new sketchbook

So if everything goes accordingly, I will have a new sketchbook for Chicago and all the cons that follow. Taking my inspiration from Mr. Mike Mignola and his sketchbook from San Diego 2006 -”some drawings”. It’s a cool little sketchbook with awesome Mignolaesque creatures and other. So here is the first drawing I’ve done for it, it’s a Manticore. A mythological creature that has the body of a lion, the head of a man, and a tail that can shoot needles (I put bat wings on mine cuz when I image googled him that’s how I saw a lot of them drawn). The originals will be for sale and under the prices my pages are available for. I won’t be posting all these because there should be some surprise in it but stay tuned from time to time and I’ll give you more glimpses.

My #1 fan

A few years ago when I first set up in Chicago selling the b&w issue one of Cursed Pirate Girl I met a man named Daniel. He purchased my book as well as a sketchbook I was selling back then. The next day he came back to my table with an illustration from my sketchbook that his daughter Tiara had drawn. I have unfortunately put that drawing and the ones that followed in a safe place, so safe that I cannot locate it right now… heh heh. Don’t worry Tiara I will be moving shortly and I’m sure to find it then.

When Tiara found out I was going to have a release party for my book in Ann Arbor she convinced her dad to drive her all the way over here. Then I had to cancel the release party. They still wanted to come over so I said sure. We met at Vault of Midnight where I was supposed to have my party (and printer willing, will still have a release party someday), and then went out for Ethiopian (which was really good!). Before dinner Tiara gave me the coolest fan art ever. The first one is to commemorate the release of my book (there was going to be a date at the bottom, but that will have to wait), and the second is the piece of wood that CPG drew a picture of her dad on. Tiara got it perfectly, I should have had her do it before I put it into my book. It would have been more authentic. So here are the images, and thank you again to Tiara and Daniel.

Tom’s guitar

So last year in Chicago I had the good fortune to meet a man named Tom. He talked about a guitar he wanted me to do something on. At first I felt a little uncertain about putting something permanently on an antique guitar like this but I took it on anyway. The octopus and bat motif was Tom’s idea, two good staples of what I like to draw.

I tried first doing it with testers modeling enamel, I thought this would be the best way to replicate the same kind of brush work I’m used to. This didn’t work so well, the line work was too thick and I had to keep going over the same lines to get it nice and dark. I was able to scratch it off very easily. Next I tried ink, I got the same quality of line work but it came off to easily with water. So then I tried identipen, it’s a permanent marker with two ends, one bold one fine. That worked perfectly, good line work and doesn’t come off at all. So here’s what you get.

I’m currently not working on commissions, but this was something I had to do, I hope Tom likes it.

!!free comic book day!!

Hey y’all! I’m gonna be at Green Brain Comics May 3rd for free comic book day. Here’s a link to what you can expect when you show up. Dave Petersen is giving away a free print and that made me think I should have something free to give away too. So here’s a little ditty starring two peculiar rascals, Pid Fishbat and his sidekick Pook the Tarantula. Someday I will explain why Pook calls himself the Tarantula, don’t worry. This will ofcourse only be available on that day at that store, so come on down and check out all the cool stuff.

The cover to issue 3

This will give you some idea of the mangy pirate types that operate on the Omertas.

the unrelease party

Well I found out today that I won’t have any books for the release party for issue one. No sense in having a release party with nothing to release. So I am forced to cancel it. When I get a definite in store date I will be rescheduling it. So look for those post cards with a new little sticker replacing the date.

AAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! …that helped a little…
thank you for your understanding.

New York con.

This past weekend I attended the New York comicon at the Javits Center. It was a good show. I didn’t have to much time to check out any of the panels but, I had a great time with the Archaia crew. I made some great new friends, and all are extremely talented. I’m really proud to be a member of Archaia.

I sold a couple of pages from issue 2 and did a number of con sketches. That should pay the rent for awhile. Here are a couple of the sketches I couldn’t finish at the show, so I took them home. Just finished them about an hour ago. Again I forgot a camera so I don’t have images of any of the other sketches. heh heh Anyway, here’s Pan, Ariel, and another one of the most famous bird in the comic biz, Coda.

cpg on a nautilus

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places to visit some of my stuff

I’ve got a couple of different spots on the ol internets that have stuff to look at you might’ve seen my website jeremybastian.com but how bout my comicspace site or there’s also my myspace page.

Cursed Pirate Girl release party

The first issue comes out April 16th (yay) now the good folks down at Vault of Midnight (219 S. Main st. Ann Arbor MI.) host book release parties for those who want em. Now I got a little prob, see I’ve got to be in New York the 18th through the 20th pushing the book at the con at the Javitz center. The next viable window to host this book release party is a full 10 days after it’s already out in stores. So there you go. The party will be April 26 (it’s a sat.) from 7-9pm, I’m gonna have some tasty things set up as well as a sneak peek at issue two. I kinda got geeked about this and printed up some postcards too, seeing as how I never really had a gallery show or anything. I got them printed from a co. in Detroit called Klever Design and Printing they’ve also got the best deals on business cards. If you’re in the area and you need something like that check them out.
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