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Kamandi 10 page comic!

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:08:26 PST

Back to Basics #2: Kamandi! If you don't know you should. This post apoc classic arrived in 1972 with one of the wildesy tribute covers of all time, a few years after the final scene of Planet of the Apes. I didn't give a damn it was just EPIC. Mind. Blown. So building up the blocks a bit more and trying to balance a more traditional graphic storytelling approach with current 2d/3d tools and shaking it up to see what we can get. Obviously I'm nothing like Jack and wouldn't ever pretend I was but his scrioting is easy to engage with as he hits his beats hard and with precision. I'm staking out a place between standard comics and a form of movie pitch photoplay sequentials. Doing storyboards a lot more lately I do prefer to move my camera more like a filmmaker and less like a pure comics creator. Lots of big masters with loads of coverage that let you linger more in frames. Anyway, I'm having an absolute blast doing these between other things.

Here's the story of Kamandi from the Wikipedia page:

Kamandi is a young man wandering in a post-apocalyptic world . After an event called the "Great Disaster," humans have reverted to a savage state on a planet dominated by intelligent animals...

During the events of the "Great Disaster" (which was not of nuclear origin), Dr. Grant developed a drug called Cortexin that made mammals (gorillas, tigers, wolves, rats, etc.) intelligent. These animals, now bipedal and humanoid, set out to seize power on Earth using the military weaponry found in the ruins of human civilization.

Kamandi is the last survivor of the "Command D" bunker near New York City ("Kamandi" is short for "Command D"). Raised by his grandfather, the young man has a very good knowledge of the old world thanks to video archives. When his grandfather is killed by a (redacted for spoiler), Kamandi leaves the bunker and ventures outside in search of other humans...

Eternals pg 5

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:20:34 PST

Eternals pg 4

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Eternals pg 3

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:19:44 PST

Eternals pg 2

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:19:22 PST

Eternals pg 1

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:18:48 PST

Going back to the basics. Kirby, the 70s, daring wild broadband invention. I'm hoping with this exercise in doing some bootlegs of one of the GOATs and basking in his unique suite of powers I'll get back to right with my own storytelling. Interesting times to be a creator. There's many ways to do this kind of factory reset but we've never had the overwhelming tsunmai of AI slop to contend with and swim through before. Worse still the bot farms flooding threads with support for this global relaity rebrand exercise. It's a neurpolitocal death match. With that as context, I'm going back to what I love and know to be true--this is when I first gained the beginnings of a personal worldview and creative scaffolding and figure it was time for a refresh, a back to school walkthrough of early influences and of course the brain melting Kirby visual power. Also, I gave myself a goal of answering how would I draw a Kirby script. Caveat: I know I'm a middle of the pack hack Jack's a legend that's not what it's about. It's only to see if I can catch beats and tone somwhere in the middle of Jack;s crackle. Anyway, first five pages of Eternals #1 -- an underrated heater IMO-- spot the three adventurers exploring lol --and I'll be getting to OMAC pages and some Kamandi, two other books brimming with worldbuilding possibility. Hope you enjoy this is all purely for the big dumb fun of it.

Commissions Open

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:37:22 PST

Friends! Get some original art from a human being. It's Christmas soon and if you're wanting something for a special someone or getting yourself a treat feel free to reach out. My prices reflect the challenging times we're going though so no arm and a leg here.

Moon Knight vs Werewolf by Night

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:17:27 PDT

Commission for a friend starring two classic foes Moon Knight and Werewolf By Night bring all the gothic melodrama to the scene.

Shogun Warriors

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:01:34 PDT

This one started out as a crappy iPhone pic and started to become something else. What that something else is who the hell knows but it was a fun exercise in migrating source to final.

Cobra Knight

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:39:44 PDT

Cobra! If you do a Joe drawing you have to answer with a Cobra so here's my version of the Night Attack 4WD. Last one for awhile I promise. As I've said, these are a really fun contained exercise and encourage anyone who makes marks to get back to fun because some of you could probably use a jolt of it and truthfully, so could anyone's portfolio.

GI Joe Assault Dragonfly

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:08:37 PDT

Go Joe! Another G I Joe box design timed exercise. These are always a lot of fun to do with a time limit (@ two hours) and a novel nostalgic way to do some high-energy hard surface work with a touch of storytelling for the portfolio instead of just dropping a render with nothing to it. Hope you enjoy!

