Monday, July 15, 2019

BERSERKER UNBOUND! San Diego Comicon and My Workspace.


SAN DIEGO COMICON SCHEDULE
 Thursday, 7/18
11:30a.m. – 12:30p.m.: SIGNING – DC/WB Booth 4545
1:00p.m. - 2:00pm.  PANEL: Image Comics: Bone-Chilling Insight into the Bestselling Horror Comic Book Series, Room: 23ABC
3-4 pm: SIGNING- Simon and Shuster booth

Friday 7/19
11:00a.m. - 12:00: PANEL: Dark Horse. The Writer’s Room: From Outlining to the Finished Page, Room: 23ABC
3:00pm - 3:50pm: Signing: Dark Horse Comics Booth #2615

Saturday, 7/20
10:00a.m. – 11:00a.m.: DC Black Label PANEL – Rm 6DE
11:00a.m. - 12:00p.m: Panel Dark Horse: Creating Worlds: Building a Comics Universe for the Ages, Room: 23ABC  
3:00pm - 3:50pm: SIGNING: Location: Dark Horse Comics Booth #2615
4pm: Signing: Image booth at 4pm Saturday, July 20

Sunday, 7/21
10:00a.m. – 11:00a.m.: SIGNING – DC/WB Booth 4545

BERSERKER UNBOUND! FINAL ORDER TODAY!

So, today is the final day that you can pre-order a copy of my new book with Mike Deodato, BERSERKER UNBOUND, from your local comic book store. I know that you are probably sick of comic professionals begging you to pre-order their books, but the truth is, it really helps to support these creator-owned books,  especially in a marketplace that is so crowded.

So, if you can please let your local shop know you want a copy! The DIAMOND ORDER CODES ARE:
Regular Cover: JUN190273
Mignola Variant: JUN190274

And here is a bunch of stunning art by Mike Deodato and Frank Martin. I was lucky to first work with these gentlemen on Thanos at Marvel, and love that we have branched off to create our own work here. Mike is an incredibly generous and dedicated collaborator. And a cover by MIKE MIGNOLA!! How cool is that?!


SENTIENT

Some of you may have heard that I am also doing a new sci-fi book with the amazing Gabriel Walta (Vision). Gabriel sent this pic of some of the watercolored pages in progress, which I thought you would enjoy...

Gabriel and I are already working on our next collaboration as well!

Sentient is being published by new comic book company TKO. They have some great stuff coming out and a really unique distribution model. You can order Sentient and check out their other books here...

WELCOME TO MY STUDIO...

Thought I would share some photos of my workspace. I've been in this studio for about seven years. It's in an old warehouse building in Toronto's east end, that used to be a shoe factory long ago. I've drawn Roughneck, Royal City, AD: After Death, Trillium, Secret Path, Underwater Welder and about 1/2 of Sweet Tooth here. I have also created  Descender, Black Hammer, Gideon Falls, Plutona and pretty much everything else I've ever written for DC or Marvel here. Though, truth be told, I do a lot of my writing at home. This space is used about 70% of the time for whatever I am drawing at the moment, and, as you can see, to house all my books and artwork.

Here is my drawing desk. I have been drawing at a standing desk since working on Roughneck in 2014. I like the movement it gives me, and I get less tired after a long day of drawing. I do all my artwork traditionally and only use a Cintiq to scan and format my pages when they are done, and to do minor digital tweaks and corrections.

 When I do scan my pages, this is where I tweak and format them. Another standing desk. I draw standing up and write sitting down. Don't know what that says about me?

Some of the original comic art that fills my walls and fills me with constant inspiration. There are too many pieces to credit all the artists here, but I pretty much have at least one piece by all of my favourite artists at this point. Of note here is the original cover art for both Animal Man #1 by Travel Foreman and Descender #1 by Dusting Nguyen. Also a great Michael Cho Adam Strange commission.

More art! And more Michael Cho. Also Joe Kubert, Jae Lee, Paolo Rivera, John J. Muth, Mignola (I really should frame that), and my most coveted piece, a Perez/Ordway Crisis page! A bunch of my sketchbooks lined up there too.

Okay, back to work...The all important white board schedule. I keep track of all the projects that I am writing here. Splitting the months into weeks, I try to work on one project per week to stay on schedule and keep fresh ( I had to blur some stuff that I cannot talk about yet).

