WW2 pages for DCC anthology

Before vacation starts up next week I'm working on getting the art done on a short for Dr. Dremo's Horrors of War.

My local comic collective puts out the occasional group project and currently we're working on a series of theme based anthologies. The first …

Tools in your toolbox

My brain has been in about 1000 places at once this month, so the blog got sorely neglected. It always seems to be the first thing to go when times get hectic. Not hectic in a bad way, mind you. Hectic in a "finish a lot of things before my vacation so that …

Card Cheat pencils, kicking off!

Reposted from my Flickr page: Lettering at pencils ensures that I've left enough space for dialogue, allows the writer (Marc in this case) to make any tweaks that he thinks it's needs, and let's me starting making design choices.

Marc and I are rethinking …

Shop finally relaunched

The Shop is finally re-worked in to the rest of maljones.com, with up to date stock on shirts and links to all my prints at InPrnt.

I found a random batch of shirts I had forgotten about, so I have a few sizes back in stock. They're still just ten dollars, so …

Friday Design Face: Doo bee doo bee dooooo

Sushi for sale at Inprnt

Alrighty! Time to get back in the blogging saddle. It's funny how much the holidays threw me off from the Internets.

I finished Chris' print and sent it along with some of the original art and a mini comic. I got permission to sell some prints at InPrnt …

Cross page panels, why? (or answering Graham’s question from Twitter)

Recently on Twitter:

Me: "wondering what's with the trend of drawing panels across two pages, so that the readability goes bonkers."

Graham: "@skeletonjones example?"

What I was talking about was a recent trend I'm noticing where artists are stretching …

Aught 9

Happy New Year everyone. 08 was a little rough around the edges, so let's make 09 a little more grand shall we?

Gid’s Grandparents, The Preacher, and Conrad Leech

The last of the pre-pitch character designs. This group are the last of the major characters so far. There are more characters to design in future issues (Anna's Dad, some thugs, etc) but they'll be done for the issue they appear in.

Gid's Mom's Dad and his …

Sushi #8: Cucumber Roll

Mary and Gabe

Gid's sister and brother, Mary and Gabe. The response from Marc: "Nice!"

Spending a few days of the holidays at my parents' means lots of drawing. Sitting on the floor right now are the last four character designs, ready to be cleaned up and sent to Marc …

Sushi #7: California Roll

Sans Roe. Get that orange mush off of my sushi.

Come to us, we need you

That is the subject of a piece of spam I just got from myself in my inbox. Is my future self trying to tell me something? Like I need a rolex?

Sushi #6: Octopus

Sushi #5: Crab stick

Friday Design Face: Blah

Gid’s Mom

Characters that are left: Gid's grandparents, his sister, his brother, the Preacher, and Conrad Leach.

Sushi #4: Toro

Sushi #3: Unagi

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Today it was announced that NPR will be laying off a big chunk of it's work force. Besides this being another announcement in a long line of layoff announcements, my day job is Senior Designer …