Philadelphia Cartoonist Society Pages

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Beer Sketches


Hey PCS folks! It's been a while since I've posted, and I wanted to get back to contributing. I thought, what better project to share with this crowd then a set of beer cards I'm working on. It's absolutely for personal enjoyment, something to do in between projects, that I hope to finish up soon.

Beer is something that I've tried to educate myself about over the past few years – learning about the many styles, processes and traditions – and we're in a great place for it. Philadelphia has an outstanding beer culture that includes top notch breweries, amazing bars and wonderfully knowledgable people within both. Over the years, I've read a lot about the subject and tried to relate what I'm reading to what I'm tasting. And after all, isn't that the fun part? With all that in mind, I wanted to represent something of the history behind these different styles. The finishes may wind up being printed as labels and photographed as a group, but for now I hope you guys dig the sketches.

Lanterns


Last week was a light week for me as I waited on approvals and scripts to come in, so I decided to work on a little something that's been sitting in my sketchbook for a while now...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Dangerous Nuts


My first love was newspaper comic strips (can you guess which one I favored?). My second love was super-hero comics, especially Marvel's "Fantastic Four" (which led John Byrne to create what analogous super team?).

I've mashed up my favorites to get this team snapshot. Not totally thrilled with the composition, but inspiration struck and took root, so I rushed to get things done, working in spurts around other priorities. Still, it was a challenge, finding a balance between two very different art styles (one of extreme minimalism, the other of extreme detail), hence the flat colors and dearth of modeling.

Most important, I had FUN, so I thought I'd share.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Helheim


This spring, I was asked by the folks over at Strange Kids Club to contribute to their Halloween anthology.



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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

PACC and PCS on Bleeding Cool!

My wife Tina reports from The Philadelphia Alternative Comic Convention and shares some love for PCS. Read it HERE!!!

Also covered at The Beat!!!