Pixu Cover Proof

Just got this in the emails yeterday from Brazil, hot off the press:



PRE-ORDER: PIXU #1
(streets 07/23)

part 1 of 2
Becky Cloonan, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Vasilis Lolos
Special limited edition, 1000 copies numbered and signed by all 4 authors.

Part one will be released on the San Diego Comic Con International. Part two will be out in September.

This is not going to be distributed by Diamond. If you're not going to San Diego and you want to save your copy of PIXU, it will only be available through KHEPRI.COM. They are already taking pre-orders.

http://www.khepri.com/16.html#pixu

Revenge of the Somnambulist (1)

This was a doodle that I was working on in the mornings to warm up. It's like doing art stretches before drawing laps. Anyway, I'd just work on this a little bit every morning until it was done a week or so ago. I hesitated to post it anywhere because it's not very well thought-out or well-rendered, but in the end it came out okay.

I've got a ton of little doodles lying around that I don't do anything with, so I decided to throw some colors on this and try to polish it up a bit.

I've been working on another Somnambulist/Revenge illustration for a while, but that one is a little more sophisticated and it needs a lot of attention; it's not much of a warm-up piece.

DEMO TPB out today!

Check out that awesome back cover! I got a box of comps in the mail, it's so weird to see everything printed full size. Plus the paper is thicker, and it makes the book look more impressive. I sat back and weiged it in my hand thinking, "Damn, I drew all that!"

Totally blew my mind!

PIXU

PIXU
2 part mini series
by: Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá.
Limited signed and numbered special edition, 1000 copy print run.

Part one will be released on the San Diego Comic Con International. Part two will be out in September.

This is not going to be distributed by Diamond. If you're not going to San Diego and you want to save your copy of PIXU, it will only be available through KHEPRI.COM. They are already taking pre-orders.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEE

Technically it was yesterday, since it's 3 AM as I type this. I worked my ass off the last several days and tomorrow I plan on having a good, old-fashioned day of REST. It might be a day late, but it's better than never!

My friends Melissa DeJesus, Vanessa Satone and Robin Ha came over on Sunday and we headed over to Hwan's apartment for a major drawing party, complete with sushi, snacks and sapporo. Mel stayed over night and we extended our comic party where we drew EVEN MORE COMICS!! All in all it was a great time, and what made it even better is that I got a cupcake aaaand I can unveil a long awaited and much anticipated cover...



Fabio just sent it to me tonight, and I couldn't wait- I just have to show everybody!!! This book is amazing, I love working with them and everybody busted their ass so hard on this book. I owe a big thanks to Fabio, Gabriel and Vasilis for making this experience possible. Oh man, I'm so excited! Excited and tired...

Zzzzz! Goodnight everybody! Tomorrow I'll wake up a year older, but inside I'll still feel like I'm 12 years old. :)







ps. I FUCKING LOVE COMICS!!!!!! I HAVE THE GREATEST FRIENDS EVER!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

New Rule: It's Okay Not To Be A Dick.

For the record: I don't appreciate rude comments. I don't care who it's directed at, I didn't start this blog to moderate assholes who want to use my blog in a disrespectful and inappropriate manor. I don't have much patience for that so please, don't waste my time. I've disabled comments on a few entries that I feel responses weren't necessary, but I'm always open to people's thoughts which is why, until now, I used to allow anonymous comments.

I don't get it. What makes people think they can mouth off on my blog? If you want so badly to say something get your own blog and say it, don't post it in an anonymous comment on mine. I track IPs anyway, so you're really not that anonymous. Ugh, I never thought I'd have to write something like this on my blog..

The Captain

Doodle warmup I did this morning before getting to work in photoshop. Nearing the date we ship out PIXU for San Diego, it's so exciting! That book looks incredible, it's probably the book I'm most proud of too. I'll have 16 pages in the first volume, which will be over 50 including all pages from Fabio, Vasilis and Gabriel. Volume Two looks to be a little big longer, but I'll get to that later.

Over here it's work as usual, I probably won't get any time off until mid-next week. Today I did some pretty good inking; I've had so much on my plate this week that I've brushed off almost everything else including laundry, dishes and grocery shopping! Yesterday it came down to oatmeal for the third day in a row when I broke down and finally made a trip to FOOD TOWN. (My grocery store has an awesome name, on par with the great FOOD DYNASTY in Queens and FOOD LION in Richmond.)

I'd also like to congratulate 2008's Harvey Award Nominees Vasilis Lolos (YAY!), Gabriel Ba, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Kazu Kibuishi! Good job, guys!