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May 25, 2012
Prepare To Preorder!
Prepare To Die!
Oh HEY! Paul Tobin’s new novel Prepare To Die! is now available for preorder for Kindle, Nook, and iBooks!
May 24, 2012
Thursday Sketch: Another New Character
Here’s another round of character sketches from the new seekrit comics project Paul Tobin and I are working on RIGHT NOW. We’ll be announcing this thing this summer! See other sketches from this story here, here, and here.
Digital sketch in Manga Studio.
May 23, 2012
May 16, 2012
Wednesday Sindiecate: Invincible
This week on the Sindiecate:
It’s Invincible! Created by @RobertKirkman @corenthal and @RyanOttley.
I’m using real-world ink and paper this week, colored with Photoshop.
May 14, 2012
Sale!
Quick! I don’t know how long this coupon is good for!
My gay prose romance short story Home Port is available from Kobo for 50% off with the coupon code Regg50us36
DRM free, so you can read it on whatever you read ebooks on.
May 11, 2012
Meanwhile…
This week on the Sindiecate: Butcher Baker by Joe Casey and Mike Huddleston.
When I’m not busy encouraging the Internet to reimagine a meeting between clawed mutants and legendary rock gods, you can find me:
Preparing for Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC, June 22-24. Accepting pre-orders for con sketches now!
Updating weekly to the Sindiecate art blog !
Working on a follow-up story to my prose romance short story, Home Port . I’m not sure when I’m gonna finish this one, but it’s dear to my heart, so slow and steady!
Watching the digital sales of my solo horror story, Rose’s Heart , as one half of the Double Feature app’s Horror #3 issue!
Checking out the other horror story, this one written by Jeff Parker, Nineteen in Creepy Quarterly #8 from Dark Horse. In stores everywhere.
Developing a new comics story with Paul Tobin, to be announced this summer!
Speaking of Paul, his debut prose novel Prepare to Die! has been given a starred review by Publisher’s Weekly, and is available in hardcover NOW from Amazon.com !
Prepare To Die!
Double Feature Horror 3
All this in addition to a couple of comic book covers, a book cover, some illustration work… That’s what I’m up to.
May 10, 2012
Mercury Ascendant
So the past couple of weeks, my Internet energies have been pretty much used up on Tumblr, where I’ve been unofficially curating the Wolverine/Freddie Mercury recreation pages that have popped up since my post on April 23. I thought it was time I bring them all together. Below are all the variations on the page that I know about. I hope there will be more!
April 26, 2012
Thursday Sketch: The Riddler
Ink on paper. A pre-ordered convention sketch for Emerald City Comic Con 2012.
April 24, 2012
Heroes Con 2012
It’s now officially official that Paul Tobin and I will be guests at Heroes Con 2012 in Charlotte, NC this June 22-24!
A color pre-ordered sketch from Emerald City Comic Con 2012
As I did for Emerald City Comic Con last month, I will be taking pre-ordered sketch requests. Pre-ordering is highly recommended, because I can only handle a very limited number of sketches on site. Also, pre-orders measure 9″X12″ and color is available, while on site sketches are 6″X9″ an black & white only. To make a pre-order request, write me at colleencoovermarket {at} gmail {dot} com. PayPal accepted.
Pre-order pricing:
Black & white, single figure: $60
Color, single figure: $90
April 23, 2012
Mercury Rising
Two years ago, former Marvel Comics bullpen member Steve Bunche posted a comics try-out page submitted to Marvel in the 1990s by an unknown hopeful. The page, while lacking in polish and technique, nevertheless had very clear storytelling, and, as Bunche notes in his blog post: “While this guy would never have gotten work in a professional comic as a penciller, I have to admire his talent for creating an instant classic of a non sequitor:”
artist unknown
You are not imagining this. Wolverine stalks through the wilderness, searching for we know not what, and finds the late Freddie Mercury, frontman of the band Queen.
The page has since been rattling around on the Internet, occasionally reposted and retweeted, chuckled over and admired by people like my studiomate Jeff Parker, which is how I originally became aware of it. And it just kind of got stuck in my head. For TWO YEARS.
The story as presented raises a number of questions. What is Wolverine looking for? Agents of AIM? Peace and solitude? Or, as my other studiomate Memorial artist Rich Ellis suggested: is he looking to find Somebody To Love?
And how and why does Freddie Mercury appear at the end of his search? Was his tragically fatal illness miraculously cured, perhaps by an alien symbiote? Has he just returned from sailing the Seven Seas of Rhye? Or more simply and perhaps most logically, has Logan found himself in the presence of the worldly manifestation of a literal God of Rock?
And so, I have decided to explore these mysteries by recreating the original story, correcting some of the technical blunders on the way. I invite other artists to do the same, by which exercise we may one day come close to the fictional Truth of the matter.
My recreation of the original story.
