Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Hunt is Still On
Gabe continues to crank out his globe-spanning epic tale of bounty hunting on this fine Monday:
The Hunter II page 9
Busy days so not much babble today.
Here's the semi-daily sketch (I'm trying to keep up!):
The Hunter II page 9
Busy days so not much babble today.
Here's the semi-daily sketch (I'm trying to keep up!):
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Sketchblog - Deadly
Yikes! I forgot to do the sketchblog yesterday! I'll make up for it with an extra-special edition of Sketchblog featuring fan-art for Foz's fabulous Deadly! (It's really too bad Deadly doesn't start with an "F"....)
Deadly just wrapped the first 60 screen season over on Zuda. It's a gorgeous package of virtuoso linework, color and writing brought to you by one-man-band James Fosdike.
Read Deadly now!
Deadly just wrapped the first 60 screen season over on Zuda. It's a gorgeous package of virtuoso linework, color and writing brought to you by one-man-band James Fosdike.
Read Deadly now!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Hunter (Not) Thompson
Monday again and my wit is (not) sharp!
Gabe still slaves away on his magnum opus:
Hunter II page 8
Not much to report otherwise. Kind of slow on the pop-culture front at the moment. Watching the latest season of Breaking Bad. Still awesome. Seems the Sopranos has really ushered in a whole new wave of shows where it's perfectly acceptable that the main character is an unsympathetic prick. All my favorite shows are about assholes these days - Breaking Bad, Big Love, Mad Men. I am a fan of this trend. I do miss the real John Locke though. He wasn't really an asshole. Just a lovable nut. I hope some sort of triumphant return is in the cards. Whereas in the case of Walter White, I am now eager to see him get his righteous comeuppance.
Otherwise, not a whole lot to report this week. There's movement on a range of projects, which pleases me. A lot of cool comic stuff in the works that all seems to be turning out quite nicely. Nothing quite ready to be shared with the unwashed masses as of yet though. Fear not though, I will keep you posted, dear blog follower.
For now, here's the daily sketch:
Tally ho!
Gabe still slaves away on his magnum opus:
Hunter II page 8
Not much to report otherwise. Kind of slow on the pop-culture front at the moment. Watching the latest season of Breaking Bad. Still awesome. Seems the Sopranos has really ushered in a whole new wave of shows where it's perfectly acceptable that the main character is an unsympathetic prick. All my favorite shows are about assholes these days - Breaking Bad, Big Love, Mad Men. I am a fan of this trend. I do miss the real John Locke though. He wasn't really an asshole. Just a lovable nut. I hope some sort of triumphant return is in the cards. Whereas in the case of Walter White, I am now eager to see him get his righteous comeuppance.
Otherwise, not a whole lot to report this week. There's movement on a range of projects, which pleases me. A lot of cool comic stuff in the works that all seems to be turning out quite nicely. Nothing quite ready to be shared with the unwashed masses as of yet though. Fear not though, I will keep you posted, dear blog follower.
For now, here's the daily sketch:
Tally ho!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Hunter up!
And Monday rolls around again. I can barely keep up.
Here's the latest from Gabe and The Hunter:
The Hunter page 7
Spilled a beer on my computer this weekend and fucked it all up, so that left plenty of time to catch up on the ol' book readin'!
I stumbled across some random internet recommendations for a book called Swan Song by Robert McCammon a while back.
Word had it that this was a post-apocalyptic epic in the spirit of The Stand, only much, much better. Well, The Stand being my favorite book of all-time, I was intrigued. Swan Song, it appears, is out of print, so I tracked down a beat-up used copy off one of those Amazon marketplace links and ordered it on up. 8 bucks. Figgered it must be worth it for a book even better than The Stand! So I brought this book with me to enjoy on the plane ride southbound and got a little over a hundred pages into it. Turns out this book isn't just in the spirit of The Stand - it's a big honking rip-off of The Stand. As eagerly adapted by an "author" writing at about the level of a high school sophomore. Starts off with a big world-ending event - nuclear war instead of a plague this time. Then a Dark Man shows up looking for recruits for the dark side. A small band of survivors comes together in New York and has to escape through the Holland tunnel. One of them has strange dreams of a cornfield. Also there's a nerdy teenage boy named Roland who is driven to the dark side and a young girl with special powers. Anyway, I don't know what happens 'cause I gave up reading. It was just too badly written to even keep my curiosity engaged enough to see just how bad and unoriginal it could get. Swan Song is garbage. No wonder it's out of print. Guh! The internet lies!
Finally got a chance to read Already Dead, the first book in Charlie Huston's vampire private eye series.
It is as great as Swan Song is lousy. Huston's got a very cool and gritty modern take on the vampire story. In this world, vampirism is caused by a virus. I swallowed the pseudo-science hook, line and sinker. The book is short, brutal and darkly comic. If you like crime novels and vampires, you will love this book. I read it in one day. I will now gobble up the rest in short order.
Yesterday, I read Born Standing Up, Steve Martin's autobio about his years as a standup comic.
I found it extremely interesting and well-written and I drove my wife nuts by howling with laughter and rolling around on the couch holding my stomach, just reading some of the descriptions of his standup jokes. I think Steve Martin is funny as shit. I even like his Pink Panther movies. Not the Disney family comedies though. I have my pride. Anyway, great book.
Here's the daily sketch. On the blog. The sketchblog.
Whoomp! There it is!
Here's the latest from Gabe and The Hunter:
The Hunter page 7
Spilled a beer on my computer this weekend and fucked it all up, so that left plenty of time to catch up on the ol' book readin'!
I stumbled across some random internet recommendations for a book called Swan Song by Robert McCammon a while back.
