POP-GUN

When tryin to come up with some kind of back story for mr. FACE I decided he should be a private detective. I then decided he needed a weapon. I thought of the folded paper guns we used to make in grade school. Once I came up with that the title of the one-shot Im gonna put him in popped up.

PAPERBULLETS!!!!

BOOKFACE!!!

Yeah, I realize this sketch was up here already.

As an artist Im crazy about some things that go on with my art. I noticed some stuff about the first sketch that I didnt like so I modified it and this is the new piece.

To those new folks, this is Bookface. A character created for my facebook page.

I didnt wanna put my goofy mug up there so I came up with this guy.

Im coming up with a story for him as we speak...

FINALLY....

This awesome piece was done by Brian Roll of ODYSSEY ART.NET He does extraordinary work and captured ultimo perfectly.....

It has been a couple of years since I came up with the concept for COCKERS. For any new AOP fans out there lemme break down the history of these 2 titles.

I started with Bailey the scented wonder and Blitzen the lightning hound and rounded out the duo and made it a trio with Ultimo the ultra hound.

The original title COCKERS began as a 52 page pencil sketcth book. No ink, no color. After showing it to friends and pros alike the consensus was that I should ink and color it. I then enlisted the help of my highschool friend Katastrophe who is a photoshop wizard with color. By the time she was half way done coloring I had come up with 52 more pages and we added them together. After it was colored and lettered by REDWOLFS Marc Adona I realized I didnt have the money to print this 104 page monster.

That is when I came up with the concept of ULTIMO TALES.

ULTIMO TALES which on a timeline of events would occur before COCKERS.
I would also print it in 24to31 pages and in black and white because it was cheaper and flashbacks are usually done in black and white. I asked Katastrophe once again to come out of hiding to do the grey scale tonal seperations for ULTIMO TALES and she did issues one and two which are also available from comixpress or if you see me at this years BALTIMORE-CON!!!

I ended up taking the advice of a couple of friends who had suggested I could break the full color COCKERS novel into 4 smaller books since I had so many pages. It would be cheaper to print and I would have for issues of story before I had to jump to COCKERS volume 2. Sooooo I finally took the advice and chopped up the novel and now I have 1 issue of COCKERS and 2 issues of ULTIMO TALES in print. (no applause please, just by my books)

Thanks, Happy Fathers Day to any fathers out there!!!

Zombie Ninja Snowman

The concept of BROBOTICUS came from an

attempt of mine to enter a scholarship contest for

this art school in Vermont.

The requirements were to create a comic of at least

two pages or more and include a robot, a piece of fruit, myself

and a snowman. These seemingly random things came

together to form the story that you will eventually see in

the upcoming BURST anthology.....

the ARTIC LOTUS

A production sketch from my upcoming story in

BURST, the ARTIC LOTUS is one of my favorite

mystic artifacts.

I havent yet decided what it does just yet. I just

like the fact that the geisha inside is so happy to

have her flower bloom in a snow storm...

and yes I know that arctic is spelled with two C's

(thank you KIRK)

COMMANDER CHAOS

This month one of my favorite funny men died.

I grew up in the eighties so the most enduring pop-culture

references in my head are from that era.

One movie that I will never forget is Canonball Run.

It was full of action, comedy, fast cars and it even

had its own super hero: Captain Chaos, Dom Deluise 's alter ego in

the film. Whenever Burt Reynolds would come up against trouble

his best friend changed into Captain Chaos, yeah, he didnt have any

super-powers but it was the fact that he put on the mask and cape on

to help out his friend. Anyhow, I loved that movie and I am a fan of

Deluise. Commander Chaos will hopefully make an appearance in COCKERS

I would name him Captain Chaos but, Im not sure

if that is copy written or not..... since Deluise was a big guy I chose

a bear to represent him in the super hero community.