Wednesday, June 23, 2010

On Stands Now!











Here are some pages from the Untold Tales of Spider-Man story Kurt Busiek and I did recently that appeared in the latest Amazing Spider-Man annual. Tons o' fun to do!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Father's Day




Happy Father's day to all of you dad's out there, to mine especially! A quick post of 2 pencil pieces, don't know if either of these gentlemen were/are Father's but......they are on my blog!

Monday, June 14, 2010

Al Williamson RIP




Heard the very sad news this morning that Al Williamson passed away yesterday. A true legend in the industry, an enormous talent and it was my great pleasure to have worked with him for 7 years. He started inking my work on Untold Tales of Spider-Man and we ended our collaboration at the end of our run on Spider-Girl. I'll leave it to others more eloquent than I to talk about his artistic legacy, my memories at the moment are more personal, one memory in particular. At some point during that run on Spider-Girl my wife and I were having some financial difficulty, I was really counting on selling some original art at the Pittsburgh Comic Con that year to help pay bills. Al was also a guest at the show so I wasn't surprised to see him approaching my table on the first morning of the convention, I was shocked however when he handed me a stack of Spider-Girl original art that went to him as the inker on the book. I tried to give it back, telling him I appreciated it but I couldn't accept it, he refused to take it back. I made a nice chunk of change at that show due in large part to Al's generosity. It helped me out at a tough time, I'll never forget it. I've posted a couple pieces he and I did together as my small tribute.