when i first started freelancing as an illustrator i began my career by doodling up pictures for roleplaying games. the bloke who gave me my first job was kevin siembieda of palladium books, creator of the rifts® universe! as my years progressed with palladium i proposed a comic idea for their quarterly publication the rifter®. he liked the idea and gave it the go ahead.

on may 4-6 i will be attending the palladium open house taking place at their offices in taylor michigan. i will be doing sketches, hocking bns swag and happily signing copies of the newly collected ‘machinations of doom’, a sourcebook collecting the comic from 7 years ago into one book.

the entire story has been relettered, i’ve touched up some of the pages and added a slew of original art into the sourcebook section where kevin has gone in and fleshed out the main cast based on my notes. i’ve also done a new cover for the collection and layed out the entire book myself. it’s been a busy month!

if you can’t make it out to the show the book will be available through better games and comic stores as well as barnes and noble.

…well half the cover. it’s a wrap around, by why spoil the whole surprise…

just prior to the new year i ended up doing a bunch of submission pieces for marvel comics. i’ve posted a few already; spider-man and doc strange. amongst the request from marvel was my take on the fantastic four…

i haven’t said much, but i think clay has been spreading the word, and jusging from a few comments on other posts, i’m pretty sure he has. the big doozie of a project on my plate right now is a 3 issue wildcat (aka the loveable ted grant) arc in jsa:classified written by the adorable b. clay moore!

i am peniclling and inking the run myself. clay has written a fantastic script and i’m having a riot doing the art… i’m not sure what the ethics are on posting pencils and such, so i’m going to avoid that for now, but i will post a couple versions of wildcat that i did up to try out for the book…