My favorite new pen

My favorite new pen, originally uploaded by willceau.

It's a Faber-Castell big brush pen. It has a tapered, brush-like felt tip. I use the thinner ones and Pigma's version, but this feels great doodling with.

I know I should be practicing with my Wacom tablet, but I can't let these pens go!

CO2 Press Release

The fellows at CO2 got written up on some comic book related websites. This is one of the nicer ones with some nice little previews:

http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/17763.htm/#more-17763

I even get a mention!

Here's another:

http://www.comicmix.com/news/2009/07/02/the-second-coming-of-comico-co2-comics-comes-online/

Depth Charge

Chris Kalnick was kind enough to send me a copy of his Depth Charge comic. It's a beautifully designed mini-comic that fits into an A2 envelope. Supposedly we are in a post print age, but I really got a charge out of holding and reading this elegant little piece.

Check out the web version at CO2 Comics here.

While you're there, have a look around. There's a lot of fun stuff there brought to you by the fellows who started Comico. Go NOW!

Thanks Chris!

Hot Topics

Hot Topics, originally uploaded by willceau.

This is a panel from my fire safety comic Hot Topics. It is on display at the Philadelphia Fireman's Hall Museum.

The guys at CO2 Comics have put the entire comic on their website. Read it here:
www.co2comics.com/pages/co2_hot_topics.html

See part of the display:
www.flickr.com/photos/willceau/2367520926/in/set-72157604...
www.flickr.com/photos/willceau/2366678875/in/set-72157604...

Visit the museum:
www.firemanshall.org/

There's No Escape From a Deadline

There's No Escape From a Deadline, originally uploaded by willceau.

The guys who started Comico have a new online venture, CO2 Comics , and they have been good enough to feature some of my comic work. Read There's No Escape from a Deadline at:
www.co2comics.com/pages/co2_deadline_1.html

Jeopardy: October 16, 2007 part 2

Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commados

Sgt. Fury, originally uploaded by willceau.

Batman!

Batman!, originally uploaded by Brian Bubonic.

Sonny Chiba

Sonny Chiba, originally uploaded by willceau.

L3-CC (10/10)

ah baby

After - Inside the G4

Inside the G4 with some Augmentations, originally uploaded by willceau.

What's nice about the tower design is expandability which is something the Mini (which I own) and the all-in-ones like the iMacs lack. I scavenged a number of parts and bought a few - "Frankensteining" together what to me is a new and perfectly viable work and play computer.

Before - Inside the G4

Inside the G4, originally uploaded by willceau.

I had an eMac which I loved, but after the monitor went, I promised myself that I would never get another all-in-one. My options as far as buying new looked dim. I did a little reading: spent a lot of time at lowendmac.com and decided to try a used machine.

This is my G4 as it looked when I first got it from Wegener Media. I bought it used although the folks at Wegener did a thorough job cleaning it and probably swapped out a few parts that needed replacing. I did some research, and realized that I could have a great machine for not a lot of money. This is the beginning. I will post other pictures of the parts I replaced.

Werewolf by Night

Werewolf by Night, originally uploaded by willceau.

One of my favorite comic covers by the incredible Mike Ploog.

Zombie

Zombie, originally uploaded by willceau.

Playing with Adobe Illustrator CS3.

The Spider

The Spider, originally uploaded by willceau.

"Death Reign of the Vampire King"

A 1975 reprint of a 1935 pulp. With Conan doing so well in new editions with Frazetta covers a lot of the old pulps were ripe for repackaging. The Spider was one of them. He was very much like the Shadow and the Green Hornet complete with a Kato-like valet and sidekick. I started rereading it, and it's obvious to me that Bob Kane must have read a few Spider pulps before he cooked up Batman.

The 1975 cover dropped the Spider's theatrical costume designed to strike terror into the hearts of criminals in favor of depicting a generic gun-toting adventurer which made it appear to be more like a James Bond or Destoyer novel. It's more like Doc Savage than Ian Fleming. It's pulp at its pulpiest.

The illustrator's painting looks like Darren McGavin.

All New Romantic Story

All New Romantic Story, originally uploaded by willceau.

1972 Charlton Comics.

Battlestar Galactica 1978 TV Guide Cover

Battlestar Galactica 1978 TV Guide Cover, originally uploaded by willceau.

I never really cared for this illustration, but I kept the cover for years. A few years later, I would be entering art school, and this is the kind of illustration some of my teachers would be championing. LUCY everything and arrange it artfully. It looks like the guy took more time rendering the patterns on Lorne Greene's tunic than he did drawing the half-hearted Galactica which looks more like the ship from either "2001" or "Silent Running.".

Fishy

fish eye, originally uploaded by willceau.

I was thinking of a Lovecraft story as I was doing this one.

All the kids are doing it

All the kids are doing it - Part II, originally uploaded by willceau.

Today it's branding, piercing and tattoos, tomorrow it will be gene splicing with nonhuman DNA and cybernetic augmentation. Although your friend is really good with tools, it would probably be a mistake to let him implant that new digital olfactory array so "you can, like, smell colors" or give you a really cool pair of titanium tyrannosaurus legs. It might not work out so well.