#nc comicon

This Friday-Sunday (November 8th-10th, 2019), at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, presented in conjunction with the NC Comicon, it’s the ComiQuest Film Festival!

Movies to be shown include:

Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Akira (1988; in Japanese w/ English subtitles)

Desmond Davis’ Clash of the Titans (1981)

Alex Proyas’ The Crow (1994)

Ishirô Honda’s Destroy All Monsters (1968; in Japanese w/ English subtitles)

Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.’s The Last Unicorn (1982)

Joss Whedon’s Serenity (2005)

Michael Pressman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Tickets are $5!

Plus a Friday night showing of Joe Johnston’s The Rocketeer (1991) & Steven Lisberger’s TRON (1982)!

In 2013, I made a Captain Marvel print for HeroesCon. I was so happy with it that I offered it free to Captain Marvel fans. Six years ago, that was. My art got a little better since then. Also, I wrote about my favorite Carol issue, X-Men 158, here on Tumblr.

I knew I wanted to take advantage of the winter downtime between convention seasons to make a new Captain Marvel print, and here are the stages of it. I made a 4 x 5 sketch, scanned it, and enlarged it for an 11 x 17 board. I printed it, lightboxed it, and fleshed out the pencils based on posters and screen captures from the trailers. Then I lightboxed the pencils on another board for the inks, and somehow it came out all Walt Simonson-y. I didn’t notice until after I scanned it that I don’t have any black masses. It’s all lines.

After coloring it, I found some YouTube videos for making speedlines and then recreated a photo of the earth with simple Photoshop brush settings. Nothing too detailed, because I knew it was going to be blurred. I made the starfield in Illustrator by making three sizes of white circles scattered by the symbols sprayer.

I have this print in letter and tabloid sizes to sell at conventions this year -- SC Comicon, NC Comicon, HeroesCon, any others I can get into -- and they're also for sale on my new online store, Robot Wonderboy.

Day one of the NC Comicon in Durham, Robert Venditti held a panel to discuss his current work for DC Comics’ Hawkman. Venditti began with some comments about his own personal experience with the character. He explained that he didn’t grow up reading comics and his only real knowledge of the character was that Hawkman was confusing.

Venditti was approached by DC to pitch on the character.…