Shaw Home at Christmas

Shaw Home at Christmas, Dec. 2023

Digital Render/Procreate

Many family Christmas memories of the folks' place back home in Crawford County, Perry Como on the record player, the fireplace crackling... about as idyllic as you could hope for. When a blanket of snow lay over the historic century old home and surrounding acre lot, it could be downright magical to a small town, midwestern boy. 

The Night Watchman Returns

 I'm not the first to spoof Frank Miller's iconic drawing of Batman and Robin swinging across Gotham City's skyline, but I am the first to add a wolfman, one of my own characters from The Night Watchman. Mick Shaw's female sidekick has yet to be named, but she will be an S & T University student studying the nighttime ecology of the spring & surrounding park, overlapping Mick's shift as Night Watchman. I gave her Robin/Carrie Kelly's slingshot from Dark Knight Returns and drew bats in the background to further my homage, replacing Gotham's skyline in the background with chimneys from the old Meramec Ironworks which stand to this day in Meramec State Park.

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The Dark Knight Returns, F. Miller, K. Janson, L. Varley (1986)

Apotheosis Comics and Wizard's Wagon Now Carrying G.H.O.S.T. Agents, Night Watchman Sketchbook

Apotheosis Comics & Lounge is now also carrying G.H.O.S.T. Agents: Crimson Reckoning & my Spring/Summer 2023 Night Watchman Sketchbook! Crimson Reckoning (Cosmic Lion Productions) is a spy-fi anthology capturing the energy that some comics had in the mid-60s and throughout the '70s with an element of danger! This 9 x 13” Treasury Edition -sized comic includes several other artists and I with writer Rocko Jerome! (Ghost.Agents.Net)

The Night Watchman sketchbook is a 20 page inside preview of my own sci-fi/horror tale centered around the retiree Mick Shaw, who becomes its unwitting defender against the otherworldly threats lurking beneath Meramec Springs!

The Wizard’s Wagon was already selling both my books and is also an exciting gathering place with a ton of recommendations on what to read! 

 #outlawcomics #spyfi #scificomics #smallpresscomics #supportindiecomics #indiecomics #ghostagents #comicbookhistory #CosmicLionProductions #stlcomicbooks #TheNightWatchman #apotheosiscomics #meramecsprings #localcomicshop

Friday the 13th of October Show, Cuba Fest Oct. 21-22, New G.H.O.S.T. Agent Books

 

I’m showing with several other artists on Friday the 13th at Bake The Studio for “The Character of Horror: What Is Beautifully Scary?” I’ll have copies of my Spring/Summer 2023 Night Watchman Sketchbook, matted prints of new horror drawings, and a couple framed pieces that sold a week before the show- those can be reordered through Bake The Studio.

If that’s not enough fun, VERY LIMITED STOCK of G.H.O.S.T. Agents: Crimson Reckoning arrived from publisher Cosmic Lion Productions and will also be available Friday the 13th Bake The Studio -Officially, my first published work in comics- in 9 x 13” Treasury Edition format, nonetheless! Thanks to writer Rocko Jerome for hiring me for the two full-page pinups I contributed! See more at ghostagents.net

And finally, I’ll be selling my Eichelmann’s Bakery poster, G.H.O.S.T. Agents: Crimson Reckoning books, and Night Watchman Sketchbooks at Fall Fest in my hometown of Cuba, MO on Saturday/Sunday Oct 21s/22nd at Cuba Fest in Recklein Auditorium from 10:00am - 3:00pm

 #smallbeginnings #spyfi #smallpresscomics #minicomics #scificomics #TheNightWatchman#visualstorytelling #supportindiecomics #indiecomics #ghostagents #comicbookhistory #CosmicLionProductions #horrorcomics #halloween

Sam Dog

 

Sam Dog, August 2023

Digital Render/Procreate

#petportrait  #cartooning #digitaldoodle  #procreateart #procreateillustration #truegritkrafttone #truegrittexturesupply  #iPadArt 

The Night Watchman: Morning Mick...

The Night Watchman: Morning Mick

Digital Reder/Procreate, August 2023

A spontaneous cover idea for The Night Watchman: Morning Mick at Eichelmann's. Certainly, premature for an idea I’ve only been working on for a few months, but the image was so vivid in my mind after those recent interior sketches that I felt compelled to draw it immediately. I’ve explored no possible thread from the narrative that would produce such a situation as of yet, and I’m not sure I’d even have to- the image is kind of its own thing. I like the idea of a mystery, a vein of uncertainty. What horror at the Springs overnight could bring our hero to this ragged state ...?!

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Dollhouse

Dollhouse

Digital Render/Procreate, July 2023

Halloween isn’t far off now really, but this was more inspired by an idea I had floating around in my head earlier this summer. There’s a seed of an idea for a possible story maybe, if not then it’s just a spooky little drawing that will likely be framed to show this autumn. Print quotes available per request.

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