This is another magazine illustration I did.  The deadline was a tight one but I think it turned out alright for the amount I bit off and tried to chew.  Given more time I would have coloured it differently, but let’s not sit gazing out the window wondering what might have been if we’d only had crayons enough and time to do it.

I made this drawing for the cover of Renew Canada, out on newstands right nowish.  They asked me to come up with a futuristic looking city, which I did, and then they told me to clean it up and make it look shinier and more well-functioning and happier, which made me question why they’d hired me at all in the first place, if a shiny and contented version of the future was what they were after.  A couple of versions later this is what we ended up with, all slick and working and sparkly and, secretly, in the back of my conniving little mind, a small chunk of the earth that was blown to high hell a few centuries earlier, still floating around each other in some kind of atmosphere, still working just fine, but still just barely hanging on after the worst has happened.

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Cisco came up with the idea for this one, told me what it was and I drew it in pencil.  Then I gave it back to him and he inked over top of the pencils, gave it back to me and I touched it up and coloured it in photoshop.  The end result is this sharp little collaboration.

As has been the case for months now, I’m moments away from completing a total redux of A Brief History of Time.  This has meant redrawing, rescanning and recolouring almost everything in the entire book.  I think I have one page left to do.  I think I’ve had one page left to do since October.  But you know how it is, that last 5 pounds is the hardest to lose, plus all the other bullshit that life is always distracting me with. 

This post is to remind me for the hundredth time that I’m working on this project and so you can see how it looks.  The bad news is that I will never ever post this do-over onto itwasmeteors, but the good news is that I think it has a shadow of a shot at being printed someday.

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Some days I identify with this poor colossus much more than others.

Yeah, I guess I made this picture months ago and never really posted it, so here it is.   I spend a lot of time thinking about sustainable energy, especially when it comes to travel or rather, I guess, self-sustaining energy, or self-propelled travel. 

If I can come up with a good enough invention then I won’t even have to really invent it, just patent it and wait for the auto industry giants to buy up my patent, not so they can make the damn thing, but just so they can quash it like they did with all those designs for the electric car and so on, buying up the right to not have it made. 

Then I could live high off the hog for that last decade or two of this absolute human comfort of ours before the bottom dropped out of society and everything went to flames and twisted metal and chaos and as I watched it all go to hell I’d know that I did my own small part to push it all over the edge, or that I didn’t do my part to grab hold and pull back and keep it from falling, that the time to heave against the line had come and gone and I’d said “no thanks”.  And I’d be ashamed with myself for those years, knowing that the hell of our everyday lives was one I’d somehow chosen. 

But then maybe way down the road, after everything had ended and there was nothing but static on every channel and all the streets had cracked and broken into dirt and all the windows had been smashed back down into sand, maybe then I could pull out those old blueprints and try my best to remember how to read them and wonder if we were finally ready for this kind of thing, if this was something we could finally actually use. 

And yeah, this picture is about the days that come after that day.  Enjoy.

Ah, the new one’s out.

At long last….

While I get things together in the site’s various sections on the new platform, I’ll post some reruns on the main page to keep things rolling along.  Enjoy.