Edgar & Ellen

These characters appear in a cartoon of the same name on NickToons. Last year I was invited to do a pin-up for their first graphic novel collection. I believe the book came out earlier this year, and at any rate it seems the company who hired me has gone out of business, so I'm assuming it's ok to post this... Anyone know who to contact to get my comp copy?

Beatles Top 20

I blame you JM, for getting me started on this one!

In light of the newly re-mixed Beatles box sets, here are my Top 20 Favorite Beatles songs (at the moment). I had to really force myself to limit the Lennon songs to 15 so I could include a few Harrison and McCartney classics. I’m leaving out such Lennon gems as “I’m So Tired”, “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, “Julia”, “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”, and the great “Hey Bulldog!” which was shamefully hidden away on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. While I love McCartney’s Beatles contributions – his songs are so conventional next to Lennon’s that, for me, it is Lennon all the way. (For those of you not obsessive about this stuff – though all their songs are credited as Lennon/McCartney, with a few exceptions, only the very early songs were written together. Generally, if John is singing he wrote it…if Paul’s singing he wrote it.)

20. Here Comes The Sun
19. Taxman
18. Something
17. Eleanor Rigby
16. Blackbird
15. Sexy Sadie
14. Dear Prudence
13. I’m Only Sleeping
12. In My Life
11. A Day In The Life
10. Help!
9. Don’t Let Me Down
8. Girl
7. Rain
6. Tomorrow Never Knows
5. Norwegian Wood
4. And Your Bird Can Sing
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
1. I Am The Walrus

dead on the vine...

Occasionally a cool job will come through that for one reason or another never makes it all the way. A few months ago the fine people of Division 13/T.A.Z. contacted me about doing a poster for the Star Trek movie, which I was pretty thrilled about. I did my comps and then we waited for studio response... and waited... and waited... As far as I know this version wasn't submitted, but this was my favorite of the comps. I don't consider this quite finished but I was given the go-ahead to show it, so here you go.

HOLMES on iPhone

So a (slightly censored) version of HOLMES is now available at the iTunes store. It's available as the full graphic novel and as individual issues. The issue one download is free - and if you're offended by that first issue you won't like the rest! Here's the main page where HOLMES can be found on iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=295120007

Now if you like HOLMES please do me a favor and post a User Rating. I'm used to the love it or hate it reviews with this book, but now people's complaints about the iPhone reader are dragging my scores down...

Limited number of signed FLASH GORDON HC & HOLMES TPB

I have about a dozen each of the FLASH GORDON 75th Anniversary Hardcover Anthology (ARDDEN) and the HOLMES trade paperback (AiT/Planet Lar) available. I am selling signed copies of the Flash book for $20 and Holmes for $15, shipping included within the U.S. Please order here.

WonderCon, Feb. 27th - Mar. 1st

I will be appearing this weekend at WonderCon in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. I’ll be sharing table space with my old friend writer/artist Ted Naifeh at table number AA098. I will have the usual assortment of my comics and graphic novels as well as exclusive copies of the hardcover edition of the Flash Gordon 75th Anniversary anthology, to which I contributed. This is not yet available in stores. I will also be selling original art. So if you’re in the Bay Area try to come by and say hello!

Flash Gordon preview, part 4

Here's another page from my piece in the 75th Anniversary Flash Gordon Anthology. I will have a limited number of the hardcover edition (unavailable in stores!) at next weekend's WonderCon in San Francisco.

Flash Gordon and related characters copyright 2009 King Features