New Painting for the Jack Kirby show in Seattle.

This is for the Jack Kirby show that's coming up in August. I always loved the way he visually told stories made with crazy bold graphics. This one is taking an extra creature from an old comic book and painting it up in Photoshop while keeping the bold designs that Kirby created.
I wanted to do something more complicated but I've got many other projects that need my attention right now so this one will have to suffice.

The Flash Gordon series...

These are from drawings I did a year ago. Ming the Merciless, Flash Gordon and Dale Arden. 

Sing Sing

Sing Sing: A One Act Opera, cover


The SPACE Small Publishers Expo in Columbus Ohio has nominated my mini-comic Sing Sing for the 2011 SPACE Prize in Minicomics / Short Story. Page samples are on my blog: zillustration.blogspot.com

If you have pull with the voting body... Throw some love my way. Click the image to see the cover at twice the size... mmmm... bigger...

SAINTS & WARLORDS Page 2!

Just a quick post to let all you good people out there know that page 2 of Saints & Warlords is up for your conitnued viewing pleasure. Written by Stephen Lindsay of Jesus Hates Zombies fame and drawn by yours truly, the posted pages are now also featuring the colour stylings of Alex Alderete! Here's a taste of this weeks' page - click on the image below to see more.

Let us know what you think and tell your friends!
Hope ya dig it!
Mark

wolverine - gold

oil on illustration board, 16" x 20"

Hulk Smash!

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N.B.A.S. & Engineer

Here's a couple of logos I did for some comic book/graphic novel series;




One used and one- not so much.

Super Robot Monster

The Doctor is In

I'm a huge fan of the newest version of Doctor Who, so I thought it would be cool to illustrate the newest doctor (along with my favorite of his companions, Freema Agyema) as the cover to a classic comic book.

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Movie Madness

A couple sketches from my moleskine: a Heath Ledger inspired Joker and Hellboy.

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SFG Old West: A Western Fairy Tale

These are four pages from a comic book short,"Out in the West" I did for Dark Horse Comics. The art is all black and white airbrush. I wanted it to have a Howard Hawks/John Houston feel to it. There are references to a lot of Western stories, some fiction and some fact in it, which prompted one critic to refer to it as a "Western fairy tale". However the title is a tip of the Stetson to "ElPaso" by Marty Robbins. The other four pages include a page that mirrors the one here of the Sherrif that features a outlaw who is more in the spaghetti western mode. If anyone would like to see the entire story, I'll scan the other four pages and post them. When he saw the rough sketches I was doing for this Chris Warner wanted to title it, "Slap leather!"