Today will be a link-heavy blog post, because there's a LOT to report. Thanks for stopping by; hopefully you'll find something to improve your lot in life, or at least give you a reason to continue slogging through this horrible world of pain for yet another day.
First, and most importantly... Starkweather: Immortal, my first hardcover graphic novel, is available - FINALLY - on Amazon.com! My largest piece of work by far, I'm really glad it's a real thing at last. I'm very proud of it, both as a professional accomplishment and as a piece of entertainment. Please check it out, and possibly even buy a copy. ;)
SDCC wrapup!
San Diego Comic-Con was great on so many levels. I got to see all the latest happenings in the world of pop culture, I met with friends both old and new, and I met a couple of my wonderful Art Directors in person for the first time (Hi Jon Schindehette and Jeremy Cranford!) along with several other interesting new potential clients. And I hyped my wife Danelle's comic book flatting business (she's been doing that for a couple of years now and has worked on a lot of really cool books - if you need a flatter/color assistant, drop her an e-mail!) So -- Good stuff all around.
But primarily I was there to promote Starkweather, and that went just fine! Hello and a big thanks to everyone who stopped by the Archaia booth to say hi and/or buy a copy of the book. We had 100 copies air-shipped from the publisher in South Korea and sold out all of them over the weekend!
I was invited to an interesting event at the con, put on by VentureBrosBlog.com We recorded a podcast where @spookychan, @TheSciFiBlock and I and several other cool Venture Brothers fans talked all about the show from the super-fan perspective we all have. :) I think it ended up being very interesting - find out for yourself here: http://bit.ly/9i1sUv
Also, I was on the Archaia "all access" panel, where the artists and writers from Archaia's creator-owned books got together to talk about our comics. If you were there you probably know it was a ton of great fun!
In other news...
Back in April of this year I was interviewed by the Electric Playground show on G4 Canada, and it's now been released to the internet! I talk all about Starkweather and everything!
And also on the Starkweather trail, the folks at Popculturehound.com interviewed both me and D-Rod about Starkweather, and you can now read the awesome results here (mine) and here (Dave's). They came out great, though they do call me "Jason" in one place for no apparent reason.. :D
And finally, for those who are Ninja Mountain podcast fans! I made one of my all-to-infrequent appearances on the show this week, and with Jeremy away at GenCon I also played host to Socar Myles and Kieran Yanner: http://goo.gl/b/Z4uP
Well, that's about it for the moment. What, that's NOT ENOUGH? You want MORE?? Well, a) you're a sick puppy, and b) I'll have some really big news about upcoming projects soon.
As always, be sure to leave a message. I love to hear from you!
Showing posts with label podcast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podcast. Show all posts
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
San Diego here I come!
I'll be at the San Diego comic-con this week, July 22 - 26. You will most often find me at the Archaia booth, which is #2635, right between the Image and Marvel booths (so that we can be ignored by fans of both). Here's a helpful map of the convention floor!
Also, I'll be at two events. The biggie is my DIGITAL PAINTING SEMINAR on Friday, where I'll be demonstrating my Photoshop and Painter techniques. Here's what the official blurb says:
And the other is an Archaia comics panel on Thursday:
Also, I'll be roaming about doing interviews for the Ninja Mountain podcast. So all in all it should be an exciting and fun week of fun excitement. Hope to see you there! If you happen to see me, come on over and say Hi - I'm almost as friendly as I look.
Also, I'll be at two events. The biggie is my DIGITAL PAINTING SEMINAR on Friday, where I'll be demonstrating my Photoshop and Painter techniques. Here's what the official blurb says:
Friday 6:30-7:30 Digital Painting Seminar: Patrick McEvoy (Starkweather: Immortal) demonstrates the art of digital painting with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Using examples from his work on the Marvel Style guide, a panel from Archaia's Starkweather, and a cover from BOOM! Studios' Fall of Cthulhu, Patrick will step through various techniques, starting from pencils and working up to a final rendering. Learn how to bring a fully painted look to your digital artwork! Room 30CDE
And the other is an Archaia comics panel on Thursday:
2:30-3:30 Archaia/Roddenberry Productions: Days Missing— Archaia Studios Press is now simply known as Archaia! Learn about the sci-fi titles the publisher has in store, such as Titanium Rain (with creators Josh Finney and Kat Rocha), Robotika (with creator Alex Sheikman), and Starkweather (with writer David Rodriguez and artist Patrick McEvoy). Then meet the creative dream team behind Days Missing, the new sci-fi comic miniseries from Archaia and Roddenberry Productions, the legendary company that brought you Star Trek. Get a sneak peek of exclusive covers and art, and learn more about storylines for upcoming issues. Panelists include Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth from Roddenberry Productions; Archaia’s Stephen Christy, Mark Smylie and Rob Levin; Chris Burnham (X-Men: Divided We Stand); Ian Edginton (Stormwatch); Phil Hester (The Darkness); David Hine (Batman: Battle for the Cowl); Frazer Irving (Batman and Robin); and Matz(The Killer). All attendees will receive a free copy of Days Missing#1! Room 3
Also, I'll be roaming about doing interviews for the Ninja Mountain podcast. So all in all it should be an exciting and fun week of fun excitement. Hope to see you there! If you happen to see me, come on over and say Hi - I'm almost as friendly as I look.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Ninja Mountain - the awful, terrible truth!
