RIP Joe Kubert

Who we lost. What he left us. His art says it better than i ever could...

a smoke before the fire

From Channel Evil #4.

The Dwellers

FIEND!

Creeper

Some finished panels. Channel Evil #4.

Creature Feature

Inks from Channel Evil #4

Ernest Borgnine RIP

I'll miss his tough mug.

can't rest...

Shane draws Wolverine. Really. No kidding.

Ask any artist or writer and he'll tell you that for every comic/every story that made it, there's a dozen that didn't.

Many cases it's just as well, other cases it's a damned shame. Some ideas were too good to stay filed away, or they could've made your career assault course easier to navigate. 

Sometimes life gets in the way and you bugger up, but mostly it's editors with bad memories and split personalities, writers that go AWOL, and missed boats of golden opportunity.

The forgotten. Lost. Ignored. Abandoned. The still born...

These are the things that almost happened.

Wolverine!

As a youth i loved John Byrne's run on X-men, particularly his handling of Logan, but other than Frank 'Mad Dog' Miller doing that samurai/ninja-jammed mini-series, I've never cared for the character since. 

But, during a particularly depressing looong year of unemployment (2004?) i tried anything and everything to get some work.

Blagging myself on a comic con guest list and dinner table with Joe 'Corleone' Quesada and various Marvel editors, i drunkenly bonded with Axel 'Pressbutton' Alonso. He dug my stuff - especially the more exaggerated/stylized take - and asked me to do new samples featuring a Marvel character.

That i did - SNIKT!

Axel approved. 

He considered a two-issue Spider-Man and Mysterio story by Alan Grant - written specifically with me in in mind. All set in a derelict haunted house, with lots of skulls, laughing specters, and phantom bats.

It was considered a little more. Then 'put on file'.

And...well, it almost happened...

The Bat

Various

From Channel Evil #3. 

Got lost in this half page splash. 

Could draw old churches and graveyards all day, every day, week after week, until they dragged me away to a rubber room and a cold straitjacket.

And that wouldn't stop me. I have feet.

Buttercup

Rob Bott

The Howler

The Baron

Buncha sketches

Brush, pen, pantone markers, Tipp-Ex, charcoal, and Anna's Original Ginger Thins. 

For those who just can't help themselves and HAVE to see The Avengers movie, why not give Jack a buck? 

One dollar ( 62p) to show you actually give a damn. 

Little to ask for a man who helped make your childhood a better place to be.
http://abuckforjack.com/

Last of the Split Lip

My cover to Sam Costello's final book collection of the best online horror comics you'll find.

Sad to see it end, but Sam if far from over with the genre.

Click to purchase your copy of  Split Lip; Last Caress and Other Stories. 

Worth every cent/penny.


Split Lip has been published online since 2006 and in print since 2009. In that time, it has featured 37 original horror comics, totaling over 550 pages. All stories were created and written by Costello and have featured work from artists including Sami Makkonen (Deadworld: Slaughterhouse), T.J. Kirsch (She Died in Terrebonne), John Bivens (Comic Book Tattoo), Kyle Strahm (We Will Destroy You), Christine Larsen (LaMorte Sisters), Felipe Sobreiro (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode), and many others. 

Split Lip has received critical acclaim, including: "Split Lip is the best horror anthology on the Internet” -Comics Should Be Good; "The only (webcomic) to ever give me the chills was Split Lip" -Webcomic Overlook; "The webcomics answer to anthology series like The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery" -io9; " “Split Lip is the predominant original horror comic work on the internet" -The Horror Blog.

The Barbarian

listening to jimmy smith

Cover art for Channel Evil #3

Available for download in just under a fortnight, keep you posted.

another fanboy itch...another batman.

heads

Steady Ed