STUMPTOWN COMICS FEST this weekend!

Stumptown Comics Fest is tomorrow!

I'll be at space O06, with Danger Zone comics, JMart art, and these snazzy new flyers...

80'S UNDEAD preview

Here are the first 4 pages from NIGHT OF THE 80’S UNDEAD issue number 1, which you can order now via comic shops (Diamond order code APR130760), or pick up via our Kickstarter

It’s the new comic created written and (neon) colored by me, with pencil art by the fabulous Mr. Bill McKay!

It’s 1986, and Russia’s last ditch cold war effort is to strike at our American excess lifestyle with bio-engineered Colombian cocaine. What happens when two girls out for a good time cross paths with a huge celebrity party hyped up on commie zombie blow?!?! Radical undead action man! Totally!!

FOR MORE INFO ON THE BOOK CLICK HERE

80'S UNDEAD colors

My new comic, NIGHT OF THE 80'S UNDEAD, a 3 issue mini-series, is set to hit comic shops starting this June, which means it's time to start promoting it!

Here's a behind the scenes look at production...
It's written by me, but is drawn by artist Bill McKay, and I'm taking his fabulous cartoon gore 80's coke zombie pencil work and finishing it up with coloring and lettering. So here's a comparison of a page from issue 1 pencils to color!

You can pre-order the book now via comic shops with Diamond order code APR13 0760
OR, pick up a copy online via a Kickstarter HERE

For more info, just click the 80's Undead link above, or tag below!

NIGHT OF THE 80'S UNDEAD #1 info

My new book, NIGHT OF THE 80'S UNDEAD (which you may have heard about for a little while here), is in the Diamond Previews catalog just out today, for books shipping to comic book shops this June.

It's in the comics and graphic novels section on page 242
Diamond Order Code APR130760

Here's the full solicit info for the book:

NIGHT OF THE 80’S UNDEAD 1 - bi-monthly 3 issue mini-series
Writer – Jason Martin (that's me), Artist – Bill McKay
28 pages, full color, $3.99, mature readers
Synopsis - It's 1986, and Russia's last ditch cold war effort is to strike at our American excess lifestyle with bio-engineered Colombian cocaine. What happens when two girls out for a good time cross paths with a huge celebrity party hyped up on commie zombie blow?!?! Radical undead action man! Totally!!

So there you go, if you frequent comic shops, preoder now, if you don't, you can pick it up from one in June.

Or, if you live on the web and have heard of Kickstarter and want to order yours now, then you can get one HERE

Support independent comics!
Support fun books about commie coke zombie 80's icons and automatic weaponry!!!!

DANGER ZONE previews

You might have heard me mention, I'm heading up a new mature readers creator-owned comic line, ACTION LAB: DANGER ZONE, and our first batch of books were in the March Previews catalog... well, a new batch of books are in the April Previews catalog that hits comic shops this Wednesday, so I thought I'd post a link where you can preview all of the books right now online (or on your mobile devices) - HERE

There are zombie circus little people getting their heads kicked in, nuclear armed time traveling terrorists destroying Las Vegas, Native American drug abusing college kids freaking out, gender swapping barbarians and computer programmers running wild, undying rabid rodents of biblical proportions feasting on flesh, and commie zombie virus contaminated cocaine snorting 80's icons... well, what're you waiting for, why haven't you clicked the link yet?!? Doesn't that sound like a good enough time?!?!!

That's right, you can check out seven new upcoming comics - from horror to comedy, sci-fi to street crime - right now, online, free now, and pre-order them for their May and June releases!!

Find out more about DANGER ZONE - HERE

Plus, my new book that I've been talking about forever around here, NIGHT OF THE 80'S UNDEAD, is part of the lineup and will be officially coming out as part of the lineup starting this June!

Emerald City Comicon this weekend!

Here's where you'll find me this weekend at Emerald City Comicon...
Artist alley space S-06 and S-07 (along with Night of the 80's Undead artist Bill McKay).

I'll have prints, sketchbooks, and we should have some new copies of Night of the 80's Undead issue 1 too! Plus you can get some other Danger Zone limited edition books from the Action Lab booth!

Also, my COBRA FETT tee is now available in my JMart store HERE

DANGER ZONE comics are now orderable

Hey folks, the comics imprint I'm heading up, ACTION LAB: DANGER ZONE, has it's first wave of books available for pre-order (via comic book shops) starting today...

Check out the books now in the Diamond Previews catalog (you can check out our spiffy ad in the book, or right here), or tell your shops about Danger Zone!

This is just round one, my own NIGHT OF THE 80'S UNDEAD (with artist Bill McKay) will debut next month!!

STAY ALERT!

TEE DESIGN: Cobra Fett!

I've known for ages that I wanted to do some sort of Cobra logo tee of some sort, I just love the red on blue design so much. And for a while I wanted to do a Cobra/Boba Fett mash-up fan art, Cobra Fett, how damn cool is that?!?! But it took forever for it to occur to me that Cobra Fett was the perfect Cobra logo design too!

