Calgary Expo 2013

This weekend I'll be once again exhibiting at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo. If you're heading to the show, you'll be able to find me at Table X-23!

I'm proud to say that I've been at every Calgary Expo since the show launched back in 2006 and have had a pin-up in every art book. Here's a run through of the older pin-ups. The early books were western themed, but later ones branched out into sci-fi and fantasy:

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

They Bleed Pixels Wallpaper

This wallpaper image was put together as unlockable guest art for the amazing gory platform game called They Bleed Pixels, created by Miguel Sternberg.

If you haven't had a chance to play TBP yet, check it out on Steam! It's a really fun title with tight controls and over the top pixelated combat.

Aesop's Modern Fables Cover

Stone Skin Press has revealed the cover to their upcoming short story collection The Aardvark and the Lion: Aesop's Modern Fales coming out this Christmas.

They asked me to submit a short story and illustrate the cover art for the book. I had fun putting together a digitally inked piece in a turn of the century style with the two animals clacking away on their laptops.

Here's the line art for the cover on its own: 

Calgary Expo 2012 Pin-Up

Every year the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo puts together an artbook with pin-ups from the artist guests attending the show. Seven years, seven artbooks. I'm proud that I've been at every show and created a new piece in every artbook so far.

This year's theme was "Dreams & Wishes" so I sketched up a faerie folk. The idea is that he harvests dream energy from his dreamcatcher and collects the energy into the spiffy key there.

Zub PAX East Head Sketches

PAX East in Boston a couple weeks ago was crazy busy at the UDON booth. So busy that I didn't have a chance to snap photos of most of the stuff I drew for people. Still, here's a handful of the head sketches I did up at the show.

In previous years I've drawn almost exclusively Mega Man characters. It was a fun challenge sketching up all kinds of other stuff, including stuff from Street Fighter, Skullkickers, Zelda, Pokemon, Mass Effect, Marvel and Okami.

This weekend is Emerald City Comicon in Seattle and I'll be exhibiting there as a guest of the show!

Head over to TABLE C-11 for sketches, signatures and copies of my new Skullkickers books and issues.

This pin-up is my contribution to the annual Monsters & Dames artbook. If you buy a copy of the artbook I'll happily autograph it up for you.

Hope to see you there!

Shorty

A sketch of Shorty completed with ballpoint pen from the Skullkickers Vol. 2 launch party last week. Good times.