Every so often to give the regular DMZ artist Riccardo Burchielli a break the series turns to one-shots with some amazing guest artists. Nathan Fox and Danijel Zezelj are two regular supporting artists for the series. Danijel is back up again with issue 58 coming up in a couple of months. Writer Brian Wood showed off a page on his twitter feed that is currently being lettered.

Art by Danijel Zezelj

It features a nice single full-page panel of one of Zezelj’s infamous cityscapes that he is famous for. I love the atmosphere that he breathes into an image with his thick blacks and whites. Any new work by DZ is good news so consider this a heads up for October.

DMZ #58 – Written by BRIAN WOOD; Art by DANILEL ZEZELJ; Cover by JP LEON

Last time we saw the legendary street artist “Decade Later,” he was in cuffs and headed to a detention camp. Years have passed, and the man is back, walking the streets like he never left – a symbol of art defiant in the face of violent oppression.

On Sale October 20, 2010

And before I forget I stumbled across an excellent write-up on Danijel’s work back in August by Joe Mcculloch over at Comics Comics where he dives into his older works such as Caballo. I especially enjoyed this passage.

All the while, Zezelj’s art grows colder the more detailed it becomes; it’s as if drawing closer to depicting ‘reality’ in an illustrative manner forces a greater acknowledgment of violent struggle. The artist’s brushy smudges, in contrast, form a liquidic reality less observed than sensed, a sweeter realm of the subjective, becoming ecstatic in abstraction. But Zezelj can’t stay there, and neither can we.

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A New Teaser for HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

Just as you were getting ready to walk out of the house tonight to catch MACHETE another one of the ‘fake; movie trailers from GRINDHOUSE became a feature film. Some enterprising filmmakers from Nova Scotia, Canada (where I grew up) entered the faux trailer contest for GH back in 2005 and won.

Five years later Rob Cotterill and Jason Eisener finally secured a budget AND Rutger Hauer and made the film. Release date is set for sometime in 2011.

Nothing happens overnight but they held on and made it happen. I’m stoked for them.

A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city’s crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how – with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.

During filming in Dartmouth, NS the boys kept a production blog.

And here was that original trailer that they won the GRINDHOUSE contest with. I believe it’ll be included on the new upcoming GH Blu-Ray release.

Meet Freddie Wong

And speaking of DIY filmmakers we come to Freddie Wong , a budding Robert Rodriguez who writes, directs, stars in and edits his own shorts (with the help of his talented crew of course) at a rate of one a week. They’re usually quick, full of action and SFX and a good sense of humour.

On his second YouTube channel he shows you all of the behind the scene work that goes into each of his shorts. They work on meagre budgets and make up for it with a great work ethic and high imagination.

I’m going to write a longer piece on Freddie but for now I leave you with ‘The Rocket Jump”.

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But if you’re not travelling to a lot of conventions or you live in an area that doesn’t have a larger community of comic artists what are your options? I have a few for you.

Back in the 1990′s when I first got on the internet one of the first things I did was hunt down interviews with my favorite artists and try to find their artwork online. It was extremely helpful to see original works before they were photographed, scanned, touched up, colored and prepared for pre-press.

Getting to see artwork in the raw is one of the most helpful steps in your artistic journey. Experimenting with your own art always takes priority but sitting back and observing others is right up there.

Here’s a list of a half-dozen places where you can check out original comic art at your leisure with no pressure to buy. I’ve spent hours at some of these sites and always find myself returning. Just click the larger title next to the number of each site and the link will take you there.

1. Albert Moy

Albert Moy is an original artwork sales representative for some of the greatest comic book artists in the industry today. Albert is entrusted by Jim Lee, Bruce Timm, Sam Kieth, Jae Lee, John Cassaday, Darwyn Cooke, J Bone, Erik Larsen, Peter Snejberg, Ken Lashley, and Sandu Florea to bring their artwork to fans and collectors.

Albert has been in the hobby of collecting and selling comic book artwork since 1984 and his wealth of knowledge is known throughout the hobby to help you acquire that unique piece for your collection.

Batman / Planetary cover by John Cassaday

2. Comic Art Fans

ComicArtFans.com is a free gallery service for Comic Art Collectors and Artists and once signed up you are free to create Gallery Rooms to post your artwork to. As it is user-generated content this is probably the biggest database online for original comic art. From Dan Clowes to Jim Lee and everyone in between, it’s all on there.