I thought that listeners to the Ninja Mountain Podcast might appreciate a little rundown on just how it got started. I just realized that we've just passed our 16th week. FOUR MONTHS! We really had no idea we could do this thing weekly for so long...
The story behind the Ninja Mountain podcast is really two stories - there's the podcast, and there's Ninja Mountain, the group.
Long before our podcast took the universe by storm, Ninja Mountain existed as a loose collective of artists working in the Fantasy/SF/Horror genres, mostly in the field of Roll Playing Games, Collectible Card Games, and the like. The initial gang mostly met at the rpg.net forums, and put together the core group at that time. And it's still going strong, with a stalwart cadre of 20 or so artists who meet online to discuss their latest jobs, sketches they've done, art they dig, and just shoot the breeze.
I was invited to join (totally out of the blue - I still don't quite know how!) way back in mid-2005. I realized pretty early on that this was a perfect coterie for me, in that I don't really feel too comfy in public forums, but a nice small, talented group like this would be just right.
You can see a list of most of the members here: http://www.ninjamountain.net/
(And an aside - I really don't know why more artists don't do this! A smallish private league of like-minded artists is a really good idea. We don't do projects together as a team, or make calendars or have bake sales. Just hanging out to talk art and stuff. Suggestion to the world: you should try it!)
Anyway, some time last year I got it in my head that we really had a lot of fun talking to each other, and we had some really kickass artists on the Mountain, so maybe, just maybe, a Podcast would be fun, and a good way to get our names out there some more, as all freelancers must. And because, you know, all the really cool kids are doing it! And aside from all the artistic talent, I was pretty sure that having such an international bunch (North America, South America, U.K., Northern Europe, and Australia all represented) would make for some fun-sounding discussions if nothing else.
Now, as with any project involving artists, it took a lot of time to get it together. ("Herding cats" is a phrase not altogether inappropriate for the process). Not that people weren't interested, but we all had to figure out when we'd have the time, and I had to figure out how to make a podcast from different locations, and we needed to discuss just what we could possibly talk about. After all if we were going to talk for a WHOLE HOUR wouldn't we run out of things to say?
(Actually I knew all along we'd be fine with that. I mean, have you ever sat at a convention and listened to a gaggle of artists chatting? We're talkative folk. Just try and stop us...)
Finally, a date was decided upon. Jeremy McHugh, Jon Hodgson and I were ready to do it! I would record and edit, Jon made the music and stings for stitching parts together, and Jeremy - at literally the last moment before we started recording - volunteered to be the MC. A great call that turned out to be! You can hear the fruits of that labor in our first astounding episode, made way back in the distant past: January of 2009.
(For those wondering, we were then and still are as of this writing doing things on a very low budget. We use Skype to conference, which is free. I record with CallRecorder (the only part of the process that actually cost anything), then edit in Audacity and mix tracks in Garage Band. Oh, and Jeremy and Jon do backup recordings, which have come in handy in the past!)
That first one went pretty well for us. With Jon's great sense of humor, Jeremy's sonorous tones, and, um, me, we thought we had a good core group. From there things gelled pretty quickly. The inestimable Andy Hepworth joined in the very next week, not only making a great addition to the mix (as our only Anime expert, for one thing!) but also giving us the vague idea that 4 or 5 was a good number to shoot for in the weekly cast.
That lineup stayed consistent for over a month, but in March, for episode 6, we finally started getting some more Ninjas to join in, and things have been on a constant roil since! That episode Kieran Yanner joined us for the first time of many, and Scott Johnson joined us for the only time so far (though we keep hoping for another!).
Other Ninja Members started coming on more frequently after Kieran and Scott broke the ice. Also we've had one special guest, superstar illustrator Von Glitschka. Hopefully we'll be getting some more guests on again soon.
Here's a list of everyone from our collective who's been on so far, roughly in order of appearance, with their inaugural episodes in parenthesis.
