I feel great about Sorcerer Kings dropping as a trade paperback!! And look where it’s selling, dawg!! Just hit the links!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1401232663
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/superman-batman-various/1111618320
http://www.booksamillion.com/p/SupermanBatman/9781401234461
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=DC10837&mode=retail
Here’s art anippets from the “Sorcerer Kings”….
Have fun linking up and buy, buy, buy!!!
ChrisCross, Marc Deering, and Bryan Q.Miller’s next chapter of Smallville; Detective. Right here on Comixology. . http://www.comixology.com/Smallville-Season-11-18/digital-comic/DIG002078
I did this Commish for a cool dude named Ari. He has this thing where he’s trying to get as many people as possible to draw Batman on a Gargoyle in a rainstorm. He wound up getting some really great artists. I really need to find the one he got Steve Epting to do It’s so good it’s MADDENING. 😀
BUT FOR THE FUTURE, if you happen to come across this and you want a commission from me, you can contact me here, or on Facebook through the messenger or Mark Hay, my art agent, over at Splash Page Comic Art. He’ll help you get set up right!
HERE’S A BONUS!
My commishes of someone that wanted SHAZAM! and GENUS, CAPTAIN MARVEL (the one i drew back in the days) sharing the same space. I figured it would be great to show them connected like Genus was with Rick Jones. And lastly , the commish i did for this, now i’m presuming, Venezuelan? brother who really wanted an ETERNITY drawing.
So i obliged!! Hope you likes!!
I figured since the first issue of Smallville:Detective has already hit the populace… and it’s doing really well!… and i think it’s time to shed some light on some things. Firstly, I’ve seen some blogs and some video reviews that think that Cat Staggs, the great and amazing painter, created the look for the Batman costume. Not only did i do that, but i created the different color mockups that would eventually be the born identitly of the Smallville Batman. Kinda proud of that too. 😀
I will post those as i go. Not only did i create Bat’s look but i created NightWing’s as well. Had fun with that one. Although, It was Bryan Q. Miller’s thought that Barbara Gordon as Nightwing… then it was indeed Stephanie Brown.. was to have purple hair. And since i didn’t want any Hit-Girl vibes, i opted for different color schemes… even if it won’t be shown on the pice i’ll post soon. But you’ll like the effort. I promise. Stay tuned.
I’m posting the penciled pages of the first issue. All ten. So you can get a feel for what it is i do on a page. What my process is. Some hand-drawn, some photoshop effects, some other stuff with other programs i’d rather keep as my Mother Sauce and out of prying eyes. Hey, we all gotta have our secrets! I want to post those ten pages and then post those in color without the dialogue in the next blog.
Now to answer a burning question… why doesn’t ChrisCross draw the characters of Smallville to look EXACTLY like the Smallville actors in the Teevee series? Good Question. It was what i was asking when they kept sending the pages back to retool because it looked EXACTLY like them.
And the best way to explain is this… i’m guessing there’s some contractual clause on the legalese of the Smallville actors and the WB’s/Time Warner contracts that alot for a certain stipend or royalties or some kind of permissive process that needs to be okayed in advance before anyone can draw the exact images of the actors themselves. SO drawing them without permission may cause some kind of legal action somewhere.
Don’t tell anyone,… that doesn’t stop me from getting one close-to-exact likeness in a panel here and there somewhere….
BUt when you read this, i hope that answered a ton concerning the “why Tom Welling isn’t being made to look like he does in Smallville.” i really want to, but i have to also explain how HARD it really is to maintain a character that’s patterned directly from a living being. And the amount of reference that has to be CONTINUOUSLY compiled. Gigs, man. GIIIIGZ…. 😀
Well, you can see from my images what fun i was having on the first ten pages. For you, Strictly in pencil in the grayscale format that’s monochromed the blue line in the original penciled pages. Also, if you notice, i have this thing about putting images between and behind panels as a psychological component. Give your mind something to see even when you’re not focusing on it. 😀 Yes. Your mind IS INDEED that smart. I like doing things like that. It’s art within art.
Hope you enjoy and i welcome any and all questions and comments about the process. Or just pop by to say hi.
I dont bite. 😀
I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but somehow I’m going to use these silly clothes as a costume for some superhero or villain. A man is only as good as his tools, yo. Hmm. Toooooolllzz. What a weird word.
And do is DEEZ jackets. 🙂
So I started working on Smallville:Detective in Late February , and it’s been some ride so far. A lot has happened in the midst of getting this book moving. But it’s finally out in the stores physically and it’s been shown in chapters through the digital comic publishing giant ,Comixology. I feel it’s time with this newer blog to start getting these pages out for y’all to see. I managed to get some of the produced pages without the dialog so you can see the art unfettered. I will also be putting the concept designs on this blog, too… To give you the idea of exactly how much work goes Into making this cool Smallville comic go! I’ll also post the pencils of the pages so you can see some of the process. It’s not purely digital, but it’s not purely old school paper-and-pencil, either. But I hope you enjoy the journey.
I’m guessing that the iconic cover of the Captain Marvel mythos is one that only I could create. I kid. 🙂 I don’t know if this was inspired by my cover, but I think if there’s yet another volume of CapMarv, and there’s another cover concept like this, I’ll be happily inclined to think so! 🙂
May I say thank you for peering at this new page! I’m restarting my new blog here and will be transferring a ton of material from other sites. I hope you’re patient with me as I get things together.
I’m presently getting my work done on the project SMALLVILLE : DETECTIVE, out now and ready to be read. I will be putting all that great stuff here and hope you will enjoy it.
Please stick around….. 😉
Cross
Just finished doing the first issue of the Spike Mini for IDW.
It’s called SPIKE:FAMILY FEUD.
A four issue jammy.
Seeing that Chris Ryall has already posted pages of the first ish on his site,
i guess they have no qualms about me doing the same. So i’ll post the three inked pages of what I and Marc Deering completed. It requires a lot of background drawing, but
i’m sure that people will like what they see.
Felix Seranno will be coloring the whole shebang, which is great because we’ve known each other almost twenty years and only worked together twice. That had to come to and end. He’s been around. His gig on the PITT mini and a TOP COW Darkness:FLAMES AND SHADOWS one-shot was some of his best stuff. He also colored a gig that Marc himself inked that will see the light of day finally called the Further Adventures of Miranda Mercury.
God knows if i got that title right.
So here’s some completed pencils and inks of the first issue.
Go out and buy it when it comes out!!!
Next time, i’ll use the virtual comic flipper thingy to show you the rest.
and as usually, hit the lavender. These other guys need play too. 😀
SO, i’m doing a miniseries for IDW called SPIKE.
You know who Spike is…. and if you don’t, you spent a great deal of the
’90’s in your closet. SPIKE of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.
I never thought i would be working on this character, nor
did i think that i would be working with IDW.
SO it goes to show that you should always keep your eyes open down the road because
you never know which street you may frequent. 😀
So i figure that it would be great to post some sketch headshots that Myself and Marc Deering did… just to see how we would gel… and it’s pretty cool.
I have to check to see when it’s coming out. I’m usually in my “cave” so i don’t check on those things. Usually busy just making deadlines. But as soon as i know i’ll post.
By the by, if the letters are in Lavender, click on it. 😀
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