So I'm a little late to the game on this news (I was on vacation at the time -- California, absolutely gorgeous), but Popgun 3 won the Eisner award for best anthology!



It's great to be a part of such a talented group of people. Some of the stories in the Popgun series have been among my favourite short comic stories. It is very surreal to be included among them. It's also very surreal to learn that Thomas Jane presented the award (something I'm sure my wife will enjoy). We've been enjoying his television series "Hung" quite a bit.

Congratulations to the editors, Mark Andrew Smith and D.J. Kirkbride, and all the creators who helped make Popgun great. If you like, you can even read my short story, "The Last Voyage" online, lettered by Thomas Mauer.

Labels: comics, Eisner Awards, Popgun, The Last Voyage

I've decided to post my published comic stories online. I would like to continue to create short comic stories as time permits, and post them here. Perhaps when I have enough of them, I can scrounge together a limited print run or something. At any rate, here they are:

"The Spirits & The Woods", originally published in Fablewood Volume 1.


"The Last Voyage", lettered by Thomas Mauer and originally published in Popgun Volume 3 from Image Comics.

Labels: Fablewood, Popgun, The Last Voyage, The Spirits and The Woods, webcomics

It's official! Popgun 3, in which my short story "The Last Voyage" appears, is up for an Eisner! Obviously, since my story was only four pages, it's tough to feel too much pride in the nomination, but being a part of such a project was reward in and of itself.

Labels: comics, Eisner Awards, Popgun, The Last Voyage

Here's some more recent ink work I've been doing in the spare moments on my lunch hour. The first is a failed attempt at a design for a longer story I had planned for Popgun a while back. Never came to be, and may end up finishing it someday.

The second one is a small character that fits into a world I had always pictured as a graphic novel, but there's holes in the premise I've yet to be able to adequately fill, so it's always been on the back burner.

The final one is a character who fits into a story that's almost fully fleshed out in my mind. I'd love to tackle it after my current obligations are complete, but we'll see where things are then.

I had planned out a tutorial on preparing line work for coloring in Photoshop (at least the method I use), but I'm afraid I just don't have the time to give it the proper attention at the moment. It's on my "to do" list though.

Labels: comics, graphic novel, ink, Popgun, robots

Alright, now that I've got some life changes tidied up, I'm back in the game! I've been working away on "Don't Get Sucked Under the Escalator", and I think I just drew the best page I've ever done. Hopefully I'll keep saying that as the pages keep coming. Unfortunately, that's going to be a ways off until anyone can see that book in finished format.

So what can you take a gander at? How about Popgun Volume 3? That's right, I have a short story in Popgun! It's a small one titled "The Last Voyage", and lettered by the always awesome Thomas Mauer.


I don't want to give anything away, but let's just say it plants some seeds. Here's the cover (by Tara McPherson, who I've always enjoyed):
Here's the absolutely staggering in a "How the hell did I end up a part of all this awesome" sort of way, list of creators:



I've set up a new section on the website for comics. You can just click Comics at the top to get to it. I'll be posting to links to the books I've done, where you can get them, and any other information I can scrape together. I may also look into getting some other cool things in this section.

Finally, while we're on the topic of comics, do yourself a favor and check out Mark Andrew Smith (also writing "Don't Get Sucked Under the Escalator") and Matthew Weldon's New Brighton Archeological Society.


It's a kids graphic novel, and it's exquisitely done. The story is full of adventure, and the art is phenomenal. It never once talks down to the audience, which I think is the way to go for kids comics, making them open to all audiences. A great book, and well worth your time.

Alright, I think that should about do it for comics. For now...

Labels: comics, Escalator, New Brighton, Popgun