A BLAB splash page by Dan Clowes

Batman Robin All Star by Jim Lee

3. Splash Page Art

Mark Hay is an original art representative and dealer who specializes in selling original comic art by modern era artists. Splash Page Art represents over 50 comic artists including Ben Templesmith, Lee Bermejo, Sean Philips and Tim Bradstreet. You can get up close and personal with thousands of pages of original art.

Daredevil 511 variant cover by Jock

4. ebay

ebay is a huge resource of comic art for sale. Just by plugging in “original comic art” into their search box brings up over 4500 results. You’ll be all over the map here in terms of quality but I’ve seen some pretty impressive pieces for sale on the internet’s most popular auction site.

Warlord cover painting by Mike Grell

5. Masters of Ink Interviews

Rich and I have interviewed over 50 artists on this site. Sometimes they send us unpublished images and sketches. Other times we scour the net looking for original works by our guests. Either way you get a peak into the processes, tools and techniques of some of the best artists and illustrators out there.

6. The Beguiling

The Beguiling is a Canadian comic store located in the Toronto area. It Showcases the largest selection of alternative, underground and avant-garde graphic story telling in the country. They also sell original art from around 45 different creators such as Dave Sim, Ho Che Anderson, Paul Pope and Dave Cooper.

Dan and Larry part 1 page 2 by Dave Cooper

Batman Year 100 issue 4 pg. 17 by Paul Pope

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Chris Williams has been mainly branching out into painting series and prints. Fiona Ho has been producing single image illustrations and paintings for group art shows that have been going on in the Vancouver area. And I’ve been the least prolific out of the four of us doing a pen and ink illustration here and there.

We’ve been working behind the scenes on some new comics stuff that we’re not quite ready to show off yet.
In the meantime here’s some of our newest creations. Enjoy.

Richard Serrao

Hellboy commission, pen and ink

Kevin Bacon from DEATH SENTENCE review, pen and ink.

Heath Ledger as The Joker, pen and ink

Rich’s take on Starkweather from Battles Without Living Witnesses, 17″ x 11″, pen and ink

Fiona Ho

Dominatrix for the ‘Dirty Pop’ art show, acrylic on canvas

The ‘Mad Hatter’ drawn for ‘Wonderland’ art show, pen and ink.

Rapunzel illustration for ‘Wonderland’ art show, pen and ink and wash.

Chris Williams

Alice from Wonderland as you’ve never quite seen her, ink and paint.

A nightmarish take on Alice in Wonderland, ink and paint.

Jason Thibault

And finally I helped out Matt from Out of the Gutter with a ‘base’ illustration for his new publishing imprint Gutter Books. He took it and ran with it.
Proposed cover for Joe McKinney’s novel Dodging Bullets, pen and ink

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Wordle was a site created by Jonathan Feinberg who while employed by IBM Research coded this as a personal project. Here’s a description from the site:

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

If you go to the ‘Create‘ tab you can plug in your website’s URL or the RSS feed from your blog and see what kind of cool graphic it spits back out.

Here’s what I ended up with for Optimum Wound.

And here is the one that resulted from plugging in our sister site Blunt Force Beating. It’s a little more intense.

And finally a good slide-show presentation on some more badass ways that you can utilize this cool site and tool. Have fun.

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And finally the moment all of you zombie fanatics have been waiting for. AMC has released the 4-minute trailer for the Walking Dead.

I know thousands of you are stoked for this coming Halloween.

From the AMC site.

Close your windows, lock your doors and clear your schedules. Come this Halloween, you’ll have more to fear than trick-or-treaters. AMC has announced that its newest original series, The Walking Dead, will premiere on Halloween night, Sun., Oct. 31 at 10PM | 9C. The Sunday night series will debut with a 90-minute premiere episode. Subsequent episodes will be one-hour long presentations.

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In late 2009 Sean Fidler and I became aquainted with Meetup.com. A site that allows you to coordinate meet and greets with like-minded folk in your local area. While we weren’t in groups with fellow writers and comic creators we did manage to meet some interesting and colorful characters.

Here’s a good description of what it is they do (taken from their website)

Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

It can be prohibitively expensive to make it out to a lot of conventions around the country (and planet). This shouldn’t stop you from networking. And while forums and social networks can bridge a lot of those gaps, nothing quite replaces meeting face to face.

Start Your Own Meetup Group if There Isn’t One in Your Area

If there are Meetup groups in your area then I’d highly advise you to check them out. Even if you do want to start one of your own you should probably see how others are run. There can be a lot of groundwork to be done when getting one of these off the ground. Meeting areas have to be sourced out and often they will come with a rental fee for the evening.

