Here are some pages I created for an early prototype for Weird Thrills #1. This was during a phase when I was between artists and seriously contemplated doing the art for the book myself. It's in a style that I suppose might be best described as "inked fumetti". That is, I took photos of myself in various poses, printed them out, inked them, scanned them, then imported them into a Quark Xpress document and--voila! Instant comics!

I realize this is cheating a bit (but just a little bit, and I did employ the time-honored craft of hand-inking every image), but I kind of like the results, and may consider doing a future project using this technique.

Anyway, I thought these might be of interest to anyone who's curious about the arcana of my production methods.

Young Goodman Brown Page 10

Here and below is a four-page sequence from my adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." The art is by Khanh Ong. 

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Young Goodman Brown Page 11

Young Goodman Brown Page 12

Young Goodman Brown Page 13

Spooky Weird Thrills #2 Page

Here's another great page by Neal Obermeyer from the forthcoming Weird Thrills #2. 

Neal has just completed the artwork for this issue, and his work is stellar throughout. 

I'm really excited about WT#2, because it's the best old-fashioned adventure-comic writing I've done yet, and Neal has totally exceeded my (already high) expectations with his phenomenal artwork. 

This issue is both weirder and more thrilling than the first, and there's lots more where that came from. 

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

More Sleepy Hollow

Here's another page of Tim Durning's from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Tim's handling of light is, again, wonderful. I love the way he captures the subtle gradations of light on the chalk-board.

The picture of Ichabod Crane reading the letter is great as well. What a charming, expressive drawing: the slight incline of his head; the glasses resting on the tip of his nose; the little smile that plays at the corner of his lips; that enormous ear sprouting above a thatch of muttonchop. 

Good stuff.