This is a piece I drew as a potential cover for Wahoo Morris, back before I decided to stop publishing singles and go with a direct to trade paperback publishing model.

I was a little frustrated with a Work For Hire project I was working on, and got some bad news about another job I was waiting on, so i decided to to sit down and ink this to clear my head. It took about 2 hours in one sitting.

I might end up using it as spot art in the next Wahoo Morris book.

That set of fill-in comics I did for Microsoft way back in January? Well, they finally ran last week so I guess it’s okay to post them now, with a link back to the main site.

It’s interesting scrolling through the archives. The art style changes every week, and sometimes multiple times during the week. I’ve been reading a lot of the comments and most of the complaints are about the characters look changing.

When I did the three day’s worth of strips, there was almost no reference material for any of the characters and I imagine that was the same for most of the art teams as I believe they tried to get several weeks worth of buffer by using a number of artists and studios simultaneously. I was given the first 7 days of pencils, beautifully drawn by Rich Burchett, and that was it. After I had drawn my three days I was then given a character sketch each for the other two characters. I tried to stick as close as I could to the look he initiated. How successful I was is up for debate.

All things considered I think the strips turned out nice.

I finished up the final page of the final week of The Mighty Motor-Sapiens about half an hour ago.

I must say I’m a little sad to say good bye to the characters. I’ve been working on them now for well over 6 months, and the past 9 weeks pencilling them as well has been one of the most fun gigs of my career! It’s going to be weird going to work next week and not having Gigs and the crew to draw.

My thanks go out to Mark Wheatley for the opportunity, as well as the whole team including co-creators Bob Tinell and Daniel Krall (along with Mark), scripter MJ Butler, colourist Jerry Carr, and interim penciller Matt Plogg. Hopefully I haven’t forgotten anyone!

I am working on the pencils to the Mighty Motor-Sapiens week 28 right now – the final week! The weekend and next week will be dedicated to my story for the Tori Amos anthology from Image Comics. After that, unless something else comes up, I have a few weeks free until I start storyboarding in mid April for probably the rest of the year. I’m going to do my best to get caught up on Wahoo Morris in that time!

Anyhoo, here’s the roughs for week 27 of Mighty Motor-Sapiens for your viewing pleasure!

I’ve been a little quiet this week and last, but that doesn’t mean I’m not drawing. Just the opposite. February is starting out just as busy as January ended.

I’m not one to count my chickens before they hatch, but it seems that the story-board test I did last week was successful and the directors have asked me to board on the show when it starts in April. In the meantime, the studio has asked if I would like to work on another show already in production until the other show starts. So… I’m doing another test this week for THAT show.

I know I’m being a little coy not mentioning show names, but I’m superstitious that way – until the work is on my desk I keep mum!

So, if all goes according to plan, I will be finishing up The Mighty Motor-Sapiens the second last week of February and then starting a storyboard the first week of March, which will give me a full week off from paid work to get my Comic Book Tattoo story (hopefully) inked or at least well on the way to being inked. I’ll be picking away at the pencils over the next two weeks once the animation test is done.

Wahoo Morris will be on hold for most of February I imagine, unless I get farther on the Comic Book Tattoo story than plan. I hope to at the very least spend one full day (during the week “off”) inking the pages I posted over Christmas as pencil only. I’m going to get everything unfinished finished before moving on to new pages, but the plan is to eventually catch up to where I should be in the posting schedule.

It’s going to be a busy Spring!