Comics Should Be Good asked artists “Whose work do you like?” Steve Lieber answered “Jonathan Case-the best comics artist you’ve never heard of.”

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Third day of the Wolverine 100 Week at Periscope Studio featuring a card by Jonathan Case done for The Hero Initiative.

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While still busily working on the graphic novels “Silence & Co” and “Anne Steelyard”, Ron Randall found the time to execute this new propoasl art, and Jonathan Case took time away from his goreous work on “Sea Freak” to add the colors:

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And here’s something more pleasant to post about. New art from Jonathan Case and Ron Chan.
Jonathan’s painted a surf guitar masterpiece that’s going to be on permanent display at a McMenamins here in Portland- the Kennedy School I think:

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The next is Ron Chan’s awesome drawing of Nathan Hale from Resistance 2:

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Periscope sends its congratulations to the 2008 Oregon Book Award winner, Sara Ryan! Sara won for her second novel The Rules for Hearts. As a comics writer, Sara has worked with a number of Periscope members, Ron Chan on Flytrap, Cat Ellis on Einbahnstrasse Waltz, Jonathan Case on the comics adaptation of Tori Amos’s song “Take to the Sky” for the recent Comic Book Tattoo collection, and on a variety of stories with her husband Steve Lieber. You can visit her blog and congratulate her.!
Photo of Sara having a discussion with a future reader courtesy of Stewart Loving-Gibbard.

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Here’s another acrylic piece Jonathan did over the weekend. Get out your secret decoder rings (aka Image/Rotate Canvas, etc, etc.)!

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Along with Jonathan Case, Paul Guinan did a painting for McMenamins. It’s at the Kennedy School’s Boiler Room Bar–yes, Paul’s robot Boilerplate is involved…

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Comics blogger Sean Kleefeld reviews the first three chapters of Jonathan Case’s Sea Freak, available for a limited time by snail mail for those who want a bigger sample of the upcoming graphic novel! Sean’s review was also linked at Journalista.

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PWCW: During your Agents of Atlas series in 2006-2007, you did a bit of viral marketing via the “Temple of Atlas” blog on the Marvel site. How did that come about? Do you see that as a precursor to the more extensive viral marketing that Marvel is doing now with things like Secret Invasion?

JP: Possibly, I need to ask them about that. As for more extensive… go back and read through what we did and see which one had more work behind it! We gave players a whole pulp novella online and two months of puzzles to solve, and had to coordinate with a dozen websites. And by “we” I mean “me.”

Laura Hudson interviews Jeff Parker for Publisher’s Weekly.

And at the 2K Games Bioshock blog:

To celebrate BioShock’s arrival to the PS3, I’m releasing a new wallpaper so you all can refresh your desktops with new a BioShock image. Hopefully this will help tide you over till the game gets into your hands.

This image came thanks to Jonathan Case…

Read more and download the screensaver.

(And then go read the first chapter of Jonathan’s awesome graphic novel Sea Freak.)

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Five days a week, Jonathan Case comes into Periscope, pulls out a gigantic sheet of 300 series bristol, puts his head down and gets to work drawing a comic you’ve never heard of. A lucky few have acquired the very limited editions he’s self-published of the three chapters, but for the most part, he’s been laboring in total obscurity.

I think it’s time for this obscurity to end. Go and read the first chapter of Sea Freak, “the tale of an atomic sea mutant in 1962 with a hunger for poetry and a taste for human flesh.” The story is creepy and funny and compelling, and the art is drop-dead gorgeous. See if you don’t find yourself wondering, as we all have here at Periscope, how the hell can a guy’s very first work be this insanely good?

Click the link. The time has come for this artist, like his creation, to emerge from the shadowy depths into the light of recognition.

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