Complete Pinups and Issue Three!

As promised (now that I am regrouping from Chicago) I have got my files together and issue three is available on the site! With that, I feel it only makes sense to share the full pinups from the issue as well and I couldn’t be more pleased to do so.

As I said before, I love Dave’s work and it was great to get to see someone else draw my characters. I haven’t really had the pleasure before so it was cool to see the attention that was paid to all the little details. Each little thing was like, “Hey, he noticed that! Awesome.”

Pinup by David Petersen

Nate’s piece also floored me for some of the same reasons but with different elements. Each piece of the composition is familiar to me but new when presented as a pulp-style poster, with scenes from issue one arranged throughout.

Pinup by Nate Pride

I’d also like to extend warm greetings to anyone checking out the site this week that did me the kindness of stopping by my table over the weekend. If you’re new to the site, or unfamiliar with my work, I highly recommend checking out the gallery and the first three issues of DRAFTED. These are the areas where I have cleverly hidden the content of the site.

Seriously though, Chicago Comic Con was great and I am currently working on a sort of show-summary-highlights-post, but I’d like to collect a few links first and that is taking some time.

More to come on this later.

DRAFTED: Issue Three – Lost! Now available!

I now have in front of me a plain but very attractive card board box full of DRAFTED: Issue Three – Lost!

After great effort, and many late nights, these puppies are finally in my possession and just in time for the Wizard World Chicago Comic Convention. Did I mention I will be going? I did? Well, I am. Issue Three will be coming with me.

This issue has been a really long haul. In the space of time it took me to complete the issue:

1. I got married
2. I became a Father
3. I bought a house

When I put it that way it surprises me that it only took a year of my life. It’s been quite a year and I don’t think I can take another one like it. Not in a row anyway.

Just in case you don’t happen to be in or around Chicago this weekend, I will also be making Issue Three available online shortly after the show. For those of you who are collectors or want to show of your “Fan” status or just feel like supporting my compulsion, Issue Three is also available in the store.

Pinup Announcement: Nate Pride

With issue three safely on the way to the printers, I am excited to let the word out that it will also feature an incredible pinup from Nate Pride. I’m a big fan of Nate’s work. His recent projects include a fully illustrated volume of Jules Verne from Barnes & Noble and an installment in Mouse Guard’s Legends of the Guard Series. Whatever he is working on, you can be sure that his take on it will be a little different, so I was really eager to see what he would do with DRAFTED.

He did not disappoint.

I can hardly restrain myself from posting the whole thing, but for now the teaser will have to do. It’s a good thing Issue Three will be available as early as next week, because I don’t think I can sit on this stuff for any longer than that.

My hope is that I can keep posting material of this quality for long enough that visiting the site will become a pavlovian exercise. When you see the link to the latest post, you will begin to salivate reflexively.