How To Draw Funny now at webstore, and…

How To Draw Funny is now available at our webstore. (click link then click on Related Books)

Like the other books in my HTD series, I try not to waste your time on drawing fundamentals, but rather to give you info that hasn’t been covered to death. Whether you’re an amateur or a pro, I think you’ll find some good stuff in here.

I have one more chapter to write, How To Draw Comics, and that will come out late September. A month later, all the chapters will come out in one book collection. More on that later.

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I proofed Rachel Rising #9 today and gave it the final nod. Looks good. Brenner Printing (San Antonio, TX) does a great job. They’ve been printing comics since before I was in the biz. They know what they’re doing alright.

The turn around from printer to shop seems to be 3 weeks now, so maybe July 11? That would be fun, if it came out during SDCC. Speaking of…

It’s weird, but I’ve been drawing a lot of images that I can’t show you yet. That’s not like me, I like to share everything I draw. But this is that intense period before San Diego Comic Con, when I scramble to keep the book on deadline but also make other books and prints and tshirt images and every other wild idea we come up with to get fun new stuff to take to the show. I’ll show you some of the things we’re making, in the next week or so, but images are special surprises for the show.

For instance… here’s one I can show you. BAO Publishing is our Italian publisher now, and they have a French Bulldog named Cliff as their mascot. Being a dog lover, I think that’s great. All the artists in BAO’s stable are asked to draw their version of Cliff. You can see the collection at BAO’s Facebook page. I drew my version today. Here’s my take on Cliff.

BAO is printing Rachel Rising this summer. I proofed what I could today of the pdfs online (I don’t speak Italian, but apparently my characters do so fluently), and will see a print dummy book soon. I love what I’ve seen so far.