Jeremy McHugh (1)
Jon Hodgson (1)
Patrick McEvoy (1)
Andy Hepworth (2)
Kieran Yanner (6)
Scott Johnson (6)
Anne Stokes (8)
Ralph Horsley (8)
Mattias Snygg (8)
Scott Purdy (10)
Socar Myles (13)
Sam Araya (14)
Wow - what a grouping of talent! You can find links to all of them on the aforementioned Ninja Mountain home page. And as you can see, there are still several more Ninjas we must yet coerce into making appearances.
Of course we're still going strong, and have even had a few shows now without Jon or me. Jeremy's record is still 100% though, but he has the vigor of youth. We record pretty much every Wednesday, though some Tuesday sessions have happened as well. It's in the evening for the UK crowd, which is noon (or maybe 1:00) for me on the West Coast U.S.
Oh - and our blog is HOPPING! Loads of great comments from listeners every week, with good discussions and ideas for show topics and just some nice feedback on the episodes. If you haven't left a message there yet, you really should. After all, it's our only payment.
Well, I guess if that was the sort of thing you are interested in then you may have found it interesting. Now you have a bit of history and context for the weekly madness - I beg you to use your knowledge responsibly!
If you have any questions I didn't answer (but really, what are the odds of that...) feel free to ask!
The story behind the Ninja Mountain podcast is really two stories - there's the podcast, and there's Ninja Mountain, the group.
Long before our podcast took the universe by storm, Ninja Mountain existed as a loose collective of artists working in the Fantasy/SF/Horror genres, mostly in the field of Roll Playing Games, Collectible Card Games, and the like. The initial gang mostly met at the rpg.net forums, and put together the core group at that time. And it's still going strong, with a stalwart cadre of 20 or so artists who meet online to discuss their latest jobs, sketches they've done, art they dig, and just shoot the breeze.
I was invited to join (totally out of the blue - I still don't quite know how!) way back in mid-2005. I realized pretty early on that this was a perfect coterie for me, in that I don't really feel too comfy in public forums, but a nice small, talented group like this would be just right.
You can see a list of most of the members here: http://www.ninjamountain.net/
(And an aside - I really don't know why more artists don't do this! A smallish private league of like-minded artists is a really good idea. We don't do projects together as a team, or make calendars or have bake sales. Just hanging out to talk art and stuff. Suggestion to the world: you should try it!)
Anyway, some time last year I got it in my head that we really had a lot of fun talking to each other, and we had some really kickass artists on the Mountain, so maybe, just maybe, a Podcast would be fun, and a good way to get our names out there some more, as all freelancers must. And because, you know, all the really cool kids are doing it! And aside from all the artistic talent, I was pretty sure that having such an international bunch (North America, South America, U.K., Northern Europe, and Australia all represented) would make for some fun-sounding discussions if nothing else.
Now, as with any project involving artists, it took a lot of time to get it together. ("Herding cats" is a phrase not altogether inappropriate for the process). Not that people weren't interested, but we all had to figure out when we'd have the time, and I had to figure out how to make a podcast from different locations, and we needed to discuss just what we could possibly talk about. After all if we were going to talk for a WHOLE HOUR wouldn't we run out of things to say?
(Actually I knew all along we'd be fine with that. I mean, have you ever sat at a convention and listened to a gaggle of artists chatting? We're talkative folk. Just try and stop us...)
Finally, a date was decided upon. Jeremy McHugh, Jon Hodgson and I were ready to do it! I would record and edit, Jon made the music and stings for stitching parts together, and Jeremy - at literally the last moment before we started recording - volunteered to be the MC. A great call that turned out to be! You can hear the fruits of that labor in our first astounding episode, made way back in the distant past: January of 2009.
(For those wondering, we were then and still are as of this writing doing things on a very low budget. We use Skype to conference, which is free. I record with CallRecorder (the only part of the process that actually cost anything), then edit in Audacity and mix tracks in Garage Band. Oh, and Jeremy and Jon do backup recordings, which have come in handy in the past!)
That first one went pretty well for us. With Jon's great sense of humor, Jeremy's sonorous tones, and, um, me, we thought we had a good core group. From there things gelled pretty quickly. The inestimable Andy Hepworth joined in the very next week, not only making a great addition to the mix (as our only Anime expert, for one thing!) but also giving us the vague idea that 4 or 5 was a good number to shoot for in the weekly cast.
That lineup stayed consistent for over a month, but in March, for episode 6, we finally started getting some more Ninjas to join in, and things have been on a constant roil since! That episode Kieran Yanner joined us for the first time of many, and Scott Johnson joined us for the only time so far (though we keep hoping for another!).
