#Tuesday Sketch: Buck Rogers

Just some quick sketches before bed for @Gonzalexx over at http://tuesday-sketch-2.tumblr.com

Doki doki panic=Super Mario 2

Ever wonder why the Super Mario 2 videogame on the original NES had a arabian theme. They decided to not release it in the US(not it is now available as a download for the Wii.)They actually took a game called Doki doki panic in japan, and re-skined it with the Mario crew, when the Super Mario 2 japanese version tanked... Here are some of the art for it...and a shot of Doki-doki in the actual game. To this day this videogame has my favorite designed characters: The Shy Guys... they are really well designed! Here is a shot of one in the back ground of my own comic: Beyond .

They are my favorite Mario villain even though they didn't start in a Mario game.

#Tuesday Sketch: Samus of Metroid

A riff on the original metroid...

and My full redesign for #tuesdaysketch at: http://tuesday-sketch-2.tumblr.com

Recommended reading list...

I was talking to Jonathan Rector about what would be on my recomended reading list, so here it is...It's not exhaustive but just browsing my bookshelf.

Non Superhero
Three Shadows(Pedrosa)
Blankets (Thompson)
Sandman(Gaiman)
Top 10 (Moore/Ha)
100 bullets (Azzarello/Rizzo)
Akira (Otomo)
Ghost in the Shell(Shiro)
Scott Pilgrim (O'malley)
Blade of the Immortal (Samura)
DMZ... (wood/Burchielli) still reading it now...

SUPERHERO COMICS
FF (Hickman)
Ultimate X(only because Art Adams is my favorite artist)

TPB
All-Star Superman(Morrison/Quietly)
Astonishing X-men (Joss Whedon's run)
New Frontier(Cook)
Hellboy(Mignola)
BPRD (Mignola/Davis)
Invincible(Kirkman/walker/Ottly)
Umbrella Academy (Way/Ba) (not sure if this counts as a superhero book)
Planet Hulk(Pak/Pagulayan)

Old school...
Watchman
Dark Knight Returns

More sketch cards

Drew a lot of these guys... Gotta work them into a story bad.
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Some Sketch cards

I did a whole bunch of these at KRC2011
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SpaceMonkey.NO

I like to participate in Kim Holm's online comic Space Monkey. Sending in little suggestions or sometimes not so little suggestions. At the end of the "first season" he was asking for suggestions on the shape of Space Monkey's new space ship... I submitted this design for the contest:

After some time he finally decided to put this design in the comic and sent me this amazing drawing as a prize for the help.


Thanks again Kim!
Love Space Monkey,
Bob

Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last

I have been enjoying re-watching the entire series of the "Twilight Zone" on netflix. My pal Marshall AKA Calmplex did this drawing of a Twilight Zone character from episode 7 "Lonely" I wanted to do one of my own so I did Burgess Meredith as Henry Bemis in "Time Enough at Last" Episode 8.

Some process stuff from Beyond

I had these up on the OxymoronPress site....

Check out the actual pages at Beyondcomic.com

Kids read comics 2011

I had so much fun at KRC2011 and I can not wait for next year.

with Jerzy Drozd

with Dan Mishkin.

With Denver Brubaker

with John Ostrander

A fan with fan art of the Martian Manhunter.

Here is all the comics I got at KRC...Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Astronaut Academy:zero gravity by Dave Roman
Scratch 9 by Rob Worley & Jason Kruse
Winters in Lavelle by Kasey Van Hise
Beyond the Canopy by Jonathan Griffiths
My life with a Meteor hunter and Tombs of the blind date by Mark Rudolph
Elsa & the New Fox and some minicomics by Jono Balliett
Green Monk by Brandon Dayton
Art Geek Zoo and some mini-comic by Rob Stenzinger
And Last but not least 4 twin J's by Natalia

KIDS READ COMICS!!!

We are off to Michigan this weekend to table at the "Kids Read Comics" Fare. I will be selling my Mini-comic "Ditto" and drawing sketchcards all day Saturday June 18th and Sunday June 19th.

Here is the Mini-Comic...

And Here is the begining of the Sketchcards. Hulk is done, starting on the Surfer. I guess Doc strange is next for my apparent Defenders love... Other Sci-fi subjects will be drawn.

Anyone in 100 miles from Ann Arbor Michigan should check out this awesome street fest of comics.

Later,
Bob