Oz Squad: March of the Tin Soldiers – Available NOW

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While Steve was waiting for me to finish illustrating the first issue of the new Oz Squad comic series he went and wrote an Oz Squad novel. As you can see, I did the cover illustration for it. I’ve also done a dozen interior illustrations. I’d intended to do more but this school thing is filling up most of my drawing time 🙂

The book available in various electronic formats at Smashwords. Until June 30th (2011) you can purchase it for $3.99 with the coupon code: VR38M

It’s also available in print at Lulu.com

Steve has an interview about the book and other projects at Jazma Online.

Portrait of a Nephew at Seventeen

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I’ve got four nephews. Three on my side of the family and one on Nizzibet’s side. I did a portrait of the one on Nizzibet’s side a few years ago when I sent out a series of postcards to friends and family around the country. He’s grown quite a bit since then and asked me to do an updated version.

He asked me to keep the outfit the same but to have his hands giving the ^^^ sign. I had to ask him to send me a photo of him demonstrating that. I have no idea what it means. If he’s calling for the destruction of Western Civilization don’t tell me.

Once he’d confirmed that I had portrayed his hand signs accurately I inked it up and then sent it to Photoshop for coloring. The white space around his hands was to make it easier for me to add the lettering to his t-shirt.

And there you go. Another young man out to make his mark on the world. And calling for the destruction of Western Civilization. Or something.

It’s All in the Set Decoration

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Amazing Spider-Man #103 is the first comic book I ever bought. It’s also the both the first story and the first comic I can remember reading. In all likelihood my mom bought it for me but I know I bought each subsequent issue myself. My brother and I got small monthly allowances and most of mine went to buying Spider-Man each month. The date on the cover is December 1971. Since magazines post dated their issues by about four months that issue was probably on the stands in September. I would have been a little more than seven years old. I’d obviously read other stories prior to this one – after all, I knew how to read. But this is the story that made its mark. If you look at the type of things I draw and the sorts of stories read then Spider-Man #103 looks like a big sign post pointing me toward those interests.

Been a While

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So.

School.

I’m in the thick of it. I’m taking four classes – 16 credits – a Math class, a Math Study Skills class, an Intro to Networking class and a Web Authoring class.

We’re ending the seventh week of classes and so far I seem to doing well in Math, Math Study Skills (a class that was mandatory with Math) and Web Authoring. Some of what I’ve been doing in that last class can be found on my student website here. Look while you can. That link will probably go away once the class ends.

I just took my (late) midterm in Networking. This is the first test we’ve had and I can’t really say how I did. It was 50 true/false questions. Open notes. My notes were not as thorough as I would have liked and I don’t know how tricky the teacher was being when he wrote the questions. Some of them are almost true except for one little piece of info. Or maybe that piece of info was in the book and I missed it. Networking is only on Tuesday and Thursdays so I’ll have to wait until next week to find out how I did.

Distinguished Company

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Coming soon from Aklo Press, the AKLONOMICON!

I’m not sure when the publication date is yet but “soon” is a safe prediction. A table of contents for this massive book (edited by Ivan McCann and Joseph S. Pulver) was just announced. Take a gander –

AKLONOMICON TABLE OF CONTENTS

DAVE CARSON COVERS

ANDREA BONAZZI FRONTISPIECE

“CAPTURED IN OILS” BY SIMON STRANTZAS WITH ART BY IVAN MCCANN

“HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN” BY EDWARD MORRIS WITH ART BY STEVE LINES

“TRUCKEE STOMP”, “CRACK”, “FEDERAL MANHUNT..”, “FINISHED WITH SANDBURG” POEMS BY LAIRD BARRON WITH ART BY JD BUSCH

“THE GIRLS OF THE WORLD” BY LIVIA LLEWELLYN WITH ART BY KIRILL ROZHKOV

MIKE DUBISCH ART WITH TEXT BY JOE PULVER

“SWAMP DREAMS” BY ROBIN SPRIGGS WITH ART BY ROB SMITTS

“FLUTES” BY T.E. GRAU WITH ART BY PAUL CARRICK

“LETTERS TO G.G.” POEMS BY B.R. JORDING WITH ART BY JASON ROBERTS

“NIGHTMARES IN A PAMPINIFORM MIND” BY JORDAN KRALL WITH ART BY ERIC REINERT

“TIME AND FOREVER” POEM BY JOE PULVER AND TARA VANFLOWER WITH ART BY DANIELE SERRA

“NEVER CALL ANUBIS LOKI’S ROBOTS CHEAP SHIT” BY JOE PULVER, GARRETT COOK AND JORDAN KRALL WITH ART BY NICK GUCKER

“THE BOOK” COMIC BY MICHAEL ZIGERLIG

“HEAD SOUP” BY JOHNNY MAINS WITH ART BY IVAN MCCANN

“WHEN SHE SHINES, POEMS… LIKE CHALICES” POEM BY NOVA RUPERTUS AND JOE PULVER

“COUNTERCLOCKWISE” BY JEFF THOMAS WITH ART BY ERIC YORK

“BRIAN’S GIRL” BY GARRETT COOK WITH ART BY JACOB PARMENTIER

“SILVER NIGHT TRAIN” AND “THE GOD OF SUBURBIA” POEMS BY LIVIA LLEWELLYN WITH ART BY KIRILL ROZHKOV

“NYARLATHOTEP PAINTING” BY ANN KOI WITH TEXT BY JOE PULVER

“IN THE CAVE SHE SANG” BY T.E. GRAU WITH ART BY PAUL CARRICK

“KRISTAMAS AS AN EXHIBITION” PHOTOS BY KRISTAMAS KLOUSCH AND TEXT BY JOE PULVER

“ANA KAI TANGATA” BY SCOTT NICOLAY WITH ART BY JD BUSCH

“THE HANDS OF SOPIALE” TEXT AND ART BY J KARL BOGARTTE

“LORD OF THE HUNT” BY LIVIA LLEWELLYN WITH ART BY DANIELE SERRA

“DARK OUTCOME” BY STAN SARGENT WITH ART BY TOM MORAN

“IF COMPANY SHOULD COME” BY ED MORRIS WITH ART BY DAVID LEE INGERSOLL

“WHISPERERS” BY DANIEL MILLS WITH ART BY DAVID LEE INGERSOLL

“FAINT BAYING FROM AFAR” BY RICHARD GAVIN WITH ART BY DAVE CARSON

“ZYGOTE’S FABLES” BY ERIC YORK scattered throughout the anthology.

Stay tuned!

Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?

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The Yellow Sign Challenge Coin went on sale today. The what? Yellow Sign Challenge Coin from Dagon Industries. The front features the Kevin Ross designed Yellow Sign. The back is view of Carcosa based on an illustration by me.

Above is the original sketch I submitted to Jarred, my handler, at Dagon Industries. It’s based on the version of Carcosa that was in the background of the King in Yellow poker chip I did for DI a few years ago. Jarred liked it but wanted a couple of changes.

This is the second sketch. Gone is the creature in the lake and the towers have been moved to the center of the image. Jarred approved this version.

Once the sketch was approved I inked it. For you art geeks out there I do most of my inking with a No. 4 round brush (I forget which brand). For some of the smaller fine details I’ll use an .02 point Micron pen. I’m pretty sure I used a pen for the reflection.


And then the coin magically appeared.

Okay. Probably there was more work involved than that but since I wasn’t there it seems pretty magical to me.