Other Ninja Members started coming on more frequently after Kieran and Scott broke the ice. Also we've had one special guest, superstar illustrator Von Glitschka. Hopefully we'll be getting some more guests on again soon.
Here's a list of everyone from our collective who's been on so far, roughly in order of appearance, with their inaugural episodes in parenthesis.
Jeremy McHugh (1)
Jon Hodgson (1)
Patrick McEvoy (1)
Andy Hepworth (2)
Kieran Yanner (6)
Scott Johnson (6)
Anne Stokes (8)
Ralph Horsley (8)
Mattias Snygg (8)
Scott Purdy (10)
Socar Myles (13)
Sam Araya (14)
Wow - what a grouping of talent! You can find links to all of them on the aforementioned Ninja Mountain home page. And as you can see, there are still several more Ninjas we must yet coerce into making appearances.
Of course we're still going strong, and have even had a few shows now without Jon or me. Jeremy's record is still 100% though, but he has the vigor of youth. We record pretty much every Wednesday, though some Tuesday sessions have happened as well. It's in the evening for the UK crowd, which is noon (or maybe 1:00) for me on the West Coast U.S.
Oh - and our blog is HOPPING! Loads of great comments from listeners every week, with good discussions and ideas for show topics and just some nice feedback on the episodes. If you haven't left a message there yet, you really should. After all, it's our only payment.
Well, I guess if that was the sort of thing you are interested in then you may have found it interesting. Now you have a bit of history and context for the weekly madness - I beg you to use your knowledge responsibly!
If you have any questions I didn't answer (but really, what are the odds of that...) feel free to ask!
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Ninja Mountain Podcast - Episode 6
Don't miss it! This episode features Ninja Mountain members Kieran Yanner and Scott Johnson. It's a lot of art talk by a lot of artists!
http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com
Be sure to let us know what you think!
http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com
Be sure to let us know what you think!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Ninja Mountain Podcast - Episode 4
You know the drill - Art podcast, it's awesome, I'm in it, go listen!
Click here to get Episode 4.
Or...
iTunes is another fine way to listen!
Click here to get Episode 4.
Or...
iTunes is another fine way to listen!
Friday, February 13, 2009
More Ninja Mountain goodness - Episode 3!
http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com/2009/02/ninja-mountain-podcast-episode-3.html
Hope you enjoy the new one. Same group as last time (me, Andy, Jon and Jeremy), and this time we talk about clients, contracts, payment and how to deal with deadbeats. It's a big discussion, and it goes over an hour this time.
Also, I talk about the Genuine Fractals utility (which I love), and we briefly discuss a few of our favorite books.
We're going to make these regular segments (books and tools), though we don't have any clever names for them. If you can think of anything other than "tool tips" and "book corner", let me know. If you have a clever enough idea, we'll use it and give you a shout out on the show!
Hope you enjoy the new one. Same group as last time (me, Andy, Jon and Jeremy), and this time we talk about clients, contracts, payment and how to deal with deadbeats. It's a big discussion, and it goes over an hour this time.
Also, I talk about the Genuine Fractals utility (which I love), and we briefly discuss a few of our favorite books.
We're going to make these regular segments (books and tools), though we don't have any clever names for them. If you can think of anything other than "tool tips" and "book corner", let me know. If you have a clever enough idea, we'll use it and give you a shout out on the show!
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Ninja Mountain Podcast!
As I have mentioned before, Ninja Mountain is a loose collective of professional illustrators working in fun fields like fantasy, SF, horror and comics.I've been a happy member of that august group for a few years now.
Well, we’ve decided to take our private discussions to the interwebs and talk about things like getting gigs, art education, software, art technique, and anything else that comes to mind.
Our first episode features Ninjas Jon Hodgson (Wizards of the Coast, Paizo) and Jeremy McHugh (White Wolf, Bucephalus Games), and me, Patrick McEvoy (Marvel, Sony, etc!). So if you’re up for an hour of art talk among friends and fellow artists, then give us a try. Episode one is up now and episode two will be out later this week.
Visit ninjamountain.blogspot.com to check it out!
Well, we’ve decided to take our private discussions to the interwebs and talk about things like getting gigs, art education, software, art technique, and anything else that comes to mind.
Our first episode features Ninjas Jon Hodgson (Wizards of the Coast, Paizo) and Jeremy McHugh (White Wolf, Bucephalus Games), and me, Patrick McEvoy (Marvel, Sony, etc!). So if you’re up for an hour of art talk among friends and fellow artists, then give us a try. Episode one is up now and episode two will be out later this week.
Visit ninjamountain.blogspot.com to check it out!
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