VENTURE #5: My First Full-Color Cover

Two of the guys I met at my first San Diego Comic-Con were Gary Winnick & Frank Cirocco. (In the lobby of the El Cortez Hotel, along with Brent Anderson & Tony Salmons…) They were a pair of South Bay (South of San Francisco, that is…) artists who produced a really cool fanzine called Venture. Read More …

THE DOYLE GLASS PROJECT

Before I became a professional comic book colorist, I was a commercial artist. I did posters, T-shirts, painted signs and trucks, illustrated role-playing games, and anything else I could do to pay the rent. But even after I began my comic book career, over the years I’ve gotten some interesting side jobs. This one was Read More …

OCTOCON II

Sometimes as a fan, you have to go a long way to attend conventions. Take San Diego, for instance, which is a long way from anywhere that isn’t in Southern California. But once in a while, a convention drops into your back yard. The first comic convention I went to was Cotati-Con #1 (Which turned Read More …

Fanboy Turns Pro

Comic book algebra and personal histories… Every comic book professional has a story of how they got into the business. I broke it down into an equation and a game I call: COMIC BOOK ALGEBRA               It goes like this:   Your First Comic Book + Some Major Influence = Read More …