few days! Until then... happy October! - D  Happy Halloween! Well... in about 30 days that is. It's kinda hard for me not to think of All Hallows Eve even when it's only October 1st. It just feels like like it, ya know? And I'm sure I'm not alone in that, as I walked outside today and the leaves on the ground were spinning around in a cool brisk circle. Ahhh, greatness. Anyways, in celebration of the calender pages turning towards the great month of October I thought I'd post an illustration I did this past Summer. Makes sense, right? It will. Trust me. A little while ago I was asked by powerhouse writer-extraordinaire Mr. Gary Raisor (that's his official title actually) to illustrate a short story of his called Better Watch Out. Gary is one of the most skilled authors I've ever had the pleasure of meeting or reading and of course it was an honor to be asked to work with him. So, in one of my finer displays of intelligence, I graciously accepted. The story is also in conjunction with an interview Gary did with Mr. Andrew Monge of Horror Drive-In, a wonderful website for all things horror and scary-like (see, it all makes sense now. Halloween, scary, horror. Right?) And after reading the interview and listening Gary's funny and poignant comments I'm still on the fence as to whether the interview or the story is more entertaining... Ah, it's a tie. But I'll let you guys have the final vote. So click away right HERE and check out allllll of the goodness. It's guaranteed to make you laugh, shiver and think all at once. AND as a bit of inside information, just between you and me, I'll be posting some info very soon about another project Gary and I are currently working on. But I'll keep that hush hush for the moment. Until then... Happy (almost) Halloween! Bwah hah ha haaaa! (I love doing that) |
