Showing posts with label big sexy comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big sexy comics. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Teuton Review



This week, Examiner.com posted a glowing review Teuton, an epic trilogy of graphic novels created by Fred Kennedy and Yours Truly. We are most pleased. Reviewer John Kirk writes of Teuton...

"This is a small, independently published comic that really deserves your attention."
We could not agree more. You can read the entire review here.

My thanks to John Kirk and Examiner.com for checking out the books.

Copies of Teuton, as well as prints and original art of mine, are all available at my online store.

Saturday, March 1, 2014

The Forgetting pt. 3

Pencils by Yours Truly; coloured by Greg Harms

The fourth issue of Undertow debuts at the end of March at Emerald City ComiCon 2014. If that weren't exciting enough news, I'll be in attendance at the show! It'll be my first time at ECCC and my first time in Seattle*. Luke Donkersloot, Gibson Quarter and Greg Harms will also be in attendance!

To learn more about Undertow and everyone involved, hit up 7thWaveComics.com!

Above is my back cover/pin-up for part three of The Forgetting. It's coloured by Greg Harms, who coloured my backcover for issue three. He did such a great job. I'm very pleased with it, especially since he coloured over my pencils, as I did not have time to ink the piece.

My original pencils are for sale over at the Big Sexy Comics Shop, so go have a look at them!

*Fun fact: I flew over Seattle once in a prop-plane destined to Portland. I saw the Mariners play from wa-a-ay above.





Monday, September 2, 2013

Big Sexy Comic Shop

Fearless Fred and I fared very well at Fan Expo the other weekend. We debuted the much anticipated Teuton: Volume Three, the final installment in our medieval epic from Big Sexy Comics. The reaction from fans were phenomenal and we sold out of V.1 & 3 completely by Sunday!

With that said, copies of Teuton V.3 are available for purchase online at the Big Sexy Comic Shop!

There's actually a ton of great stuff at the online store, including all three Teuton books, prints, and original art by Yours Truly.


Recently added to the store are my Superman Unchained and Green Lantern/Silver Surfer prints for just $10 each.

As well, come painted sketches from Fan Expo 2013 are up. Check it all out!








Monday, July 8, 2013

TEUTON Vol.3 Wrapped up!


The third and final Teuton book is wrapped. And I do mean wrapped, babe. It's off to the printer and everything. I'm excited about that, and I'm excited for you, the people, who will get to see it and hold it and purchase it at Fan Expo in August.

Yes, my lovelies, the future is bright and full of hope. But it wasn't always so. There was a time not long ago where the fear of not finishing Volume Three was nearly a horrible reality. Somewhere in the multiverse there's a timeline where I did not finish Volume Three, and that dark future resembles the Age Of Apocalypse. Probably. Anyway.

Take a look back on those days of uncertainty with these cover...



Wednesday, May 22, 2013

MONSTROSITY ***UPDATED***

Coloured by Nolan Woodard



Recently I collaborated with my friend Michael Walsh to create a really cool giant monster pin-up for Monstrosity, a comic anthology containing stellar work from a gaggle of Toronto indie creators.

I wanted to write and draw my own short story for the book, but I'm too darned busy finishing Teuton Vol.3 (which is clipping along, thanks for asking!)

You can get the whole making-of scoop over at Big Sexy Comics, where I did a decent write-up on how to buy the book, the print, or even snag the original piece of art. Please read all about that here.

Or head to Monstrosity's Indiegogo campaign and donate!




Monday, March 4, 2013

Big Sexy Happenings This Week...

Recently I sat down with my friend and creative partner, Fred Kennedy, for another of his podcasts wherein we discuss working on indie comics. Joining me this time at the indie creator roundtable were Gibson Quarter and Ricky Lima. Both great dudes, both well spoken and insightful. It was a good a chat.

If you haven't already checked out these "Fredcasts" you would do well to listen to a few--or all of them. Fred's interviewed many amazing guests, the majority of them comic book superstars, and each of them infinitely more interesting than myself.

That said, you should also totally listen to the one I just did, which you can right here. I have not listened to it however, and I probably won't, because listening to my own voice is torture I don't need at the moment.