But if there is nothing that fits your area of interest and you want to bring like-minded people together you may have to start your own Meetup Group.

I decided to have a look around their site for Meetup groups for comic artists and cartoonists. I found quite a few. A lot of them are concentrated in States like California and Texas and cities such as London, UK. But even Wisconson had two different options.

UNITED STATES Meetup Groups for Comic Artists

ARIZONA
Scottsdale/East Valley Comic Book Fans, Phoenix, AZ

CALIFORNIA
The Los Feliz Lifedrawing Meetup, Los Angeles
Comics Makers Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Prime Cuts: Graphic Novel Book Club for the Rapacious Reader, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Graphic Novel Book Club, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Film, Animation, Music and Entertainment, Pasadena
Semantink’s Comic Savvy, San Diego
Southern California Cartoonists Society Meetup Group, San Diego
Graphic Novels, San Francisco
Metro’s Pop Art Symposium, Santa Barbara

COLORADO
Squid Works Comics Cooperative, Denver

DELAWARE
AD Designers and Creative Thinkers Group, Newark

GEORGIA
Graphic Novel Creatives, Atlanta
The DoActCrazy Group – Augusta, Augusta

INDIANA
Indy Webcomics Group, Indianapolis

ILLINOIS
Kinky Arts, Chicago

MASSACHUSETTS
WiP Boston Figure Drawing, Boston
Artists, Rock Stars & Geeks, Shrewsbury

MINNESOTA
Twin Cities Webcomics Meetup Group, Minneapolis

NEW YORK
Comicbook Artists Guild New York Metro, New York
Capital District Drink And Draw, Schenectady
Staten Island comics group, Staten Island

NEW JERSEY
The New Jersey Drawing Society Group, Glen Ridge

OREGON
Portland Web Comic Group, Portland
portland graphic writers, Portland

PENNSYLVANIA
XION, The Philadelphia Comic Book Group, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Animation Meetup Group, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, Philadelphia

TENNESSEE
Organized Play Comic Discussion Meetup Group, Knoxville
BB Sketchers Art Club, Knoxville

TEXAS
Austin Life Drawing, Austin
The DFW Sketch Group, Lewisville
North DFW Comic Book Group, McKinney
San Antonio Comic Book Guys (and Gals), San Antonio
A.C.E.S (Anime Culture Enthusiasts Society), San Antonio
First Storm Manga, San Antonio

VIRGINIA
And then there were cupcakes!, Midlothian
Richmond Drink and Draw Sketch Group, Richmond
757 Comic & Cartoon Creators, Virginia Beach

WASHINGTON
Artists for Enlightenment, Langley
The Seattle Web Comics Meetup Group, Seattle

WASHINGTON D.C.
Comic & Graphic Novel Self-Publishing Stalwarts, Washington D.C.

WISCONSON
Mad City Comics Group, Madison
Waukesha Graphic Novel Get Together, Waukesha

INTERNATIONAL Meetup Groups for Comic Artists

I’m surprised that I only found one listed in Canada but I’m sure that will grow this year.

CANADA
Studio Technique-Drawing, Montréal, QC

UNITED KINGDOM
The International London Comics Grid, London, UK
Cartoon figure drawing, London, UK
Manga Artists and Animators Meetup Group, London, UK
the Cartoon Heart Club, London, UK
Manga Artists and Animators Meetup Group, London, UK

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painted by Simon Bisley

Hot damn is it good to have the Biz back. Simon Bisley was one of several artists who got me back into comics in the early 1990′s. I had read through a friend’s Slaine Horned God trilogy and then eagerly hunted down any issues of Lobo that Simon had drew.

I meant to post this the other day but I was too busy rebuilding this site. I was on the Biz’s Facebook Fanpage and saw this new poster in the newsfeed. It’s a work of beauty. Olga Kurylenko’s character looks…stacked.

It almost harkens back to his glory days on Slaine Horned God.

Come to think of it, the original poster was pretty damned cool as well. So the new poster by Biz is just the cherry on top.

About The Film

CENTURION is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Michael Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general (Dominic West). The son of the Pict leader is murdered during the raid, and the Romans find themselves hunted by a seemingly unstoppable group of the Pict’s most vicious and skilled warriors, led by a beautiful and deadly tracker (Olga Kurylenko), and hell bent on revenge.

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Filed under cool shit that shows up in my inbox. Artists Aaron Crawford and Scott Saw have joined forces to put out a new print. Aaron ‘redrew’ one of Scott’s paintings in his style. We’re big fans of Aaron Crawford here at Optimum Wound and were pretty stoked to get a chance to interview him last month. And now I’ve been officially introduced to the art of Scott Saw thanks to Aaron.

