Page 18 is another page from one of my sketch books. This one also features new lettering and more “digital surgery.” I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that the ambulance in the bottom left corner is on loan from a 3 hour comic book challenge that I participated in a few months ago. […]
This page comes from a time when I was attempting to ape the style of James O’Barr of The Crow. I have always been a fan of cross hatching, but I have since adopted a cleaner style as evidenced by digital “surgery” in the upper left of this page. Here, our hero comments on the plot […]
I have been doing more experimenting with re-doing my original attempts to publish this comic. For a look at my first attempt check out castlecomics@tumblr.com. Back in those days, I was still using my stick down lettering and hand drawing the balloons. This page is a bit of a nod to the old Batman TV […]
The hero revealed! Pg. 15 represents many attempts to get it right. For the full story behind this page, check out castlecomics@tumblr.com or @Castlecomics11 over on Twitter. One of the cool things about working digitally is that I no longer have to live with pages that didn’t quite measure up in my mind of how […]
Ok, confession time. This page is every bullied kid’s fantasy. While I personally didn’t encounter too much bullying in junior high, there were a few, ahem, interesting kids to whom I harbored Walter Mitty like fantasies of dispatching with my new found superpowers. These thoughts are especially chilling in light of the school shootings that […]
Ah. The nightmare! This page comes from 2002, inked in 2013. I was doing some really cool things with layouts at the time. In 2002, I finally decided to just draw my story whether I could render it the way I saw it or not. Just tell the story I said to myself. And I […]
Ah! Another “Frankenpage.” This page had quite a bit of digital “surgery” in the lower left corner. The other “boo boo” I made was the German spelling of nein. I originally spelled it “nine.” And up that went in the dreaded comic sans onto Tumblr. It stayed misspelled for about a year before a friend […]
This is what I call a “Frankenpage.” So this was my process: I drew this page in late 2002 in an 81/2 by 11 inch sketch book. Rather than re-draw it, I enlarged it to 11 x 17 on a copy machine. This was 2012. I than inked the page by hand and lettered it […]
In response to criticism about the villain of Basic Instinct being a lesbian, Michael Douglass had this to say: “Someone has to be the bad guy and it can’t always be the Italians.” Vying for the top spot of most overused bad guy in film, literature or comics is no doubt the Nazis. It is well […]
This page is a homage to Peanuts. One of the cool things about the Peanut’s strip is that it was a kid’s view of the world. The reader almost never SAW the adults. So it is here…