Frontiersmerch

Check out the frontiersman on a shirt. The first of many prints and shirts that will become available through Society 6 and other vendors and locations.

-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

Commissions

I added commission guidelines to the blog(after changing the address and title), so now you can tell me what to draw and pay for it easily. Check out my bigcartel for options.

Let me draw for you!

-Jams

Terry Paneled

Moving is not for the meek. But, before I went on the road, I did up a little Caniff tribute. Mr. Vukojevich was nice enough to display it here. It's strange to try and find a rhythm in a new place, but I've become initiated to juggling a work flow in transit. Even finding a few seconds to draw here and there is like a little triumph. But, I get good vibes from Durham, so we'll see what I can come up with.

More to come,

-Jams

daily supes

I have had a hankering to see Donner's re-cut Superman II, especially after re-watching S:TM with mi querida. The colors in that movie still pop and crackle, and I feel like Donner was specifically mindful of the cape, because it is doubly the most outlandish component of his costume, and the most compelling. Without the cape, it can't work.

This actually mirrors the climax of the movie for me, in that I love the scene of Clark re-building the decimated fault-line(again, the color in that sequence is wonderful), but it is immediately followed by his jumping the shark around the world so fast is spins backwards through time. Everything had been so grounded (and, goofy) up to that point.

However, despite that Supes has never tried this before, and even if he thought he could pull it off, the attempt could have devastating results, (and if successful, give him the ability to alter the course of human history, something he has sworn to never do), he still makes the decision with barely a moment of hesitation, and a look of "so fucking be it, destiny."

And of course, the cape always looked good. and, maybe, I have a thing for capes.

 -Jams

Terry Daily

So, obviously been digging into the hardcover Caniff recently, and ended up with a Sakai(esque) Terry below. Which, is probably better than the jerry-curl Terry above. Maybe he should talk to Tintin about hair care.

Imagine a time when Terry and the Pirates appeared in your daily paper. Of course, there are several great comics appearing several times a week, which can be viewed without even having to leave the bed, but there are so few good adventure strips, much less in the newspapers. And, even fewer Caniff's out there.

-Jams

Kaiju Press

The kaiju is risen:

http://linguafrancacomics.tumblr.com/

Yeah, I started a tumblr. Will I be any more consistent with updating the tumblr? Who knows, but it should be a fun experiment.

-Jams