DCartoons: Dan Christensen’s Comics & Sketches

A month or so ago I took on a couple freelance illustration jobs, one for Spy Monkey Toys, an action figure company specializing in Golden Age comic book characters, and the other for a talented band from San Diego, So Long Davey!.

I was asked to rework Spy Monkey’s company logo and draw some Golden Age characters for the toy packages:



And the band had me draw them all as super hero characters for the cover of their CD, Another Planet:


Both projects were a lot of fun, kind of a breath of fresh air after having my nose buried in comic book pages for so long.

The colors for Paranormal vol.3 are coming along nicely, and I’ll be posting some colored samples next week. Stay tuned!

And now, a word from Rat Face:

Yep, it’s true: the art is done and scanned, and tomorrow I start coloring the book!

Will post some colored pages as soon as possible.

I just posted this over at the Drawing Board and thought I’d do the same here:

For those of you who aren’t familiar with this guy, he was the anti-hero main character from the excellent Mister X comic book, one of my favorite stories of all time (drawn by the Hernandez brothers and Seth back in the 80’s and scripted by Dean Motter). Mister X had a bigger impact on me than The Dark Knight and The Watchmen combined (although I do like those books, too).

Anyway, here’s to the greatest sleep-deprived character of all time… Mister X!

Some more fencing sketches:

Yeah, so here’s them finished pages I promised:

I’ll post some more soon. Until then, happy reading (you’ll have to fill in the word bubbles yourself, I’m afraid)!

This morning I was invited to talk about comic books in my oldest son’s kindergarten class… I had a really good time. We talked about what comics (bandes dessinées) are, I showed them some of my pages from thumbnails to finishes, then I drew a four-panel story about this little raccoon character I made up. Then the kids sat down and each of them came up with their own comic story.

I won’t be winning any Eisners or anything with this, but it was lots of fun and a nice change from the typical stuff I usually draw.

Aaand speaking of the typical stuff I usually draw, I only have two pages left to do and Paranormal is DONE. At least, the art is. Then I need to get started on the colors… but that will undoubtedly go a lot faster than drawing has. Will publish some finished pages soon.

And I mean that.