Guest Art For Tom Dell'Aringa's Marooned!

A few months back, Tom Dell'Aringa of the webcomic, Marooned, asked if I would be willing to contribute a piece for the art gallery in his first book. Being a fan of Tom's I obviously said yes! I had a lot of fun working this piece and learned a lot as well. If you haven't checked out Tom's comic... Go do it already! It's a fun story and it's awesome to see how far Tom's work has progressed since he first began.

Things of late have been slammed with progress on Amulet 3. Denver Jackson and I, moved from working on the flating preparation of Kazu's pages, to actually coloring a few. It was a huge honor to get to help see through the final process on the pages and help Jason Caffoe, Anthony Wu and Kazu out as they barreled through to the end. The book looks amazing and I can't wait for everyone out there to see what we've all been up to for the past year.

Other than that, The King's Game has been what I've been working on and I think its coming out great! So far, my agent has been ecstatic about the pages I've shown him, and I have about a month left of work I would guess before I'm ready to ship it out to him.

Oh, and I expect From Death Til Now will return this week as well. :-)

Project Round Up!

Things are kind of in a lull at the moment, so I thought it would be a good time to recap the status of my projects.

The biggest news is Kazu Kibuishi's "Amulet: The Stonekeepers Curse" is coming out in just a couple of weeks! I was able to be a part of the production on this outstanding book by being a part of the color flatting process. I'm pretty stinkin excited that my first published credit for comics work is going to be on this great series. So be sure to pick up a copy on September 1st! Kazu has also agreed to do an interview sometime soon, so I look forward to sharing that here whenever we can get that done.
I decided pretty recently to take my "Kevin and the Golden Temple" story out of the workings for the anthology project it was originally slated for. No offense to the anthology really, I'm still going to try and put something together for them. I just didn't feel I was doing the story much justice in the way I had to kind pace it and all. I'm still developing this world and I really think the story is something that will be fun and exciting for kids!
From Death Til Now is still continuing on at a steady pace. I've started focusing more on the computer and toning end of things which has been nice. My brain was a bit in overload on the drawing/thumbnailing side of things. I plan to resume regular updates on this book online in the month of September. Hopefully speeding up to a completion of book 1 in the early part of 2010. Looking at Josh Ulrich's color sample makes think volume 2 may almost certainly be in color!

Other than that, I'm busy working on a new portrait commission which looks to be really special. Also, because I can barely contain myself any longer, I started writing the treatment for "The Unknowns" book 2.I still need the series to sell , but I had to get my ideas for how the story would continue down on paper before they slipped away into oblivion!

The next couple of weeks look to be a bit slow, which is alright because my birthday is around the corner and then From Death Til Now will be back to spreading the mystery. For now, its time to do some doodling.