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SHAMELESS PLUG: Jet-Pack Jenny and the Factor of 01

Thursday, March 28th, 2013

It’s finally off to the printer, and physical copies will be sent out towards the end of April, along with their respective incentive rewards, which I’m finishing up now.

The book is something I’m very pleased with an Introduction by my fellow Sketch Charlotte member, Eraklis Petmezas, the entire Factor of 01 story in a beautiful 8″ x 7 1/4″ format, anotations of every page giving some of the backstory behind the process of telling the story and creating the art, and 5 pages of Guest Art by friends, Eraklis, Brandon Padgett, Joel Carroll, Henry Eudy, Collette Ardith, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Since it’s in the works at the printer, I’m offering it for pre-order for those of you that want to get the book as soon as it’s available. Pre-orders will get a free digital copy in PDF format on a CD-ROM with a special sketch on the CD sleeve! (Kickstarter contributors will also get this special bonus!)

Here’s some previews of the book so you can see how it looks.

$10.00 + $3.50 shipping!
If you’re outside the US and want to order a book, just let me know!


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AlphaBabes: Brenda Starr

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

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AlphaBabes Launches!

Friday, March 15th, 2013

A is for Aurora

In the tradition of AlphaBots, AlphaBooks, AlphaBeasts and Animal Alphabet, I decided I wanted to do something to get myself to draw, but I wanted to pick something that I wanted to draw, so I combined my interest in drawing women and a love for comics to do AlphaBabes.



Everyone is welcome to submit anytime that they want to, but I’m starting this week with A, which is first represented by Aurora of Alpha Flight. There’ll be another drawing for A because my love for drawing comic book women is large enough for two a week sometimes.

I’m trying to do all of these with grey brushpens so like this one, they’ll all be shaded, just to make them a little more interesting.

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Coming Soon: AlphaBabes

Monday, February 18th, 2013


I’ll repost this when it comes to launch, but right after Factor of 01 goes to the printer, I’ll start sharing a series of illustrations called AlphaBabes. Yes it’s inspired by AlphaBeast/Books/Bots, etc. but I like drawing women, so I’m doing a series of drawings from women in comics. I’m making a Tumblr account just for it, so submissions will be welcome.

Here is one I did for it, assuming that River Song had appeared in a Doctor Who comic, but it doesn’t look like she has. Looks like I might need to do another R.

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CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF WEATHER

Thursday, January 17th, 2013

Due to expected inclement weather (in this case snow and ice) towards the early evening, there will be no official Sketch Charlotte meeting on January 17.

We’ll see you next week!

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The Mermaid & The Manatee

Sunday, October 28th, 2012

I did this drawing for Henry Eudy’s birthday, and now that I’ve given it to him, I can share it. I really like how it came out, although I wish I were better at drawing manatees.

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Jet-Pack Jenny & The Factor of 01

Monday, June 18th, 2012

This one actually started out as practice, but ended up coming out really nicely. For those of you that have only read Factor of 01, The guy in the background is known as Skid-Mark, and is a leftover from the creation of Jet-Pack Jenny. He showed up in a four page story drawn by Andrew Franks, back over ten years ago, when we were both in college. He also had a cameo in Flight of the Virginia Dare, but I’ve never been able to do much with him.

I’ve got three more of these in the process right now. There’s one finished that you haven’t seen, just because it won’t scan very well, so I’m coming along with these very nicely. After I finish the ones in the process, I’m going to be working on the cover image for the collected Factor of 01. There’s still time to get in on getting an original drawing, original art from Factor of 01, just go over to Kickstarter and pledge to contribute to getting the book published. I’ve already made the goal, so any more pledged adds to the quality, page count, and/or print run for the book. I’m not keeping any of the contributions for myself, because that would just be wrong.

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Your Help is Requested.

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Please excuse the reposting of this from my web site, but I’d really like to see this book get printed.

The Kickstarter project to get Jet-Pack Jenny and the Factor of 01 printed has been launched! Go here to contribute at a level that gets you some nice incentives!

It took me five years to finish the story, but I’m very happy with it, and I feel like it’s actually worth asking people to contribute to see it happen. I just need $400 contributed in order to meet my printing goals, but if more is contributed, I’ll be able to print more copies. No money will go to waste.I will be printing these in July and shipping out as soon as I receive them from the printer.

So what will the printed collection contain? It will be 40 pages, containing all of the strips printed three to a page, with the book measuring  8″ x 7 1/4″, making every strip so much easier to read than if I tried to print this as a mini-comic and do two to a page. It also frees up lots of room for guest artwork, annotations giving you a behind the scenes peek at the making of the comic and sketches from the making of the comic.

Just in case you need more prompting to donate and make this book a reality, here are the donation incentives:

  • Donate $10 or more and get a copy of the book with a free head sketch of the lead character, Jet-Pack Jenny. This head sketch will be inserted on a separate 5″ x 8″ card.
  • Donate $25 or more and get a copy of the book and a free full body sketch w/background of Jet-Pack Jenny on 8 1/2″ x 11″ Bristol.
  • Donate $50 or more and get the $25 reward and a piece of original art from the story. All original art is in strip format. I don’t think I need to say that you’ll get your choice of which strip, provided it’s available. Two are no longer available.
  • Donate $100 or more and you get the $50 reward plus an original drawing of Jet-Pack Jenny done to your requested subject matter, hand colored, drawn on 11″ x 17″ Bristol. In case you’re counting that’ll be two drawings and a piece of original art!

Your help in getting this published would be greatly appreciated, and hoping to have to draw a lot to show how much I appreciate it.

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Teaser

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Here’s a teaser of my contribution to this year’s Sketch Charlotte Anthology! I started off not very enthused about my story, I felt better and better as more and more of it got done.

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Perspective is a Harsh Mistress

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

The advantage to re-drawing about half of the Factor of 01 to be consistent in print format means I get to completely rework things I have not been entirely happy with. Originally the first panel, while it worked, wasn’t entirely what I wanted. This is closer, and while I don’t think I’ve got the handle on 3 point perspective that it demands, I think it’s good enough to serve the purpose.

I also won’t be replacing this on the web site until the next strip is redrawn. I’ve completely changed the beat of the action. That’s the worst part of the original artwork. I really do not like staging fight scenes in my comics, so I do it badly. In the first Jet-Pack Jenny comic, there’s actually two strips that were all black as a cop-out, albeit done on a dare. That second panel is also the second part of my lesson in how harsh a mistress perspective can be. Never ever say you can fix perspective in Photoshop, it will still not look 100% right.

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