Joker on the line.

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One big ass Joker panel...


. . . and three small inset panels.

Guess Arkham prisoners are stuck with the old dinosaur land lines.

Either that, or that's the only kind of phone the artists knows how to draw.

Redoubling my efforts.

hey gang, creative blocks giving me trouble with that longer post,

so here's a couple of daily ones to make up for it.

Above is a logo i was trying out some years ago, just for fun.

Next is a 'Mom' from Mars... ( Attacks )...

And another one of my ' sam kieth' style Tree from the Hollows....


okay - whew ..... thanks for not giving up on me.

: )

- Sam

Maxx color proof

Here's page 1 from Maxx 15.

Sorta of like a 'panel'.  Splash page, really. Thought I'd post this today for a couple of reasons: one is it's been wonderfully colored by the phenomenal Ronda Pattison.  Course Steve Oliff's colors were amazing too.

Check out Julie's original dialogue written along the top.   Somehow her line changed from what's written ... into ..  'how could you?' instead.  I had to think back as to why I originally wrote that, then why at the last minute i did change it.

I seem to remember thinking the first line was too bitchy or sarcastic, even given Julie's 'hedonistic' (tongue in cheek) post-Maxx break-up romp.  'How could you?' is also more emotional, more vulnerable.  Maxx replying "your one to talk" seems a little snarky a think to reply, even for Maxx.

Course none of this matters much either way. But kinda interesting seeing how things morph..i tend to write a lot of notes to myself along  the sides/tops of pages i draw, which some writer/artists tend to do.

I know i promised a longer post.. will get to that this week hopefully.  Meanwhile wanted to throw up something *new* to check out..

- Sam 

90's Crap.

okay.

. . . so this not really a 'panel'.

It's a poster, during the Marvel Presents days, obviously.

His arm anatomy is totally made up and kinda goofy fun . .  in a totally ridiculous way that only 90's super hero comics only could be.

Same kinda applies to the Maxx too, doesn't it?  Crazy stylized.

Curley Phone Cords and such, i mean.


- Sam

Octo Mom?

Here's a left over panel from an canceled project... may find a home in some other story,

. .  provided i write a panel for an octopus.

And here's another panel of Mom, from the Nola book.

So, Octopus and Mom.

I know, nothing to do with each other, but maybe you can make your own story out of it.

I'll post a process post this weekend, as thanks for you all enduring all this little ones.


- Sam


Also, Hero Comics 2014 is NOW out, featuring a short story with Julie the purple guy: 

https://twitter.com/heroinitiative/status/533300955253465089

Things that Resurface.

Arkham Asylum ,

. . . reflected . . .

. . in a sad woman's eye.

Btw, plans are under way to do a collection of bunch of my Batman stuff in a nice Art Book.

I'm surprised how much unpublished bat-crap stuff i have lying around too.  Sometimes the best stuff gets lost on the cutting room floor ( or in my case, studio floor ). So instead of getting thrown away, gives this unseen crap a chance to float back up to the surface  after all these years.

Don't worry, we'll skip over all the bad panels. ; )

On the other hand, the 'bad' panels (aka: rough, crude, cartoony) . . .  are part of my style too, aren't they?

quirkiness. diversity. weirdness. all that.

thanks to all my fans,

for helping me

accept that.

- Sam