..."back to WORK!"

Greetings SURFACEDWELLERS...

After an embarrassing long and unproductive two weeks, I'm kicking myself in the ass and getting onto the drawing table. Tons o' work to catch up on, and that's just the outside work like the piece pictured here.

The little "Mari-Con" I attended here in Orlando went well, better than I expected considering it was a very small first year event, sold a few prints and books ,even did a commission. The people were nice and atmosphere...well let's just say it was "educational".

The only downer part of the weekend was that I had mysteriously injured my big toe, could hardly walk on it, thought at one point that I may have broken it-but found out later that it was only a bad sprain, well it's on the mend now so things are getting back to normal or as normal as things get her at the "house of the Dragon".

Picked up some side work with a company called "SPLASH", they design and build inflatable playgrounds, games etc...I was hired to tweak up some of the look of their products and do some light design work on some others.

Besides the commission work I am also doing some character designs for a local company(one of them pictured above). Also working on a "Captain Canuck" piece for a client.

"KUDU-MAN" is coming along nicely, nearly finished with the pencils and layouts on the first issue-in the process of designing a cover illustration for the debut issue.

Working on some additional cover work for "SUPER-7" ,a science fiction series I worked on a while ago with creator/writer Robert Wawzyniak.

The passing of the legendary Frank Frazetta last month was followed by the death of another one of my early artistic influences and old Frazetta collaborator Al Williamson best known for his work on "Flash Gordon", and the "Star Wars" daily strips ,he was only 79. I never had the chance to meet these gigantic talents but there work nonetheless made a huge impression on me as a young artist and still does to this day...they are unfortunately gone but the masterpieces they left behind continue to impress and inspire new generations of aspiring artists everywhere.

"a GAY ole time!"...

Greetings SURFACEDWELLERS;

Not much to report from the "house of the Dragon" this month except that I will be attending my first convention of 2010. It's a small first year con called the "Mari-Con" and it is right here in Orlando and practically FREE! Two of the main reasons that appealed to me.

The convention is being sponsored by a popular local comic retailer called "a Comic Shop" and by "What's Happening" magazine, for those not in the know, What's Happening is a popular gay entertainment publication, that's right ,I said GAY!

Mari-Con is the first gay community related comic and toy convention that I ever heard of let alone have a table at. A friend of mine informed me of the upcoming convention and told me a little about it so I knew what it was all about before I decided to reserve a table.

It is a small two day convention starting June 4th and 5th and it's being held at the Doubletree Resort/Orlando on International drive...oh and admission is FREE!

It is a first year convention with little promotion so my expectations are not high but it should prove interesting...I'll be available for commission sketches and will also have some limited quality prints of some of my work available along with some issues of some of the books I have worked on. Coming along for the ride, so to speak ,is my friend and colorist Vince Vinson from Scare Tactix Graphix, who has just finished doing the coloring chores on issues #3 and #4 of Ramsey Rusef's "Billy the Monster Hunter" series, he will also be available for book signings.

So if you're in the Orlando area this coming weekend by all means stop in at the Mari-Con and say "Hey"doors open at 12 noon....I'll give all who care a post con report after the event till then take care and Peace. ;)