Alpha Flight #44 cover art: Dave Ross pencils

I noticed something funny about the pencils for this cover just the other day.  The guy in the diaper wasn't drawn by Dave Ross.  That's all John Romita!  Sometimes it takes me a while to notice this stuff.

Old "Aurora" commission

This must have been drawn in the late '80's.  The inking style is a dead giveaway...

Alpha Flight #45 cover art: Brigman pencils & Nowlan inks

This looks like the kind of cover I'd agreed to ink after just the briefest of phone conversations.  A big, hairy monster crawling out of a grave.  Cool... I like the evil grin that June put on his face and the way the colorist made it – and his eyes – blood red.

Alpha Flight #52 cover art

Here's the cover for the very next issue.  This time I was handling pencils, inks and colors, most likely from a sketch by Carl Potts.  We used to call these "poster shots", no specific situation or setting, just a generic shot of the heroes.  I was really relieved when I saw how the colors printed.  I tried to get some modeling into the figures with flat color and white highlights but with the old coloring system we wouldn't actually see the colors until they were printed.

Alpha Flight #51 cover art: Barta pencils & Nowlan inks

This is the first (and last!) time I worked directly with my old buddy Hilary Barta.  I love the way he worked out the shadow patterns, especially on Wendigo.  By the way, Hil and I have differing memories of this piece.  A couple of years ago I commented that I inked it fairly straight and Hilary said, "I think you changed it more than you realize."  

I don't know who did the colors but they really overdid the knockout on the soldier in foreground. And the pink tint on Wendigo is an interesting choice.  Inside the book his shadows are light blue.