Eight days after it launched, the DIE KITTY DIE Kickstarter campaign became fully funded! My friend and partner, Dan Parent and I are overjoyed and incredibly grateful at the outpouring of pledges and support from all quarters. It’s really been amazing and very humbling. Chief among our biggest supporters has been the great Adam Alamo,
Here is my cover to the special “secret project” I’ve been working on with my friend and Archie Comics colleague Dan Parent. The title is “DIE KITTY DIE.” Beautiful witch, Kitty Ravencraft, is a real live comic book character who appears in her own comic book series. When her greedy ruthless publishers want to spike
This caricature of Jackie Gleason in his signature role of RALPH KRAMDEN was done for Washington Press. Washington Press commissioned me to draw a number of caricatures of famous characters from 1950’s television in order to tie into a series of stamps being put out by the USPS honoring the Golden Age of Television.
I drew this caricature of John Calvin which was used as the cover illustration for THE PRESBYTERIAN HANDBOOK. I also did a few of the interior illustrations. The book was published by Geneva Press. As I remember it, the book had a satirical tongue-in-cheek tone similar to the Worst Case Scenario series which was popular
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This very eerie headshot of the Iron Ghost was also intended for the sketchbook I never finished. Colors here are also by Anwar Hanano.
My colorist, the talented Anwar Hanano, plays with the color palette on my Iron Ghost head shot.
Here is another sketch of the Iron Ghost from my anthology EPICS. This sketch like the other one I just posted was intended for a never-completed sketch book I was putting together. Hopefully, the Ghost and the sketchbook will be revitalized very soon! The dazzling colors, textures, and that great background design with the cogs
The Iron Ghost, pictured here, is the title character of a story I wrote and drew for EPICS, an anthology I published in 2012 along with four friends and colleagues from the Kubert School. We each wrote and drew our own six page story. Later, we did a second issue with completely new stories unrelated
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