Sigh...well, i do have a little, doing the planet of the apes stuff. But things are slow and getting tight folks. Time to rattle the chains some.

I have to get my portfolio sorted to do some local canvasing with AD`s here in MTL, and find some way to get the attentions of more of them out there in the www (wide wholly world) to notice me too. It`s hard to do on a shoe string though. Keep getting calls from services who want to help me fid clients, for, oh, a 1000 bucks a page.....

For anyone who knows where i might be well informed to be looking, please let me know. Here`s my CV - , and the link to my portfolios.

Neeto', been buging my mother to see some of her old work, this one is an eye poper.

Hey gang, can't find Revolution On The Planet Of The Apes #1 at your local comic shop? You can order it online NOW, from our neighbourhood comic shop, Altered States comics, Where Mr Comics lives if you will, or at least visits regularly.

A new Illustration for kitchen sink magazine # 13, first one with their new AD, Nicole Neditch. The illustration goes with a piece by Jessica Hoffmann titled 'Indie Auteurs, Depressed Middle-Aged Murrays, and the Girl' - Not exactly a review as an essay their depictions of relations between depressed middle aged men and 'girls' in the films Rushmore, Lost in Translation, and Broken Flowers. All staring Bill Murray.

Opening words....
Herman Blume, Bob Harris, Don Johnston: Murray-embodied ennui underscored by a hip soundtrack. Surely it says something about this cultural moment that three prominent indie auteurs have chosen to centre a very similar character, and that he is a depressed, middle-aged, wealthy American man in search of meaning and preoccupied by his relationship/s to one or several beautiful women. (And surely it
also says something that they all seemed to feel only one actor was right for the job.) Yet they do him—and his ladies—more differently than a glance at the similarly slump-shouldered Murray in the ads might suggest. While Wes, Sofia and Jim look at depressed upper-class American masculinity, mid-midlife crisis, I want to redirect the focus and take a look at what they—and their Murray-men—are seeing in their respective ladyfriends.

“Revolution on the Planet of the Apes” has hit the comic book shelves..."

got word from Ty that we got a three time pluging on Space The Imagination Station today....

"...TERRIFIC segment, they gave us about ninety seconds, and showed LOTS of art from the first issue, held up the cover for about a five second hold, and were basically very supportive..."

cool beans!

Wana-be-a member-wana-be-a-member Barnacle Bill?

I really like how this came out

Got a call for an emergency brain storm session - did a really fast rough idea sketch for it - Paul ran with that and went into a tight, dramatically lit CU of Black Throat for the bottom.

Not to shabby eh?
Bit bloody, but that’s kind of a thing with this one isn’t it?

Doing layouts for SOR 9 here now, and thinking about writing.

Need to replace the kitchen lights in my apt too….ladder.

But no, writing, that’s what I’m writing about.

…..must solve laptop-in-a-dozen-bits problem.
Bike soon will be of solid salt. Wants a manicure.

So, I’ve been mulling a SOR script idea for a bit, got an idea from some early brushing up on Mary Magdalene/Black Madonna mythology. If you haven’t read it yet, the Sea of Red storyline has taped a lot of biblical mythology in its winding way through tear ups with vam/pirates, sea monsters, megalomaniacs and immortals.

Well early on last year, around this time, as I lay staring up at the now gone Mandela mural painted their, I had a pair of low, deep mythology plundering grand epic story fronts collide in my bedroom. They melded into a tight, deep running riper and left a mark on my imagination.

So how does this sound………naw, I wait till the book’s out. Don’t want to ruin it for you. :P

Hey you DAMN DIRTY HUMANS! You can get your paws on my latest comic work in REVOLUTION ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #1, which hit stand this week!

So far some good words have come in. Tough crowd though, some would have liked POTA artist Neil Foster on the book apparently, but even the most hard core are still saying good things on the whole about #1.

And we’ve begun to get letters, Here’s are chunk from my favourite so far...

'The revolution will be illustrated' from Walter Harris

"My local comic shop had RPOTA issue 1 on display at the register and something about the cover (probably the fact that it is reminiscent of the old covers for the black and white comic magazines) drew me in. I decided to pick it up on a whim, despite the fact that I love the original POTA movies and collectables but have never read any of the comic incarnations.

Turns out this is one of the best presents I got this Christmas! The art is fantastic – I love the mixture of true-to-the-movies renderings of the apes along side true-to-life depictions in the same issue. I'm partial to the true-to-life look myself. It provides the best of both worlds for me – the original characters and storyline coupled with Burton/Baker make-up.

I particularly loved the Caesar's Journal section. As an African American, I always identified strongly with the socio-political underpinnings of the original POTA. I hope you plan to make the Journal entries a regular part of the series, as they provide an excellent platform for you to explore the societal, political, and religious issues that we face today. Personally, I see potential parallels between Caesar's daunting task of building a society/civilization among a savage populace and the Coalition's task of planting democracy in the middle-east (a populace many feel is to "primitive" for modern civilization to take hold). Any plans to leverage the struggles of today into RPOTA's tomorrow? It was cool to see Caesar's nod to Malcolm X in the main story (his character has always struck me as an amalgam of Malcolm and MLK) – will we see other references that show he is a student of the civil rights movements in the US and abroad?...."

I know this one had Ty & Joe grinning from ear to ear, and yes the story does touch on some of these issues.

Also i got a peek at the cover for 3, mmmmm, here's a wee thumb of a taste of that for ye. It's the most dynamic one yet from cover guru Denis Rodier.

Joe O'Brien has a new interview up at comicon.com here, talking about the book....

"The Apes series has clearly had a lasting impact. It’s permeated the culture. I didn’t realize how deeply ingrained it was until I started working on the book, and then I was seeing images of Cornelius and Zira everywhere, hearing people casually quoting the movies, sometimes without even realizing they were doing it. I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t know what Planet of the Apes is, even if they haven’t seen the films.

So the icons were already in place. Our job on this book is find a fresh expression of them, one that means something to the modern reader, but without losing sight that first and foremost it’s a kick-ass action story..."

...you'll find some peeks at art from #2 by me in there too. He also takes a good chunk of it up talking about the timelines of the story and how we are NOT doing a Burtton POTA comic...

And finally, if I’ve baited you adequately, you can order yourself a copy from our official mail order supplier, Altered States Comics - www.alteredstatescomics.com - they haven’t updated the catalogue on the site yet it looks like, so you can bug them at alteredstatescomics AT on DOT aibn DOT com to find out how to order your monkey love.