The Graphic Novelist Network is growing!!!

almost a year ago I tried to start an online private critique group for people interested in sequential art. Poor little site didn't see much action until last week when Chris Oatley at Chrisoatley.com posted his Classic Monster, Classic Lit Mash up assignment.

head on over to the site to check it out. It was loads of fun to participate.

I extended and invitation for those who participated to join and so far several of them have.

Thanks to:

Denver Wagner of http://denverwagner.com/

Christopher Tupa of http://tupa2008.blogspot.com/

fido & tim at http://www.fidoandtim.com/

Jose Gonzalez of http://jaglab.wordpress.com/

Marty Qatani of http://www.martytoons.com/

Scott Serkland of http://www.serkworks.com/

Stevan Wells of http://basement61.com/

Michael Yates of http://www.michaelyates.daportfolio.com/

Zach Bosteel of http://zachbosteel.com/

Thanks to all of you for Joining the GNN!

I hope you will benefit and enjoy being a part of the group as much as I will!

YOU GUY's ROCK!

Please check out their sites, There work is AWESOME!

Adrift, Illustration Friday 02/13/2010

a little added color
Adrift, without a care, for there is peace... everywhere.

IF Muddy

Making our challenge useful.

Illustration Friday Focused

From a simple sketch at work to a finished illustration. This weeks challenge affords me an excellent opportunity to do just that, FOCUS my efforts to attain my goals.

Ladies and Gentlemen, The New GREW

I've been feverishly working to a polish a new view of my book GREW.

I hope to have a good bit ready to show at Wondercon this April in San Francisco.

Yes... I know, it is quite different than my All ages Graphic Novel OUWANGALAYMAH!

yet both works live in me in tandem. One vie ing for attention from the other.

GREW is now getting the lions share of my time.

Perhaps I may be a bit premature in revealing the new look of a work I started not quite one year ago, but being terribly predisposed to a lack of patience, and quite prone to, as they say, jumping the gun, I can't help myself. so here, for your paroosel, I give you

GREW

More is on the way.

Sneak peak At OUWANGALAYMAH! part 2

2010, Well. What will this year bring. Better yet, What will I bring to this new year.

For sure I will finnish Ouwangalaymah! all four issues and at the end, a compilation of the work for my first completed Graphic Novel for all ages. Here is a sneak peak at Issue #2 which I hope to finnish ASAP.

If 2010 is to be the year for me to break away from the day job at LOWE'S and enable myself to work full time in my creative endeavors, then I need to get busy. Its almost midnight! The new year is upon us! WHAT ARE WE WAITNG FOR! GET DRAWING!

Good night! Did he die or somthin?

Well it has been a while since my last post. Much has happened. And though the worst of it is over, I still have to collect my thoughts. Ever since going totally digital, I've been reveling in the positives of this new medium. New to me that is, and I really haven't given much thought to the downsides. Having come perilously close to losing a years worth of work, the down side has loomed over me as big as an elephants backside. Have I made the right choice in mediums?

It is frightening to realize that all the work and time one has put into a project could so easily and preeminently vaporize. No. Not even that, because a vapor has substance. Total oblivion. Gone. Wooosh!

Think of all that exists on the web. Gone with the simple pulling of a plug.

At any rate we press on. Having chosen a course we must stick to it if we are to ever get anywhere. So, I would like to announce that the first issue of OUWANGALAYMAH! is done!

Submitted to Ka-blam.com for printing, I await the first hard copy. revisions I'm sure will come, but at least I am one step closer to pulling something more permanent out of the either.