Hi Kids!,
Just a few lines to let you in on the latest adventures from "SURFACEWORLD"!
Been workin hard & heavy to get some work prepared for the upcoming MegaCon/2008 event coming here in Orlando this March 7-9th at the Orange County Convention Center.
Was originally not going to attend due to workload and the usual "strapped for ca$h" reasons, but a friend/collaborator infomed me that he had arranged some last minute table space ,so I will be there "in the flesh".
Besides the usual doing convention sketches at a reasonably low price I will also have on hand some preview pages of the maxi series that I have been working on for over the past year; the upcoming sci-fi epic...."SUPER-7", written by Robert Wawrzyniak and inked by Scott Shoemaker.
I will also have available a variety of colored prints including some of my latest works.
Plus ,if time allows I'll also have a special limited edition MegaCon/2008 souvenir poster available for a low low price.
The subject matter for this years poster is writer Steve Gerber("Howard the Duck","Man-Thing","Thundarr the Barbarian"), who tragically lost his long battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis only just recently (February 12th) ,he was 60 years old.
I will also make available some sneek peeks at other projects in the works here at the SURFACE ART STUDIOS, so, if your able, look for me in "Artists Alley" at this years MegaCon/2008 and pay me a visit.
Now on a slightly different note I want to talk about and highly reccomend a graphic novel that I had just purchased at yon bookstore...you may have heard of it..."Pride of Baghdad"(DC/Vertigo).
I have been wanting to check this book out not only because of the positive reviews that it has recieved since its release in September/2007 ,but because the central characters of the story are in fact animals...a small pride of Lions to be exact.
My first creator owned project; "KUDU-MAN" also places animals in pivotal roles and I wanted to get a prime example of how the story was done using them as central characters...I was not dissapointed!
Author Brian K. Vaughan and artist Niko Henrichon have delivered a fantastic and intimate tale of survival in the early days of the Iraqi war as seen through the eyes of these beautiful creatures...the coloring is also done superbly by Henrichon the story in general was inspired by a true incident....so if you get the chance get it, but be warned it is graphic and does contain violent ,shocking moments.
-I highly reccomend it,
till next time Surface dwellers.......
peace,
Shawn Surface
SURFACE ART STUDIOS.
