end of August...ALREADY?

DAMN!, How time flies!

September is fastly approaching (September 3 is my birthday "hint,hint") and boy did it sneek up on me, been busy working my ass off at both jobs and snoozing when I can on the down time, that's not when I'm not on WoW("World of Warcraft"). Yes it's official, I have become yet another brainwashed Warcraft "zombie", well not totally brainwashed...I'm on the 10 day free trial thing to test it out.

It's ok for another avenue of escapism, when I'm not watching films or doing the art but I do not see myself getting addicted to it like so many others I've heard of, granted I do not have much of a personal life, but I do like to get out and hug the trees and hear the birds sing every once in a while ;)

Art update; Just finished the pencils and inks on a cover of the sci-fi maxi series "Super-7" for creator Robert Wawrzyniak (art pictured above), it will be colored by artist Scott Shoemaker. Just finished a couple of commissions for some clients plus a company logo and title design for a local business.

My work on "KUDU-MAN!" is going slow at the moment due to other jobs, so a Fall release will be out of the question at this point, so I am now concentrating on premeiring the book at next years MegaCon here in Orlando, that and some promo spots and book signings will hopefully be a good start for me and my first creator owned project...I'll keep all you "SURFACEDWELLERS" updated on all new developments pertaining to this and all other projects coming from the "house of the Dragon".

It's that time of year again...yep football season has started, the little crazed fan inside me has just two words for ya..."GO STEELERS!!!!!!"

-till next time sports fans, peace ;)

A case of the "Summertime Blues"...and Gout!

Greetings SURFACEDWELLERS,

Time for yet another action packed, fun filled, highly anticipated installment of, yes, you guessed it! "SURFACEWORLD"(please hold applause). I wanted to open this stunning little chapter with the Sun, that huge life giving orb of constantly burning gasses and inexhaustable energy...oh, and the BANE OF MY EXISTENCE!!!!

Now I'm aware that the millions of "SURFACEDWELLERS" out there are from all over this great globe of ours with all sorts of temperate scenarios but here in the "House of the Dragon" it's one hot place to be and no ,I'm not referring to it's popularity...it is ,in a word; B R U T A L!

We have been suffering from some irrepressable heat as of late here in sunny Orlando and I for one am sick of it! I have always been a cold weather guy and believe me had I the resources I would be living comfortably with my many fans in Canada, but till the great day of that planned migration I will have to suffer the slings and arrows of our ever increasing climate temperature.

No such thing as "Global Warming"....MY ASS!

To make matters even more unbearable I seem to be the recently proud father of a rather annoying (and painful) bout of Gout which makes walking somewhat of an adventure...Gout is an inflamation of the joints, a form of Arthritis, my Gout is attacking my big toe on my right foot at the moment and I'm treating it as best as I can save cutting my toe off with a rusty saw.

Well enough of my "bitchjing", what's new on the art front? Not much at the moment, I've been inking a new variant cover for the limited sci-fi series "SUPER-7" that I worked on with creator Robert Wawrziniak and artist Scott Shoemaker. Bob is planning on having "flip covers adorn each issue of the 12 part series, meanwhile he is also busy putting in the final dialogue balloons and wording in the issues...so hopefully come next Spring the first issue of this long awaited series will see the light.

I am continuing my work on my "KUDU-MAN" series, it's slow going but thats expected when one has a day job and stuff to deal with like say...the unbearable heat and gout!!!

I also recently entered a contest celebrating the 35th anniversary of "Captain Canuck" which ends in mid August, there are some prizes and cash rewards so I thought I would give it a shot see what happens.

For the moment that is about it, I have some others news that I will divulge next time around (don't want to give you guys too much info-tends to make the brain hurt ;)

Till next time kids, take care stay cool and watch that diet cause the GOUT is out to getcha!!!!

-peace ;)

..."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.