Montreal Comic Con roundup

Another Montreal Comic Con has come and gone. The show has ballooned from less than a thousand people only a couple of years ago to something like 20,000 people. That's great for the city and the show itself, but I definitely felt the growing pains this year. Sales were lower than last year, which were lower than the year before that. I think the show is entering that comfortable sweet spot for bigger guests, but it's becoming less profitable for fellows like myself.

Here's a sample of the sketches that kept me busy all weekend. Thanks to everyone that came out to see me and pick up some comics, pages, and sketches from me.

 Spoiler Robin

 

Spider-Man

 

Solid Snake 

 

The Spectre

  

Batman Beyond 

 

Shepard (from Mass Effect) Gangnam Style

The Spectre

Ariel (from Green Wake)

Speaking of Green Wake... Kurtis Wiebe won the Shuster Award for Best Writer on Saturday night! Since Kurtis couldn't be at the show, I accepted on his behalf. Very proud of him and very proud of the book.

Other highlights of the show included the three panels I did on Saturday; my own panel on Making Comics (the class I teach at Syn Studio), the Elephantmen panel with my excellent friend Richard Starkings, and the Ben Templesmith panel. Ben is a tremendously clever and fun guy, I had a great time chatting with him all weekend. I also had the great pleasure of meeting the tremendously talented Mark Chiarello and seeing the unlettered, uncoloured pages from Hellboy in Hell #1 (thanks to Christine and Mike Mignola for such an honor). I spent a bit of time with Darwyn Cooke and he told me some good news about upcoming Parker projects. Very exciting.

Back to business! Bedlam #1 is on its way and I'm supplying the letters for it. It's some of Riley's best work yet and I can't wait until its unleashed on the world.

Toronto Winter Con roundup

 

 

 

  

 

Toronto was a lot of fun! Great to see Guy Davis, Ray Fawkes, Cameron Stewart, and Russ again. Lovely to meet Katherine from The Naked News, too (NSFW). Thanks to the organizers, the con went liquidy-smooth and the fans were particularly great.

Congratulations to Canada on their gold medal in hockey. I made it to the bar just as overtime started. Downtown Toronto after the victory was a sea of good vibes and smiles. Shame about the Nickelback though.

Back to work. See you again, TO.

Montreal Comic Con sketches & The A-Team

The Montreal Comic Con was this past weekend, and it was a good time. It was busy, much busier than I thought it would be. I was drawing and chatting the whole time I was there. Lots and lots of kids, too, which was awesome to see. Little Supermen and Spider-Men running around. Kids have the best sketch requests. One darling little French girl asked for a penguin, and her sister wanted a flower!

I did tons of drawings and a lot of guys have been nice enough to email me jpegs.

Raphael


Sandman

Black Widow

I don't know if you heard (I can't stop thinking about it!) but Liam Neeson is in talks to play the part of Col. John "Hannibal" Smith in Joe Carnahan's upcoming A-Team movie. Hannibal Smith was a hero of mine when I was a little kid; my parents had a van, so my brother would play B.A. or Murdock and I'd be driving around as Hannibal.

I bought new ink quills the other night, and I was dying to try them out, so out came Hannibal.

Try not to hum The A-Team theme all day. It will be impossible for me.

Let the Right One In

It might be my favorite movie of the year.

Let The Right One In

With all the hubbub about that Mormon vampire romance movie thing that opened this weekend, I was exceptionally grateful when Roger Ebert's tepid review turned my attentions instead to Let the Right One In, a different vampire movie making the rounds. His review was enthusiastic, and I was looking for a way to reward myself for all my hard work this week... So, there you go.

Click here for the trailer in Quicktime.

It's a really spectacular movie... Brilliantly shot, delicately acted, and very faithful to vampire legends. Plus, since it's a foreign film, you get all the lovely things that a Hollywood movie just can't provide: the people look like real people, the special effects eschew spectacle for mood, and the plot is foreshadowed without beating you over the head with every plot point.

It's one of the best movies of the year. It's also the best vampire movie I've ever seen. I can't believe I didn't know it existed 36 hours ago.

I hate this

Coyote

I've been very, very, very busy with a lot of comics work this past few weeks, but I still found time to do this sketch. I wanted to play with colors a bit more than I have in the past. The cleverest amongst you can probably suss out what this is about.

Thomas Alan Waits

I don't know how this managed to make it in with all the scanning for work I've been doing lately, but here it is. Hopefully I'll be able to show off some of the real work at some point... Too many comics with too many spoilers.

Guy, girl

A couple of sketchbook drawings that I did just before I moved out here. I really like this permanent ink pen, I can't remember its name but everyone uses it.

I think the girl was out at the airport... But why was I out at the airport?


The guy is Riley, at Sketchpub.

I don't draw real things

I need to go draw some trees or something, seriously.

Downtown train

Old Montreal

Girls girls girls

Nothing better than hanging out in Quebec with a pretty girl on a Saturday.

Taste the harsher justice

A Lobster Johnson commission I just this very second finished.

Commissions

I'm taking commissions. I've wrestled with this for a while, but Proof is humming pretty well and people have started asking about Archie Snow, so I figure it's time. If you are interested in a commission, email me at kelly at kellytindall dot com and we can talk about what you want and what it is going to cost.

Here are some recent commissions:

Archie Snow


Mary Marvel


Usagi Yojimbo


In other news, I'm working on a new Archie Snow story, "The Liar", which will hopefully start in Proof #10 or #11, and I am working on an as-yet-untitled in-Proof-continuity backup for Proof #10. It stars Wayne, the Lodge groundskeeper, and it's sick and weird.

Thanks again, blog. See ya.