Sunday, October 12, 2014

Email to The Earth Mother: Stella's Momentous Decision!

Updated 10/22/2014: Inks now posted.

These are pencils for a short sequence I created to insert into the new Megaton Man storyline I am working on. In it, Stella Starlight, once the air-headed ingenue The See-Thru Girl but now as The Earth Mother the default leader of the Megatropolis Quartet, receives an unexpected query from Megaton Man's former sidekick X-Ray Boy who is now default leader of The Devengers, to merge the two teams to form The Doom Defiers!

Yes, I realize I am posting all this stuff out of order (in part because it is not coming off my drawing board in proper sequence), but hopefully it will all be straightened out when published eventually as a graphic novel -- or approximately the third issue if we're thinking in twentieth-century terms, which I confess I still do.

Hunt #102 Crowquill and Rapidograph and India ink on Clearprint Design Vellum.

Blue and graphite pencil rough on bond layout, October 12, 2014.

Hunt #102 Crowquill and Rapidograph and India ink on Clearprint Design Vellum.

Blue and graphite pencil rough on bond layout, October 12, 2014.

(Here's a fun activity: click around this blog and try to read all these fragments in the right order! Collect 'em all!)

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Two Times Two: Megaton Man and Ms. Megaton Man Limited Edition Prints!

Here are the preliminary designs of the two 9.5" x 13" limited edition prints that will be offered for sale at the opening of Megaton Man: Rebirth@Half-Life this coming Saturday, October 11, 1 to 5 pm, at the Frank L. Melaga Art Museum in Brownsville PA (about an hour south of Pittsburgh). I will remarque upon them (a fancy word of drawing in the blank spaces so as to personalize them -- and probably ruin their value!) during the opening. The prints feature Megaton Man and Ms. Megaton Man (metaphors for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in my Megaverse continuity, respectively), and I will also be previewing the Megaton Man: Return to Megatropolis graphic novel, forthcoming in 2015! This is addition to sketches, original art, and other fascinating objets d'art from Megaton Man's (and my) 30-year career. Hope to see you there!