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I had a great time once agai at the philadelphia Wizard World . Always good to meet and talk shop w/ people in the industry.
DEADPOOL (Marvel) sketch for Con.
I did this on a comic that comes w/ a white cover for the artist at conventions to do quick sketches. I had to take this one home that night to give it a little more detail . I scratched the top and bottom of the cover to the white of the paper for the graphic to bleed.

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SHAWN ALLEYEN - PENCILS
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XION COMIC BOOK GROUP OF PHILADELPHIA
BLAIR SMITH - COLORS - (Gouache) -Gouache is an opaque watercolor paint. Whereas transparent watercolors allow you to see the “white” of the paper below the paint, gouache can be applied in solid colors. This allows an artist to paint in layers from dark to light.

I also worked W/ Shawn Alleyne on A Colaboriation Piece … You Guessed it…. DEADPOOL AGAIN
I printed his scan directly onto comic book layout paper. Than i went to town after a little research on chinese wash painting.
i love the google.

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TALES OF THE STARLIGHT DRIVE-IN was selected as the BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR in the Comic Buyer’s Guide Annual Fan Contest. Damn right.

My First Published Comic Book Work
Writer Mike San Giacomo presents 32 stories taking place over 50 years at a Drive-In Theater, featuring 21 artists from around the world. Mirroring life and the cinema with tales of crime, romance, science fiction, musicals, even a western, each stand-alone story combines to create a single novel with a powerful, shocking finale you won’t forget!
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Wizard Universe Article
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/052708imagespotlight.html
Product Description
Tales of the Starlight Drive-In is journalist-comic writer Michael San Giacomo’s tribute to that great American institution - the drive-in theater with 26 stand-alone stories set in a drive-in theater from 1955 through 2005. While each can be read separately, together they form one complete tale of the rise and fall (and rise?) of a drive-in through stories that cross all genres including humor, romance, crime, horror, adventure, western and even super-heroes. Each story has a relationship with the movie playing at the time. Most are in color, except for those before 1962 and a few special stories that just needed to be black and white. Characters come and go, but Neil the projectionist is the rock who is there all the way through from the beginning to the end.

Mike also wrote (PHANTON JACK )

Newspaper reporter Jack Baxter can turn invisible. Not exactly a hero, Baxter uses his powers to scoop other reporters. His test of fire comes when his brother is captured in Iraq. Jack rescues his brother with the aid of the beautiful Madison Blue, an invisible secret agent for the group ‘Miscellaneous’. Stories lean toward realistic portrayals of characters in modern world, not typical super-hero fare. The series ran in 2005 from Image and returned in November, 2007, from Atomic Pop Art Entertainment with ABSOLUTE PHANTOM JACK, which collects all the previous Image comics and about 80 pages of new stories. The all-new, 110-page graphic novel PHANTOM JACK: THE NOWHERE MAN AGENDA, where Jack confronts his evil opposite and faces his final fate, will be published as soon as a new publisher is found.

Pencils / Inks : Tre Worrell
Didital Colors : Blair Smith

Did this for Texas Metal Band: Splinter, It’s for Press Pass.
Bleed the Sun.

Did this one at a Xion Meeting,waiting for the guys to arrive.

Pencil on concept sketchpages
TITLED
the Avenger 09

I was working on a backgroud last night and can up with this. which is now more of a stand alone piece. I call it the Hixon, a place in hell reserved for the worst souls.

Below is Artwork for the last Cd I designed. South Jerseys Heaviest Metal Band.

OPEN A CAN OF WHOOP ASS!
You got to love when the boss wants you to do the fun jobs.
This is the design for a can of whoop ass. It for one of Compass Sign Co.
clients. I modified something he gave me to copy from that was on the internet. I gave it some better fonts (more legible/Clean) and made it more like a Tide Box.

RIP PEACE GRASSHOOPER / SKRULL MASTER / BILL

I thought this was funny and wanted to share.LOL

Just messing around with the Macro lens , taking photos of comic on the screen .i’m digitally coloring in Raphael
Do in Stores Fall2009

This is pg 6 of 7 in a story by Lee Keller, Close Call.
We will be submitting this to Heavy Metal Mag for print.
It will be colored by Mike Colston. All of us are a part of
the Xion Comic Creators of Philadelpia.