SDCC 2009 Map

[Eddy]

It's that crazy time of year again, with Comic-Con just around the corner, anything can happen! For starters, we're a little more spread out this year, but this handy map should help find us all:

DD-12 Sandra Hope
DD-13 Richard Friend
DD-14 Carlos D’Anda
DD-15 Eduardo Nuñez
DD-16 Oliver Nome
DD-17 Michael Lopez
DD-18 Juvaun “JJ” Kirby
DD-19 Alex Sinclair
DD-20 Scott Williams
DD-03 Livio Ramondelli
KK-17 Joel Gomez
4601 Jim Lee (Naked Fat Rave)

Other WildStorm notables include our resident Art Director Ed Roeder at LL-05 and colorist Gabe Eltaeb at HH-11, so please stop by to see us all!

While most of us will be in Artist's Alley again this year, Jim will be sitting with the "Naked Fat Rave" group of artists in booth #4601. NFR includes such talents as Arthur Adams, J. Scott Campbell, Joyce Chin, Amanda Conner, David Finch, Phil Noto, Bruce Timm and Matt Wagner.

Hope to see you all there!

-Eddy

Celeritas & 100 Bullets

[Eddy]

Jim Lee just illustrated a new piece for his buddy, Joe Hahn of "Linkin Park," to benefit the "Riders for Health" charity. The custom-decorated motorcycle helmet will be on display at Joe's store, SURU in LA from July 12th from 12:00-8:00pm through August 16th as part of the "Celeritas" exhibition.

Tomorrow night, Jim will be attending the private reception held at the store where they'll be auctioning off his heavenly/devilish helmet, including others by James Jean, Alex Pardee, Barry McGee and more. And for the artheads out there, the art has been sealed with a spray fixative to keep it all together.

Since that's not open to the public, you can still catch Jim at the "100 Bullets: Last Shot" party thrown by Meltdown Comics earlier in the day, to help celebrate the release of the final 100 Bullets tpb, "Wilt," in-stores now. He'll be joining Brian Azzarello and Rev. Dave Johnson as they bid a fond farewell to Vertigo's modern day crime classic.

Say goodbye to Graves, Dizzy and my favorite, Lono in style with the creators and all kinds of store exclusives too. VIP or Standing-Room-Only tickets are sure to sell-out before the event, so order yours now!

The Artist is 'In'

[Eddy]

This month's issue of San Diego Family Magazine has an article on Jeannie Schulz, wife of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, and one of our very own inkers, Sandra Hope. The complete article begins on page 46 and a brief bio of her start in comics is on page 48, including what makes her "smile to no end."

Sandra will also be in Artist's Alley this year, with her inking tools ready to ink or even sign a few comics.

Megatron

[Joel]

...or, sucks to be you.One of my favorite scenes from the O.G. Transformers movie.

JOEL

Red Monika

[Lopez]

For anyone not familiar with Battle Chasers, this is the curvacious Red Monika. I think she was a bounty hunter in the series from WildStorm? Anyhow, I'm not totally familiar with the series, but she seems to be pretty well known.

In the trade, there was a shot of her riding a sorta shark/stingray creature that I thought was too cool! This angle in not the most flattering for the "strata ray" shark thing, but as far as Monika was concerned the angle worked just fine.

I wanted the the camera angle to feel like you were the lucky dog riding beside our fearless heroine.

Anyhow, hope this works. See ya in San Diego!!

Lee Bermejo Blog

(entry Rich)

I just wanted to give a little heads up that our good friend Lee Bermejo started up a blog...If you know Lee's work, you are already rushing over there to check out all the goodies..

so 'nuff said; check it out!

Link

Red Nuñez 2

[Nuñez]

Hello everyone, it's been awhile since I posted anything since I've been trying to get out of a funk :) Anyhoo here's a pre-done piece of Red Monika I did over the weekend. I did a piece of her at last year's Comic Con, so I thought I'd give her another shot for this year's con.

Doing grey tone pieces is still a challenge for me because I am still learning the different values to push and pull the thing you want the viewer's eye to focus on.

Hope ya'll digz.

Yes, another Death...

[Oliver]

Hey ya'lls, how's it goin? I'm just gonna keep this short and sweet. Here's another 'Death' I did for fun, simple and graphic is what I've been leaning towards in a lot of my pieces in the past months for two main reasons:

1. cause I like the way it looks, especially in a nice frame and...

2. cause I don't have a lot of spare time to just draw for fun and it helps speed things up.

Hope you like ;)

Droning On

[Joel]

Hey guys, just wanted to take the chance to remind everyone to check out the Gears of War Sourcebook, which came out this Wednesday. Featuring awesome artwork by some of comics greats including Philip Tan, Brian Ching, and Ben Oliver- oh, and yours truly!

So if you happen to swing by your favorite comic book shop this weekend, check for it.

JOEL

Saving Private Rogers

[Livio]

I just did this piece for fun as Captain America is not a character I've attempted very often. It's a bizarre coincidence that the one time I try drawing him is during a week where there is all sorts of big Cap news in comics.

In terms of the color version, I wanted to very much keep the desaturated palette used ( and probably overused to some extent) in a lot of recent war movies. My challenge was in trying to make sure Cap's signature reds and blues didn't contrast too sharply from the world around him.

With the initial drawing, I wanted to give it a bit of a feel like those old World War II photos that have very stark black shadows in the foreground contrasted by very smokey/white backgrounds.

Studiomate JJ Kirby was invaluable in helping me with Cap's pose and shield. Thanks, J!

See you next time!

-Livio