In other Fred & Adam related news, this weekend is Toronto ComiCon, and you can bet your booties we'll be there. At table P24 in fact, selling copies of our newly reprinted Teuton: Volume One!

But if you're not hitting up the old comic convention this weekend, you can always snag a copy of Teuton over at our Big Sexy Comic Shop. We have a deal running till Friday, 8th where you get a free colour sketch with every purchase!





Friday, March 1, 2013

TEUTON Trailer




In a recent podcast with Fred Kennedy, Gibson Quarter, Ricky Lima and myself, Fred begged Ricky to cut a trailer for our graphic novel, Teuton.

What you see is the result of that conversation.

Thanks so much to Ricky for the support and his efforts!

Big Sexy Comic Shop

Hooray! Big Sexy Comics now has a proper storefront!

To mark the grand opening of our ye olde Big Sexy Comic Shop we're offering a crazy special!
  • Buy either volume of Teuton and get a free 8"x10" coloured sketch! FREE!   
  • Order both volumes and get two free colour sketches! FREE!

To take advantage of this awesome promotion just follow these ridiculous instructions:
  1. Select "With Ink Sketch" for $20 when purchasing either volume of Teuton
  2. Type in the promo code "GRANDOPENING" when checking out
  3. Request what you want sketched in PayPal's special instructions or e-mail me: adam.gorham@live.ca
Take advantage of this special offer while it lasts, because the promotion ends March 8th! But fear not, you can come see Fred and myself at the Toronto ComiCon March 9th & 10th where we'll be debuting the long awaited reprint of Teuton: Volume 1!


Click to Big Sexy Comic Shop!

Friday, February 22, 2013

This Week In Drawing... 17 & 18

BIG SEXY COMICS

The past couple weeks have been heavy with web work and design. The new and improved website for Big Sexy Comics will be going live very, very soon and I can't wait for it to be ready. I'll have two blogs to upkeep!


The old site was the bane of my existence. For starters, the wrong artist was credited for Teuton. You know how awkward it is sending links to potential clients and/or editors only to have them ask why it says someone else drew my book? Secondly, the comic reader was not user friendly. Many people related their bungled attempts to navigate the comic. Lastly, the thing was rarely updated. It got to a point where I stopped directing people to the site because I couldn't rely on it to leave a good impression. In fact, the epic failure (in my opinion) of the site was the direct cause for me be proactive on this blog. If BSC.com had worked out the first time I wouldn't have this blog that nobody reads!

Getting our act together on the site brought another important aspect of the Big Sexy Comics brand to mind--the logo.

A while back Fred and I had to ask ourselves what our game plan was in comics. Was Big Sexy Comics and it's properties means to an end? Hopeful springboards to professional work, or were we going to build our own house and take it the distance? We landed somewhere in between. As we both crave a perceived legitimization by finding work with publishers, we also love what we're creating and work at honing or storytelling skills with our own material. Big Sexy Comics will always be our stable, regardless of what else we do. To keep that stable up, Fred had the website rebooted and we're looking to take our books to market. Currently our books, specifically Teuton Volumes 1 & 2, are carried by a handful of stores in the GTA, and although they're available for purchase online at Indy Planet, we haven't advertised our focused on marketing. So while we remain hopeful creators, we've learned we're also terrible businessmen.

This year we aim to change that by pulling our heads out of our asses and fully getting behind the books we've worked so hard to create. I think. To do that I felt we needed a new logo, and after hours of work I presented Fred with a host of options, emphasizing my personal choice. He did not go for it and I was crestfallen. If you've worked with me then you know I can be picky, pushy and strong headed. With Fred I've got my way with many things, including with this website, so bearing that in mind I applied some gentle insistence to see things my way. Nope. He likes what he likes, so I've relented. Check out this cover mock-up to see what it came down to:




OTHER STUFF

Now because I'm tired of typing, here's a bunch of other stuff I worked on recently...


