Dr. Strange #4 cover art

Thumbnails, layout, pencils, inks, final color sans logo, mock-up with original logo placement and final cover with trade dress, etc. Looks like Doc and the other magicians are toasting the New Year so a slightly belated Happy 2016 to all of you! Hope it's a good one!

Batman vs Bat-Bane Variant Cover art

First, I struggled with the layout, trying to find an angle that would show both characters clearly...

Wrightson's Solomon Grundy pencils, page 22

In case some of us have forgotten, this page shows how skillfully Bernie arranges areas of black and white.  He mastered "chiaroscuro" before most of us could spell the word. It's all there in the pencils, which makes an inker's job a lot easier.

As discussed elsewhere, this story was written, pencilled and inked in 1997, but remained unpublished until 2010, in "Batman's Hidden Treasures".

Monsters and a Dame

This is a specialty piece for the Emerald City Comicon, which we'll be attending March 30 thru April 1. 14 x 17", pen, brush and ink on Bristol.

Black Widow redux

A while back I was asked to do an updated version of a Marvel Fanfare piece from the '80's. The commissioner asked for the classic costume and hair. I was able to fix some of the things that bothered me in the original, like the spider and the pose. I also tweaked the lighting a bit. As with most pieces, I started with a sketch...

Batman, Batgirl and Robin

Step by step, from layout to final inks:

Hellboy and a cow: inks

I thought about adding a saddle but that just seemed wrong somehow.

Jack B. Quick inks

Sorry the posting has been so light lately. I'm still hoping to pick up the pace soon but I honestly thought this blog would have completely run out of steam two years ago so I'm not complaining.

In the mean time, here's the inked version of the pencilled piece I posted earlier.

The Inferior Five

I've drawn them a handful of times but they never come out looking quite the same.

Batman pin-up: Inks over David Finch pencils

This one was inked over a blueline copy of the pencils:

Batgirl pin-up

Preliminary pencils, marker sketch, pencils and inks:

Dr. Strange pin-up, pencils and inks

17 x 14"...

WildC.A.T.S / Aliens page 28

From 1998. Pencils by the amazing Chris Sprouse.

Batman: Sword of Azrael TPB cover art

From 1993. Pencils by Joe Quesada. Sorry for the poor quality of the pencil scan.