THE LATEST
Having recently been slow-roasted for being tremendously in arrears in my updates, I thought this seemed a good time to come clean. To you angry three, I hear your calls for a proper catalogue of work in list form and will endeavor to accomplish this soon.
Allrighty. As of this message I'm in the studio working on THE WOODLAND CHRONICLES for Graphix/Scholastic, and interrupt this to paint the cover of the second book in the Haunted Lands trilogy, entitled UNDEAD (the first, UNCLEAN will be out in the Fall... I think). After such a long time piecing this odd tale together, WOODLANDS is turning out to be the most fun and satisfaction I've had with a story to date.
I'm also in the midst of another set of cover paintings and chapter illustrations for Scholastic's SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS novels by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin, (the first of these came out late summer of this year). You'll also find populating the stands out there Graphix/Scholastic's first volume in a series of GOOSEBUMPS adaptaions within which, nestled between my betters, you'll find my 40 page effort, THE SCARECROW WALKS AT MIDNIGHT. Oddly coupled with these two previous kid-friendly books, (surely as an oracle of my eventual doom by way of thematic schizophrenia), is the decidedly unfriendly-and-yet-still-revealing BORN ON THE BATTLEFIELD part 4, in CONAN #32. Let me add to these strange bedfellows by also notifying you of Allen Spiegel Fine Arts' 108 DRAWINGS. Beautifully compiled by Kent Williams featuring, not surprisingly, 108 previously unpublished drawings from Dave McKean, Jon J Muth, Kent Williams, Phil Hale, George Pratt, Greg SPalenka, Scott Morse, Thom Ang, Jamie Tolagson, August Hall, Bonnie To Ye de Muth, and myself, (specifically twelve pages of unpublished art from M.A.R.S.). Let me enourage you to get them from the source by shuffling over to www.asfa.biz for direct purchase of this fine tome.
I've also just illustrated the cover to a truly remarkable novel by F.E. Higgins entitled THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS due out by Holtzbrinck/Feiwel and Friends in the coming Fall. I tell you, this book is really something. By late Spring of this year I will begin my final two issues of my fortunate six-issue collaboration with Kurt Busiek on Dark Horse's CONAN- BORN ON THE BATTLEFIELD. My arc concludes with what born it, and in celebration of this, (or to rush me off the stage Gong Show style), the two books will break with former tradition and arrive sequentially at your local shop. In the midst of what is sure to be an exquisite rollocking by Kurt's script for this, I'll steal away this June to exhibit at New York's annual MoCCA Arts Festival show at the Puck building sometime in June (when I remember the dates, I'll clarify this).
There was more, but damned if I can't now recall it.
g
Allrighty. As of this message I'm in the studio working on THE WOODLAND CHRONICLES for Graphix/Scholastic, and interrupt this to paint the cover of the second book in the Haunted Lands trilogy, entitled UNDEAD (the first, UNCLEAN will be out in the Fall... I think). After such a long time piecing this odd tale together, WOODLANDS is turning out to be the most fun and satisfaction I've had with a story to date.
I'm also in the midst of another set of cover paintings and chapter illustrations for Scholastic's SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS novels by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin, (the first of these came out late summer of this year). You'll also find populating the stands out there Graphix/Scholastic's first volume in a series of GOOSEBUMPS adaptaions within which, nestled between my betters, you'll find my 40 page effort, THE SCARECROW WALKS AT MIDNIGHT. Oddly coupled with these two previous kid-friendly books, (surely as an oracle of my eventual doom by way of thematic schizophrenia), is the decidedly unfriendly-and-yet-still-revealing BORN ON THE BATTLEFIELD part 4, in CONAN #32. Let me add to these strange bedfellows by also notifying you of Allen Spiegel Fine Arts' 108 DRAWINGS. Beautifully compiled by Kent Williams featuring, not surprisingly, 108 previously unpublished drawings from Dave McKean, Jon J Muth, Kent Williams, Phil Hale, George Pratt, Greg SPalenka, Scott Morse, Thom Ang, Jamie Tolagson, August Hall, Bonnie To Ye de Muth, and myself, (specifically twelve pages of unpublished art from M.A.R.S.). Let me enourage you to get them from the source by shuffling over to www.asfa.biz for direct purchase of this fine tome.
I've also just illustrated the cover to a truly remarkable novel by F.E. Higgins entitled THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS due out by Holtzbrinck/Feiwel and Friends in the coming Fall. I tell you, this book is really something. By late Spring of this year I will begin my final two issues of my fortunate six-issue collaboration with Kurt Busiek on Dark Horse's CONAN- BORN ON THE BATTLEFIELD. My arc concludes with what born it, and in celebration of this, (or to rush me off the stage Gong Show style), the two books will break with former tradition and arrive sequentially at your local shop. In the midst of what is sure to be an exquisite rollocking by Kurt's script for this, I'll steal away this June to exhibit at New York's annual MoCCA Arts Festival show at the Puck building sometime in June (when I remember the dates, I'll clarify this).
There was more, but damned if I can't now recall it.
g
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