Mnemovore Redux

My friend Ray Fawkes' excellent Vertigo comic Mnemovore, cowritten by Hans Rodionoff and illustrated by Mike Huddleston, is getting a deluxe hardcover re-release from IDW Publishing in August!  There will be a gallery of pinups in the back by some amazing artists and I was kindly asked to participate.  Here's my contribution!

I documented the 5-hour process today on Instagram (username cameronMstewart):

Lineart drawn in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

Suicide Girls #1 Interior Art

Here's a page from the first issue of Suicide Girls, from IDW Publishing.

Layouts by David Hahn, finishes by me.

Suicide Girls - The Comic

UPDATE - I will now be co-artist for the whole book, not just covers!

I've made slight mention of this in the past, but I am working with IDW and Suicide Girls on the official SG comic. I'm not illustrating the entire thing, but I designed the characters (a cast of new, fictional Suicide Girl models), and I am illustrating the covers and short 2-page backups inside each issue. The main story will be written by Brea Grant and drawn by David Hahn, and the backups I'm drawing are written by Steve Niles!

Here's the cover for the first issue, and the character models I drew for David:

Monsters and Dames

A different kind of drawing today.  I was invited to be a guest at the Emerald City Comic Con next March, and they ask all the artist guests to contribute a drawing to an art book they publish to sell at the show to raise funds for a local children's hospital. A great cause and a chance to do something outside of my usual work. The theme of the book is "Monsters and Dames":

A bit more cutesy than my usual stuff but it's for a children's charity. ;)

Assassin's Creed: The Fall Released Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the day that Assassin's Creed: The Fall #1 hits stores. Frankly, the buzz around this project in the comics community has been disappointingly low, I think mainly because a lot of people are still - understandably - put off by the idea of a comic based on a video game.

My co-creator Karl Kerschl and I (and our colourist Nadine Thomas) have really worked hard on this book, and we've poured a lot of effort and energy into it, because we wanted to do something that wasn't just a shallow, cash-in spinoff. Believe me, I've worked on that type of project before, and I can admit that I've half-assed it for the paycheck. But not so here - with the amount of creative freedom granted us by Ubisoft, it really feels like this is a very personal project for Karl and I and we're very proud of the final product. We've tried to make it accessible for non-gamers, engaging for people already familiar with Assassin's Creed, and above all, the kind of comic that we'd like to read.

This is my first published work as a writer, too (aside from Sin Titulo, which is technically self published), and so it's a new phase in my career that's very exciting and I would love if it started successfully.

Assassin's Creed: The Fall #1 is out in stores tomorrow, November 10, and is available at comic shops, Target, and GameStop*. I'd very much appreciate if you would consider purchasing a copy, and letting me know what you think here. Thanks and I hope you enjoy it!

*NOTE - the edition sold in Target and GameStop is slightly altered than the direct market version, for bad language.

Batman & Robin 16 - Black and White

Hey everyone, the final issue of Grant Morrison's run on Batman & Robin is out in stores (to much media fanfare, with its SHOCK! change of the status quo), and here are my pages, unlettered and uncoloured. I would have loved to do the entire issue, but sadly the schedule simply didn't allow it so huge thanks to Frazer Irving and Chris Burnham who helped out with their amazing work!

Unfortunately, none of these pages are for sale...as they don't exist! I did this issue completely digitally, so there are no physical pages. However you can still buy pages from my previous run on Batman & Robin over at Splashpage Art.

Assassin's Creed!

Finally I can reveal the secret project I've been teasing for the last few months: Karl Kerschl and I are hard at work writing and drawing a new comic miniseries for Ubisoft, based on their hugely popular Assassin's Creed videogames.

We've been given an amazing amount of creative freedom, and so we have been able to create a story featuring an all-new Assassin character in a new setting, which will hopefully deepen and enrich the Assassin's Creed universe and go far beyond what people have come to expect from a "video game comic."

You can watch the teaser trailer, written by Karl and I, here:



And if you will be at the San Diego Comic Con next week, you can come and get more information and see more art at the Assassin's Creed panel, Thursday July 22, 3:30-4:30pm in Room 7AB.

See you there!

B&R in B&W

My time on Batman & Robin is officially over, but I'm going to prolong it for one more week by posting some of the original black and white pages from issue 9! Enjoy!












Oh yeah, did I mention that I drew this whole issue in just over 2 weeks?? Crazy!

Alas, Poor Batwoman

The opening pages of Batman & Robin #9.





The sharp-eyed will notice that this is the page I was drawing in the videos I posted several weeks back...

Blackest Knight Begins

Here's page 1 of my first issue of Batman & Robin, which kicks off the "Blackest Knight" storyline:



Colours by Alex Sinclair


(This page has been met with much shock from the fan community, I didn't realize it was such a significant image but I haven't been reading Blackest Night)

On sale tomorrow, Wednesday the 27th! Please pick it up and let me know what you think!

Happy New Year

I did the cover for the Montreal Mirror this week, for their New Year's Eve party guide issue:



The illo was partly inspired by this photo I found while searching for reference, which gave me the idea to do the year 2010 in the spout of champagne:

Batman and Robin Inking Videos

Here's a couple of videos demonstrating my direct-to-finals approach to inking - I do my rough layout drawings digitally in Manga Studio 4, print them out in faint blue on the bristol board, and then take the plunge and go right to final drawings. It doesn't always turn out perfect (as you'll see in the first video, I make the occasional error) but it's a fun and efficient way to work, and really builds confidence.

More Digital Drawing

Here's another panel from Prince of Persia, with a video of the drawing process: