MILAREPA preview

Matt Schuler was kind enough to post a preview of "Milarepa", which I did for his upcoming Legendary anthology. It's an adaptation of one of the legends of Milarepa, a Tibetan poet-saint who could shapeshift and survive for months on prayer alone. Later in his life (he was supposedly a real person!) his skin was said to have turned green. Awesome!

==> Click here to check out the preview on the LEGENDARY blog. <==

I did a lot of research into Tibetan culture for this story; Archie Snow's secret origins are steeped in the myths of Tibet. I am very proud of it, and I cannot wait for you to read it.

In other news, I will be appearing with Alex Grecian and Riley Rossmo at the 2009 Fan Expo in Toronto at the end of August. Like Seattle, I will be doing commissions before the show and I will also be sketching at my table. Email me at kelly at kelly tindall dot com to set something up.

I will also be selling copies of my mini-comics Archie Snow: The First Fifteen Hours (which ties tightly into "Milarepa") and Stink, and I will have a preview of my upcoming AiT/Planet Lar book Squeak!. More to come.

Archie Snow

Just finished this bit. To be published in Proof #23.

July July

Lots to do this month. Just put down another chapter of Archie Snow, and then there's work to be done on Proof #25, more Archie, another backup story and a pitch. Plus, mothers and fathers and all of that.

Here's some sketches from Rome and Barcelona. It was a magnificent trip, thanks to the patience and wisdom of some really excellent friends. I love you all!

Roman holiday

Hey everybody,

I have been hella-busy getting everything ready to go go go... to Rome. My girl and I are going to stay with friends in Rome for a few days, and then it's on the road to Barcelona. We'll be there for a week, and then off to London and then home.

I apologize for not having anything to post today. I have finished "The Bull and the China Shop" for Proof #22 and I colored Wes Wedman's beautiful backup story... Both will be available at the end of July. I won't be around to talk about Proof #21, but it's got the longest and most action-packed stretch of Archie Snow goodness yet.

See you in July, everyone.

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.

Montreal Comic Con this Sunday

I will be at the Montreal Comic Con this coming Sunday. It's at Place Bonaventure downtown. I'll have some comics, pages, minicomics, and sketches to show and sell. Come talk to me about transformers and Pixar and vampires and other things I'm currently obsessed with.

==>For more info on the con, click here. <==

SPEARMINT, ARCHIE SNOW preview

This is a Souvenir: Songs from Spearmint & Shirley Lee comes out today, from Image Comics. I am in it. Trust me. My name isn't on it, but I'm in there. My story is "It Won't Be Long Now", which was produced with Richard Starkings in September of last year. I can't wait to see how it looks.

I don't have a preview for it, so here's a sneak peek of "Archie Snow: The Bull and the China Shop, Part 2", which will run in Proof #20, out next week from Image.

A touch... of mystery!

So my old pal Bill turned 40 yesterday. I hope this took some of the sting off. I personally can't wait until I'm eighty... Just really crusty and old and opinionated.



Happy birthday, Bill.

I'm trying to get another project under control... Finishing up my short story for Matthew Schuler's Legendary anthology. It's too early to post anything but I was happy with how this bit turned out.
I will let you know when Legendary is available. Hopefully sooner than This is a Souvenir (original street date: Feb 3) which should be out next Wednesday and I will be talking about it.

Epic super-late TCAF recap

Hey hey, here's my TCAF post. Try not to have a heart attack and die from not-surprise that it's a wee bit on the late side, but honestly you'd rather that Proof #21 ship on time, right? That's what I thought.

ON TO THE SHOW

Drove up on Friday with the girls from Abe & Kroenen and talked about secret projects. So many awesome comics will come out of this, I am sure.

I met Kate Beaton! I was exactly as nervous meeting her as I was meeting Guy Davis in Baltimore last year. Just a monstrously talented person and it was a pleasure to enjoy a moment of her company and snare her book. The following comic is true:
Always awesome to see the Topatoco team; I've been a huge fan of Jeffrey Rowland's for years and years... In fact, the subtitle for Overcompensating (namely: 'the journal comic with a seething disdain for reality') was coined by me! Little known fact.

I run into Holly more than I do Jeffrey, to be honest, so here's the shoutout to my favorite team in webcomics:While kicking it at TCAF I was crashing with R. Hiro, one of my favorite dudes ever. On Saturday night we decided to kick out the jams and produce some fresh comics about the experience. The following was done while eating pie and watching a Hercule Poirot mystery. Party times!

Other awesomeness from Saturday: kicking it with Scott C. (another of my favorite dudes ever), saying 'hey' to Stuart and Kathryn Immonen (the first couple of comix who are too, too patient with me), and hanging at the Joe Shuster table and doing some drawing. I drew a Zatanna!

Sunday was much busier, I wasn't so completely overwhelmed by the craziness of everything. Got to kick it with Tom Fowler for a bit, and finally meet Graham Annable (who is crazy talented and a really nice cat). Also? Becky Cloonan! Can you believe it?!
The reason that this comic kisses her butt is because more people should be sucking up to Becky Cloonan. Fact provable by science. Pixu is great, great, great horror comics; buy it immediately.

After kicking it with Becky for a spell, I cycled around and chatted up folks like Matt Forsythe and Ray Fawkes before sitting down at the Shuster Table until close. And that's that! Here's a bunch of people that walked by my table on Sunday. Easily the best-looking people at any convention ever, I think. Just a very sexy and handsome bunch.


See you in two, TCAF. It was a real slice.

Wolverine for the Joe Shuster Awards VISIONS show

An inkwash for the VISIONS exhibit that the Joe Shuster Awards will be putting on later this summer. See you at TCAF!