New in my Etsy Shop: Clara De Noche

Another new original art offering in my Etsy shop...this time around it's Clara De Noche, from the Spanish comic strip of the same name by Carlos Trillo, Eduardo Maicas and Jordi Bernet. It was one of our themes over at Comic Twart.

The original art is available for $55 over at Etsy (along with other goodies by me).

Atomic Tiki Studio Etsy Store

I opened an Etsy shop yesterday!

It's still a work in progress, with a few pieces of original art (more to come), and the Art of Athena Voltaire hardcover.

Stop in, take a look, bookmark it. ;)

Thanks!

--Steve

Tribute to Al Williamson (pencils)

As mentioned elsewhere, my favorite of Al's work was his 13-year collaboration with Archie Goodwin on Secret Agent Corrigan. Over the course of their run, Al and Archie took Phil Corrigan on a bunch of exciting adventures, frequently alternating espionage stories with homages to various stories that had inspired them, including The Lost World, The Prisoner of Zenda, and even Flash Gordon.

In short, everything that Al loved was thrown into Secret Agent Corrigan.

Looking at the progression of the strip, Phil Corrigan started off looking very much like he did when Alex Raymond launched the strip, but as time passed, Phil, like Han Solo after him, developed more and more of a resemblance to Al. You can attribute this to Al using himself as a model, but not everyone who Al posed for ended up looking like him.

I think that Al was going on the adventure himself, like when we played as kids.

For this piece, I had originally planned an elaborate montage spotlighting a few of my favorite Secret Agent Corrigan adventures, but most of my Corrigan photocopies have been lost or are stored somewhere in my studio. Thankfully, the upcoming reprint series from IDW will eliminate my need to find those copies.

Here are the pencils to my Al Williamson Twart (the inks were posted today at ComicTwart).

Rocketeer and Betty pencils

This week's theme over at Comic Twart is The Rocketeer (yes, I'm the one responsible for the theme). My finished inks can be found here.

I initially wanted to do a scene with Betty lunging with the helmet and jetpack, with Peavy, Cliff and Butch the bulldog somewhere in the scene. Additionally, I wanted to do a second drawing, spotlighting Cliff in uniform, flying (and maybe montage elements from the two series in there, like Jonas, Marco, Ham & Monk, the flying wing, etc). However, it was waaaaay too ambitious to think I could do both images, so I added Cliff flying as a vignette in the Betty piece and the problem was solved.

Gentlemen, The King! part 2

Here's another image from the Gentlemen, The King! pitch.

Also, be sure to check out Comic Twart, a collective art blog that I'm participating in. The project had its origin via Twitter, and that's where the name came from: TWitter ART. So get your mind out of the gutter.

Every week, Comic Twart will focus on a character and each of us will draw that character. This week's star is Zorro!

I'm humbled and flattered to be a part of it, but I'll still be posting a bunch of stuff here, of course.