I am booked and mostly packed and am heading to Toronto tomorrow morning to set up at Fan Expo Canada 2018.

I will be in Artist Alley, booth  A367, in the South building of the Metro Toronto Convention Center.

I’m hoping to arrive in Toronto and the Metro Toronto Convention Center by 1 PM so I can be set up by the time they let in the early bird ticket holders at 2PM. It’s a good five hour drive with a food break and good traffic, so it’ll be tight!

I’ll be bringing plenty of copies of Wahoo Morris Books 1 & 2 and my art book Beauties & Beasts. I’ll also have a few odds and ends like the Caliber Comics collection of Dracula, the Sleeping Dragons TPB, some original art, and I have one copy of Comic Book Tattoo left that I would love someone to take off my hands. It is heavy and I do not want to carry it home again! 🙂

And I will be doing a l limited number of sketches as well, so make sure to get on the list early if you want one!

Hope to see you there!

My supplies all packed. The guitar is staying home! 🙂

And… here are the finished inks to the last story in my upcoming Anthology “The Turning & Other Stories”, collecting my short stories from Mythography and The Forbidden Book among a few unpublished stories from the same era.

The Ottawa Comic Con was a few weeks ago now. Here’s the drawings I did specifically to bring to the show as well as the ones done at the show!

It’s been years since I’ve done a commission at a show (the not doing shows for a good 9 years is probably the biggest culprit) and I was a little terrified drawing to order. But I think they all came out nicely.

I’ve posted these elsewhere but thought it would be nice to have them all in one place!

I started this “Story” a ridiculously long time ago.

It was initially started for Mythography #3 as a 3 page story/vignette.  Editor Michael Cohen had a 3 page opening, but after penciling and partially inking 2 pages I soon realized the “story” wasn’t going to fit in the allotted 3 pages so I scrapped it and sent in 3 pin-ups instead.

A couple years later I pulled out the 2 unfinished pages and light tabled them to new paper so I could start fresh but again dropped it when I realized I didn’t have the layouts for the original third page.

During my hunt for old short stories and pin-ups I ran across the story again and thought it would be fun to finally finish it, given that I’m putting together a collection of my short stories from those years. I also found the layout/rough pencils to the original third page this time around.

So, I imported the story into Clip Studio, cut the layouts to page 3 up to expand it to 4 pages to get the story to fit, and started re-pencilling everything digitally.

I’m probably going to tighten up a few details before starting to ink, but this is usually as far as I go with pencils.

I’ll post the final inks once they are done!

I’ve never put together a dedicated inking portfolio.

Given that I started my comic career as an inker, and the majority of my work-for-hire comic book work has been as an inker, that might seem odd.

The truth is I never really pursued inking work. It was just offered to me when I showed my portfolio of fully inked art.

I’ve done my share of test and tryout pages at an editors request, but I’ve never attempted inking other artists work as an exercise or as portfolio pieces with the purpose of showing to land inking work.

I’ve been toying with changing that.

I got my hands on some scans of Nick Derington’s Doom Patrol pencils, and I must say, these pages were a lot of fun to work on.

Once I finished these up I started inking some Teen Titans pages by José Luis García-López that I found on the internet a while back. But, I lost steam as I realized I had pressing work on my own projects that needed doing.

I might return to those pages when I have some more downtime and see if I can’t put together a proper inking portfolio someday. In the meantime, this is a gallery of a few of the new samples, and a few pages of my published inking work.