Saturday, February 9, 2013

This Week In Drawing... 16

COMMISSIONS

Last weekend I finally got around to completing an X-Men Legacy sketch cover my pal Ricky Lima wanted me to do since October or November. Poor, patient fellow. Creatively speaking, Ricky is an unusual and fascinating individual, so when he asked that this particular cover be somewhat more abstract than a typical super-hero pin-up, I had to give it some thought. When the mood struck, however, the thing practically painted itself :


I got to do some more cover sketches later/earlier in the week at a sudden guest appearance at Stadium Comics' Transformers event. I can't draw Transformers for beans, but luckily nobody asked:


I've got one other commission on the go right now and I'm pretty jazzed about it. I won't get into specifics, but it's going to be super fun:


TEUTON

Work on Teuton is going well. After a month away from drawing Undertow #3, re-opening Fred's script felt like coming home. I will say, however, that working on something completely different gave me a sense of freedom and opened me up creatively. I learned a thing or two that I'm excited to bring into Volume 3. I've also learned some valuable lessons in inking from the very skilled gents at RAID and I'm trying hard at disciplining myself to be more controlled and more mindful of where I put my lines.

Speaking of getting back into the script, I must have roughly drafted pages 16 & 17 dozens of times before settling on what is now a double-page spread. There was so much cohesive action happening in the two pages that it just made sense to join them.



Friday, October 26, 2012

This Week In Drawing...

Beginning here and now is a new weekly segment where I will showcase all the art I've done in the past seven days, aptly titled This Week In Drawing.

While tidying my work space it occurred to me that I'm now drawing more than ever. I don't just mean work on Teuton or other sequential projects, but I'm also doing more commissions and practice sketching than ever before.

This increased output of art is no accident. I'm trying very hard to hone my craft and become speedier. While there aren't always a series of finished pages and pieces I can show off in a week, there are lots of little sketches, unfinished drawings and lost thoughts on paper that accumulate. It's here in this segment those will be shared.

Powie.
This week I worked on two Marvel sketch variants commissioned by a regular patron of Stadium Comics. The dude is a huge fan of The Punisher and challenged me draw Big Pun dispatching the variant covers' titular characters as harshly as I could imagine.



First was The Death of Spider-Man variant for Ultimate Spider-Man #160. Although I didn't read that storyline, I was aware the Punisher was partly responsible for Ultimate Spidey's downfall. So I chose a composition that reflected that particular plot, but also recalled The Punisher's first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #129. (FYI; my favourite Spidey/Punisher comic is Amazing #577)


The second cover, Wolverine #310, I began loosely without much forethought into the composition. Whenever I think of Wolverine scrapping with the Punisher, I think of that issue by Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson that saw Logan getting his face blown off and being steamrolled. What I recall most is the reaction of Frank Tieri, who was writing Wolverine at the time, and was so very pissed at how Ennis handled Wolverine that Tieri responded in kind with Wolverine #186. Though I think Ennis got the better of them both. Frank Castle proved to be the far nastier fighter in both comics, and Tieri suggesting the Punisher is a closet homosexual at the end of his respective book felt like juvenile name-calling. 
Anyway, this is all to say I couldn't get the image of a shotgun blast to the face out of my mind. I was really pleased with what came out. I put more work into the pencils than I normally do and got cold feet about inking it...



Another commission that came my way was for a young boy's birthday. The lad wanted a Mega Man, and that's exactly what homie got. Here's the sketch and the final...



And of course there was this weeks entry to Spitballin' Comics: Sailor Moon. As I say in that blog post, she's a character I'm largely unfamiliar with and I had low expectations for this particular sketch. My first draft looked like she was doing something indecent with her wand. Then the water colours caused the ink to bleed. When I thought it was pooched I left it for a time, and when I returned I was able to make it work.


Then there is always my regular comic work. This week I turned in the final page for the Teuton: Volume One reprint. You can see all the new pages for the reprint here and here.


While working on Teuton: Volume Three, I'll also be doing interiors for a story called The Forgetting in the third issue of Undertow, which is written by Luke Donkersloot and impeccably illustrated by Gibson-Fucking-Quarter. Learn more about Undertow @ The 7th Wave, and hear Gib talk about Undertow with the wonderful Alice Quinn from TdotComics here.

Here's some early page roughs and character designs for the book:


Lastly, here's some character roughs for a story I'll be writing as well as drawing. I won't say any more about it just yet: