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Crimebuster

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  1. I've got another comic live on Kickstarter right now, my epic fantasy comic Quest #3. I just can't stop making comics! 😄 I drew a couple homage covers this time around. The first is a bit unusual -- obviously the trade dress is a shout out to Bronze Age Conan from Marvel. The actual art is also a partial homage -- the creatures are based off renaissance paintings of angels being cast out of Heaven, mostly from Peter Paul Rubens, though I did the main figure and the background on my own. Colors by a guy I know named Adriel Dalla Vecchia. The second is a much more direct homage, of David Sutherland III's "A Paladin in Hell" drawing from the old D&D books. That was in black and white, so since I didn't have Adriel's help with this one, I had to make up the color scheme myself, always tricky as I am color blind.
  2. Hey everyone! My new comic Quest #3 is now live on Kickstarter. I just can't stop making comics! If you like bronze Age style swords and sorcery, that's exactly what I'm trying to do here. I'm really excited for this issue, as it's the story I've had in my head since I began working on Quest. I'm really stoked to be able to share it with everyone! Here's the link for the campaign -- if you missed the first two issues, don't worry, I've added a special discounted catch-up reward so you can get the whole saga with one click. And as always, I've also done a Tabletop RPG Edition with 8 bonus pages of gaming supplement material so you can play through the story from the comic in your own home game. So if you're a D&D fan, you won't want to miss it. Thank you all for all your support with these comics over the years, I really appreciate it so much! \
  3. The Kickstarter for my new comic The Crimebusters #6 ends tomorrow, and I spent the week working on the back cover. This issue has a guest appearance by Joe and Frank Hardy. The Hardy Boys entered the public domain last year, though I haven't seen anyone else use them yet. The name "The Hardy Boys" is still trademarked, so I can't use that on the cover. But I wanted to capture the feel, so I did an homage to the cover of their first book, which was drawn by Walter S. Rogers. That art is also in the public domain, but I wanted to redo it in my own style rather than use the original.
  4. The Kickstarter for my new comic The Crimebusters #6 ends tomorrow, and I spent the week working on the back cover. This issue has a guest appearance by Joe and Frank Hardy. The Hardy Boys entered the public domain last year, though I haven't seen anyone else use them yet. The name "The Hardy Boys" is still trademarked, so I can't use that on the cover. But I wanted to capture the feel, so I did an homage to the cover of their first book, which was drawn by Walter S. Rogers. That art is also in the public domain, but I wanted to redo it in my own style rather than use the original.
  5. My new comic, The Crimebusters #6, is now live on Kickstarter! This one has been a lot of fun to work on. I love using public domain characters, so besides Crimebuster himself, this time around we've got Uncle Sam, Richard Upton Pickman from the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, and even The Hardy Boys, who slipped into the public domain last year a bit under the radar! I've also got some really swell variant covers, including a cool 5th Anniversary Cover. Yes, it's been 5 years now since The Crimebusters #1 came out! To celebrate, I'm doing a series of 5th Anniversary covers for everything I publish this year, based on the Marvel 25th Anniversary covers. You can get the new issue here! Thank you for all the support!!
  6. My newest comic is now live on Kickstarter! Usually in addition to the writing (and lettering and finishing the colors) I do multiple variant covers, but this time I ended up only doing one. Per usual, it's an homage cover, in this case homaging Nick Cardy's classic cover for Teen Titans #14. The Crimebusters #6 (legacy #125 carrying over from Boy Comics)
  7. I'd love to see some more Boy Comics back issues! I sometime think I'm the only one collecting this series! I'm definitely the only one addled enough to keep making my own new issues. 😜 So while I'm waiting for people to post their old Boy Comics, here's my latest new one - Boy Comics #125 (also known as The Crimebusters #6) will hopefully be hitting Kickstarter in January. You can check out the pre-launch page here to make sure you don't miss out on a copy of the limited edition Boy Comics #125 variant cover, with art by fellow Golden Age fan Jay Piscopo:
  8. It's been a long time coming, but I'm excited to finally announce that The Crimebusters #6 is coming soon! I'm tentatively planning a January Kickstarter launch, assuming the art is finished on schedule. You can click here to check out the pre-launch page and hit the "Notify me on launch" button to make sure you don't miss it. This issue leans more into the Lovecraft side of things, as Trixie and Chuck investigate some spooky unsolved murders involving haunted paintings. This issue also guest stars Uncle Sam... and The Hardy Boys! I'll have more about it as we get closer, but here are some of the covers:
  9. There are a few sites reporting that Pedro Pascal has been cast as Reed Richards. https://www.slashfilm.com/1000765/marvels-fantastic-four-movie-casts-pedro-pascal-reed-richards/
  10. We're inside the final 29 hours on the campaign for my new fantasy comic Quest #2, and it's coming right down to the wire. I thought we had funded a couple hours ago, but no sooner did we cross the goal than someone canceled a pledge and we dropped back below the line. That means at the moment we're still $15 short of being funded. There's still plenty of time -- but also plenty of time for more people to cancel, so who knows! If you love epic fantasy and classic swords & sorcery, Bronze Age style action, check out Quest here! Thanks for all the support!
  11. It's hard to say how I would feel about this show if I wasn't such a big fan of the books. As a big fan of the books, though, now that I've watched the show I can say that the show is a horrible adaptation of the source material! 🤣 I got about halfway through the show before it turned to hate watching. And I've pretty much been fast forwarding through any scene that Dervel isn't in. I'm glad other people are liking it, though. Maybe it will get better if it gets a second season. And I'm glad for Cornwell and this series of books to get more attention. 🤷‍♂️
  12. My new comic Quest #2 is currently live on Kickstarter, and since this issue features my main character Vhess the paladin battling the undead, it only made sense to me to do a Walking Dead homage cover. You know how much I love my homage covers! This is an homage to Tony Moore's cover for The Walking Dead #19, the first appearance of Michonne. I particularly enjoy trying to get the trade dress right. I couldn't quite match the Walking Dead logo font, but this one is pretty close and invokes the feel nicely. I was able to match the font for the issue number, and also the "image" in the company logo - since my brand is Crimebuster Comics, I moved the dot from the image "i" to turn it into a "c." I always try to get the covers as close as possible to the original while still making them fit my comics. In this case I might have been a little too faithful with the zombies and background elements, I'm not sure. I usually use a different brush, as you can see with the figure of my character Vhess - this time I tried something else with the background, but I think it means my character maybe doesn't blend in with the other elements as well as the line weight is different. I'm still pretty happy with it though!
  13. My new comic Quest #2 is currently live on Kickstarter, and since this issue features my main character Vhess the paladin battling the undead, it only made sense to me to do a Walking Dead homage cover. You know how much I love my homage covers! This is an homage to Tony Moore's cover for The Walking Dead #19, the first appearance of Michonne. I'm only printing 30 copies, and it's only available as an add-on, so if you dig it get it before it's gone!
  14. My new comic Quest #2 is now live on Kickstarter, so I just wanted to show you one final cover that I did. I love doing homages, and since this is a D&D inspired swords and sorcery comic book, I'm doing a D&D module homage for every issue. This one is an homage to the classic "Keep on the Borderlands" module cover by Jim Roslof. It's not just a variant cover, though -- this edition also includes 8 bonus pages of gaming supplement material not in the other editions, including a mini-module that allows you to play through the story from the comic in your own home game. I hope people enjoy playing it as much as my DM and I enjoyed making it! You can check it out here.