New York was a lot of fun.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t attend with the full MONOLITH representation. It was still a great time. Working a convention as a writer/publisher is completely different from going as a regular attendee. It was exhausting and overwhelming, and I mean that in a good way.

Those of you who were there already know what happened, and those who weren’t have probably read about all the stuff you care about from plenty of reliable news sources. So, I’ll skip the report.

I met lots of really cool people and saw a lot of really cool comic books. There are so many great looking books out there. There just can’t be time or money to read them all.  I was about to phrase that as a complaint, but what kind of person would I be if I complained about too many good comic books.

If you are one of the many cool folks I talked to at the con, I hope you are enjoying our web site. If I didn’t meet you at the con, then I hope that I will see you there next year. I am certainly going back. 

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This coming weekend is the first big comic convention of the season.

It is in New York City and I will be heading down to attend.  I am really excited about it. If you are going to be there, let me know. Especially if you are going going to be representing with a table or a booth, I will make sure to drop by and say ‘hello’.

See you there.

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Almost all of the major characters in Rapid City are based on people I know. Some are based on individuals, and some are based on more general ‘types’ of people.

I knew I needed a character to be positive and energetic, and also an unexpected source of wisdom. As an inside joke on one of the people this character was going to be based on, I wanted to call him something monkey related. “The Monkey” perhaps.

But it wasn’t working just right. It wasn’t coming together.

So, I put it on the back burner and thought about other aspects of Rapid City. Looking at my cast of characters, I realized that I needed to get a few more of them up off the ground. For visual reasons, I needed to draw the reader’s eye up into the sky.

Flying, swinging, leaping, something like that.

Then it hit me. That high-energy positivity I was looking for…that frenetic pro-activity…it is just like pop-punk. In fact, just like a lot of the pop-punk bands I was listening to in the days that I am actually writing about in Rapid City. Pop-punk bands withy names like “Bounder”.

So many things have just come together perfectly on this project. It is a neat kind of synergy that really makes me feel like we are on the right track.

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So I’ve been revisiting some of the characters that I wasn’t quite sure on their look. Something was off to me and so I’m tweaking them. So here’s Bounder. Slight revision to his look.

Enjoy.

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When people flip through Rapid City sketch books one of the characters they always seem to ask about is Spade.

He is one of my favorites as well. Spade is the caretaker of the grounds where secrets are buried. Some secrets just need a symbolic, psychological, burial. For others, however, someone needs to get a shovel and put them down in the dirt. That’s what Spade does.

Whose secrets is he keeping, and from whom?

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It’s been a while since I’ve drawn Spade. He’s probably one of the more mysterious characters of Rapid City and one of my favorites to draw. So here’s a new one.

Enjoy.

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