Taking one thing at a time, one week at a time, helps to keep me from feeling overwhelmed. As the Giant says to Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks season 2..."A path is made by laying one stone at a time."


Some of my totems of power! Dolls of my characters made by my talented wife, Lesley-Anne Green.


 This was made custom for me by my father. The bottom drawers pull out and hold all my floppies. The top three drawers hold my original artwork. My growing collection of David Lynch and Twin Peaks art is featured here as well. That portrait of Lynch as Eraserhead was done for me by my current Question collaborator, Bill Seinkewicz.

Okay..that's it from me for a month or so. I'm off to SDCC and then vacation with my family. Be good, read more comics and also order BERSERKER UNBOUND!

Thursday, July 11, 2019

JOKER, THE QUESTION and THE FUTURE OF BLACK HAMMER!

BLACK HAMMER: ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS

As announced today in my interview with The Comics Beat, Black Hammer: Age of Doom will come to its conclusion with next months Issue #12. That will be the end of the "farm story" that Dean And I have been telling since Black Hammer #1 in 2016.  But that will not be the end of Black Hammer...

Black Hammer: Age of Doom#12 is the ending I always intended for these heroes, and this story, and I am incredibly grateful to all the retailers and readers who have supported Black Hammer and allowed Dean Ormston, Dave Stewart, Todd Klein, and I to tell the story we wanted to tell on our own terms, exactly how we wanted to tell it.
 
But, as I said, this is not the end of Black Hammer. It's simply the end of what we consider “Phase One" of the Black Hammer Universe.
 
In the coming months we will announce a number of new Black Hammer comics. This will be the start of "Phase II" of the BHU, and the new books will feature both familiar characters we’ve come to love, and also brand new heroes.

And I am also excited to announce that, as the flagship book of "Phase II"  Dean Ormston and I will be creating a new core series featuring Lucy Weber as the all new Black Hammer for 2020.

So keep an eye out for lots of new Black Hammer announcements in the comings weeks and months.


TWO NEW DC BLACK LABEL BOOKS!

Also announced today, the two projects I have been working on for DC's Black Label imprint; THE JOKER: KILLER SMILE with my Gideon Falls, Green Arrow and Old Man Logan collaborator, Andrea Sorrentino and THE QUESTION: THE DEATHS OF VIC SAGE with the art team from the Question's acclaimed run in the 80's and 90's Denys Cowans and Bill Seinkewicz!

Covers below!




Regarding THE JOKER: KILLER SMILE, I want to assure fans of Gideon Falls that this project will not effect the Gideon Falls schedule at all. Andrea and I are both so far ahead of GF that we were able to take a few months to work on the Joker book without affecting our schedule. So, there will be a double dose of Andrea and I when Joker and Gideon are both published this fall.

And, with THE QUESTION, all I can really say is that this is a labour of love. It's truly my DC Comics dream project. Denys Cowan and Dennis O'Neil's run on The Question in the late 80's and early 90's was hugely influential on my, and specifically on how I approached my own run on Green Arrow. Getting the chance to team with two legends like Denys and Bill Seinkewicz has been surreal and incredible and we have been putting our hearts into this one!


SAN DIEGO COMICON SCHEDULE

Comicon is fast approaching and in case you missed it on my blog or previous newsletters, here is my signing and panel schedule:

 Thursday, 7/18

11:30a.m. – 12:30p.m.: SIGNING – DC/WB Booth 4545

1:00p.m. - 2:00pm.  PANEL: Image Comics: Bone-Chilling Insight into the Bestselling Horror Comic Book Series, Room: 23ABC

3-4 pm: SIGNING- Simon and Shuster booth

Friday 7/19

11:00a.m. - 12:00: PANEL: Dark Horse. The Writer’s Room: From Outlining to the Finished Page, Room: 23ABC

3:00pm - 3:50pm: Signing: Dark Horse Comics Booth #2615

Saturday, 7/20

10:00a.m. – 11:00a.m.: DC Black Label PANEL – Rm 6DE

11:00a.m. - 12:00p.m: Panel Dark Horse: Creating Worlds: Building a Comics Universe for the Ages, Room: 23ABC  

3:00pm - 3:50pm: SIGNING: Location: Dark Horse Comics Booth #2615

4pm: Signing: Image booth at 4pm Saturday, July 20

Sunday, 7/21

10:00a.m. – 11:00a.m.: SIGNING – DC/WB Booth 4545

*I will also be at BALTIMORE COMICON on September.