So here you go. Two of the coolest things from the 80's become one. Geek nirvana you can wear.

I give you, COBRA FETT

I'm quite proud of myself.

New art: REBEL PRINCESS

Shows coming up imminently must mean... new art!

"Rebel Princess"

Available this weekend at Portland Comic Con (aka Wizard World). I might do a high end limited run...


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80's Undead issue 2 - preview art

Here's that recent panel I shared in form from my upcoming comic, Night of the 80's Undead, now all finished by series artist Bill McKay.

He's killing it folks!!!

80's Undead issue 2 - preview art

Okay kids, I've been neglecting my social responsibilities and not sharing enough here and there, so hows about I start sharing some in process art from my upcoming comic, Night of the 80's Undead? Sound good?

 Last year I was sharing production art from issue 1, but we're finally back underway with issue 2, so time to share more!!

 On this book I'm doing everything but the all important drawing part, so the arts are by my friend and pencil maestro deluxe Bill McKay.

 Here's the latest rough for a new page and panel he's working on... as you can see, it's chock full of 80's coke zombies, just like the book ;)

Wonder Woman fan art original on eBay...

Updated and relisted

Wonder Woman pencil and marker tone sketch on ebay now...

Another day, another SKETCH CARD on eBay

Time for another AE from the 5finity KITTY DITTIES AND PRETTY LADIES sketch card set...

On ebay HERE

More SKETCH CARDS on eBay...

I've got a custom Power Girl card just listed with a .99 cent opening bid, and more to come!!

CLICK HERE 

SKETCH CARD on eBay

This card can be yours now on eBay HERE

It's 1 of 4 AE (artist exclusive) cards I have from doing the recent 5finity/Katie Cook sketch card set, KITTY DITTIES & PRETTY LADIES.

Some cartoon cavegirl action up for grabs!

SKETCH CARD ARTWORK

Two commissioned "sexy" artist exclusive cards from the recent Cherry 5finity set.

Here they are with just the inks, and then finished colors...

I have a new job, and it's in the... DANGER ZONE!

So, after working behind-the-scenes for a while now, I can officially announce that I've merged my SR Graphics with Action Lab Entertainment and we have created the mature readers comic book line, ACTION LAB: DANGER ZONE ...a new imprint for Action Lab which I will be publisher of!!!

Full info can be found HERE


Suffice it to say, we have lots of crazy-cool, stupid-fun stuff lined up, including all of the existing SRG catalog (natch), and it's also safe to assume there'll be some boundary-blasting genre-vexing creator-owned comics coming your way in... THE DANGER ZONE!

I’m incredibly excited to take my efforts at showcasing the creative and quirky ideas born from creator-owned comics to an even larger audience with the backing of the talented folks at ALE!!!

WEBSITE  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

Stay alert!
More info to come.

Ebay...

I'm listing some artwork on ebay currently, check them out HERE

FAN ART: The Walking Dead

After the popularity of my last cast fan art (Game of Thrones) I knew right away the show I'd like to do next, THE WALKING DEAD.

It's so much fun after watching a show you really like, to visualize the cast as you'd draw them, how they'd pose and look, and to put that together. Sure is a lot of work too, but at least there's a few less characters here then on Game of Thrones! ;)

So here are the characters I settled on, based around the first two seasons of the show...

Sophia, Carol, Daryl, Andrea, Shane, Rick, Lori, Carl, T-Dog, Glenn, and Dale

Sure (SPOILER ALERT!) some of them are dead by the end of those seasons, and there are a few newer ones I could have added, but they're the core group as I see it, through that period.

And as much as I like the show, I do have my qualms with it (mainly the wardrobe - generic 80's come K-Mart by way of the prairie, complete with logo-less sportswear... I'm looking at you Glenn!), but so far season 3 is off to an amazing start!

So, hopefully I'll return after this season with a new cast fan art.

JMart on the web: 

Sketchy hardware, and women.

So, haven't posted any art since before NYCC... why? Well, I recently purchased an affordable graphics tablet I'd read lots of good things about, a 6.25x10" from Monoprice. Because, yes, I still use a mouse for all my coloring and graphics work, etc. Sure, I've wanted to get a Wacom tablet, or better yet their Cintiq, but those cost a lot of money. And I actually bought a used Wacom years ago, and never used it (but mainly because I thought a larger size would be good and got a 12x12" - which was way too big).

Anyways, the Monoprice was only around $60 with shipping, so what the heck.

Got it and hooked it up in August, but hadn't spent much time playing with it. However, I started to have problems with my OS and/or my mouse, that got increasingly worse, as I was prepping for NYCC. And to the point where my PC was pretty much useless, and especially in Photoshop. And, Photoshop had even stopped working altogether  after numerous manual power downs having locked up the PC with no mouse or keyboard functionality... it stopped even opening up.

