The Covered Blog

A Jimmy Olsen cover I redrew is on Robert Goodin's Covered blog today.

In the Pipeline

I'm working on a new mini-comic to have a grand unveiling at San Diego COMICON INT'L this summer, published by my friends, the team at Sparkplug Comic Books and Books and Distributors. It'll be an historical essay in comics form. I have to get it turned around pretty fast, it looks like (I might give up, too).

Rough Comics Pages

Some pages from my sketchbook for a mini-comic I've been working on since 2006. I get about two pages done a year and they look like this. Caution: bad language

Danny Dutch #38

I think the lettering is pretty good on this one.

Danny Dutch #37

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #36

I didn't do anything for a month! Anyhow, I'm a step away from just killing this blog since I never post much of anything anymore...You should bookmark the Danny Dutch Strip RSS Feed or my Flickr photostream since that seems to be where all the big action is. Also keep an eye on reliablecomics.com since I just renewed the domain for another year. And don't forget to buy Danny Dutch's Illiterate Yellow Funny Book from my inestimable pooblisher Sparkplug Comic Books and Stories. That's it, I guess.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #35

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #34

It's hard to get these done! I complained to a friend about the ungodly amount of drawing that goes into doing train tracks.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #33

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #32

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #31

For next week

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #30

For this week, whenever it is.

Some of my best lettering in this one.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #27

Strip #27 first panel, all finished! Congratulations!

Busts!

I'm going to use these as part of the design on the inside covers of my upcoming comic book. With luck it'll be in color, with some additional designey junk.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #26

First panel of #26

I like the way that small lettering at the bottom came out.

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Morey Amsterdam

I've been on a Dick Van Dyke Show binge the last couple nights; this made it to the margin of weekly strip #24.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #24

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #23

Just to tease anyone who's reading these, for the next few I'm just going to post the first panel and then force you to buy the printed version if you want to read the whole thing. Coming in November '08.

It might also save me some time which I can devote to drawing more comics, or drawing the same amount of comics, but faster. Or better. Or merely maintaining the same lax schedule as always...the sky's the limit!

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #22

For the week of July 28-Aug 3.

I finished this yesterday, but forgot to post it here. I've been putting them on Flickr first lately, then forgetting all about it.

Weekly Strip #22 Half Done Preview

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #21

For the week of July 7-13.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #20

For the week of June 23-29.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #19

For the week of June 9-15.

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Sketches for Comic Strip

Here's a couple of sketches I did to practice for this week's strip (coming next week!). This is Penny, Danny Dutch's girlfriend, and I've used her so seldom I always have to re-learn how to draw her. Sorry about the weird colors; she looks like a scary doll.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Comic Strip #18

For the week of May 26 thru June 1.

I guess I'm going to have to stop calling these weekly strips, since I never get them done on time. I'm working on a 60-70 page story in my sketchbook, but it's going to be in my boring style and not my funny style, coming in 2009!

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #17

For the week of May 12-18.

Part 2 of 2, continued from last week.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #16

For the week of May 5-11

This is a two-parter, concluded next week.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #15

For the week of April 21-27.

This is the best comic strip I've ever done.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #14

For the week of Apr 7-13

It took me forever to get this done. I won't be drawing these guys again because it's too hard!

Also take a look at this raw scan, before I added the graytones. (very large size)

There's an RSS feed of my Flickr gallery of weekly strips here, if you are so inclined.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #13

For the week of March 31 - April 6.

I was beginning to think I went overboard with the drawing on this, but it came out ok.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #12

For the week of March 24-30.

Take a look at the pencil versions of two of these panels in the previous post.

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Half Way

These are the pencil roughs for panels 3 and 4 of weekly strip #12, which I'll post next Wednesday, March 26.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #11

For the week of March 10-16.

I hope I can stay on schedule from now on, but it's hard to get these done now that I have a job!

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Reasons

Well, not much is happening for me lately--just moved into a new apartment, but I don't have enough of my stuff transported to get any comics or scanning or much of anything at all done. However, I mean to have Weekly Strip #11 for next Wednesday, March 12, and a post or two with scans of Chinese comics I brought back from my trip there in 2004; I have some neat stuff that I rediscovered during my packing. I may also get some stuff together to add to gluyaswilliams.com, but that's within the next few months, not particularly anytime soon.

Please keep reading!

Weekly Strip #10

For the week of Feb 11-17

So much work for so little payoff! I might take off next week...

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Weekly Strip #9

For the week of Feb 4-10

My internet is back, surprisingly

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Shopping, Prints, BFFs

I took a look in the Family store this past Saturday in L.A. I saw that they have a couple of the litho prints (titled Stamina) that John Hankiewicz made to commemorate our SPX '06 experience. John, Onsmith, Ivan Brunetti and I each did a little drawing and John did the prints, it came out nice!

Up above is the drawing that I contributed, scanned from my sketchbook. The four of us also made a mini-comic for the show that we were handing out free. I'm not sure where you might be able to find one of them now; I don't know if I even have one. But they were neat! Four new drawings apiece, very small size.

Anyway, the print was priced at $20 at Family. They also had more of John's prints for sale, and dozens of other things. Check it out and tell them I sent you. And then tell me that I sent you.

And don't forget to bookmark Hankiewicz's and Onsmith's blogs for a heaping helping of their naive artwork. Hankiewicz is in the new Mome #10; Onsmith is in the new Hotwire Comics #2. If you need help finding Ivan Brunetti comics, you're stupid.

Weekly Strip #8

For the week of Jan 21-27

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Jan 14-20

UPDATE: I've gotten a lot of nice feedback on this one from here and there; thanks a lot for looking, everyone!

