The Penguin

I'm currently hard at work on a very special comic. It's nothing major, but it is one of the fastest and best-executed comics I've ever done. The official title is "Louie, Kid Prodigy: The Ferrophages!" The eponymous character is a boy genius inventor, who becomes involved in a ridiculous romp through his hometown in pursuit of two extraterrestrial monsters. It's a two-part story that will be fully colored. I'm going to have it available online as a free download, and you can order a hard copy for an exorbitant price, if you want (hey, shipping ain't cheap). Here's a couple of tasty tidbits to whet your appetite. The first is not the actual first page, just a workup I did in Photoshop. I think it looks great, but the technique I used would be far too time-consuming; I'll probably do the inks by hand, then color it in Photoshop. The second picture is a workup for a promo poster, which will also be available online. I still need to

Yes, gentle reader, your friendly neighborhood Rick is indeed still alive and kicking and, every once in a blue moon, putting out a comic or two. There are a couple of reasons why I don't blog as much as I'd like. Number one, I'm lazy. Number two, I hate blogs with no pictures, and I can never figure out what picture to put in my blog posts. Hopefully I'll start doing that "Sketch-a-week" thing I promised to do what, two years ago? Something like that. The point being, of course, to actually make this an interesting art blog. The third reason is probably the biggest one, and will perhaps be remedied by the fact that I've changed jobs recently. I was working as a meter reader for DTE until two weeks ago, not only walking and driving all day, but as of August conducting an hour-long commute from Lansing to Howell. You can imagine that this cut into my writing/creating time. I'm not saying it was the toughest job in the world, but oh brother, by the t