I’ll be there selling prints , Young Justice and Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes trade paperbacks, and doing commission sketches from 10am to 5pm both days!

I’ll be selling my 11″×17″ prints (all the same ones I just had at the C2E2 convention) for $20 each , which is $10 less than from my Etsy store! So if you’ve had your eye on anything in particular, this is a great time to purchase it!Stop by my table and show me that you follow my Christopher Jones Comic Art page on Facebook or @ChrisJonesArt on Twitter and get one of two FREE exclusive items:

Just announced – I’ll be a Guest at Hal-con in Halifax, Nova Scotia this November 8-10! This will be my first visit to Canada ever and my first convention outside the USA! I couldn’t be more excited!

I’ve been intrigued by Hal-Con since they first got on my radar. Hal-con describes itself as the largest Sci-Fi/Comics/Gaming/Fantasy convention in Atlantic Canada, and they sound to me like something of a cousin-to-the-North of CONvergence, the convention I helped start here in Minnesota back in 1999. They’re a big, friendly fan-run convention, with programming and year-round community events that sound a lot like what I know from my years of involvement with CONvergence.

Hal-con even has their own Robot Mascot: Nelson who has his own origin-story video!

Hal-con’s Nelson

Connie, Max Misfittle and Friends

Hal-Con also has a robust YouTube channel, with the slogan “not quite entirely unlike live coverage.” Check out the Superhero Workout.

I’ll have more information about my appearance at Hal-con as the dates get closer. In the mean time you can check out their website for more information about the convention.

By the way, my appearance at Hal-Con as a Guest came about because of a conversation that started because a fan asked the convention about having me there. If you want to see me at a convention near you, letting the convention organizers know is the best way to make it happen. Most conventions have a survey or other channels for input from fans/members/attendees. Let them know if you want to see me there!

You can check out all my planned convention appearances for the coming year on my Appearances Page!

C2E2 Schedule

Friday 6:00-7:00 PM: Artist Alley Stage

Drop by and watch me draw, live, projected onto a BIG screen! If you’re interested in seeing my art being created, you won’t want to miss this!

Saturday 7:15PM: Young Justice Fans & Cosplayers Meet-Up

Saturday 7:30-9:30 pm: Charity Art Auction

I probably won’t actually be present for this, but I am donating artwork to it. This is a group portrait of The Micronauts (re-named the “Microns” for legal reasons) as they appeared in Marvel Universe – Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes #7. This art was used as part of a special-effects panel where the Microns were shrinking from action figure size down into their sub-atomic universe.

 

All other times, I will most likely be found at table B7 in Artists Alley. Here’s a handy map:

At my table, I am happy to sign anything you bring me! I will be doing commission sketches, and I will have comics and Young Justice trade paperbacks for sale. I will also have my prints for sale, including this new Young Justice print!

As well as these favorites:

I sell 11×17″ prints at conventions for $20 each, which is $10 less than my Etsy store! So if you’ve had your eye on anything in particular, this is a great time to purchase it!

Do you follow my Christopher Jones Comic Art page on facebook, or @ChrisJonesArt on twitter? If so, stop by my table and show me in order to get one of two FREE convention exclusive items:

I wanted to do a little something extra special for Young Justice fans at C2E2. So, if you’re hungry during the day at the convention, stop by my table in Artists Alley and give me the password, and I’ll give you a Reach Energy Bar, absolutely free, to keep you fueled for the day.* You won’t know what’s got into you!**

Hal will be running a free to play Young Justice role playing/scavenger hunt from my Artists Alley table as well. If you complete all four missions, you will be rewarded with a special button and a certificate!

Original Line Art on 11×17″ Bristol

The final page of the Microns story from Avengers: EMH #7

The Auction will be held Saturday night at 7:30pm in room 1W475B and if you’re interested in attending we would love to have you come down and join the fun! There will be some great items up for auction, and the proceeds go to a great cause, so please check it out!

I hope to see MANY of you at C2E2 this weekend. You’ll find me at table B7 in Artist Alley, and remember to like Christopher Jones Comic Art on Facebook or follow me as @ChrisJonesArt on Twitter to get a FREE 1″ button or full color, signed mini-print! Check out this post for all the details.

And if you can’t make it to C2E2, click here to see the rest of my upcoming convention appearances!

I’ll be giving these away FREE at C2E2! If you want to get one, you need to show me there that you like Christopher Jones Comic Art on Facebook or that you follow @ChrisJonesArt on Twitter. These are CONVENTION EXCLUSIVE ITEMS and I only give them out at conventions!

You can get a better look at the art and remind yourself of all the details be referring back to this post.