The Mistakes

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:09:02 PDT

Ghost Girl variant from The Mistakes, a great comedy horror ensemble read from Maze Studios

My Best Friend Z

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:07:07 PDT

Who doesn't want to draw a teenager running from zombies? Any chance I get! This is a variant I did for my pals at Maze Comics. You can buy the comics and check it out on WebToon too >> https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/my-best-friend-z/list?title_no=940173

Unnamed 5

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:14:46 PDT

Some discarded development comps from a wildly derivative cyberpunk video game box art contract that went nowhere fast. Less said about that company the better but had lots of fun mining that cyberpunk lore.

Unnamed 4

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:14:20 PDT

Unnamed 3

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:13:55 PDT

Unnamed 2

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:13:34 PDT

Unnamed 1

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:13:00 PDT

Apex GigaChad

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:23:12 PDT

APEX! GigaChad walking around a random neighbourhood in an Amazon Prime district. Always loved those Heavy Metal street level via Moebius and others so since it's my graphic novel I'll do whatever the hell makes sense for the story...or what I like drawing...that too. Photogrammetry by Raiz

NSLB pg 9

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:35:17 PDT

No Soul Left Behind is a short story I'm working on written by a friend of mine and slowly getting through it while other paying projects vie for my time. Wild apex vampire creatures vs Vikings with a timeshift twist all while a Blood Aurora is happening. I think it's coming along all right still plenty of polish left to do what do you think?

NSLB pg 8

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:34:54 PDT

NSLB pg 7

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NSLB pg 6

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NSLB pg 5

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NSLB pg 4

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NSLB pg 3

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NSLB pg 2

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:32:23 PDT

NSLB pg 1

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:31:57 PDT

Apex page 22

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:25:15 PDT

One of four random no spoiler pages from my graphic novel Apex which is humming along nicely. Pretty simple setup: giant alien monsters vs a thrown together recently granted unpredictable superpowers humans with a bunch of unfortunate complications and challenges...of course. I'm having an absolute blast doing it and when it comes out I hope you get a big kick...or punch out of it too. Fun reason why some of the characters (like Shrapnel in middle panel looks exactly like Adam Jensen from Deus Ex) are replicas of pop culture icons but you'll have to read it when it comes out to get the answer!

Apex page 19

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:19:35 PDT

Apex page 10

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:18:48 PDT

Apex page 6

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:18:14 PDT

Venger

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:48:26 PDT

IYKYK this campy scenery chewer was the main baddie in a cherished animated series that gifted us a measly three seasons of 27 episodes WAY back in 1983. WIP any number of ways to go with this one.

The Most Dangerous Race

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:54:02 PDT

A recent homage tribute of mine to one of my earliest core memory story arcs - of many - on Speed Racer 'The Most Dangerous Race' an epic multi-parter that had me on the edge of my seat as a seven year old. The showdown between brothers in the finest iron on the road. Mach 5 vs Shooting Star was the vehicular equivalent of Hulk vs Superman to Speedheads. How fondly I recall it and utterly charming it is on rewatch on Youtube. Chef's kiss

HK 47 2025

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:04:39 PDT

Finally getting more 3D into the SW game. My OG creation for KOTOR given a fresh coat of paint. Wild that I'll only ever possibly be remembered for concept designing all the KOTOR cast - except Malak - and maybe Minsc from Baldur's Gate from 25 years ago. It could be so much worse this is literally a luxury gripe just ignore me.

I Am All That Remains

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:01:12 PDT

A haunting moment from the Obi-wan series

Kingpin

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:59:45 PDT

Rejected variant. Homage to the Kingpin poster for the Ben Affleck Daredevil film.

