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Three 6″X9″ watercolor & ink sketches by Colleen Coover are on eBay to benefit Comix 4 Sight! . You can view and bid on all of the items that are currently up for auction, here! Comix 4 Sight is a benefit to help veteran comics writer John Ostrander pay for surgeries not covered by his health insurance, but necessary to prevent his losing his sight to glaucoma. Bidding ends September 14, 2009 (20:05:38 PDT), so get on it! The final day at Periscope Studio for the Wolverine 100 Week featuring an illustration by Ron Chan.
The forth day at Periscope during the Wolverine 100 Week with a card by Rich Ellis done for The Hero Initiative.
Third day of the Wolverine 100 Week at Periscope Studio featuring a card by Jonathan Case done for The Hero Initiative.
The second day of Wolverine 100 week and we have a card by Ron Randall done for The Hero Initiative.
This is Wolverine 100 week at Periscope Studio! The Hero Initiative has received cover illustrations by Steve Lieber, Colleen Coover, Jeff Parker, and Dustin Weaver.
And although we ran out of blank covers the studio hasn’t run out of intiative with members providing cards and illustrations. Over on his Livejournal, Dustin has posted about creating this stunning piece for The Wolverine 100 project to benefit The Hero Initiative.
 Dustin Weaver's sketch cover of Wolverine-Weapon X for The Hero Initiative You can also see completed work by Colleen Coover and Steve Lieber and some preliminary sketch work by Jeff Parker. So while you’re wondering whether to go see that Beowulf movie, why not go pick up Ron Randall’s Beowulf adaptation for Lerner books:
And for those of you who’d like to contribute to the Bill Mantlo benefit,you can click on the button below: I passed on Chicago this year, as did the rest of Mercury Studios, so I don’t have much, or anything really, in the way of incidents or anecdotes to report. But here are a bunch of direct links to some swanky contributions to the Dave Cockrum benefit auction. Have fun browsing: Neal Adams | Sergio Aragones | Terry Austin | Mark Bagley | John Bogdanove | Steve Buccelleto | John Cassaday | Travis Charest | Darwyn Cooke | Alan Davis pencils | Robin Riggs’ inks over Davis | Mike Deodato | Will Eisner | Gary Frank | Dave Gibbons | Mike Grell | Phil Hester and Ande parks | Mike Kaluta and Bob Wiacek | Raphael Kayanan | Jim Lee | Steve Lieber (who?) | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez | David Mazzucchelli: The Beast | Mazzucchelli: Wolverine | Bob McLeod | Steve McNiven | Jerry Ordway | Sean Phillips | John Romita Sr. | Dave Sim | Walt Simonson | Ben Templesmith | Herb Trimpe | J.H.Williams The Comic Art Battle was a hoot. I’ll have some pictures and what recollections I can recollect in a day or so. And I’m glad to say that there are still more eleven-for-the-library lists. Keep them coming. Tangognat’s compiled list is going to be a very useful resource. I’ve already heard from a number of librarians about this. Scott R. at All Ages That last name is a new one in the blogosphere. David’s just started his own online timesink, Yet Another Comics Blog. Everyone must give him clicks and links. Andrea Speed of Comixtreme has interviewed Matthew Clark. Click now before she realizes what she’s done. Here’s an update on Dave Cockrum’s illness and recovery by Cockrum himself. Looks like things are going better, but he’s still got a long way to go. Those of you who are interested in helping out can order the tribute book . A few posts back I suggested that, for purely practical reasons, activist energy would be better spent on supporting black and white, creator-owned titles than full-color, work-for-hire, corporate books. Ken Lowery has taken this to heart. He and some other bloggers are giving away a pile of cool books and such to promote titles they think are worthy of your attention. This time around it’s Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s Demo. |
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