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Baltimore Comic-Con was great! Thanks to everyone who stopped by. It’s exactly what I want from a comic convention: comic fans who bring their families and enjoy talking about, looking at and buying cool books and art. Also lots and lots of sketching. I thought I’d share a few of my favorites, as well as a few from San Diego that were originally just posted through my twitter account.

Also, sorry for the bad quality on some of these. Most were shot with a camera and without the assistance of my lovely and spectacular photographer wife.

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Here’s a pinup I just finished up for my friend Rod Hannah‘s new book out next month. It’s of the main character, a permanent 12-year-old superhero named Sovena Red. She’s fighting a big giant, generic robot because in my mind, that what permanent 12-year-old superheroes do.

The book is called Once Upon a Super Hero and the first issue debuts at NYCC. After that you’ll be able to get it online and stuff. Which I recommend doing. I’ve already read the first preview issue and it was good. Really good. Can’t wait to read more!

My good friend, and one of the funniest people on earth, Torry Martin, started a new column on Clash Entertainment a few weeks ago. I drew this slightly less cartoonized version of him for the site.

A new article goes up every Wednesday. I kinda dig this one where he talks about his awesome office decorating skillz.

Since I’ve been seeing a lot of artists trying their hand at Wonder Woman’s new costume, I thought I’d give it a shot as well.

I tried to give as much homage to Jim Lee’s design as I could, and I still had to simplify things to avoid frustration. For the record, I’m actually cool with the general idea of it. Giving her pants, the smaller tiara, the way the gold trims that red top. It’s just about 85% too much. The choker, those crazy gloves and weird foot thingies seem unnecessary. And the jacket feels like it was only added as a way to incorporate blue into the outfit. Still, this design will work better on film, which I’m sure is the point- especially for a much younger Diana which no doubt will be cast.

Check out some of the other cool interpretations published on Project: Rooftop today!

This was a fun assignment. I was asked by Clash Entertainment, a fantastic new Christian site dedicated to teens and tweens, to draw a bunch of illustrations to go along with a series of online articles giving modest fashion tips for young teenage girls. There were thirteen articles in all which meant thirteen girls (and one guy). Those of you following me on twitter or facebook got a chance to see them as they posted weekly on Clash, but here they are sans text for the first time. But make sure to go HERE to see them all with the articles they were attached to. Some really good tips (if you’re a teenage girl)!

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A very nice fan out of Holland commissioned me to draw a gargoyle for a possible tattoo. She wasn’t too specific other than wanting the gargoyle to be cute and have a couple of kitties in it. Like she had to pull my leg to get me to add cats to a drawing. ;)

I made one of those process animations of this piece too which you can view HERE if you want.

ALSO- for those of you residing in the northeastern region of this grand ol’ U S of A, I will be at the Pittsburgh Comicon this weekend, April 23-25. I’ll be in the Small Press section, booth S086 (right across from the concessions). So if you are planning on being there, make sure to stop by and say hi!

Late last year, I was invited to draw a pin-up for a book spotlighting Jetta: a “Judy Jenson” type space-teen created in the 1950′s by the awesome Dan DeCarlo (artist on Betty & Veronica, Josie, Sabrina and many others).

I thought it’d be fun to draw the usual girl pin-up you might have seen in magazines at the time (you know, the ones of girls just sittin’ on cars because girls and cars are cool), but have Jetta sitting on one of the many fun futurey cars DiCalrlo created within the comic. I thought it came out alright.

Click here for the full INCREDIBLE listing of pin-up artists.

It’s Batwoman week over at Project: Rooftop (due to news of the unfortunate cancellation of the series of the same name). And because I’m a sucker when it comes to drawing red-headed bat girls, here is my quick contribution:

I always loved Batwoman’s hair, but it bothered me that it was a wig. How can you jump around rooftops wearing a wig? Her mask covers 80% of her face. Is it really necessarily? Regardless, her costume is super cool. Red and black is a great combination.

Last Thursday, the newly reformed Project Rooftop debuted a new section of their superhero design site: all-ages interpretations of  classic superhero characters. Awesome! The new category kicked off with my interpretation of Wanda Maximoff (aka: The Scarlet Witch) & friends.

Crazy, accident-prone Jon Morris came to me with the idea and then pretty much gave me free reign to do whatever I wanted. And boy, am I SO glad he suggested a giant red witches hat. :)

Read more about all-ages Wanda HERE. And if you have a cool concept, make sure to submit it!

Chris Houghton is an incredibly gifted artist. And along with his brother Shane, they put out an equally incredible comic called Reed Gunther. It’s a fun western series about a hero who rides a bear and continually gets involved in adventures he’d probably rather not be involved in. Anyhoo, Chris asked if I’d draw a pin-up for the third issue, which I was more than happy to do.

My pin-up features a character from the first issue which the Houghton brothers are currently putting up for free at ReedGunther.com. And issue 3 is ON SALE NOW! If I were you, I’d lasso up that issue before it sells out. You won’t be disappointed.

I posted this little sketch of Supergirl on the twitter yesterday and found some time last night to give it some color:

Also, don’t forget that Cleo starts up on Monday! Spread the word!