Daredevil

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:58:50 PDT

Rejected variant. Homage to the Ben Affleck Daredevil movie poster

Sasquatch vs Hulk

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:04:21 PDT

I haven't been posting much lately for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I've been busy working on my comic series Apex and sicne I wnat to black box any further details, no leaks or teasers yet. It's going very well and as is usual with our work, results are satisying to complete as a task but never fully as creatively complete as it seemed it was going to be but just I just abandon the fuckers and call them final. That and lots of happy accidents so I'll take the W. The other is nothing hits. Like many, I'm re-evaluating the ever-shifting balancing point between creating content and making something perhaps more meaningful using that throughput. Sure it's to be consumed as pop junk but I can't reconcile renting out my life just to share work for clicks and likes. So I demanded a slow down, no immediacy to the process and enjoy the fruits of the labour more. I was getting burned out and disoriented by the wholly disrupted for no good reason creator landscape and the witless distractions of AI slop and its legions of tone deaf stans. With all of that in play it became a personal re-commitment to process over performance hell or high water.

Anyway, here's a commission I just finished for my pal Harry. He loves Sasquatch and Alpha Flight and not the biggest fan of the Hulk so the brief was Sasquatch starching the Hulk and he offered suggestions along the way to get it just right which were much appreciated. I always dug John Byrne's Alpha vs Hulk commission so I took inspiration in the energy of John's piece and went with it. Hope you enjoy!

Calgary Expo 2025 /2

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:12:23 PDT

It's almost that time again! CALGARY EXPO is arriving this coming Thursday and I can't wait! This is always a special show and this year it's looking bigger and better than ever. Rynn Gallagher has her first solo booth at this Expo and I'm ridiculously proud of her. She has all kinds of cool must-have new pieces and I whipped up a few fresh cuts too. Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones so make sure to come visit me at P46 in Artist Alley. The stellar line up of creators will have something for everyone guaranteed. Hope to see a whole bunch of you beautiful humans there!

Calgary Expo 2025

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:11:53 PDT

Micronauts '79

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:34:58 PDT

Way back in the wayback machine to January 1979 Marvel first published Micronauts, a toy tie-in with the Mego line of figures, playsets and vehicles. Like ROM Spaceknight, another toy tie-in, and the more famous G I Joe and Transformers, Micronauts had no business being as good as it was. Bill Mantlo was killing the scripts and the legendary Mike Golden was crushing the art. It was a wild imaginative and fun ride, a huge influence on a great many young impressionable minds. I'm trying the bask in a bit of reflected glory capture some of the original run's dense visual energy here. Mileage will vary on whether I did but I did have a lot of fun with this one.

Tron '82 Good Guys

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:42:11 PDT

And in this corner Tron and his crew lining up against the MCP goons

Tron '82 MCP Bad Guys

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:41:25 PDT

The original light cycle race that started it all

Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:39:15 PDT

IYKYK

Black Widow and Hawkeye Istanbul 1979

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:38:13 PDT

There were always hints of espionage, spycraft and wet work back then...finally have proof! I'm a big fan of the OG costumes so that's what we get

XMen 97

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:36:05 PDT

A shameless audition for Iron Studios

Wampa vs Luke

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:35:12 PDT

This started as a super rare diorama I stole the bones of and made it a different experience

Tropic Thunder

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:33:50 PDT

There's never a bad time for some Tropic Thunder

TMNT Manhole

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:32:41 PDT

A partial homage to one of the movie posters for the original 1990 TMNT feature

The Thing

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:31:26 PDT

I finally got around to doing a rethink of my Famous Monsters cover from several years back

Sgt Rock

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:30:14 PDT

I repurposed part of a COD WW2 ad to move us more toward Sgt Rock

KOTOR

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:29:07 PDT

Two characters. I designed one of them. Hint: MIne's cooler

Repose

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:27:54 PDT

Two frenemies about to choose violence

Ghost Rider

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:27:09 PDT

LFG!

FM Absolute DKR

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:26:43 PDT

My homage to Frank Miller's cover of Absolute Dark Knight Returns

The Fifth Element

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:25:25 PDT

Leeloo launches herself. I wanted to recapture that moment and add some easter eggs in the flying vehicles. A Marvel No-Prize is you can identify a few of the fresh rides

Colonial Marines

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:23:46 PDT

We know the mission we know the enemy. Now let's kill 'em all

AVP

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:22:59 PDT

Part of this was a long ago far way Sideshow diorama that fell off the radar and I thought I'd bring it back

Arcane Showdown

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:21:39 PDT

This began life as a diorama and I thought I'd add some juice and see where it went