Blue Beetle Tres

The Blue Beetle (aka Jaime Reyes)... this was a birthday present for a friend. I'm a huge fan of Ted Kord, but Jaime's pretty awesome. But man that costume is hard to draw!

Must Only Zibarro See The Beauty In A Sunset?

Been re-reading All-Star Superman and remembering why it's one of the best comics ever. Case in point - Zibarro, the 'Bizarro' Bizarro Superman. That series also makes me long for a Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen ongoing series by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely... now that would be an awesome series.

Commissions

Hey guys! As I mentioned in the previous post my D Magazine gig is done. Well the last few months have been a pretty bad time to be without that work (mostly due to having to get a new car and all the expenses that come along with it) so I figured now was a pretty good time to start doing commissions regularly again! Rates and samples below:

Sketchcard - $10

Headshot - $15

Single Character - $40

Additional Characters - $15 per character

All commissions are 8.5x11 (except sketchcards - 2.5x3.5), black & white, inked. Shipping is $5.

Here's a few samples!

For more samples check out my DeviantArt Gallery. If you'd like a commission email me with the details at thesuperleezard@yahoo.com. Payment taken by PayPal. Muchas gracias, mi amigos!

One Last Souvenir

Souvenir of Dallas is no longer going to be featured in D Magazine. Above is the very last one we did, which was featured in the July issue. Souvenir ran at D for three years and it was an extremely rewarding experience. I just want to say thanks to Tim Rogers and the rest of the fine folks at D for giving it a home for the last few years and letting us do some crazy stuff. Thanks to all the people who read and enjoyed the comic. And thanks to David Hopkins for writing such awesome scripts. For David's thoughts on the end of Souvenir of Dallas, just CLICK HERE. Not sure if it live on or in what form but I'll keep you posted.

More MarvelCats!

Is it me or does Purrfessor X (HA!) look more like a teddy bear than a cat. Damn. Oh well. My favorites of the bunch have to be Venom and Speedball, incidently the two characters I can't think of funny cat names for.

The Cat-tastic Four (ouch)

Jumping onboard the MarvelCats train that Katie Cook started. Spent a while this weekend just sketching out bunches of these little critters. So here's the Cat-tastic Four ready to do battle with Cat-lactus. And look, Mr. Cat-tastic even brought his Ultimate Nullifier. Even more MarvelCats to come... stay tuned!

Business Cards Are Go!

I haven't had personal business cards in a long while. Oh, I've been told I needed them and found myself wishing on more than one occasion that I had some at my table at a con, but I could never come up with anything I really liked. Well, as you can see in the fuzzy pics above, I finally came up with something I like. Hopefully I can get these things printed and shipped to me in time for the Dallas Comic Con next weekend.

Heart(less)

(Un)Dead Presidents

This was done for Dead Presidents week over at the Metrosketchual blog. You can check out the final version HERE.

Canary On The Catwalk Tease

Just a little tease of my in-progress Black Canary redesign for Project Rooftop's Canary On The Catwalk contest.

Goin' Rogue

I think it's time to admit I've failed at the whole "Sketch-a-day" thing. Still want to keep this updated on a regular basis so whaddaya say to a sketch-every-coupla-days? Anyway, here's Rogue. Felt like drawing her current threads. It's a pretty swell outfit.

Two Wild And Crazy Guys

Just a couple of random doodles from last night. Been reading Fear Agent recently so that's where the alien comes from. I think maybe I was trying to draw Owlman in that second pic and couldn't remember what he looked like.

Cupcake or Death

The lives of cartoon cupcakes.

"Speak Softly And Carry A Big Stick!"

A sketch of the Superman redesign I did for Warren Ellis' forums. Bully!

Monster!

I love drawing monsters.

A Cat In A Man-Suit

Like it says on the tin, a cat in a man-suit. Somewhat inspired by Kemlo Caesar, The Hyperdog who was one of my favorite characters from one of my favorite comics, Top 10. I should really draw some of those characters!

