Posted By Mark on August 23, 2010
RADIO: Truly Crucial Rock n Roll (Fall 2010)
5.5×7″ 24-pages with cardstock cover.
Features essays on Entombed, Dead Kennedys, and Mark & Kevin’s personal music journeys. Also packed to the gills with original illustrations, Rock n Roll Haikus and much more. The only zine that covers all truly crucial rock n roll!
Limited to 30 copies online.
Get your copy here to stay crucial!
Posted By Mark on August 19, 2010
As soon as I get Curse of the Pharaohs printed… I run out of Mulligan’s Run. So in the spirit of reissuing past content with a new package, the second printing will be the smaller digest-ish size with a new cover and layout. Over the past year or two, I’ve scaled all my projects down the this more “attractive” size and now have a consistent format for nearly all my books. I’ll have it available in the store section in a few weeks, hopefully in time for SPX.
Posted By Mark on August 7, 2010
Curse or the Pharaohs (Regular Edition) 5.5 x 8.5″ 24-page full-color mini-comic & Curse or the Pharaohs (Artist Edition) which includes a 5×7″ inked piece on bristol signed by the artists. Limited to 30.
Posted By Mark on August 1, 2010
After coming up with a new cover for a series I did three years ago (and hadn’t really done much with since), I forgot how much I loved these characters. All the time I spent putting the layout together for the new book and revising the logo and what not gave me a chance to rediscover them, so I decided to take a fresh look at the characters.
I attribute the more streamlined look to:
1. Quicker to illustrate, but an equal part love of the Avatar series (which I just finished) and Bruce Timm’s animated series.
2. My newer art is leaning more toward the cartoony, mixed with more realistic, or at least highly textured backgrounds and monsters. I’m really getting into the contrast that creates. It makes the characters pop that much more, but it also creates a greater visual difference between the human and monster characters. Another influence in the distortion of the characters stems from by magazine illustration work, which is mostly caricature, so I’m over exaggerating a lot and going with the big head, little body look.
I’ve got a new story outlined for Curse… so we’ll see if I can work in another project this year. With how quick I did these, it may be possible.
Posted By Mark on August 1, 2010
The Curse of the Pharaohs story I did back in 2007 for Sugary Serials #1-3 is now going to be available in it’s very own volume! Just in time for SPX and The UP! Fair, this 24-page full color book follows young Wallace Brundle and his adventures at a bizarre county fair exhibit that has the modest goal of feeding people to a centuries dead demonic pharaoh so that he can return to rule the dead and undead alike.
I also had the chance to revisit the characters in the form of a new cover, which was really a blast to bring my new sensibility to them and actually sparked me to start another issue in the series. I’ve been sitting on these characters for several years now and it feels like time to refine the book and really go crazy with it. Here’s the new cover and back cover bellow.
Posted By Mark on March 12, 2010
DR. McCOY with frankfurter (5×8”) Ink, brush, nib & watercolor on 2-ply bristol.
GEORGE “THE ANIMAL” STEELE (6×8.5”) Brush, nib, ink & watercolor on 2-ply bristol.
SNAGGLEPUSS (7×4.75”) Nib, ink, Micron & watercolor on 2-ply bristol.
MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE (6×11”) Nib, ink & watercolor on 2-ply bristol.
Posted By Mark on January 19, 2010
‘Mesmerized by the Ancient One’ (11×14) Brush & ink on 2 ply bristol.
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Kalibak (5.5×7.5) Brush & ink on 2 ply bristol, color in Photoshop.
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PULSAR: The Ultimate Man of Adventure (5.5×7.5) Brush & ink on 2 ply bristol.
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