You can be sure there will be a brighter tomorrow - Shaggy

Hello fellows,

This week's comic theme / challenge focuses on moving.

Forward to be precise.

There are a ton of Flash comics out there that may depict a perfect cover for this challenge, but among the myriad of comics, I challenge you to find others that capture this week's theme just as easily. I hope you've all been able to hang in there and because people have made the request I'll be posting images from projects and my drawings here between comic challenges for eye candy.


This week I'm posting some cowboy sketch I did and a page from my upcoming book Clipstick.

Enjoy!

Hope In a Nutshell

Here's my comic for depicting this week's challenge for "Hope".
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After Superman leaves due to humanity's inability to enact justice on Magog, (who becomes acquitted for his murder), this story teeters on the reliance of old friends to coerce Superman to shed his solitude and return to establish peace to chaos. Having been cited as the DC version of the Apocalypse, hope is the perfect voice for these character's needs to realign their ethical boundaries despite a world having two major factions warring with each other.

This is a fairly quick read and should belong on the wall for Alex Ross's gouache technique that is a "Marvel" to behold.

Enjoy!

Escapism is cure for common Economy

I'm getting tired of hearing how bad the economy is getting while also being made feel powerless over the fact. In reality, there is some level of control that exists, and that I do have choices to make. Sometimes those choices can be anticipated, or planned for, but when you have to make the difficult choices, there rarely is any given time.

What it comes down to is priorities. What do you value most? Stability? Insurance? Family? Self-sufficiency? Respect? or maybe just a non-questionable future, of limitless work, in a dream job you can master.

Me too.

So we need to break down how to get there. Whether we do it one day at a time in a spreadsheet, or set distant goals that seem like months away, there will be more opportunities to set these well laid out plans in motion for the rest of your life. I like living for the dream, but my big question is how can I afford to fund for that life style until it comes true?

Segue: This ties into this week's comic cover challenge. Find a cover that is based on hope. No frills or odd gimmicks. Just a straight up depiction of "hope".

Tough concept, but while looking, you may find some yourself.

Enjoy!

Thanksgiving to now?!?

Hey all,

I realize it's been a while since I've written but I have a good excuse. Well, none that really encompasses 4 months worth of a delay, but with the economic crunch and times being tight you gotta be light on your feet and move when you feel the earth shift.

Since the last post I've left a job of two years to another job that will keep me employed for longer than that. My own business. Obama became president, the stock market proved to people it wasn't an international piggy bank, and kidney stones STILL leave a mark. (Some should leave stretch marks at least as war wounds.) All in all, life is on the up and up.

The weather is heating up. . . (You can wear shorts again. Trust me I've tried and succeeded), and there is a silver lining to today's grim terrace. This brings me to my next point. Comic cover is back on and is about to post it's first actual link to a site with pazzaz! This and a few other features in a list of things to come. So in the meantime, sit back and enjoy this great cover which is featured in a motion picture to be released this Friday. My week's pic is this great cover by Dave Gibbons.

This issue is pretty dark considering the subject matter as a whole. This issue is the revealing backstory of the comedian's rape story and the breakdown of Laurie's mother with his antics. From attending Blake's funeral and the oppositional forces that drove the team to it's knees, I felt the cemetary cover where Blake is laid to rest carried a tremendous impact for it's metaphorical illustration.

Here's the cover to Watchmen: 2 of 12

Enjoy!

OH WHERE, OH WHERE

has that Ian guy gone? Oh where, oh where could he be?

Slackin dude, slackin.

Gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving all!

It's been 2 weeks and this blog has been quiet during this nasty economy while we all shuffle our priorities in order to make responsible decisions. Some require sacrifices that hurt, while other sacrifices are forced upon us. These times are so low that the state in which we feel is compounded and compromised by disillusion, smoke and mirrors, and shuffled information that makes mature decisions more difficult to make now more than ever.

I want to make sure that you all, whatever your situations may be, are able to take comfort with family, friends, and the like that these issues may melt away for the holiday.

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, and would like to ask for your help; to help those less fortunate than ourselves this season.

For this week's comic submission I propose a cover that features a hero getting a leg up. Hero helping hero, villain helping villain, or mix 'em up!

Enjoy!

Happy Halloween All!

Hello Everyone!

Happy Halloween to you and yours! I wanted to debut the preliminary cover to issue 2 of Clipstick by posting on this day. The cover seemed to fit the mood.

Have a great one and Enjoy!


Ian