Recently I’ve fallen down the Youtube rabbit hole of “How To” art videos encouraging me to put pen to paper and start sketching anything and everything. So I decided rather…
There’s at least three things a superhero needs to succeed in the comic book business: a cool costume, an interesting power set and a catchy name. Here we meet a…
It’s Independence Day, and by golly if there’s one thing superheroes love more than justice, it’s the good old US of A. Take for instance the modestly named Captain Courageous,…
I had some time to kill, so I experimented a bit more with alcohol-based markers for this Superman image. It was going to be a caricature, then it ended up…
Continuing our review of unusual comic book adventurers, the spotlight now falls on Kangaroo Man, not that he deserves it since he’s not the real star of the strip that…
Well, this is a bummer, posting two obituaries in a row. Last week we lost comics artist George Perez, and while I can’t claim he had the same earth-shaking impact…
When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be a comic book artist. I suppose that wasn’t so unusual an aspiration for a youngster, but I was…
Our continuing review of peculiar superhero-types now takes us back several centuries to the era of tall ships and piracy on the high seas. Daring buccaneer “Black Douglas” is an…
I got a new set of alcohol-based markers for my birthday and figured I’d test them out. I’m sure my choice of subject will come as a complete shock. This…
I recently unearthed this image in some corner of the internet and fell in love with it. I have no idea where it’s from, where it was taken or who’s…
