Two New Christopher Moonlight Prints

Ah, and now the new prints are ready. Here they are. Only two of them I'm afraid, but I have a lot of projects going at this time, and so I don't paint as much as I'd like to. I'm also trying to pull together some new artist spotlights for everyone who reads here, just so this blog doesn't become all about me, all the time, and because I've discovered some extraordinary talent as of late. I'm hoping I can get them to talk to us, and let me post some of their work here. Here's 60's Dream which I've talked about before, here. I think we all know what this is from the posts below, but my ego is big enough that I think that some of my admirers may want a print of it.

New Postcard

Here are the images for my new promotional post card, featuring The Black Lipstick Curse on one side, and my newest mermaid on the other. Please, feel free to save the later as your newest desktop.

A Trippy Little Mermaid

As promotion time grows nearer, I keep coming up with images which are easy to do black and white T-shirts with, as well as color. For this image the main goal was to do a picture that would ID me, while still keeping with my style. I've also been experimenting with that 1960's, San Francisco, psychedelic, rock and roll poster look, which I adore so much. The computer has been great for coloring like that. Anyway, you can see by the work in progress pics that I did the original drawing in pen and ink, and then colored it in the computer. It's good for those sorts of things.

The Black Lipstick Curse T-Shirt

While we're at The San Diego Comic Con. we hope to have t-shirts to mark the 10th anniversary of The Black Lipstick Curse with this image on them. Looking at it, I almost feel that this should have been the cover, but I'm out of time for the printers, so I can't paint it. Still, I love the cover I have now.

The Black Lipstick Curse Classics

The San Diego Comic Con. is right around the corner, again and I find that I once more have a comic book to promote. The Black Lipstick Curse Classics collects all of my finished stories from the series from it's birth in 1997 to 2001, with new digital shading, and an all new painted cover. My plan is to have it printed by ComiXpress, and at the con this year.

I'm rather happy with the way this cover turned out. While painting it I was feeling the influence of my pal and fellow artist Eddie Campbell, who has a very loose painting style. Essentially, it's the original cover to issue number two, which has always been very relevant to the story inside. Don't let the word bubble mislead you. There is more to what she's saying then what most would assume.
Instead of redrawing the whole thing, I painted over a copy of the old cover to some effect. I used photoshop for other touches, like the lace, lettering, framing, and logo.
Here is what the original issues cover looked like.
Here's the inside cover for the new collection.