B-Movie Starlets #1

The Comic Con starts Wednesday and the books are IN!! I'll be at booth D-8, so drop on in and say hi!



28 pages of full color mayhem! Head on over here for a description.

Hard 8 Volume 2 will be there as well - check out the Hard 8 blog or my store for more info!


I'll also be featuring prints (and original artwork I haven't done yet.) -



More details here.

For folks who won't be in San Diego this week, please visit rankinstein.com to catch up on all the goodness!

Two weeks!!

Just a quick update -
B-Movie Starlets #1 is at the printers and will arrive in time for the Con!
I'll also be selling original artwork, T-shirts and prints.

Here's a rough of a print I'll have at the booth.


More to come!

Episode 4.5: Darth Vader hitches a ride

This is a piece that'll appear in an upcoming tribute book called "100 Ways to the Dark Side".

Some panels-

It always amazes me to see months of my life fly by so quickly on paper. And no, I haven't just been working on these five panels.

More stuff later!

I can't stop watching!!

I originally saw this at YooouuuTuuube. Check out what they do with it:

Just amazing.

Moley-

Here's a couple sketches out of the moleskine:




Creative use for duct tape #106...



...MacGyvering a pencil holder onto a sketchbook.

"Don't trick me, gypsy!"

I had the privilege of attending Baxtale at the Bordello last week.
I brought my trusty Moleskine along, since tribal belly dancing isn't something I can sketch every day. For the record, drawing in dim red light is difficult. (Dead sexy, but difficult.)





Here's some footage of Se7en's performance:



I couldn't find footage of Petrojvic Blasting Company from that night, but here they are in broad daylight.



B-Movie Starlets is still rolling along! I'll post more stuff soon.
(Hotel reservations for the Con filled up in the first two hours of opening! :( But something always opens up later.)

Cheers!

Aliens vs. Predator done right:

This is NOT MY ART. ...but I wish it was.
These pieces were done by an advertising agency called DDB for an AvP movie marathon in New Zealand.

http://www.ddb.co.nz/





I posted these because I watched Aliens vs. Predator 2 and it was just terrible. Thank goodness it was a rental.
But in its defense, the movie was ALMOST as ridiculously funny as these images.

Waiting for the Watchmen

So I saw Watchmen this weekend. It was really fun and it stayed pretty true to the book (yeah, except for the ending).
I gotta say the slow motion brutality was overdone and the sex scenes were mini-pornos (really awkward mini-pornos) but it was, overall, a pretty good movie.
For the folks who detested it, I have to echo Patton Oswalt and say that there are FAR worse comic-adaptation movies out there (Daredevil, Elektra, Catwoman). So there.

I brought my moleskine sketchbook along with me for the wait beforehand.
Inspired by geekiness, I drew the same two blue dudes that Dave Gibbons drew. (Two, you say?) Most folks are now familiar with Dr. Manhattan, but unless they read 2000ad (the same birthplace as Judge Dredd) they've probably never heard of the Rogue Trooper. Blue's MY favorite color. I think Dave Gibbons has the same opinion.



More Starlets stuff in the works!

6 months to go!

The Comic-con is coming up July 23, so I'm plugging away at B-Movie Starlets book one.
I though I'd show just a few panels before they get inked and colored.