After un-installing and removing the tablet, the obvious offender, and getting rid of my mouse, I got everything to run fine on the PC, but even after un-installing and re-installing Photoshop I had no luck with it. It just hangs and won't open. I even took to the Adobe help boards, but again with no resolution.

Now, I bought Photoshop back in 2003, and I believe it was CS3, so it's probably time to update anyway, and in fact, that's what I've done. Being not too PC savvy, I'm at a dead end to problem solving the issue with Photoshop, so I noticed while being on the Adobe site, that one can download current software for a trial period, and that's what I've done.

So, I can finally start posting some artwork again, as, without Photoshop, I couldn't even save files as web viewable, let alone edit or adjust anything. Now I'm running PS CS6, and having only played with it for less then an hour, I'm already impressed.

Meanwhile, here's some art.
Two sketches I did at NYCC... a surly Wonder Woman, that sold at the show, and since I liked the idea of that one so much, I'd like to do a series of them, and did one of Princess Leia as well.

The Leia is available for $30, email me for shipping and payment info.

I believe the issue with the tablet had to do with the driver SW, as I know folks have had problems with that, but don't know that I'll mess with that again, as I just can't problem solve if something else goes wrong (and Monoprice has no support to speak of... as, you do get what you pay for).

JMart on the web: 

Prometheus Blu-Ray

Got a chance to check out the PROMETHEUS Blu-Ray... and as you may recall, I was one of the few in the pro column for the film upon release.
Just like John Carter, I think Prometheus was an unfair victim of expectations and marketing.

So, as eager as I was to re-view the film (I had hoped to see it again in theaters, but never did), I was even more keen to see a longer cut, that sadly wasn't in the home release (at least for now). However, all of the deleted, extended, and alternate scenes are in the home version. Oh how I wish we had most of them in an alternate version of the film... about 2/3rds of what was cut, and nearly all of the alternate material improves upon the original. Especially the alternate extended ending that features more of the climactic encounter/s with the "engineer" (I'm not a fan of the alternate opening though). Not to mention, Fifield's attack on the crew in it's intended CG enhanced take is far superior to the traditional effects version.

For all those that write this off as a failure as an Alien film, feel it's inner logic is too flawed, or were looking for more action... I'm sorry you have those hang-ups, or feel that way. For me, it's a somewhat flawed gem of a sci-fi picture, that I absolutely love!

Now I'll just keep waiting for the alternate/extended cut/s...

NYCC this weekend!!!

I'll be heading back to New York Comic Con after 4 years away... I hear it's all growed up now (hello SDCC East)!!

You can find me in artist alley (it's on level 2 off by itself) at spot P7 (as illustrated here by this massive/tiny grid with my location highlighted):

I'll have brand new limited edition sketch cover comics and NYC themed prints for NIGHT OF THE 80'S UNDEAD. As well as my brand new Walking Dead fan art, debuting at the show (and therefore not visible entirely via the internets yet)... just in time for it's return this Sunday!!!

JMart tees available now! **SPECIAL OFFER!!

CUSTOM SHIRTS IN STOCK!!!

FREE COMIC!!
FREE SHIPPING!!!!

I now have some stock in hand for a couple of my t-shirt designs, but supply is limited. I've had shirts available via RedBubble for some time, but it's a little cheaper to get them direct from me, plus, I'll include a free comic of mine with each purchase!

I have either the Kenny Powers KFC mash-up design, or the Tyrion/Peter Dinklage "pimp" (emphasis on the IMP) design in stock to choose from:

KFn'P

$24.99 (shipping included)

SIZES

Medium Large Extra Large

pIMP

$24.99 (shipping included)

SIZES

Small Extra Large XXL

*shirts are all pre-shrunk black Glidan heavy cotton

Again, supply is limited, but I currently have all sizes in stock for the pIMP shirt, and most for the KFn'P... 

ACT FAST!!!

Las Vegas Comic Expo this weekend!

I'll be in Las Vegas this weekend for the LAS VEGAS COMIC EXPO (artist alley space T5)
It's a first time show, but they've put together a murderers row of artistic guests... plus it's on the strip!

I'll have comics, books, prints, shirts, you name it!

I'm also working on a fan art for the show... since Tricia Helfer is going to be a guest, I thought I'd try my hand at a (Cylon) number 6 piece... Here are the lines...

And here are the colors (by Sykomanyak)...

FAN ART: Batgirl

Had a Batgirl fan art I'd started up a while back and been noodling with off and on that I finally got serious about this week. Turns out an artist from DA that I love (Syko Manyak) had a killer offer on commission work, and for just color too, that I couldn't refuse, and so had it colored by him.

After getting the colors, I went ahead and made some tweaks, so here's the process from roughs to my finished colors... (so, 1) roughs, 2) finished lines, 3) Syko colors, 4) colors with my edits)

I dig how it came out, and it's always tons of fun to work with other artitsts!