A Simple Misunderstanding?

 

True Grit

 

A few of the pages in the Venom-Deadpool WHAT IF? story I drew where inked on blueline, for whatever reason, so I had the original penciled pages still lying around.  I had played around one day and started inking one of them for shits and giggles and then set it aside.

Fast Forward a couple years and a collector contacted me, asking if this particular page was available.  I explained to him the situation and that if he was still interested, I would finish inking it.  He was, so it provided a fun motivation to jump back on it.

I found a scan of the published page out there on the interwebs.  I've posted my B&W inked page above for comparison with what appeared in the comic, for those of you interested in such things.

The colors overwhelm some of the inker's lines (not necessarily the colorist, but probably rather whoever scanned this page), but there should still be enough to illustrate how I usually have a little "grittier" approach to inking my own work vs. how someone else might approach it. 

Unfortunately, I don't know who actually inked the page for the published book.

All characters property of Marvel Entertainment, yadda, yadda...

Death Valley Review

Digging around in Google images looking for some old art I'd done and found a review of DEATH VALLEY.  DV is available for sale on Amazon and other fine retailers.

Smash!

 Hulk commission.  SOLD.


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Sandstormers

Custom art for another tee with Monster a la Mode for a volleyball team.

Blueheaven Buschfest

Custom t-shirt art for a local hootnanny.

gods' country

Shades of things to come.

DD

Had an idea for a composition and realized I'd never taken a run at these characters.

Dusting Off The Brushes

Batman commission.  SOLD.

Inky Dinks

Getting settled into my new digs and realized I haven't posted anything lately. I had to dive into some of the inking on my last couple issues of WildCats. These are a few of those pages.

Down In The Valley

Here's a cover and the original promo piece I did for DEATH VALLEY, written by Keith Champagne.
More about the series and the colored pieces here at Newsarama.

Back Up

Here are a few pages from the Team Seven backup stories for WildStorm written by Christos Gage.

Coverness

High time for a new post!

Here's one of the variant covers I did for WildStorm's STARCRAFT series.

I wasn't thrilled with how I inked the woman's face in the end, but overall... iconic, moody, gritty... I dug this one.

Edit: Just came across some of my sketches for these covers and added one here.

Edit: I see this cover is being solicited as "by Shawn Moll and Doug Mahnke". FWIW, that's inaccurate. Doug had nothing to do with this one. Here's the cover Doug inked! Hoo-ah!

Storming onto Newsstands

WILDCATS #10

Written by Christos Gage; Art by Neil Googe and Shawn Moll; Cover by Neil Googe

Majestic's Hawaiian utopia is everything he advertised it to be and more! Yet there's something sinister just beneath the surface that the team can't pin down. Also, a former team member returns...but on whose side?

And in a special backup, Christos Gage and Shawn Moll (She-Hulk) bring back the group everybody's been waiting for – Team Seven!

On Sale April 22, 2009

http://www.dccomics.com/wildstorm/comics/?cm=11525

....and....

THE AUTHORITY #10

Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and Christos Gage; Art by Brandon Badeaux and Shawn Moll; Cover by Simon Coleby

When the world ended, the Authority and the rest of the population were caught unprepared and suffered the consequences. Find out what happened in those crucial moments following the destruction of Earth and how it affected the Authority...as well as Rendlesham!

Also, the conclusion of the Team Seven backup!

On Sale May 6, 2009

http://www.dccomics.com/wildstorm/comics/?cm=11622

Chains and Blades and Greaves....

En Taro Adun, Executor!

Seeing as how this cover has been kicking around the internet for about a week now, here's a shot of my pencils.

The final piece features inks by superstar Doug Mahnke (above) and colors by Wes Hartman.

BTW, the post linked above is not entirely accurate, as the art wasn't really "leaked", but rather it was featured on the flip-cover of a preview STARCRAFT/WOW comic at Blizzcon '08 and was given away in a "goodie bag".

Edit: Found a scan of Doug's inks and my initial cover concept sketch.

Merry Mahnke Inks!

My man Doug slathered his juicy inks all over this piece. How cool is that?!? I love the way this turned out. Original post with my pencils here.

Killer Clown

Here's a piece from a few years back. This was just me playing around with how to approach a story that a friend and I have been messing with since the mid-90s. I suppose we'd better "pull the trigger" one of these days...

Mother Of All Evil

Here are a few of my favorite pages from FRIDAY THE 13th: PAMELA'S TALE for WildStorm.
In these pages, Pamela Voorhees, the mother-to-be of Jason, exacts her revenge on her abusive shitheel of a husband.
I worked from a plot-only style script on these books, which gave me a great deal of freedom with the pacing and storytelling of the pages. I was still subject to a few changes from New Line Cinema, but overall, it was a pretty darn good time.
Edited by Ben Abernathy, Written by Marc Andreyko, Penciled and Inked by Yours Truly.

A Little Before-And-After

Kinda fun DPS from DC Comics' 52 #9.

The biggest challenge for me with 52 was having to work within somebody else's layouts. Still, it was pretty darn cool to get to work on a book like this.

This page reminds me... It had been years since I'd read about Natasha (somewhere back in some MAN OF STEEL books, I guess), so I kept thinking she had aged. At some point, after I finished drawing the book, I saw her somewhere else and I realized I'd drawn her looking too old. Whoops!

Breakdowns by the Main Man, Keith Giffen. Juicy inks by my homeboy, Tom Nguyen.