You’ll find me at table B7 in Artist Alley at C2E2 – see you there!

And if you can’t make it to C2E2, click here to see the rest of my upcoming convention appearances!

They couldn’t keep me away! In a last-minute addition to my 2013 schedule, I’ll be a guest at the Denver Comic Con at the end of May. I’ll be joining my Young Justice partner-in-crime Greg Weisman at the Denver show, so it’ll be a great opportunity to get us BOTH to sign all those Young Justice comic books and prints! I’m looking forward to this, it’s my first visit to the Denver convention and really my first visit to Denver if you don’t count layovers at the airport.

I’ll have more to say about the Denver show after I get back from the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) this weekend!

You can check out all my planned convention appearances for the coming  year on my Appearances Page!

Marvel Universe – Avengers:Earth’s Mightiest Heroes #16

Adapted by Joe Caramagna
Cover by Christopher Jones

THE KREE EMPIRE COMES TO EARTH!
Ms. Marvel joins the Avengers against Ronan the Accuser.
Based on season two of the hit Disney XD TV show!
32 Pages / All Ages – $2.99

This is the second in a series of three covers I did recently for the comic book tie-in for the Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes animated TV show.

Initially all I was told was that the cover was to feature “Ronan the Accuser and Captain Mar-Vell putting the earth on trial.”

Without any other specifics on the story, I wasn’t sure how to represent that idea visually? I asked “Would you want some kind of alien courtroom setting? Who other than Ronan and Mar-Vel would need to be on the cover?”

I was told “Let’s go a little more sci-fi here – Ronan and Captain Mar-Vell looking down on Earth, the Avengers preparing to defend it,” and that the Avengers to be included were Captain America, Ms. Marvel and Iron Man.

Sketch A

Sketch B

I had a second take on the cover that gave more focus to the story’s “guest stars” Ronan and Mar-Vell, looking from their level down at the trio of heroes on some kind of platform with a protective force field dome and the Earth behind them. While this platform was likely to be specific only to the cover and not found in the story, this layout seemed to do a much better job of getting across the idea of Ronan and Mar-Vel presiding in judgement over Earth and the heroes. To strengthen this impression I put the heroes in shackles, and tried to make the platform a bit of Kirby-esque space sculpture but also bearing a resemblance to the top of a Grecian column, hopefully further evoking a courtroom ambiance.

Cover Pencils

Cover Inks

You can find my previous Creating a Cover installments here.

Are you going to be at C2E2 this year? Show me there that you like Christopher Jones Comic Art on Facebook or that you follow @ChrisJonesArt on Twitter and get a FREE 1″ button or full color, signed mini-print! These are CONVENTION EXCLUSIVE ITEMS and I only give them out at conventions! You’ll find me at table B7 in Artist Alley at C2E2 – see you there!

And if you can’t make it to C2E2, click here to see the rest of my upcoming convention appearances!

I asked if there was any one character who was the focus of the final showdown with Brainiac and I was told that there wasn’t. Because of that and the fact that this was going to be the final issue of our series, I didn’t want to emphasize one of the heroes over the others for the sake of a more dynamic layout, so the the challenge became how to include more than a dozen heroes fighting a single opponent, without giving any one of them the lion’s share of the focus.

As is often the case when trying to include this many characters on a cover, the way to organize them into a layout is a process of almost mathematical deduction. I knew what I wanted to do, but I felt the need to offer multiple options and present my reasoning.

Sketch A

Sketch B

Sketch C

Sketch A places Brainiac at the center background with everyone else rushing him. The disadvantage of this approach was that while it makes for a compelling image, it puts most of the heroes in a position with their backs to the viewer – something I especially wanted to avoid on the cover for our swansong issue.

Sketch B takes more of the lateral view – viewing the gang-rush of heroes more in profile, with Brainiac down in the corner to allow the heroes to be more spread out and coming at him from both ground-level and from the air!

I felt the strongest option was the one presented in Sketch C – with Brainiac in the foreground, cheated “towards the camera” so we get a better look at him, but his attention clearly on all the heroes converging on him from the background. This option has the heroes coming at us front on, and gives us lots of open space to spread them across the cover, still leaving room for the logo at the top.

Pencils

Inks

Final Cover

And finally, here’s the final version with color by Zac Atkinson complete with all the final logos and other trade dress.

I really enjoyed getting to draw so many of the covers for my run on Young Justice. I enjoy drawing covers overall, and I really enjoyed getting to contribute more fully to the total look and feel of the Young Justice issues I did, as opposed to The Batman Strikes were most of the covers were by other artists.

You can find my previous Creating a Cover installments here.