Sweat Teaser

Super excited about this story with my friend, Corey. We have been working on this for a while, due largely to life getting in the way, but it's so close to being done now. So, here's a rough teaser of the teaser....

Wuf,

Jams

Dark of Artness

I was lucky enough to collaborate with El Roho on a mini called "Darkful," which he premiered two weeks ago at MICE. His pencils, my inks, telecommed all the way. His work is imaginative, and he has some of the freshest panel layouts I've seen. Really looking forward to possible future collaborations. Also, you can buy a pdf of the comic here.

I started working on the art right after moving to Durham, and rigged up a "light-box" using photo frames and lamps. I still prefer taping pages to the window, but I saw some overhead projectors today at a thrift shop, so I might invest in one. Ultimately, I need to build a lightbox. and a screen print set-up, and a darkroom...

Keep dreamin',
-Jam

sketch

My sketchbook habits are so erratic. Sometimes it's like I'm leaving doodles like surprises for myself through the book, just waiting to be wrecked with ink some weeks later. Much of it is probably indecipherable for anyone save myself. Often, just figuring out perspective, plotting action, images and figures crammed over one another, jammed onto a page.

Then, big, wide, open pages. Like I'm preserving the image.

And, sometimes, I am. A handheld museum of the mind, an assemblage of my best and worst kept secrets.

and some other odds and ends...

-Jam

Mad Dash!

Warm-up of Frank Einstein doing his hero thing.

-Jams

Game of Thorn

Thorn Harvestar.

Daily Takaya

If Ultraman hooked me, then it was the Guyver that reeled me in. Takaya's creation is not only wildly imaginative, but continuously accessible, having been adapted to animation 3 separate times, and twice to live action. However, the character remains virtually unknown, save for minor cult status world wide. Sadly, only the first 7 or so volumes (out of 20+) have been translated into English.

His art always floored me, the simplicity of his character design juxtaposed with the sometimes chaotic zoanoids, but ever shot of the Guyver units, whether action or still, is just drenched in cool. And, slightly intimidating. I started trying to draw Guyver I when I was 12 or so, and worked at it until I had something of which I wasn't ashamed. Feeling I'd hit my peak, I never tried to draw him again, until now.

The OAV "Out of Control" is not bad, and, despite descending into tentacle porn depths and reusing footage even though it's only an hour long, is awesomely gruesome. Both "Bio-Boosted Armor" series are pretty fantastic, and the version from the 80's takes some interesting directions with Takaya's original story. Ultimately, the manga is king, and the best introduction to the character.

The live action movies are entertaining, but plenty has been written about them, so I'll leave you with only this thought: Mark Hamill's Moustache.

Bio-Boost!

-Jams

Estre sketch

A sketch of Estre in her space get-up. For the uninitiated, this is probably bordering on very abstract, but most of my art is like that.

Worry not. Soon, everyone will be initiated.

Cue the ominous chuckling to self...

-Jams

Ultra sketchy

Dipped back into a long-time obsession with this wash test. Feel like a color version is in the works at some point.

-Jams

Meathaus'd

I sent a package of comics to the chaps at Meathaus, and they published it with a sneak peak of my enclosed goodies. So awesome to appear on the blog that has been inspiring me for years, along with  the up-and-comers and champions.

Anyway, check out the post here.

Thanks again to Chris and Josh.

-Jams

More i-pod comics...

Daily

Today gets three posts, because I haven't seen the internet since my last update.

-Jam