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Characters Made For Hire

One of my favorite ongoing gigs in the world is providing artwork for the business classes given by my wife, Katie Lane.

Katie is an attorney who specializes in representing independent creators, and she also devotes a sizable chunk of her timeto education–introducingcurrent and future creative professionals to usefultools for tacklingtheuncreative side of the industry.

If you’re going to be talking to artists, you’d better have a compellingpresentation! We’re storytellers by nature–you can...

November Art of the Day!

Another month, another set of daily drawings! Here are some of my favorites from the last thirty days.

Sirin and Negret from Kate Milford’s lovely middle-grade novelGreenglass House.

Coming in 2018: Queen of the Sea

From the latest edition of Publisher’s Weekly / Children’s Bookshelf, an exciting announcement!

You’ll be hearing and seeing plenty more about this in the months to come, but for now it’s exciting just to say in public that it’s happened! Ilovethis story and the artistic challenge it represents for me, andI really look forward to speaking witha young audience. Thank you to Barry and to Susan for taking me up on it!

Art of the Days!

A few recent art of the day entries from September/October. It was a very busy month with lots of conferences, public appearances, family visits, and travel, so I was grateful to sneak in what doodles I could!

Most of my spare drawing time was devoted toYour Distant Homeland,my short story companionfor Dave Kellett’s extraordinary space opera comicDrive.I kicked off a series of guest works that will be syndicated alongside the main story over the coming year. The final page goes live on...

SEATTLE: Pirate Loot Launch Party and BAHFest!

I’ll be in Seattle this October 10-11 for two special events! First off, on Saturday the 10th, I’ll be attending the official launch party for Jason Bhlmahn’s new card gamePirate Loot,hosted at the fabulous Ballard game store Card Kingdom.

I drew or contributed to over100illustrations for this super-fun party game, so I’m very excited to see it in real life! The party starts at 1pm (Facebook event details here), and game designer Jason Bulmahn, graphic designer Mari Kolkowsky, and art directo...

Rose City Comic Con!

I’ll be appearing at Rose City Comic Con here in Portland, OR this weekend, September 19-20! I always love a hometown show – beyond the obvious advantages of getting to sleep in my own bed, I also get to bring stuff that might not make it into the tightly-packed bags I bring to further-flung events.

For example, this weekend I’ll have The Fifth Musketeer, the super-fun Choose Your Own Adventure graphic novel I got to illustrate a few years back! Kids love this book, and these are my last few...

August Art-of-the-Day Roundup!

Here are some favorite entries from my “art of the day” posts from mid-July through late August. You can catch them each day on my Twitter account! I went on a bit of a tear drawing famous male dancers in black and white from photo reference, then headed back into female figures in color and from the imagination.

Also there’s an avocado.

Gene Kelly.

Movin’ on up!

Hi all! I’ve revamped my entire website, and as a result, the blog is now integrated in the front page. If you’re still checking back here for entries, you’ll want to move your bookmarks over to plain ole DYLANMECONIS.COM for good! (All the entries and comments from this version of the blog have been copied over, too.)

There is a TON of new or previously hard-to-find art, all my comics, and general higher levels of niceness and visitability.

See you there!

Family Man update!

Page 250, now online.

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The ancient Romans didn’t really have a tidy word for “2.5″ so they usually said “sestertius” (”half three”) because 2.5 is exactly halfway between the numerals two and three. A bit of a funny way to go about it, but that’s where we get the word sestercentennial which means “250th anniversary.” This comic certainly isn’t 250 years old, but it is now 250 pages long! Crazy.

Thank you to all who visited me at the Stumptown Comics Fest. The highlight for me was a panel on historical fiction in comics. Somebody has me down as saying “In terms of worldbuilding, I mean…the 18th century is just lying there, for free!” Which I think sums things up nicely, though not as well as my favorite stanza from Walt Whitman’s poem ‘To Think of Time” -

To think that the sun rose in the east! that men and women were flexible, real, alive! that everything was alive!

To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part!

To think that we are now here, and bear our part!

It gives me chills every time, and that is how I find myself 250 pages into the 18th century. Thanks for following along!

Family Man update!

Page 249 now online!

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I realize the plot’s pretty thick already, but I’m just throwin’ some more cornstarch in there.

News! We’re closing in on the Stumptown Comics Fest at the Oregon Convention Center here in Portland, where I’ll be exhibiting and appearing on two panels.

On the Thursday night before the Fest (4/26), I’ll also be making a Special Guest Appearance at the April edition of Comics Underground, providing some voices for a reading by studiomate (and fellow Eisner nominee) Jonathan Case from his wonderful book Dear Creature. It is going to be silly and excellent.

And, at the fest, I’ll be debuting my first-ever screen print design, hand-pulled by Erika. I am super-excited to have a Fancy Thing – I’ll post a teaser image on Tumblr after this weekend.

And, new in the store is a print of my illustration for the 2012 Monsters and Dames book, featuring Ariadne and the Minotaur passin’ some spare time in the labyrinth. Get ‘em while they last!

And, confidential to Lucy in the UK: your painting has boomeranged safe and sound, and will be back on its way to you on Tuesday morning!