November 18, 2005
Mouse Guard
Not much time to write, but I wanted to let readers know that fellow EMU grad David Peterson has his very own comic out! It's called Mouse Guard, and is published by Archaia Press, which is the publishing house of Mark Smylie, the ubertalented creator of Artesia. It's in full-color, too! The art was great when it was black and white, but it's even purtier in color, and it's easier to tell the heroes apart.
Mouse Guard even got highlighted as a Staff Pick in this month's PREVIEWS. Good taste, Filip!
Readers of the Vögelein graphic novel may remember David as the artist who had the wonderful pinup of a smiling Vögelein holding the arm of a grumpy Duskie, surrounded by a swirling field of stars.
David's heap-big talented, and everyone should order Mouse Guard. Now. I have a page of his art from the first issue framed and hanging in our entranceway.
Yay, Local Artists! Woo!
| Comments (0)November 12, 2005
Mucha! Mucha!
It's no secret that I lurve Alphonse Mucha's work, so when a longtime patron, the ever-kind David Morris, commissioned a Mucha-style Vögelein painting for me, I literally jumped at the chance. Ooo! I actually get paid to do a painting I've wanted to do for years! And get to sell prints!
I haven't got the painting done, but since poor David's been waiting since May for me to get my sorry carcass moving on the design, I figure he -- and by proxy, the rest of you guys -- deserve a sneak peek at the inks. Here ya go:
Purty, non? I can't wait to get it painted. See, David? I really actually did it!
