Danger Rudolph Danger

'Working on a pretty cool project right now (hope to show you some of it soon), I was searching through my archives for some related reference and happened upon some things that I thought were kind of interesting...  So I guess we'll call this segment;

 TALES from the SRM Attic

This was a story I was working on a few years back, very 1950-60's B movie inspired, with jet pilots vs giant alien robots... (I think I can detect a heavy New Frontier influence too.  ;)

Here's some doodles from that stalled project;

And in the holiday spirit, heres the cover I did  over a year ago for a new Little Golden Book  retelling of the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer story, which I haven't seen yet, but I believe it's on the shelves now.... Ho Ho Ho!

Update:  You can get it online at Amazon.com.

In Stores Now!

Pardon the plug, the promotion and pimpery ..but I've got something coming out on the comic book stands today.
Actually...it's my very first published comic book style adventure! Pretty cool huh?

It's a short story titled "Bloom", in Vol. 2 of the Image Comics anthology series "Popgun". All sorts of cool folks have contributed art and stories to it...Heck, it's even got a cover by Paul Pope!

In a nutshell, my story is about a super-powered girl shipwrecked on a hostile alien planet populated by killer robots....
Think Planet of the Apes meets The Terminator...uh...with superpowers... Yeah. :)

If you've been around these parts, you'll know that I've previously talked about it here, showing process sketches, etc.. I finished it over a year ago, and 'am looking forward to finally seeing it in print. WooHoo!

Here's the official website for the book: Popgun 2

Look for that snazzy PP cover at your local comics shop & bookseller...or you can get it on amazon here.


'Nuff Said!

Recycled Christmas!

Happy Holidays,... or if that offends..."Season's Greetings!"...whatever that means...
Aw for pete's sake!....MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hope everyone has a blessed holiday, I'm off to spend the week with my family in Tennessee, and bring them back with me to oh-so-sunny California!
I didn't have time to make any Cards this year, so if you'll forgive, I'm recycling from last year.
See you in 2008, Feliz Navidad!

Coming Soon!

Finished!
Well, 'Actually...I finished it last week, but i've been trying to catch up with all the other crazy goings on here at SRM central...More on that later.

13 pages of action packed robot fighting goodness...coming your way in a super cool anthology filled to the brim with big time comics creators, indy up-and-comers...and 4 color wannabees (that's where I fit in if you hadn't already guessed)

I don't want to give away too much, natch, but here's a panel to give you a hint of what you'll be seeing soon!

Robo-Cap & Home Sweet Home

Hey there....who? It's just lil 'ol me...raising my head to peek around a bit.
'Apologies for the delay in posts...
Yeah, there's been quite a bit going on here at the Conrad digs the past few weeks...between the paying and non paying work, and the natural goings on of life.
Summer's nearly over, and we are going through a heat-wave here in the greater NashVegas area...(oh, my poor lawn...sniff.)

Anyways, I'm still working on the story that I've been teasing the last couple of posts... as well as a few other things that I can't tell you about yet, but I do feel like I need to post something.

Here's a couple of Robo-Cap sketches from the archives;


And a concept sketch from the story that I'm currently working on:

More Top Secret

And now back to our regularly scheduled sci-fi action melee...:

Having a great time on the new comic story I'm working on...not sure I can show more yet (if anything!).
I can say this: It's to be published in an upcoming book, by a comic publisher that you've heard of before, and the cover is going to be done by someone you've heard of too, who has an ongoing series that's recently been optioned as a film to be directed by someone that's made movies you've heard of too. Ha. Vague enough for ya?
Until then...here's another tease.
It has a bit of action to it...and yes...it's chock full of robots, rayguns, and super-powered beings.
All things a growing young boy or girl need. ;)

BUNNY- ATOMO!

Well...here he is in all of his unfinished glory. This weeks challenge for Drawergeeks was : Bunny/Rabbit.
I was going to slick this up, inks and full colors, but I just have too much on my plate right now. I thought folks might like to see the initial doodle/concept anyhow.
Undoubtedly influenced by the Transformers movie and the comic story I'm working on right now. (there's a fair amount of "Johnny Socko and His Giant Robot" influence in there too!)

If I get the chance, I'll try and come back to this guy sometime later...

Robot Horde!

Allright ...previous commitments swept out of the way...
Family illness on the mend...it's time to get crankin on my next story. This is for another anthology that's coming out...don't know that I can name it yet. :(

Anyways, this one is going to be done in more of my traditional pencil/ink style...it'll be a bit longer than "DD & the Kid"...and I'm looking at it as an ongoing story (I already have several chapters plotted out). Hope you like it!

This is some development on various members of the "robot horde":

Doc Dastardly Preview!

Well I've hinted at this a bit previously, but I've got the okay to actually show a couple of pages!
These are from a short story I have in the upcoming comics anthology "Parable".

Here's the title (Dr. Dastardly & the Kid!) and a following page:



If you like Robots, Mad Scientists AND super powered kids...hopefully you'll like this too!

Ironclad Jackson

Dr. Thadeus E. "Ironclad" Jackson

One of the founding members of the league, long standing advocate of the Whig party and still serving in an advisory and reserve position on the league since it's inception in 1835.

Mister RobotO

WIP for a robot theme over at Drawergeeks.

In progress color exploration:



'Got a color preference?