Recently I was sent the link to this clip of the Minnesota State Fair. Not sure why Minnesotans really dig on their State Fair the way they do, but damn if it isn’t a good time. For those that can’t go here’s a six minute recap, for those who love the Benny Hill theme song, and who doesn’t… this ones for you.
Quickly I wanted to let you know you can hear me on not one, but two podcasts this week. First off, Comic Geek Speak hit their 500th episode. I call in briefly to say congrats and chat a little. Second, I am on the Radio Wayne podcast, talking up the upcoming show in Philadelphia.
Wrapped up the last remaining Marvel Masterpiece cards for series three tonight. Quite a relief to have that checked off the list of things to do. I also got the remaining requested Artist Proof cards done as well. I only have two of those left along with the horror set I posted about earlier.
Here’s the batch of cards. I’m a little underwhelmed with them. I didn’t ink them this time and just went with colored pencil. I can see I was getting burned out. Thankfully I was able to come up with a few gems like “Doc Croc”, the old Excalibur villain to keep things fun. I stuck with characters from the 80’s and 90’s. Much like the first two sets were characters from the 60′ and 70’s respectively. I hope whomever gets them in their random packs dig them. Overall I’m glad to be a part of all three card series.
Wrapped up the last remaining Marvel Masterpiece cards for series three tonight. Quite a relief to have that checked off the list of things to do. I also got the remaining requested Artist Proof cards done as well. I only have two of those left along with the horror set I posted about earlier.
Here’s the batch of cards. I’m a little underwhelmed with them. I didn’t ink them this time and just went with colored pencil. I can see I was getting burned out. Thankfully I was able to come up with a few gems like “Doc Croc”, the old Excalibur villain to keep things fun. I stuck with characters from the 80’s and 90’s. Much like the first two sets were characters from the 60′ and 70’s respectively. I hope whomever gets them in their random packs dig them. Overall I’m glad to be a part of all three card series.
Getting to the last few commissions for my trip to Philly in a few weeks. Going to the State Fair this weekend, it’s nice living within walking distance. The fair means that summer is wrapping up, feels like it just started but Fall is going to be a great time. Really liked how these “Brown Bag” commissions have progressed. I am going to try and get some done in advance for the Fallcon in October.
I’m on the home stretch of Marvel Masterpiece Series Three. I have to admit that I’m a little happy to see things wrapped up on this series. I’ve really enjoyed doing a hundred cards for each set. I even did a bonus hundred for series two, but those were really rushed and I wasn’t very happy with them. The cards have been great for spreading my artwork, I’ve sent cards all over world and gotten a lot of commission work from them as well. Sadly burn out on doing them has really kicked in. This year alone I’ve done two series for Marvel, also an Iron-Man stand alone set, and two sets for Indiana Jones. I think I’ll be scaling back and only taking on sets that seem to pique an interest (Universal Monsters?).
Since this was my last series I wanted to take three of the Artist Proof Cards and do a Marvel 70’s horror tripdic. You can currently bid on these fine cards on ebay.
Anyway, I only have four of my Artist Proof Cards left out of series three. They sent them to us early this time and I’ve been selling them as fast as I can. Here are some of the recent ones I’ve done. For some reason I’m noticing the my markers are not laying down on the card stock as well as they did before. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe they sent me some of the rejects. Not quite sure.
Haven’t posted much in the last week or so as the Schoonover house has been over run with dogs. We have Matilda and Daisy but this last week saw us watching our friends dog Boomer. Then a great opportunity came for my parents as a really sweet young bulldog named Penny needed a new home. My parents had been thinking about getting a younger bulldog to match their older bulldog Cylde, who is 9 years old. My parents could not get up to Minnesota right away to get the dog so we are a go between for Penny and my parents.
So we went and picked up Penny and she’s been a lot of fun but it is time get ride of all of the visitors this morning. So it will just be me, Nicole, Matilda, Daisy, Ozzy, and Topanga. Which is still a lot.
So last night I was putting some Marvel Masterpiece Series Three Artist Proof Cards up on Ebay (Gotta get that plug in there) and as I went to get in my Ebay account I notice that some son of a bitch has logged into my account and is using it to sell a God damn ping pong table. Or to be more specific, a Professional Ping Pong table with Killerspin Revolution, whatever hell that means. Here’s picture of said thee Killerspin Revolution….
So I go to get this thing off my account but you can’t kill an item than somone has already put a bid on. I had nine bids on this thing and 23 people were watching it. I go to the Ebay help center only to find very little help besides the obvious changing of your password. I did get to write an email that may take up to 72 hours for them to get to read and another 72 to get feedback. I can’t believe Ebay doesn’t have a caller hot line for shit like this!
So today I get an email that the bidding has ended and that somebody won the bid for a whopping $785.00. No sooner and I get a paypal notice that the winner has sent an instant payment and they are so excited for the new pong table that is never going to come. I sent them an email that I can only imagine broke their ping pong hearts. Finally I log into my Paypal account where I am able to find a phone number to contact someone who may help me out. Something I’ve learned a long time ago is that if you ever have to call a 1-800 number is just start punching buttons and never do what the automated message tells you to do. You will get someone on the phone ten times quicker that way. They usually are a little pissed off but tough shit really. Anyway this guy was actually pretty nice on the phone and was able to cancel the whole thing for me. Now if I could just find out who got into my account and put a little Killerspin Revolution on them.
UPDATE: I’ve already gotten three emails from people wanting to know if I have anymore Killerspins for this price. I think I’ve found a new occupation, ping pong salesman!
Here’s are a bunch of photos from this past Saturdays signing at The Source Comics & Games. I had a blast meeting everyone and also Jim was a great guy. He was really overwhelmed with people so we didn’t get to chat as much as I’d like to but he he was really cool and handled the large crowd with great ease. Big thanks to Nick, Bob and the rest of the guys at the store, you guys are the best.
Here was the general set up when I got there. I arrived at 9am and there were people waiting already for Jim to be there at 1:30.
Here’s me at the table working away, managed to get some work on some Super Show commissions early on but got really busy real quick.
Didn’t take long for the regular cast of characters to show up. My hats off to them, it was really hot in there.
Jim showed up around 2 and instantly began signing, the photo doesn’t show it but his line was insanely huge. Mine was not.
Working away.
I was suppose to leave at 4pm but got really busy and didn’t leave till 6:30pm. Managed to get a photo with Jim before I left but sadly didn’t realize how shitty the photo turned out until I got home. I look like I was asked a geometry question from high school.
Before I left I was asked to include a drawing of Batman for a jam piece for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. I was really disappointed in how mine turned out. My brush pen was shot and all my other supplies were loaded in the car. Christopher Jones and Jim added the two kick ass ones. Still cool to do though.
Finally here are some of the many commissions I did while there.
Had a blast at the Jim Lee signing this weekend, thanks to everyone who came out. I’ll post about in a day or so with some photos. For now, here are some of the Artist Proof Cards I have done. I have five left so please contact me if interested.
