New Gallery Images -- "Cold Metal War" "Your Move, Creep"

Two cyborgs for the price of one today:


Cold Metal War came out of a Terminator marathon I subjected my friend Chrissy to a while ago (she hadn't seen any of them); I got a future war image stuck in my head and had to get it out.


Your Move, Creep happened because some daring soul in the Poser community painstakingly modeled a really nicely-detailed, fully poseable cyborg police officer (called "FutureCop" for obvious reasons), and I couldn't pass up the chance to work up an image based on a character I'd actually written for.

October O'Neill - Finished Colours

I don't know what I'd do without Brian Haberlin's digital art tutorials. Half the techniques I used on this piece were from a CD I bought between starting and finishing it.

Introducing October O'Neill

Among the myriad other things that happened at the Toronto Comicon two weeks back, I managed to talk MR Comics publisher Steve Ballantyne (and, I think, myself) into letting me write and illustrate a new horror title.

October O'Neill: Everyday Is Halloween will be a self-contained one-shot "pilot". We're following a TV model here; if we like the response, we'll go ahead and make it a regular series. Steve was confident enough in the sales of horror comics in general to greenlight this with an untried illustrator (as opposed to sales on crime comics, which is why I'm doing October first instead of The Vengeance Machine), but once I showed him an illustration of October in action he was completely behind me.
I've been trying out some concepts to decide the look and tone of the book while writing the script. This is a work-in-progress of an image that occured to me while I was writing. It'll wind up as a pinup or something in the final book. Attila's agreed to do the cover and and illustrate a backup story, and Ty Templeton's editing.

Living Dead Joe

I should be working. Instead I spent my evening turning this:


into this:

I'm toying with the idea of turning this into an online side-business: you send me your digital photo, I send you back a picture of you as a zombie.

If you're reading this and it strikes you as something you'd be willing to throw down some bucks for, drop me a line or leave me some feedback in the comments section. And tell all your friends while you're at it. I'd appreciate it.