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I can finally share - my Zee & Strange (DrStrangetanna, it has been called) commission from Shawn McGuan!

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Sometimes, you get a piece of art and are left gobsmacked.

This NEEDS TO BE A COVER TO AN ONGOING SERIES ALREADY beauty from Shawn McGuan left me speechless. Could not be more Misfi-y if it tried.

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The annual Ed Asner Family Center Comic Art Auction is back on, and the ink original seen here is my contribution this year. I love X-Men and I love baseball and I love X-Men playing baseball.

The pre-bidding is on now, with the live auction happening 10/31/24, and you can find that at this link. Lots of rad art again this year (I even have my eye on at least one). Check it out!

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Here’s a Savage Land Rogue from another art challenge last October.

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Steve Ditko died 6 years ago today, so here’s a Spider-Man piece I drew last year for the Ed Asner Family Center Comic Art Auction featuring as many of his Rogues Gallery members as I could sneak in.

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Solve a murder in No-Tell Motel. Just don't get it wrong.

My new single-player TTRPG, No-Tell Motel, is now for sale in my online shop!

What does it look like, you ask? It looks like this:

The premise: You're the overnight clerk at a shady by-the-hour motel. Last night, one of your regulars murdered another one, and no one - least of all the cops - seems interested in finding out who did it or why.

So it's down to you. Night after night, use a deck of cards in a Solitaire-like spread to track who checks in and out of your motel, who they get entangled with, and sift through gossip to find out how they know each other - and get that much closer to finding out who did the deed.

Just be careful. As the nights wear on doubt will creep in, and evidence will start to point in multiple directions. Make the best case you can, because if you get it wrong - and you very much can - disaster follows.

No-Tell Motel is a 32-page black & white zine featuring a gorgeous cover and character art for 16 motel guests all by artist Shawn McGuan. All you need to play is the book, a deck of Poker cards, a six-sided die, and (optionally) the Dossier and Ledger available for free at the itch page.

"But Ken," you ask. "Can I get any memorabilia swiped from the crime scene?"

"Of course you can, you weird little goblin," I answer. "Here's how."

You can get the following items a la carte, or get every dang thing in the Employee Bundle (pictured above) for $32 right here.

The "Dice Tray" is, of course, for rolling dice and nothing else. Whatever else you do with the "Dice Tray" is between you and your night shift manager. Tin "Dice trays" are 5.4" in diameter and available right here.

It has four grooves to hold things that aren't dice. I have no opinion about what you do with those.

The Room 7 Keychain is exactly what it sounds like: the keychain for the room where the murder happened. It's 3.75" long high-quality plastic with hot stamp foil imprint on both sides. If you attach this to your keys, just be prepared to have an alibi. I know a guy. You can get yours here.

Also, all orders will get a couple-few Stellar Motel matchbooks thrown in until I run out, which shouldn't be for awhile. (I have like 2,000 of these!)

Sorry that's a lot of sales talk - I just personally follow a rule that I only make merch of stuff that I, personally, want. I wanted these things for myself, and they frankly kind of rock, and add a lot to the sleazy, winking atmosphere of No-Tell Motel. Hope you like them too.

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A Batgirl piece from the Pouchtober drawing challenge last October.

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Here’s another piece from last October, again from Rico Renzi’s Pouchtober. This one was actually my suggestion, because I kinda love that Teen Titans Go! redesign for Terra and I don’t know why?

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Just looking through my Tumblr and realizing I haven’t posted any recent art here in a year or so while I was busy trying to navigate the minefields of social media sites, experimenting with the upstarts while leaving billionaire-addled veteran sites and trying to determine which sites are trying to scrape my art for the dread AI. It’s exhausting and I hate everything. How are you?

Anyway, here’s a Tank Girl I drew last October for Rico Renzi’s “Pouchtober” art challenge. She was a blast to draw and play around with.

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My new Christmas tradition, drawing Michelle Monaghan from KISS KISS BANG BANG. Because DIE HARD-As-Hipster-Christmas-Flick has become too commercialized. (Also I wasn’t happy with last year’s drawing.) Anyway, Merry Whatever and what have you. #kisskissbangbang #michellemonaghan

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I drew the Airboy story for this issue, off a Chuck Dixon script. Never saw this cover art before, good stuff.

Tom Grindberg Airboy Presents Air Fighters #1 Unpublished Cover Original Art (Moonstone, 2011)

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/tom-grindberg-airboy-presents-air-fighters-1-unpublished-cover-original-art-moonstone-2011-/a/121506-12032.s

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Sometimes, you get a piece of art and are left gobsmacked.

This NEEDS TO BE A COVER TO AN ONGOING SERIES ALREADY beauty from Shawn McGuan left me speechless. Could not be more Misfi-y if it tried.

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Last drawing of 2022/First color project of 2023, featuring the original recipe Doom Patrol.

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Colored one of my Thor sketch covers from back in the summer, featuring the prominent ladies of Asgard from Walt Simonson's unparalleled run, because it's one of my favorites. (I also recently colored my Jane Foster Mighty Thor sketch cover, fyi)

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Threw some Photoshop at a Jane Foster/Mighty Thor sketch cover from earlier this summer.

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A color version of this year's submission to the annual Ed Asner Family Center charity comic art auction.

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Recent (pix 1-3) Thor and Thor-adjacent sketch covers, plus a few from years past.

#sketchcover #thor #MCU #marvelcomics #ladysif #sif #enchantress #lorelai #hela #valkyrie #janefoster #janefosterthor #galactus #silversurfer #thorbowski #captainamerica