Some People Call Me Maurice...

Space cowboy.

The Flying Fortresses... OF DEATH!

The first four pages of my first full-length Dash Bradley comic, The Flying Fortresses of Doom.

Wee Folk

My sketch o' the day and a little bonus scribble - a scary fairy and a devil dog.

Taste My Justice!

Hope you're reading The Tick: New Series by Benito Cereno and Les McClaine. If not then you must hate Justice. And America. Why do you hate America?

Daddy's Little Girl

It's Galacta, Daughter of Galactus! Created by the totally badass Adam Warren, she'll be starring in her own one-shot coming out in May.

All Star Superwoman

Ugh. Seriously, I'm trying to get better at drawing women but I don't think you'd know it from this sketch. I guess I'm pretty much happy with everything but that head. The hair, the face... just awful.

Son of (a) God

Saw The Lightning Thief over the weekend. Not great, not terrible. There were some fun ideas and some really cool visuals. I really think it would have made an awesome tv show.

Mig-El, The Spider-Boy of Tomorrow!

More Amalgam craziness, this time with Spider-Boy 2099!

The Old 97's

Here's some comic pages I did waaaaaay back in 1997, the year I graduated high school! No idea if these pages were done in anticipation of showing them to an editor at a con or not. Oh God, I hope I didn't show these off to some editor. As you can probably tell two of my favorite books at the time were Joe Kelly's X-Men and Mark Waid's Ka-Zar (in which Thanos was the big bad). What is with those aliens? That design is just rude. Jeez. Man, I bet I thought these pages were really awesome once upon a time.

You can see these terrible, terrible pages in more detail on my DA page, God help ya.

Super-Soldier: The Man Of War

More from the Amalgam universe!

The Outrageous Spider-Boy

It's too bad Marvel and DC are so antagonistic these days. I would love to see the return of Amalgam Comics, especially Spider-Boy! More Amalgam sketches to come over the next week or two.

Super Secret Secret Avenger

Even more Marvel ad parodying, this time of the Secret Avenger variety. I'm sure this'll get old at some point... but not yet!

Least Likely To Be An Avenger *SPOILER ALERT*

*SPOILER ALERT* If you haven't read Siege #2 you might not want to look at this post. I warned ya.

More parodying of the "I Am An Avenger" ads. Poor, poor Ares. He really came apart in that last issue.

Original Avenger

More parodying of the "I Am An Avenger" ads. Art by Ian Gibson from the Grant Morrison/Ian Gibson comic book series, Steed and Mrs. Peel. Really need to find those issues someday.

Ich Bin Ein Avenger

This popped into my head almost as soon as I saw the "I Am An Avenger" ads. I know the whole "I am a donut" has actually been refuted but still... it's funny yeah? Check out Chip Zdarsky's mock-up!

The Original Super-Badass

Created by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca, Afrodisiac first appeared in one of my all-time favorite indy comics, Street Angel before starring in his own graphic novel, which just hit shelves a week or two ago. I highly recommend checking it out, Rugg's skills are mind-blowing.

You're A Wonder, Wonder Boy!

I haven't drawn good ol' Wonder Boy in quite a while. I still love the costume and the concept... maybe one day I'll actually get to do something with this guy.

Celestial Mechanics

The Celestial Mechanics first popped up in the God of Rock one-pager I did a few weeks ago for the STAPLE! program and I've become quite fond of them since.

Little Trooper Lost

Hey look, it's the first Stormtrooper I've ever drawn!

Haunt-ed

Love the book Haunt, in no small part thanks to the incredible Ryan Ottley. I was sad to hear that he'll be leaving the book after issue 5 but I'm amazed he was able to do that and Invincible at the same time anyway! Think I'll stick with Haunt for a while though since Greg Capullo will be drawing it after Ottley leaves.

Le Morte

Weird sketch that started off as just the severed head and grew from there.