The Hero Business

Another great guest artist experience at the Albany Comic-Con on Sunday…. fun to meet with fans both old and new… and with that, a bunch of new commissions…

Dazzler as a School girl – a commission from this weekend’s Albany Comic-Con 2012, taken with my iPhone. This was a fun one, especially since I have my own dreamy pitch for a Dazzler in high school series for Marvel….

Donna Troy Wonder Girl – a commission from this weekend’s Albany Comic-Con 2012, taken with my iPhone. I love this Nick Cardy costume on her… I could draw it all day…

Kid Flash – a commission from this weekend’s Albany Comic-Con 2012, taken with my iPhone. Love live Wally West!

Quick Kid Flash sketch for a fan – from this weekend’s Albany Comic-Con 2012, taken with my iPhone. Go Wally!

Zatanna – a commission from this weekend’s Albany Comic-Con 2012, taken with my iPhone. Quite fun to draw, hoping for more Zatanna requests!

A fan in Mandalorian Battle Armor – a commission from this weekend’s Albany Comic-Con 2012, taken with my iPhone. The cos-play fan requested I draw him in full regalia! Only at Comic-Con! I was glad to do it.

Starfire – a commission from this weekend’s Albany Comic-Con 2012, taken with my iPhone. Another fun request to close out the show. The fan wanted the more modern version, and I do like that Mike McKone redesign, so…

And that concluded my second Albany Comic-Con!

So, yesterday was my birthday, and ace cartoonist John Hazard (of the ever awesome Frankenstein Superstar) conjured up this birthday greeting from the Hero Business’ own Demonatrix! I just had to share it in this week’s Rough Monday.

WoW! Thanks, John! She never looked better.

First, an update: Due to Boston Comic-Con and a hellish catch-up week, there was no new strip last Friday. As faithful readers know,  I’ve never missed a weekly deadline… but due to a confluence of events, this was unavoidable. My apologies. I assure you, though, this week’s strip is already begun and we’re back on track this week.

Now, onto the fun stuff… it’s time for another mystery mash-up, Heroites!

The theme for the next “The Line Is Drawn” over at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good: “”Comic book characters on reality shows”.

Take a look at this sketch…

Correctly identify both:
1. The reality show being spoofed AND
2. The comic book city that’s the subject of this mash-up.

E-mail your guesses (please do not post below), and for the first person to identify correctly, I’ll do a pencil sketch of any character of your choosing!

Get the guessing begin!

Back from a super-successful, awesomely-fun Boston Comic-Con experience! Definitely one of my favorite cons. And with that, a whole slew of commissions and sketches… taken with my iPhone. I was very busy this year…

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The first pre-show commission for Boston Comic-Con… it’s the Young Justice kids in their adult forms from the “Sins of Youth” crossover event!

Ah, another pre-con Boston Comic-Con commission… here’s Atom’s Teen Titans during their visit to Skartaris!

“The Whiz”: Another prelim Boston Comic-Con commission request… this dude is from DC’s Kingdom Come, the son of Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel. Sha-ZAM!

The request for Avatar: The Last Airbender. I’m a HUGE fan of the series and this was going into a sketchbook with some serious artwork. Pressure! In the ends, I just had to add in Katara and Sokka. I want  to re-do this one in color!

The request for Impulse!

The request was for Lin-Z Pierce from Jem!

The super-cool Boston fangirls returned this year with the most awesome requests for yours truly!  The request was for “big hair” Starfire, so I obliged!

A Scarlet Witch commission!

The request for de-aged Loki and Damian Wayne. Ho-boy, so many possibilities with this one!! I decided to play up the different way the boys would approach a mission…

Here’s an Indiana Jones request — never drew him before, so this was fun!

Here’s Steve Rogers: Super Soldier… ready for action!

Here’s “Honest Jon”, a creator-owned character!

Damian Wayne, who is too much fun to draw.

A 90s Superboy commission, per request!

So this is a thing that happened. Dr. Doom stiffed Cage for $200 and he flew to Latveria to confront Lord Doom… and uttered this exact phrase. Only in the 70s! A hilariously fun commission to close out the con!

Thanks to EVERYONE who stopped by to see me! It was a great show – even better than last year!