Word had it that this was a post-apocalyptic epic in the spirit of The Stand, only much, much better. Well, The Stand being my favorite book of all-time, I was intrigued. Swan Song, it appears, is out of print, so I tracked down a beat-up used copy off one of those Amazon marketplace links and ordered it on up. 8 bucks. Figgered it must be worth it for a book even better than The Stand! So I brought this book with me to enjoy on the plane ride southbound and got a little over a hundred pages into it. Turns out this book isn't just in the spirit of The Stand - it's a big honking rip-off of The Stand. As eagerly adapted by an "author" writing at about the level of a high school sophomore. Starts off with a big world-ending event - nuclear war instead of a plague this time. Then a Dark Man shows up looking for recruits for the dark side. A small band of survivors comes together in New York and has to escape through the Holland tunnel. One of them has strange dreams of a cornfield. Also there's a nerdy teenage boy named Roland who is driven to the dark side and a young girl with special powers. Anyway, I don't know what happens 'cause I gave up reading. It was just too badly written to even keep my curiosity engaged enough to see just how bad and unoriginal it could get. Swan Song is garbage. No wonder it's out of print. Guh! The internet lies!
Finally got a chance to read Already Dead, the first book in Charlie Huston's vampire private eye series.
It is as great as Swan Song is lousy. Huston's got a very cool and gritty modern take on the vampire story. In this world, vampirism is caused by a virus. I swallowed the pseudo-science hook, line and sinker. The book is short, brutal and darkly comic. If you like crime novels and vampires, you will love this book. I read it in one day. I will now gobble up the rest in short order.
Yesterday, I read Born Standing Up, Steve Martin's autobio about his years as a standup comic.
I found it extremely interesting and well-written and I drove my wife nuts by howling with laughter and rolling around on the couch holding my stomach, just reading some of the descriptions of his standup jokes. I think Steve Martin is funny as shit. I even like his Pink Panther movies. Not the Disney family comedies though. I have my pride. Anyway, great book.
Here's the daily sketch. On the blog. The sketchblog.
Whoomp! There it is!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Sketchblog
Out drinking with folks from the office that was last night. A good time was had by all. Fairly impaired this morning. Here's the daily sketchblog. Now I will lie down.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Sketchblog Redux
Okay, let's try this again.
So I'm now safely ensconced in my brand spanking new home office, kicking off my exciting new career as a freelance designer/illustrator. And what better way to start each day than with a little sketchiness to get the creative synapses to popping. So I'm gonna see if I can't manage to post at least one quick sketch a day from here on in.
We'll see how long it lasts.
Away we go!
So I'm now safely ensconced in my brand spanking new home office, kicking off my exciting new career as a freelance designer/illustrator. And what better way to start each day than with a little sketchiness to get the creative synapses to popping. So I'm gonna see if I can't manage to post at least one quick sketch a day from here on in.
We'll see how long it lasts.
Away we go!
What's Going On
Hey ho! It's not Monday. It's not even Tuesday. No, it's Wednesday, my friends and I've been a slackadaisacal blogger again. Been kicking it in Constantinople that was, battling hordes of Turks wielding shoeshine brushes and kebab menus. An extremely friendly gang eager to scam you out of your last lire. Ah, Istanbul. Really cool city. Nothing like wandering through 1500 year old mosques and Sultan's Harems full of history that would put your average Grimm fairytale to shame. The food ain't bad either.
Untrue Tales has been rolling along uninterrupted though. Here's the latest:
The Hunter II page 6
I've got quite a few other things cooking with a whole gaggle of talented peeps. Some of those souffles are starting to rise, so why not a sneak peek of some of the stuff in the works?
Kung Fu Monkeyface
Art by Gabe Ostley, Sam Little and Steve Steiner
Nixon II
Written by Gabe Ostley and Sam Little
Art by Mackenzie Schubert
The Rift
Art by Tony Rollinson
Hardcore
Art by Spencer Platt and Sam Little
And finally, that secret project I've been hinting at oh-so- coyly the past few weeks? This is it.
The Last Goddamn Vampire Story
Story and art by Sam Little
Yeah, I'm jumping on the bloodsucker bandwagon. I didn't really mean to, but I got to doodling some toothy terror one day and, man, vampires are just so dang fun to draw I couldn't stop. Hopefully it's enough of a new twist on the old trope to stand on its own. We'll just have to see, won't we?
So that's what's in the works. It's a huge thrill to work with all these cool and talented artists and I can't wait to roll these babies off the showroom floor.
That's it for now.
Happy April!
Untrue Tales has been rolling along uninterrupted though. Here's the latest:
The Hunter II page 6
I've got quite a few other things cooking with a whole gaggle of talented peeps. Some of those souffles are starting to rise, so why not a sneak peek of some of the stuff in the works?
Kung Fu Monkeyface
Art by Gabe Ostley, Sam Little and Steve Steiner
Nixon II
Written by Gabe Ostley and Sam Little
Art by Mackenzie Schubert
The Rift
Art by Tony Rollinson
Hardcore
Art by Spencer Platt and Sam Little
And finally, that secret project I've been hinting at oh-so- coyly the past few weeks? This is it.
The Last Goddamn Vampire Story
Story and art by Sam Little
Yeah, I'm jumping on the bloodsucker bandwagon. I didn't really mean to, but I got to doodling some toothy terror one day and, man, vampires are just so dang fun to draw I couldn't stop. Hopefully it's enough of a new twist on the old trope to stand on its own. We'll just have to see, won't we?
So that's what's in the works. It's a huge thrill to work with all these cool and talented artists and I can't wait to roll these babies off the showroom floor.
That's it for now.
Happy April!
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