I also made a banner that links to the Flickr set of these strips. It's there on the right, or if by some chance you're looking at the RSS, here it is:

Or if you don't like Flickr, you can click the weekly strip label to see them here or if you don't want to do that either, they're all on reliablecomics.com. EASY

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Supertrash: Venus In Furs Poster Redo

I did this for the Supertrash Film Fest / Art Show that's upcoming on February 1-3 in Portland, Ore. I'm not sure if they automatically accept whatever's sent in or if it's juried somehow, but we'll see. Pals Tom Neely, Chris Cilla, Alex Holden and Jim Rugg have also done one, probably others I don't know about.

Anyway, I did Venus in Furs, a terrible movie from the late 60's about a horny jazz musician and a hot naked ghost(?) lady, and a hot jazz singer lady who never gets naked and three murderous jerks. Don't bother watching it.

This is also my excuse for not having a new weekly strip for today. Not the real reason, but it's good enough. I may have a strip for tomorrow. Sorry!

New Weekly Strip

For the week of Jan 7-13

New logo, hope you like it.

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 31 thru Jan 6.

I tried some "special effects" for this one.

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 17-23.

There's no new strip next Wednesday, check back on January 2, '08

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Running Late

I didn't get started on my strip until today, so I may not make it by Wednesday, but anything can happen.

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New Gocco Print

Printed on a 4¾" x 2⅜" paper tag, it may be hung from a Christmas tree, rearview mirror, suitcase, or wherever your imagination might suspend it; string included. This particular print is a bit off register so it looks a little blurry. Others are even worse! I dunno, how about $2? Final price TBD.

It's a print gocco print and I made a few of them today to sell at super*MARKET Los Angeles, this Saturday at Meltdown Comics. I'll be at Tom Neely's table, trying to sell these prints and my currently in-print mini-comics.

See you on Saturday.

UPDATE (12/16/07): I DID NOT see you on Saturday

New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 10-16

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of December 3-9, 2007.

Check back next Wednesday and maybe there'll be another one! MAYBE! And tell your friends, please.

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Today's Sketchbook

What keeps me from drawing like this all the time?

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Today's Sketchbook

Anybody know how to get a good scan of a wash drawing? Anyhow, just a little inkwash practice here. Might've gone a bit overboard--gray teeth??

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New (Weekly?) Strip

New Projects Dept: Make a weekly comic strip. This is the first one, for the week of November 26 thru December 2, 2007. We'll see if 12/3-12/9 materializes. I got no job, and I wrote three or four strips this morning, just need to draw them--I'd be a real slob if I didn't get a second one done at the very least. Wish me luck!

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Today's Sketchbook

A four-panel strip I was working on last night. Not too sure if it's funny enough, but I'm satisfied with the drawing so far, which may compensate for any lack of laffs

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Today's Sketchbook

More from that comic strip I've been working on.

Today's Sketchbook

This is part of a comic strip I've been working on. I have lots of time to work on it lately, so it's coming along pretty fast.

Today's Sketchbook

Not actually sketchbook, but rather slick polished finished drawing-work.

Today's Sketchbook

I don't have a job now, so the sketchbook's seeing some action. Up above I was fooling around with a drawing style that nobody really does anymore. It could be considered the "lightbulb head' school of cartooning. Down there is just some random character stuff. Hope you like it!

By the way, I know I don't have a huge readership here, but if you're looking via RSS please leave a comment, just to give me an idea whether I'm liked or not.

Today's Sketchbook

Today's Sketchbook

Today's Sketchbook

This is a panel from Young Romance #128 (1964) that I copied. I should do stuff like this more often, because it wasn't so easy, and I wish the result was better--that's not to say it's really bad or anything!!

Today's Sketchbook

It's been awhile! Here's my sketchbook output for the last couple weeks. I got a few more panels of that comics strip, but haven't scanned em yet. Does anybody even like stuff like this?

Don't forget to click for the big version!

Today's Sketchbook

It's fun to try to draw a cute girl sometimes. And I aplogize for the lack of posts, in case anybody is still looking...

Tintin Sketches

Here's some Tintin doodles I did the other day. Most of them are pretty crude, but it's all I got for now.

Copy Center

Here's some drawings I've done lately, three of which are trying to emulate the style of Milt Gross, and the fourth is a John Held-ish face. That green guy ended up looking a little like Jon Waters.

See more Milt Gross at animationarchive.org's gallery of Gross Sunday pages.

Today's Sketchbook

Should the Legionnaires Age?

Here's a spot I did a couple years ago for Twomorrows' Best of the Legion Outpost. I just added it to my portfolio page at reliablecomics.com.

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Today's Sketchbook

with Photoshop color

Some Recent Sketches

Take Notes

New Rough Comic Pages

Here's two pages from my continuing Vice-President, Shipping & Distribution, Office Machines Company story. Forgive the occasionally illegible text, and click for a slightly larger version.

Today's Sketchbook

The guy on the left is basically Shermy from Peanuts, but grown up. I think I'll eventually use him in a comic and his personality will be based on a guy I used to work with in Chicago named Larry. On the right is Welby from Reliable Comics #1 (for sale). As far as drawings go, these aren't bad, but I'd like them to be a little looser; I'll have to keep working at it.

Unemployment Funnies

Colored using the swatches from this site, found via boingboing

Some Doodles

Today's Sketchbook

Daffy Duck is difficult to draw.

Huckleberry Hound

From my sketchbook

A New Drawing

"Composition"

This is a rough for a comic panel I was working on tonight. The comp is about two inches square, and the final will be about the same. I guess might I just as well use this for the finished strip, but I'm not going to. It's a guy standing on the porch of a diner at dusk.

Pencil and Sign Pen on 20lb bond.

New Sketch

New sketch based on the guy in this illustration. Nothin great, but it fills the space...