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[14 May 2012|11:06am] |
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Mirrored from Colleen Coover.
 Quick! I don’t know how long this coupon is good for!
My gay prose romance short story Home Port is available from Kobo for 50% off with the coupon code Regg50us36
DRM free, so you can read it on whatever you read ebooks on.
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| Meanwhile… |
[11 May 2012|11:26am] |
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Mirrored from Colleen Coover.  This week on the Sindiecate: Butcher Baker by Joe Casey and Mike Huddleston. When I’m not busy encouraging the Internet to reimagine a meeting between clawed mutants and legendary rock gods, you can find me:
- Preparing for Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC, June 22-24. Accepting pre-orders for con sketches now!
- Updating weekly to the Sindiecate art blog!
- Working on a follow-up story to my prose romance short story, Home Port. I’m not sure when I’m gonna finish this one, but it’s dear to my heart, so slow and steady!
- Watching the digital sales of my solo horror story, Rose’s Heart, as one half of the Double Feature app’s Horror #3 issue!
- Checking out the other horror story, this one written by Jeff Parker, Nineteen in Creepy Quarterly #8 from Dark Horse. In stores everywhere.
- Developing a new comics story with Paul Tobin, to be announced this summer!
- Speaking of Paul, his debut prose novel Prepare to Die! has been given a starred review by Publisher’s Weekly, and is available in hardcover NOW from Amazon.com!
 Prepare To Die!  Double Feature Horror 3 All this in addition to a couple of comic book covers, a book cover, some illustration work… That’s what I’m up to.
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| Heroes Con 2012 |
[24 Apr 2012|10:55am] |
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Mirrored from Colleen Coover.  It’s now officially official that Paul Tobin and I will be guests at Heroes Con 2012 in Charlotte, NC this June 22-24!
 A color pre-ordered sketch from Emerald City Comic Con 2012 As I did for Emerald City Comic Con last month, I will be taking pre-ordered sketch requests. Pre-ordering is highly recommended, because I can only handle a very limited number of sketches on site. Also, pre-orders measure 9″X12″ and color is available, while on site sketches are 6″X9″ an black & white only. To make a pre-order request, write me at colleencoovermarket {at} gmail {dot} com. PayPal accepted.
Pre-order pricing:
Black & white, single figure: $60
Color, single figure: $90
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| Mercury Rising |
[23 Apr 2012|02:26am] |
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Mirrored from Colleen Coover. Two years ago, former Marvel Comics bullpen member Steve Bunche posted a comics try-out page submitted to Marvel in the 1990s by an unknown hopeful. The page, while lacking in polish and technique, nevertheless had very clear storytelling, and, as Bunche notes in his blog post: “While this guy would never have gotten work in a professional comic as a penciller, I have to admire his talent for creating an instant classic of a non sequitor:”
 artist unknown You are not imagining this. Wolverine stalks through the wilderness, searching for we know not what, and finds the late Freddie Mercury, frontman of the band Queen.
The page has since been rattling around on the Internet, occasionally reposted and retweeted, chuckled over and admired by people like my studiomate Jeff Parker, which is how I originally became aware of it. And it just kind of got stuck in my head. For TWO YEARS.
The story as presented raises a number of questions. What is Wolverine looking for? Agents of AIM? Peace and solitude? Or, as my other studiomate Memorial artist Rich Ellis suggested: is he looking to find Somebody To Love?
And how and why does Freddie Mercury appear at the end of his search? Was his tragically fatal illness miraculously cured, perhaps by an alien symbiote? Has he just returned from sailing the Seven Seas of Rhye? Or more simply and perhaps most logically, has Logan found himself in the presence of the worldly manifestation of a literal God of Rock?
And so, I have decided to explore these mysteries by recreating the original story, correcting some of the technical blunders on the way. I invite other artists to do the same, by which exercise we may one day come close to the fictional Truth of the matter.
 My recreation of the original story.
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| Creepy! |
[05 Apr 2012|12:49pm] |
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Mirrored from Colleen Coover. Creepy Quarterly #8 came out yesterday, featuring (among other creepy things) a horror story by my old X-Men First Class partner Jeff Parker and ME. One page in particular was a bit of a challenge to lay out, so Parker just did what he does, grabbed a pencil and sketched it for me. Check it out (click on the images to enlargify):
 Rough sketch by Jeff Parker  My layouts, drawn digitally in Manga Studio  Final art in ink wash on paper |
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| Double Feature Horror #3: Available now! |
[26 Mar 2012|12:05pm] |
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Mirrored from Colleen Coover.  From Double Feature Comics! TWO comics stories for $.99!
DoubleFeature brings you the best in illustrated short stories every month!
Have a taste of the macabre with your March. DoubleFeature presents:
ROSE’S HEART
by Colleen Coover [ME!]
Rose’s ambitions have lead her into the dark woods, alone. But what she finds there will reveal the true nature of those around her.
THE DEAKBREAKERS
Prom Date From Hell
by Brendan Hay
with art by Nate Watson
Sold your soul to hell and regret it? You’re not alone. But now there’s a way out. The Dealbreakers! Your number one soul retrieval experts.
Also available (with extra features) via DoubleFeature’s iPad app. Check it out!
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| Wednesday Sindiecate: ElfQuest |
[21 Mar 2012|11:22am] |
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Mirrored from Colleen Coover.  This week on the Sindiecate:
Richard and Wendy Pini’s ElfQuest is pretty much without question the comic that put me firmly on the road to becoming a professional comic artist, though there was no way for me to know it at the time. It was the first independent comic I followed with any regularity, and it introduced me to the aesthetic of Japanese comics more than a decade before I ever heard the word manga. ElfQuest was an original, fully realized fantasy. Wendy Pini’s art had clear storytelling and great acting, which informs my own work today. And it was girly as hell; pretty, sexy, and romantic (looking back now, awfully slashy, too). I owe a profound debt of gratitude to the Pinis for helping to pave the path my life has taken.
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