Happy Birthday Joker!

[Eddy]

This one was done in Melbourne, Australia for one fan as a birthday gift for his brother. After I shot the video, Jim also went back to add some more pencil shading on the face too.

Not bad for a free sketch, huh?

A Tribute to Michael Turner

[Eddy]

UPDATE: Today's signing has been postponed due to local fires. A new date will be rescheduled soon.

Join us at Golden Apple tomorrow for a tribute to Michael Turner from 1:00-5:00pm. All of the following creators will be there to celebrate and honor Turner's memory:

Jeph Loeb
Talent Caldwell
Alé Garza
Joe Benitez
Frank Mastromauro
Vince Hernandez
Peter Steigerwald
Beth Sotelo
JT Krul
David Wohl
JJ Kirby
Oliver Nome
Eddie Nuñez
Joel Gomez
Marc Andreyko

Golden Apple Valley
8967 Reseda Blvd. (S. of Nordhoff)
Northridge, Ca 91324
(818) 993-7804

And if you can't make it out to the event, be sure to pick up a copy of "A Tribute to Michael Turner" to see more art and personal remembrances.

Deathblow 4 Life!

[Eddy]

Fans waiting in line usually open their comic bags to get something signed, but one dedicated New Zealander took off his shirt for Jim's signature. He quickly turned around to reveal a Deathblow #0 tattoo and wanted to add Jim's signature right underneath.

After that, he left the show to get it tattooed ASAP to preserve the signature as much as he could. He came back a couple days later to proudly show off the freshly-inked tattoo making him a Jim Lee fan for life!

Cheers, Mate!

[Pictured from top to bottom: Livio Ramondelli, Eddie Nuñez, Jim Lee, JJ Kirby, Sandra Hope and Joel Gomez]

[Eddy]

And we're back!

From cave rafting and jumping off a tall building to diving in the Great Barrier Reef and hugging Koala bears, it's been two non-stop weeks for us traveling overseas to New Zealand and Australia for back-to-back conventions thanks to the fine folks at Armageddon Expo! Tons of new faces and places greeting us along the way and we've got all the pictures to prove it!

Keep checking back to see more pics while we get caught up with work, family and sleep!

In Honor of Michael Turner...

(entry Oliver)

Hello everyone, here is a piece I did of Michael Turner's character Aspen for his "Tribute" book out today. Buy it, it's an awesome book! I would like to thank everyone at Aspen Comics for letting me be a part of this amazing project with the likes of Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Joe Madureira, J. Scott Campbell and tons of other great artists and writers that I admire and am a fan of. Michael Turner was one of my favorite artists and with "Fathom", especially that first arc, I feel he was one of the artist's that started the "widescreen, cinematic" trend and his attention to detail, especially backgrounds, has influenced me a great deal. My only regret is that I didn't get the chance to know him personally but the good thing is that he was such a prolific artist that I along with everyone else will have his art to enjoy forever.

Please go out and get yourself a copy!

Hope you enjoy:)

Superman Breaking Chains

[jimlee]

After Neal Adams

Thought I'd scan this in progress...the legs were too big and long in the previous rough so I shortened em. Shrunk arms and chest too.

Thought I was done but the bottom half of Superman looked too light...

Done! Look for a larger version of this in Absolute Superman: For Tomorrow coming out in 2009!

Homage

[Nuñez]

Hello everyone, here's a commission I did over the weekend. I was asked to do an homage of Jim's Uncanny X-Men #268 cover. The crazy thing about doing this piece was that the layout was already there, yet trying to get it right was still a little tricky for me.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the turnout of this piece and it was really fun to do. I just hope the fan enjoys it as much as I did. :)

Peace out.

Joel Hex

[Joel]

I'm a big fan of the Spaghetti Western...Fistfull of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Hang 'em High...there was always something so visceral about the characterization, the reluctant hero as it were- that made these people such over-the-top bad-asses...as a kid,these characters were fascinating and scary to me at the same time...kind of unpredictable.

I have recently been enjoying the Jonah Hex stories Justin Grey, Jimmy Palmiotti,and Darwyn Cooke have been telling...visceral, exciting, and over the top. It reminds me of those Spaghetti Westerns, and how things aren't always so black and white, just as in life, people and situations can be unpredictable.

JOEL

Enchanted...

[Oliver]

Hello everyone, hope all is well.

Here is an Enchantress commission that I did recently for a fan in New York. He just wanted something sexy of course and all he asked was that i try to fit in Thor's hammer in the piece somewhere.

Hope you like and have a great weekend!

Carlitos' Toy Fund!!!

[Carlitos]

Waddup Y'alls, howzit going?!? ... I'd did these two pieces two or three months ago... actually, the 'Ikarus' piece I started a while back, but had lost it, and found it recently under a pile of books, so I decided I might as well finish it and give it a bit of color.

The Ikarus piece I had actually started doing when "the Eternals" series was coming out.... anything that is remotely 'Kirbyesque' I am DOWN with... I just love the chunky aesthetic that all of this character designs had... for some damn reason, you just never get bored of drawing characters that he designed.... my theory always boils down to the BIG shapes that he would use on everything... there's nothing subtle about Kirby's design sense, and that always makes for a great 'starting point' when doing one's take of someone else's characters.

The 'Hulk vs. Spidey" was a 'change of pace' piece.... at the time, I was knee-deep in designing the "Batman: Arkham Asylum" game, and mentally, I just needed to draw something a little different to switch 'brain-gears'.... I was probably looking at the Michael Golden "Marvel Fanfare" issue when I did this! ....I also love drawing on the grey paper because it forces you to think more about what you are drawing, since you really do need to add brighter areas and highlights to make it work, if not, the piece just turns out too dark.... so yeah, this is a good way to test out how well you know 'surface anatomy' :)

...aaaand anyway, anybody interested in contributing to the "Carlos Toy Fund', these two li'l bastards are for sale if any of you kind Ladies and Gentlemen are interested! (^_^) peace Y'allz Carlitos¬¬¬