I’m a big fan of the cancelled tv show Firefly.  Early in December I was commissioned to create some sketch cards of the cast of the show.  My scan of the final color images didn’t turn out so good, so I put together the black and white drawings to give you a feel for the cards.  I’d love to do some prints from this show.

One of the things that I enjoy most about the work I do is making people happy.  We’re going down the rabbit hole a bit, but follow me on this one.  Back in 2008 at the San Diego Comic Con I got to meet some of the people that I had been communicating with online.   One of those people was Justin Chung who runs a site called World Famous Comics.  Justin was sitting by Joe Corroney who draws AMAZING covers for Star Wars, Star Trek, and Farscape comics.   Through Joe and Justin I met Ed Hawkins and Jeff Wedding who have been involved in comic forever and have started working on a web comic at RoninSpoon Theater with the Fillbach brothers Matt and Shawn who have been working on the Star Wars Adventure comics.  WHEW!!!

So Jeff contacted me and said that there was a small event in Las Vegas called the Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival.  They hadn’t attended the show before but they wanted to check it out and asked if I would come out and be there guest for the show.  I was thrilled to fly out to Vegas and hang out with these guys for the show.  Ed did a write up of the show here, and I got to meet comic shop owner Ralph Mathieu at the show and he did a great write up here.

After the show we were hanging out and Jeff said that he wanted to get a shadow box from me someday.  I showed me one of his vintage Topps R2-D2 cards saying he thought it would be a great shadow box.  Well, it turns out that Jeff had been talking to his wife about this idea too.  So she contacted me (through Facebook) and commissioned the shadow box.  The big trick was to make it without Jeff knowing.  So I looked online to try and find the card that Jeff had showed me, but I had no luck.  Finally I turned to Gus Lopez, Super Star Wars Collector, and he sent me an image of the card.  I made that shadow box and sent it off for a Christmas morning surprise.  :D

This is the last of the pre-Christmas Shadow Boxes, but the first one I completed.  My friend’s sneaky wife ordered this one up as a Christmas surprise.  I’ll have some more to post about this one in my next post.

Here’s another shadow box commission that I did before Christmas.  A break from my Star Wars art and into another movie that I love “The Princess Bride.”  Here is Wesley and Buttercup leaving the Fire Swamp.

Now that the Christmas gift giving is over I can start to post some of the commissions that I’ve done.  Here’s the first duel between Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.

Long before I’d ever heard of Jake Parker I was a fan of the artwork created by Agent 44.  I felt like Lois Lane when I finally connected the dots and found that these two were the same person!

I feel a certain kinship to Jake.  You see, he’s doing the things that I wanted to do.  He got that job at the animation studio and used the opportunity to learn everything he could.  He realized early on that the only work that is going to be steady is the work that you make for yourself.  He’s taken all of this talent and all connections and has put it together in his very first solo graphic novel. The following video was put together by Darren Rawlings.

you can hear the podcast below or click on the image to visit the site.

You can also head over toAmazon and pre-order this book.  I’ve got mine!

I have just completed a new banner illustration for the collecting site Mint in Box.  All of their previous banners have included Boba Fett in them, which makes perfect sense to me since he IS the ultimate Star Wars collector.  Here is a link to the google translated site with the new banner.

I first met the guys at Mint in box at Celebration Japan and then we keep running into each other even though they are from France. When we met up at Fan Days III they had commissioned the falcon cockpit shadow box and they took a TON of wonderful photos.

So watching the latest episode of the Clone Wars cartoon I noticed something interesting.  There’s a scene when two clones that have been infected by these parasites fire on the Jedi and Ahsoka flips over the table in a pose that I’d seen drawn by Katie Cook.

They were able to knock the clones out and then two more came rushed in responding to the blasters they had heard.  Even though they are clones, they do look a bit different.  I think that this clone looks a bit like Ken the Elvis trooper.  :D

Well, it’s actually Celebration V, but I just can’t get the “V” out of my head!  So August 12th-15th, 2010 in Orlando Florida will be the next big Star Wars convention.  I hope that I get invited to the event.  I’ve love to make another Star Wars print.  You can learn more at StarWars.com or the Celebration V site.

 Happy Days!  After a year of working with Zazzle, I’m SUPER pleased to announce that the store is ONLINE!  You can click HERE to go to the Zazzle store or you can check out some of the images on my Zazzle page.