"Fever Ridge" #4

"Fever Ridge" is published by IDW and this issue we get a little more history behind who is who. Written by Michael Heimos, line art by Nick Runge, letters by Brandon DeStefano, and colors by me. It's the last issue of this title I color but it was one of my favorites to do!

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"Fever Ridge" #3

"Fever Ridge" is published by IDW and this issue takes us back to the team we saw in #1 and sets us up for the rest of the series. They step into the deep end! Written by Michael Heimos, line art by Nick Runge, letters by Brandon DeStefano, and colors by me. It's out this week at comic shops!

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"Fever Ridge" #2

"Fever Ridge" is published by IDW and this issue tells the story of the Japanese Empire from the 1800s up through to just before WWII when they were hunting MacArthur and his family. Written by Michael Heimos, line art by Nick Runge, letters by Brandon DeStefano, and colors by me. It's out today at comic shops! Here's a link to a lettered preview and below you'll find my line art to color preview.

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"Planet of the Apes" #16 covers

I was honored to get to color covers for issues 1, 5-16 of this series. It was so much fun to get to continue on with this "Planet of the Apes"series even once I had to drop off interiors due to the birth of my son. I hope everyone enjoyed my covers as much as the story. It's a great read so if you've not picked it up I highly recommend you do!

Roll over for original line art by Carlos Magno!

Roll over for original line art by Damian Couceiro!

"Planet of the Apes" Annual #1

When POTA editor, Dafna Pleban, contacted me about coloring a short story for the annual I jumped on it. She even gave me a choice of stories and I picked Jeff Parker and Ben Dewey's. Ben's line just sang to me immediately and knew that was the one for me. I thoroughly enjoyed coloring it and Jeff's story is so much fun I honestly would love to see more done with the same characters. The annual came out this week with three other short stories so go pick your copy up now!

Roll over for the original line art by Ben Dewey!

"Adventure Time" #4

I got asked to color half of Paul Pope's short story (and Moebius tribute) for "Adventure Time" #4 at BOOM! Studios a couple months ago. I colored the 'other world' panels and then composited the other colors with mine for final. It was a fast but super fun project! This page called for my color to look like an oil painting so I came up with a new technique that I could action in Photoshop to get the effect. Thought it looked pretty good. It's only one of the two pages I colored and the white area is by the other colorist so I don't take credit for his work. I don't want to post up the entire short, it's only four pages, so you'll have to pick up the issue to read it!

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HULK test pages

After finding out there's another batch of Marvel test pages out there I wanted to color them to further update my portfolio with them. The amazing Falynn Koch had them and graciously passed them my way. Written by Jeph Loeb and line art by Ed McGuinness, these pages are from Hulk #20 and were a ton of fun to color. The original color was done by Dave Stewart, which can be viewed here, but I'd like to think I did pretty well in comparison.

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UNCANNY X-MEN test pages

I received these pages from Bon Alimagno, back when he was still at Marvel, shortly after my son was born. Suffice it to say, I was waaay too busy to color them at the time. Now that parenthood has settled and a bunch of the titles I was coloring have been concluded, that time was much easier to find. These are from Uncanny X-men #525 and I didn't have the script when coloring these so I had to guess a few things. While I can't be for certain, I decided to treat the fourth, fifth, and sixth pages below as if they took place inside the dome seen in the first page. I wanted that shield to act as a filter and bathe everything in a pinkish light to contrast with the cool blues outside. If that's not accurate, please forgive me but I really didn't want to look at the issue and be influenced by what was previously done. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it!

UPDATE: Finally saw the actual comic. I didn't have the script when I colored this and avoided what the colorist had done. So forgive not knowing that's the X-Club members talking to the Avengers! May go back and fix that if I have time.

Roll over for original line art by Terry Dodson!

"Planet of the Apes" #15 cover

When my son was born I had to quit coloring the interiors for "Planet of the Apes" but was really lucky editor Dafna Pleban was so awesome and kept me on to do covers. These have been an absolute joy to work on and this was no exception. It also was another chance to color Damian Couceiro which is always a pleasure. #15 is out this week so go pick up a copy!

Roll over for original line art by Damian Couceiro!

"Incorruptible" #30

Out of all of the books I've colored, I grew the most on 'Incorruptible'. Twenty-one issues in a row will do that. That's just more than 2/3rds the entire series. I really learned a lot during the series making this finale really hard on me. There was no other book I looked forward to as much as 'Incorruptible'. I've missed it this past month and know it'll be quite some time before I stop wondering when I'll get the next script. I hope I made everyone proud and brought an added dimension to the book with my color.

I'd like to thank the following for making my run on 'Incorruptible' such a fantastic experience: Shannon Watters for being so wonderful, professional, and personable an editor, Marcio Takara drew most of the issues I colored and each page was a pleasure I hope to experience again, Damian Couceiro came in near the end and I immediately loved each issue, and, of course, Mark Waid for writing a man so lost, like so many of us, it took something horrible to teach him how wrong he was and that knowing you're wrong is a very different thing from knowing how to be right.

Good bye, 'Incorruptible'.

Roll over for original line art by Damian Couceiro!