It’s cool to see more poster artists making more waves at Comicon as well.

From Aaron’s blog:

I only recently became familiar with his work through the power of twitter. We started chatting one day about collaborating, and long story short,
WE FINALLY DID! It wasn’t your traditional collaboration, because we live 28736 miles away from each other, but with the power of the internet, and a few massive file exchanges, we made it happen.

He sent me one of his paintings titled “The Good Fight” and I basically went and redid the concept in my style, which is going to be made (by Scott) into limited edition prints that will be available at this years COMIC CON!

I’ve always hoped to be involved somehow in the Con, so Scott is sort of making a dream come true here, by having this print available at his booth. (#4632)

I unfortunately won’t be able to attend, but you if you are going, you HAVE to, I repeat, HAVE TO go check out his booth and all of the art that will be available there. There will also be a few other goodies available from yours truly.

And here’s the original Scott Saw painting ‘The Good Fight’ that this new illustration and print is based on.

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by Jason Thibault

There was just something too crazed, twisted and fun about Aaron Crawford’s artwork to not ask him to do a Masters of Ink interview. I love talking to artists who work in the music biz and get a chance to generally be as wild and imaginitive as they want. Especially on art for more underground metal and hardcore bands who would typically seek Aaron out BECAUSE his art is so badass. Aaron and I connected on Twitter and put this together pretty quickly. I have thank him for supplying all of the technicolor eye candy. Let’s get to it.

What inspired you to first start drawing? Did you struggle in your formative years or did it come easy to you?

I can honestly say the first thing that inspired me to start drawing was my mom. She would paint these awesome landscapes that just blew me away, and it got me hyped to want to draw. The second thing would be horror movies and shows like Tales From the Crypt and Tales From the Dark Side. I’d see guts, contorted limbs, and eyeballs hanging out, and want to recreate those on paper my own way. Most of the drawings sucked I’m sure, but I guess you learn from your mistakes, right?

First professional work (piece / year) and maybe a quick story behind it.

Wow, never had that question before. I actually had to go back into the long lost files of my old harddrive to figure that out. Turns out it was a piece for a band called Darkened By Reason. They were a local metal band, and great friends. I think that’s honestly the very first shirt design I ever completed, and actually got to see printed back in 2003. The design was a pretty simple muscle diagram I went and redrew and added some stuff to. Nothing too crazy.

Were you self-taught or formally educated? (or mixture of both, mentors etc…)

I went to a tech school for graphic design for less than a quarter, and quit because there wasn’t anything inspiring about the course, nothing was pushing me. I gained more knowledge by sitting at home and fucking around on the computer and drawing pad and making my own mistakes, and learning from them. I’d just sit around and try and recreate Pushead art and old pictures from Fangoria magazines. I would never tell anyone to not attend an art school, but I think it’s overpriced, and that learning your own way to go about things is the best route, because you’ll probably make a ton of mistakes, and look back, and learn from them. It’s much more fun that way. Also, Persistence and patience, and an open mind.

Tools of the trade: Taking a quick glance over at your pens, brushes etc…what tools have you mainly been using over the last few years?

I mostly use inks, acrylics, and watercolors. For shirt designs, I illustrate on bristol board, then scan it, and do the coloring in Photoshop. A pretty basic method. As for paintings, I paint on whatever I can get my hands on. Everything from canvas, to wood, to old records, anything.

How has your toolbox evolved compared to when you first started out?

I’ve branched out and found other tools and supplies that I never imagined I’d be messing with. Just experiment with different stuff, that’s my best advice. You might find your niche in something you never thought you’d enjoy.

Favorite brand of ink:

I mostly use windsor newton, Higgins, and Faber-Castell stuff, but there’s a ton of different stuff out there that’s just as good.

Type of paper:

Mostly bristol board, but not really limited to that. I draw on everything. I’ll draw on your face if you want.

Which artists or creators do you return to for a quick boost of inspiration? Who are the masters of ink?

Lately if i get in a stale spot, all I need to do is go to http://www.theartofskinner.com and BAM, I’m on inspiration overload. There’s so many artists that keep me pumped up. Lately it’s been Skinner, Tastes Like Gold, Craola, David Choe, Neckface, my good friend Brian Mcgrath, and a ton of others.

Once a client has handed off an illustration job to you, how do you first tackle the job? Could you give us a quick overview of your process?

