silent film stars

Coming soon... sort of.

My buddy Johnny Ortiz, publisher/creator of the Silver Comics Universe asked me if I'd like to write and illustrate an upcoming issue of Silver Comics featuring my character "Alex Armstrong" and his super-team "The Sudden Disaster Stoppers". He even took the time to put together a cover comp to present to me. How could I refuse?

So I emailed a synopsis to Mr. Silver and he gave me the green light.

Armstrong originally appeared in Silver Comics' issues 6 and 7, in a two part story. And soon Alex and the Stoppers will be coming your way courtesy of Johnny and the Silver Comics Group.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Mr.O.!

(cover image above created by and courtesy of Juan Ortiz)

My art above, with preliminary colors by Dwight Wanhala from Silver Comics' back cover, Issue #6.

Story art below from Issue #7...



left to right: Ortiz, Beltran, Musacchia & Seeto at SD Comicon '06


George Tuska art/Musacchia color guide, unpublished version.


Nick Cardy art/Musacchia color guide, unpublished version.

silly sketches--

san diego comicon doodles...

I like people watching at the convention. These sketches are from a break on the patio. The devoted fans were waiting in line for a one minute visit with Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima.
If you're lucky you can usually find a chair under a tree or an umbrella and watch the fan world go by. It's also a good place to run into friends, away from the crowds.

A few yards to my left Knights in shining rubber armor were beating each other senseless in the blistering sun with plastic swords.

Good times.

memory sketches--

In 1962 a neighborhood teenager named Doc tried to climb the local Junior High School and fell to his death from four floors above. I was watching from across the street with my friends as the policemen carted him away. And when I looked down to the sidewalk curb his eye was staring up at me.



(remixed 7/21)

New from Silver Comics...

The first ever Full Color Annual
from Johnny Ortiz and The SILVER COMICS Group.

Jack Davis art!--

June is halfway to the great cartoonist's eighty fourth birthday and I wanted to make a celebration out of it. So here are some of his Promo pieces from the late '80s. The original printed pieces were in the 'index card' format, hence the folds in the scans. They're reproduced here twice up from their original printed size.

Lucky you!

airline sketches--

Updated 6/23*



*Here's a larger image of our red-haired friend...

Happy Birthday, Mr. Wallace Wood!

The first Wally Wood-illustrated comic book story I remember seeing is "Batboy & Rubin", in a MAD paperback that my older cousin Louis had a copy of.
I'd never seen anything like it before... they were makin' fun of Batman!
After reading that paperback from cover to cover a few times I never looked at current events or pop culture in the same way again. I'm sure your introduction to MAD ran along similar lines.

In honor of what would have been Wallace Wood's 81st Birthday on June 17th, I present some of his best storytelling, scanned from a 1958 third printing of the Crown edition of "MAD FOR KEEPS".



Happy Birthday, Sailor.







script & layouts by Harvey Kurtzman


Story & Art TM & (C) EC Comics







enjoy!

Sharpie sketches--