Arnie Bermudez (the political cartoonist for Fox News Latino) and I pitched to The Tick once. We didn’t land the gig, but we gave it our all and had a blast doin’ the work.
Here’s some evidence that that happened.
Shit to know:
- I’ll physically be at the BOOM! Studios booth (#559) all weekend long. Here’s a press release confirming that: BOOM! Studios announces Phoenix Comicon plans.
See? Totally not making that up. Swing on by and pick up some copies of Freelancers.
- I have my own booth, too. It’s #2222, and it’ll be run by Hannah Nance Partlow, the illustrator/letterer of Smell Ya Later. That’s where you can snag copies of my non-BOOM! work—stuff like The Legend of Oz: The Wicked West #6-#8, the American History Z graphic novel, Zombies Vs. Cheerleaders, Blackest Terror, Thor: Unkillable Thunder Christ, Electric Youth, Girl Scouts in Space, original pages, stickers, buttons, t-shirts, etc.
Feel free to bring anything you pick up here over to BOOM! at #559, and ask me to sign it. I’m super into that. No additional charge, obviously.
Shit to buy:
- Big Dog Ink is going to have a limited edition variant cover of The Legend of Oz: The Wicked West #8 available at Booth #640/642. Art by Mike Debalfo and Nei Ruffino. It’s gorgeous. Pick one up, swing by BOOM! (#559), and I’ll sign it.
- I’ll have copies of American History Z on-hand at #2222, as well as new Blackest Terror stickers by Danny Martin, and “retailer incentive” variant covers of Freelancers and Zombies vs. Cheerleaders.
Shit to do:
- SATURDAY, 6PM-7PM IN ROOM 132. I’m presenting at the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards (no, not my plumage). Everyone who shows up gets a a free, limited edition Adventure Time comic for showin’ up. Vote here: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/05/06/phoenix-comicon-2013-bleeding-cool-fan-awards/
- SATURDAY, 7:30PM-8:30PM. ROOM 124A. Come to the “Esquiville” panel. It’s moderated by Dan Burgos (from Comic book Therapy), and there’s literally going to be…like…one person there besides you. Here’s the description: “Eric Esquivel (Boom Studios’ FREELANCERS) drops some science on what it takes to be a full-time comic book author. The answer includes a lot of ramen noodles, certifiable manic depression, and an unhealthy desire for the approval of strangers.”
- Go meet C.B. Zane at the BDI Booth (#620/642). He’s on pencil duty for The In Crowd #1-#4, and he’s rad as all get out.
i tweeted earlier about a scene in SATELLITE SAM where a torch singer is singing a torch song; of these things, beyond their existence, I know nothing. So I trust Howard, or our editor Tommy The K, to suggest good ones. For the purposes of layout, though, i put in dummy…
GLAM ROCK BATMAN
I’ve mentioned before that the internet could do a lot worse than take a year off of redesigning Batman and his rogues gallery but, at the same time, it’s almost irresistibly compelling. I get it, the entire cast is a mass of grotesque caricatures so simple in their excess that any template works. D&D Batman. Supermarket Batman. All the Batman villains as different ice cream treats. It all works.
Y’know, in a manner of speaking, anyway. I still don’t get how the very popular “Rockabilly Batman” is supposed to function: His murdered parents left him a garage, he’s a grease monkey not a millionaire, I’m pretty sure that’s actually just a different character. You’ve seen the one where it’s Batman and all his villains except they’re all students at the same high school? I’m not grokking that one either - there’s a teenage Two-Face? There’s a 15-year old kid with acid burns over half his body and he his whole thing is being a criminal mastermind instead of having the Make-A-Wish Foundation on speed dial? Does teenage Joker kill whole auditoriums full of fellow students? Oh, Poison Ivy’s a cheerleader. Teen Croc eating hesh kids out behind the dumpsters. America’s high schools could use a refreshing dose of students killing other students. Fun concept.
Anyway, Glam Rock Batman. I won’t lie, I sketched out Glam Rock Robin, Batgirl, Joker and Penguin. We’re all sick, it’s an epidemic.
Holy. Flying. Monkey.
Big Dog Ink commissioned a variant Mike DeBalfo/ Nei Ruffino cover for The Legend of Oz: The Wicked West #8.
I’m gonna die. Look at how beautiful that thing is.
It’s only available at Phoenix Comicon. They WILL sell out. BDI will be at booth 640/642. Get in line now.
“When you want a secret agent, you want an undercover brother who’s dark as night with twice the fight.
You want…Black Ops!”
From BOOM! Studio’s FREELANCERS #4
Patrick Sunnyside doin’ his best Jim Kelly impersonation.
“A comic book colorist in the making! 5 year old Camryn Stewart is responsible for this masterpiece! Watch for this lady as an up and coming artist. Corey Knaebel had these printed up for his Free Comic Book Day signing. It looks like he was doubling as an agent for the Big Dog Ink talent development team, and spreading some FUN along the way! THIS is what comics are all about!” - Big Dog Ink
