The Purple Perpetrator: Bad Guy!

Some panels from the All-New Megaton Man #3, a work in progress. I have been coloring selected panels from the first three issues for a pitch to a print publisher we'll be making this summer. (See other posts on this blog to piece together the storyline!)

Live From the Al Franken Decade...It's Megaton Man!

Here is my two-page intro, scripted by Al Franken, for the ibooks collection of Megaton Man issued in 2005, collecting Megaton Man #1-5 from 1984-5, the heart of the Al Franken Decade! (Never before seen on the internet, because few people bought the reprint, let alone would bother to scan this talky strip!!) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers, who hooked me up with Al to illustrate Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, kindly contributed a panel reliving that shameful moment!

The Human Meltdown Lives!

This is the digitally recolored cover I did from Megaton Man #2 (February 1985) for the 2005 ibooks collection of Megaton Man #1-5, the imprint of the late Byron Preiss. Unfortunately the reproduction quality of most of the rest of the book was not what I expected, but I am happy withthe covers and a few other pages I colored or recolored. (Ten and thirty years ago already! Yikes!)

Chuck Roast, The Human Meltdown, and Felicia, seen on the right and left in the blue uniforms, figure prominently in the new storyline I am crafting for the All-New Megaton Man #3. Below is a penciled panel (their daughter plays with Simon, son of Megaton Man, and Chuck is greeted by old teammates Yarn Man and Stella Starlight).

See the entire sequence here.

Not Megaton Man, Just Friends: Trent's New Roommate in Color!

Connie Carlyle, Megaton Man's new roommate, is introduced in what I'm currently calling The All-New Megaton Man #3. My plan is to have several issues in the can, to be released either singly or as a graphic novel (to be determined) in 2016 or 2017. Below are some colored selections; to read the entire sequence in line art, click here. More previews of the work in progress than you can shake a stick at throughout this blog!

Too Many Ms. Megaton Mans Times Too!

Concept sketch for a scene taking place in the Doom Defiers warehouse as Ms. Megaton Man confronts the new mascot of the Megaton Mice, who has adopted the same red, yellow and blue leotards as everybody else! (Projected for issue #6 of the new series -- I have the art nearly complete on the first three issues, much of which can be glimpsed elsewhere on this blog, #4-6 scripted, and #5-6 and beyond mostly plotted. ETA 2016 or 2017, depending on the alignment of the stars and other marketing forces! Stay tuned.)

Woo! Toting a Damaged Q-Mobile

Update: Scroll all the way to the bottom to see the flat-colored cover complete with logo.

Here's a portion of the cover I'm working on for the All-New Megaton Man #1 (a tale in the works for quite some time now), from a thumbnail sketch I made this past December:

Some of the tracing paper overlays used to develop the main figure group next to the original sketchbook page, and the final inked version (top center).

Here's the original thumbnail sketch, no bigger than 3 inches tall. Scanning and blowing up such scribbles allows me to preserve the original energy of the original inspiration while elaborating the concept into finished art.

Here's the final flat-colored cover art with logo. I will probably add some airbrushed highlights and gradations but this should give you a good idea of the basic composition.

The Statue of Liberty background in inked version on Clearprint Design Vellum, and the rough marker refinement on canary yellow tracing paper. Note the pronounced white out!

Half old school and half new-fangled, my process combines the best of both worlds (or centuries)! These separate elements are colored and combined in Photoshop.

Next: We parse the syntax of "Megatropolis" vs. "The Megatropolis"!

No Fly Zone on Me! A Memorial Day Memento

A newly colored panel from the work in progress Megaton Man: Return to Megatropolis, and the original sketchbook page from c. 2002. (I finish what I start! It may take awhile, but...)