Parent's moving again

So since I was 1985 my parents have moved either from one city to another, or one house to another every 2 years. I don't think they've lived in one state for more than 5 years since then. By my estimation (I'm not even sure at this point, they've moved so much) they've moved 18 times in 6 states.

A year an a half ago, they found their "dream home". We're not moving ever again, they made signs, took pictures, all that stuff, of their "last move". Well, needless to say, my nomadic parents are at it again, they are moving to Richmond VA (they lived there in 2000).

So what the heck does this have to do with anything you ask? I come to this blog for comic related info/topics you say. Well, I was in my parents basement this weekend looking through all their stuff. I came across a bunch of pictures, and stuff. In the pictures was a couple framed picts. One of the frames had this picture (see right) in it. I had cut it out, matted it, and framed it. I remember it sitting on top of my dresser at the foot of my bed where I used to draw and read comics.

I used to draw on the backs of Pizza Hut paper, some sort of Pizza offering on one side and blank on the other. All my horrible drawings were done on this paper, I had tons of it, my parents were both managers of Pizza Hut, so they brought it in by the milk crate load (before I knew the "propper" way to store comics, I kept them in the emptied milk crates).

I remember a lot about that summer, the summer of 1987. That was the year I found the X-men, and really fell in love with comic books.

Back to what I started this about. I had cut out and framed that Mutant Registration Act picture. I'd cut it out of a comic, most likely one of my x-men comics. I remember being so excited about comics that I'd often cut out pin-ups, or trace figures from "The Official Guide the Marvel Universe." to making my own Avengers Membership card!

That's right, I was a member of the Avengers! Actually, my good friend Gavin McGraw and I both were convenced we were mutants. So we made Avengers Cards based on our own code names. It's so funny to think about that kind of stuff. How We got so caught up in everything, and treated it almost as if it were real. But I guess when you live in a depressed area of Arkansas, and you've only got one friend, you start to make stuff up to entertain yourself.

That was a long time ago, and when I saw that framed picture in my parent's basement, for a brief instant I was back in my 12 year old body looking at that mutant registration act pict, thinking, "God I hope they don't make me register."

Johnny / Dragon Cover!

Hey people, just wanted to share w/ you the Johnny / Dragon cover! Here it is in it's half colored state. I'm still lookin' for a colorist, but for now I'm doing everything (and we all know that that just makes this process a little slower) but in the end it'll all be worth it! Anyway, hope you guys like this half finished cover as much as I do! Once I get Matt to put in the Trade Dress and get it fully colored I'll post it again!

Ol' Saint Nick

Pretty Much absent from Civil War, Nick's always been one of my faves'.
I'd love to see a comic writen by Ed Brubaker... art by... mmmm... that's a tough one. I love Hannibal King's take on Nick... he does awesome people in leather!

Been a while

It's been a long long time ( a month ) been busy, mostly w/ Day Work stuff, wanted to be deeper into the Dragon Johnny comic, but had to work on my vac on day stuff (don't worry, my job takes good care of me, and I was compensated) Anyway, I should have the cover for Johnny/Dragon fully penciled by the end of the day today. I'll post it when I get it scanned it... I hate scanning.

Anyway, not much to say, Christmas was good for me and my family, (I got a sweet widescreen HDTV, and an X-box 360, not that I have any time to play) Anyway, here's something I did for a daily sketchoff I'm doing against Animation Super Monkey AJ "Hyperjack" Jothikumar we're both out of our minds... now this isn't about how awesome the sketch is (cause it's not) it's all about making sure I get one sketch done a day.... and that being said, I also started a sketchbook New Years Eve... that I'm doing a sketch a day in... my friend Mark Fioravante is helping me by supplying the characters... so I told him, you pick any character, and I have to draw it... Anyway, it's tough to scan from that book... so I'm going to wait.