Calgary Expo

Hey gang, I've been really busy lately with my latest comic book venture, The Five Stages of Near-Death Lesbian Sex. It's on sale at the Vicious Ambitious table at the Calgary Expo this very weekend! I'll get back to the Royal Tenenbaums next week and after that, maybe Life Aquatic? Maybe Fantasy Mission Force? Stay tuned.

Hail to the King

Hey gang,

My friend Jason Mehmel and I have applied to our friendly neighbourhood government for a grant to produce a Gilgamesh Graphic Novel. The term comic book isn't in the gov't terminology apparently. Here's a promo shot we've sent in with the grant and so we wait and see what happens. In the meantime I'll be working on a more cartoony expressive style, as well as some finalized character studies.

Wish us luck!

-V-

Soonest

Well, it's been far too long since I've updated. Blame my old computer crapping out and Fallout 3. Nobodies Issue 2 starts next month for the Calgary Expo in April.

Vicious Ambitious, the indy comic book label to which I am a part of, started a podcast. You can subscribe to the feed here.

That's all for now.

-V-

Future Sailors

Hey,

Here's a pic of me as the Prisoner, done for a giveaway poster at Coversion last weekend. Next we have a Victorian Age Ghost Rider and a Caleb-inspired head pile. Drink and draw is awesome!

I'll be working on a comic for the rest of the month. Still waiting for the Mad Max trilogy to pop-up on blu-ray. I have an itchin' to draw post-apocalyptic Aussies.

-V-

Ice Flow, Nowhere to Go!

Here's a cornucopia of stuff including a 17 month old fanart of Peaches and Iggy Pop I forgot I did. Ah wells! I also did Olga Gurlukovich from Metal Gear 2 and a quick Takk from my Nobodies. I'm currently scheduled to do one more Nobodies issue for the fall as well as a collaboration for the new Vicious Ambitious Sci-Fi Anthology, Rocket Juice.

-V-

Navras

Saw Bitch Workhorse

Hello gang,

Its been an eventful few weeks. I had the worst stomach flu ever two days ago. Swore I almost died of dehydration, but I seem to be all better now. The convention over the weekend did really well. All in all my new comic, the Nobodies, was well recieved. A few people have already asked about issue two. That's bloody spectacular to hear and that's what keeps me going.

Finally finished those Marvel Cards. All but one were approved my Marvel. I guess they thought my Enchantress looked like a puffy She-ra. No arguements here. Not my best work unfortunately. I really think the lack of time and payoff quickly squashed my passion and effort on this one. I'm glad I did it, and I did have some fun, but I don't think I'll be doing it again. I can't say I really grew as an artist on this one. I felt rushed, kinda like 24 hour comic book day. You draw to get it done, not to become better or try something different. Live and let die.

It'll be a while yet before Issue two. I want to take some time off to draw for myself again, hopefully reach another plateau. You'll see what I'm fiddling with soon enough.

That's all for now.

-V-

Never Wanna Give You Up

Well, here's the inks to my new comic book coming out later this month. Here's hoping the printer can pull my late ass out of the fire. Colors later. Greatly inspired by Will Eisner and the Ryan Sook, the guy who made me remember why Eisner covers kick ass.

-V-

C'Mon Baby Say Bang Bang

Another awesome Drink and Draw last night. Got a quick magician piece done and Kraken from the Umbrella Academy, of which I recently read and loved.

Oh, I also started up a Deviant Art account. Check it out here.

I'll post some more Nobodies stuff in a few days.

-V-

You Want The Candy

Here's another panel from the Nobodies. I have 10 pages done, so I've still got a ways to go. I'm also trying not to ruin too much of the story prematurely on this blog. An no, this girl is not going to become Venom.

Oh, and one more thing. I have to slightly changed the title from 'The Nobodies' to the 'Nobodies.' Why? Well, apparently some guy wrote a kids book called 'The Nobodies' so I'll just drop the 'the' in the title despite my explicit use of 'The' whenever I talk about it.

I'm almost out of blank comic book pages too, so I'll be on the hunt for those this week, seeing as AD comics is fresh out.

-V-

Let Me See You Stripped

Hey fugglers,

Had to share this panel with you guys, cause I'm mighty proud of it. And yes, this is officially the most detail I've put into a desert scene. I might get the cover done up next week, so I can finally get that into the ether.

Also, three of my buddies are online, I present Christopher Bruce Johnston, Caleb Hystad and Brian Yee.

I also got my Marvel Sketchcards in, and I've done up three tonight at Drink and Draw. Can't show 'em yet cause of the NDA. The comic is my biggest priority now, so you'll have to wait until next month to see some cards.

That's all for now.

-V-

Keep Your Dreams, Just Gimme the Money

Hey gang,

Just in case you thought I was slacking, you thought wrong! Dead Wrong!

I'm currently working on an epic 6 issue mini-series with the first issue coming out for the Calgary Expo in April. It's called the Nobodies and it is the biggest comic project I've worked on yet.

Here's two pics from the pages I've already finished, stay tuned for more and maybe even a cover later this month!

-V-

I Want To Be The Girl With The Most Cake

Hey gang,

I'm hard at work on my big comic book project for this years expo. I recently finished up two stories for Gord Cummings' Mercy Seat Presents: Children Are Cruel. I wrote one and Jason Mehmel wrote the other. Not sure on the release date, but it'll be awesome when it comes out.

-V-

Bigmouth Strikes Again

Well, another Drink and Draw tonight. I live for those. Come to them if you can, email me for info. Tonight I finished a Vicious Ambitious Drawing challenge. This is Fan Art of characters made by my VA brethren. Any true VA fan can name these figures off.

On a sidenote, here's some new blogs of my fellow artists you should be checking out - Nick Johnson - Ginger at Large, Johnny Luu - Honorary Thundercat, Steve Gervais - Next in line to be Santa Claus and Dan Andrews - Ex-Circus Strongman.

And although I don't know him personally, James Jean's art kicks my ass everytime I see it.

That's it for now, bitches.

-V-

Taint-Strike!

Hey Droogies,

Small convention this weekend, sold our new books, Mercy Seat 2 and Pumpkin Juice. Here's a sample of the cards I made for it. I liked sketching on small cards, so I'm totally doing this for next years April Convention. Met alot of cool people like Chad, What About Ivan, Gio, and a cute girl with cat ears named Emily.

Plans for the daily blog are coming, I just have to get this Pitch Bible business out of the way at work and I can have my free time back.

Strike Hard! Strike Fast! No Mercy! TAINT STRIKE!!!

-V-

Wheezin' the Juice

Hey gang,

Here's a few panels from a recently finished comic story called 'Bread'

It's for Vicious Ambitious' new horror anthology coming out the end of this month at the Calgary Comic and Toy Expo. The anthology is called Pumpkin Juice. More details later.

Starting next weekish, my attempt to make this a daily sketchblog like my heroes Cory Walker and Nate Bellegarde.


Sucka-sucka-whah!

-V-