We’ll usually discuss concepts, maybe go over some lyrics, and then HOPEFULLY settle on something we’re both happy with. Then I start with sketches, and if the client approves those, then I go into inking, then coloring digitally. It’s all about communication, man.

How have digital tools affected your creative process over the past few years?

I don’t really try to depend on digital tools as much, but when it comes to shirt designs, you kind of have to depend on Photoshop for the coloring. I think it’s a good thing, but I don’t necesarrily like the way digital line work looks all the time. It almost looks too perfect and robotic, because, it kind of is. You can’t really recreate the style you get by using real ink and your pen / brush.

What would be your best and worst professional experience?

I really enjoy almost every single client I work with. of course, there’s concepts you might not be too stoked on, but you have to make the best of it, and you’ll at least gain something out of it. The worst experiences would have to be when there’s a massive lack of communication, waiting on payments from certain labels for weeks at a time, or just having to tamper with a design over and over to make the client happy, it just ruins the process of creating the actual art. It doesn’t happen very often though, which is good.

What was the best advice you’ve ever received but may not have listened to the first time out?

Something my mom would tell me when I’d draw something, and completley hate it. She would say “you might look at that and think it’s crappy, but in someone elses eyes, it might be beautiful” which is actually true. I’ve done paintings and looked at them and thought “wow, this is shit” but then a friend would come over, and fall in love with it. You never know.

What’s your vital daily ritual?

I wake up, maybe a bike ride, usually get food, then check emails and start sketching. Sometimes coffee and a redbull fits in there somewhere too. My schedule fluctuates so much. Being my own boss is great though. I pretty much make my own hours. It’s all about finding the balance between personal life and work.

What’s currently sitting in your mp3 / CD player / turntable?

I’ve been listening to alot of music by a band called Clinging To The Trees of A Forest Fire. I’m an avid music fan, so instead of lisiting every band because there’s about a million, I’d say just check out my last fm page @ http://www.last.fm/user/aaroncrawford

What’s hanging on your walls and what is your favorite piece of art that you own (not created by you)?

I recently bought an American Psycho print by an artist named Erik Jones. His work is beautiful and dark at the same time. Besides that, some random movie posters, and some creepy little characters my friend Tena painted. Besides that, just pictures of stuff that inspires me. Random cut outs from Fangoria and Rue-Morgue, and whatever else I find to be cool or fun.

What’s the last novel you read and last movie that you saw that you’d recommend? Which movies and books do you always return to?

I don’t read as much as I’d like to, but the last thing I read was Haunted by Chuck P. The story “GUTS” blew my mind. As for movies, I always end up returning to classics like Dawn of The Dead, Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc. I just went back and re-watched Planet Terror and Death Proof, and I can’t stress enough how much of a genius Tarantino is. I really love most of the stuff Eli Roth does as well.

Current and upcoming projects?

Where to start… hm. I’m working on a ton of new shirts for KITTIE, some shirts for WRETCHED, cd art for an upcoming full length for WITHIN THE RUINS ,and a limited edition print release collaboration type thing (that was a mouthful) with artist Scott Saw that’s going to be released in July at Comic Con! I also have a new urban art project called “THE BOX MONSTERS” that me and my friend (and rad artist) Brian Mcgrath started, where we hide little box monsters around different cities, and photo document them. Just taking another persons trash, and making something creepy and silly out of it. (Follow us on twitter: @theboxmonsters ) We’re also launching something in July, but I don’t want to sound cliché’ and say it’s a “clothing line” cause everyone seems to have those nowadays, but you MIGHT be able to wear it, If it turns out the way we plan. It’ll be fun! Just trying to stay busy.

What would you tell an aspiring artist who is working his ass off but still needs and wants to break through to the next level?

Just keep working at whatever you are doing, even if it gets frustrating, and most importantly, have fun with it. There will be times where you feel like everything you make is utter shit, but you have to just work through that, and not give up. Keep creating, no matter what medium or type of art you are doing. I’m terrible at giving advice. I hope that was ok.

What’s been the most effective means of marketing yourself both online and off?

The online revolution has been insane. Between the use of facebook, myspace, Twitter, and blogs, you’re able to now reach all around the world, and it’s giving artists a means of exposure that they never had before. I’m a HUGE fan of twitter, and I think it’s one of the best social networking sites to be in existence at the moment. It’s simple, and allows updates directly from the person’s mouth. (or finger tips I guess). It allows you to connect with some of the people that inspire you, and see into their lives like never before. As creepy as that sounds, it’s a great tool in promoting yourself as a brand / artist.

To find out more about Aaron look for him on Twitter and visit his website.

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