All Star Western #31 colour preview

These pages from All Star Western #31 appeared online overnight, so I figure it's safe to post them here too.


Script by Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti
Pencils & inks by Staz Johnson
Colours by Michael Atiyeh

On sale 28 May.

And yes... they ARE doing what you think they are.....

Pandora:Trinity Of Sin, art dump.

Last year I was tasked with helping out on the book Pandora; Trinity Of Sin for DC comics. Initially this just entailed providing thumbnails/layouts for regular penciller Francis Portella, however, eventually this progressed to doing full art on a few pages of a couple of issues.

Presented here are a scans of some of the work I did. I have decided to do full colour scans so you can see how I have utilised my blueline print out technique. Those of you have followed this blog for a while will be no doubt familiar with my process, for those who aren't, take a look here, which explains it in detail. The scans are shown in no particular order, other than I have grouped the layouts, the pencils & the inks together. Any questions/comments are welcome.

More old stuff.

Everything I've worked on recently is covered by one embargo or another (either official, or self imposed), so as a result there's not been anything I can post. To stop this blog grinding to a complete halt, here's some scans of old pencils that I had on my hard drive. When I say 'old' I mean scarily old.. as in over a decade old... jeez.

I Shot The Sheriff!

Well... DREW him actually.

This salty looking dude appears in issue #31 of All Star Western. Issue #30 (with the rather groovy cover by The Urban Barbarian (Dan Panosian) himself, pictured below, is in a comic shop near you now.

Iceberg Art Dump

Iceberg??? Yep! The body of work that most illustrators produce is like an iceberg, in that the bit most people see (the tip of the iceberg) is only a minor part of what actually gets done. To put it simply, that core goal of this blog from day one was to show that portion of the iceberg which usually stays below the water line.

So presented here, is a bunch of stuff I found in a box kicking around my studio. I almost never throw any sketches & prep work away, but by the same token, I don't keep it all nice & neat & in some kind of order.. they just get thrown in a drawer, or a box or something. So in this particular box was sketches from work I did fairly recently, alongside material from almost 30 year ago.It's presented here without individual explanations, if anyone sees something that they'd like to know more about, then ask in the comments section & I'll do my best to answer. Not that I'm expecting too many questions judging by the pitifully few comments this blog attracts on the whole.. ya bunch of ingrates!!.

Here's the art..