Bankshot Comics

Bravestarr Redesign Pencils

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Pencil's from last week's inked and colored Whitechapel redesign of Bravestarr.

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Bravestarr Costume Redesign

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:00:00 PDT

I really didn't have time to do this, but Whitechapel demanded redesigns, and if there are three things I can always be coaxed to draw, it's The Shadow, Guy Gardner, and Bravestarr. So I did a slight...

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101 Things to Do with Your Retired Man

Brendan McGinley — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:37:18 PDT

This is a book I was hired to touch up for transatlantic readability, punchlines thrown in at no extra charge. I don't think I'm credited anywhere, but it was fun to work on, and excellent timing for...

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May Day Play Date

Brendan McGinley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Not sure how many more of these I can post since I'm going to announce some great news on the 20th. But here--enjoy Hannibal's brother versus Publius's brother.

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Andres Ponce drew a book

Brendan McGinley — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:17:43 PDT

Not Heist, sadly, but just as gorgeous. War Goddess, it's called, and it's from Avatar. And if you buy it, they'll give him more work, which means he'll make enough money to eat dinner and then...

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Invisible Inc Narrator Notes

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Back when I was lettering Invisible, Inc. the narrative boxes for this page came to me in a massive rush one day on the train when I had nothing handy to write on except a copy of The Onion. Very...

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Cracked Column: I Taught the Internet Something New about Sex

Brendan McGinley — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:00:12 PDT

Hooray! I wrote a thing and it was on the internet! Fifty Shades of Grey is an erotic alternate universe fan fiction version of Twilight, and if that sentence makes no sense to you, you're sweet to...

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Penance

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Upper left: my ideas for Penance, a character from the upcoming Star-X. The rest of it is Andres doing something decent with the character. I particularly like the interlocking demon skulls on the...

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The 2012 Sex Moves Are Here!

Brendan McGinley — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:17:39 PDT

I wrote this up for Maxim. You can see what made the cut on their site, but here are the ones that fell off the map: After months of scientific study (read: drunken hookups), Maxim’s scientists have...

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Red Raptor By Andres Ponce

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Red Raptor comes from a parallel Earth where humanity all has superpowers. Unfortunately, our sun has been slowly sapping his strength for decades, so that he is now a sickly old man, despite...

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St Mary Magnum By Tomas Aira

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Usually on sketchy saturdays I show you my crummy sketches and culminate with the final design, in which the artists take only the good bits and make something worth sharing with you. But we've been...

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Black Dahlia By Andres Ponce And Gary Erskine

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Happy birthday, Andres! Way, way before Heist, Andres and I collaborated on this project called Star-X (also known as Double Falsehood). He was drawing it in 2004 and 5, mostly. Somehow Gary Erskine...

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Pirate My Work

Brendan McGinley — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:53:38 PDT

TL;DNR: From a purely creative perspective. I don't care if you pirate my stuff, so long as it stays accredited and unaltered, and you personally recommend it to people who would like it. On the...

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Peter Parker Does Not Love Aunt May

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Balloon remix over at Whitechapel last year. Not the greatest thing I've ever done, but a fun five-minute diversion one Sunday.

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A Cracked column that almost ran: Why Community is My New Religion

Brendan McGinley — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:37:53 PDT

I didn’t have much in 2010, but for half an hour a week, I had a place to go that wasn’t blistering with fury and hunger and loneliness and poverty. It was a despair cocktail, but thankfully I had...

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Bloodsucking Dirty Old Vampire

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Sketches from the illustrations for You Might Be a Zombie & Other Bad News. The original idea for this thing was how creepy it is for a centuries-old immortal cannibal to hang out at a high...

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Strike A Pose If Not Your Foes

Brendan McGinley — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:00:00 PDT

Sometimes I give Andres a fun page to draw instead of jamming it with 11 panels and 800 words of dialogue.

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Inked On The Fly

Brendan McGinley — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:00:00 PST

Pretty happy with the toughest bits though: long grass, etc. Whereas faces, usually my strong suit...these were all over the place. The colored version ran over at the Gutters.

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See what I draw when nobody’s looking?

Brendan McGinley — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:37:50 PST

Si Spurrier challenged the Whitechapelers to redesign '80s cartoons, and just to ensure my engagement, slapped a picture of Bravestarr right there in the call to arms. I had a lot of work to do, and...

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Glowing Smoke Rings

Brendan McGinley — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:26:46 PST

Well, not glowing, but positive. I just went for the pun on that headline. BECAUSE I AM A PROFESSIONAL WRITEY PERSON. The Smoke Ring liked my book. "Although it does contain a chapter with 13...

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