Attention, ancient site!

Yeah, I said it. :P
I'm posting everything regularly ooooover here:
vonrankinstein.tumblr.com

Supertemporal panels, other art, whatever! Come on by and see fresh stuff.
Because I'll likely not be posting around here very often. Or ever.

Supertemporal: 1-4

These are the weekly adventures of the Victorian era's first time traveler.

Lady Gibson has gone Supertemporal.

 A daguerreotype of colleagues on a most auspicious occasion.

 Nostalgia is quickly replaced by terror. The greatest of fears is that Lady Gibson is hopelessly marooned - the least concern is that she is now 4000 years old.

  Lady Gibson's arrival piques the interest of the locals.

It is apparent that the commoners suffer greatly from afflictions both physical and psychological. They appear eager to share.

Next Book!

 

San Diego Comic-Con 2012! The world was supposed to end, but somehow, we survived! Glad we did, because otherwise, Aluminum Shepherds #1 wouldn't be debuting in booth 1945!

Aluminum Shepherds is a story about a father/daughter contractor team that helps build planets far away in the universe. The father, Blake, had a VERY different life before his daughter Lena arrived, and present circumstances force his secret past to the surface.

 These are a few panels from the 28-page first issue. 

 Headed home after a long day

 Lena and Dad get ready for some dinner

 Small talk during the morning commute

 Lena reporting for rivet duty

 Dad having a rough day in Magma Processing

 Dad having a rougher day in Magma Processing

 Lena in action

Lena abandoned

More art to come as time permits! See you in San Diego!

Steampunk Poker: San Diego Comic-Con booth #1945

Hey all! This is what I've been working tirelessly on for the last few months: Steampunk Poker! It's a complete artistic redesign of a deck of playing cards, all the way down to the smallest detail.

The cards have all been redesigned to reflect Victorian aesthetics, and the face cards all feature unique Jacks, Queens and Kings according to their respective houses. Hearts feature the adventurous types, Clubs represent everyday working stiffs, Diamonds are the posh aristocrats, and Spades are ornately detailed robots. Of course, all members of these houses have a steampunk twist.

As a special treat, I've designed a handful of deluxe boxes to unveil at Comic-Con and sell online thereafter. The deluxe kits include a deck of cards, 25 hand-crafted Steampunk Poker chips, a decorative insert that displays which hand trumps the other, and other decorative elements wrapped up quite fancily inside a finished wooden collector's case.

The deluxe kit contents:



The deluxe kits unopened:



Some gold chips available in the deluxe kit:



Steampunk Poker cards out of the box:


A random sample of some spade cards:



A few of the face cards:



A random hand featuring the queen of robots:



Visit the Rankinstein booth at #1945. We hope to see you there!
I'll post more details after the convention!
-Greg

Codename Hart 1

Here's the first few pages from Codename Hart!
-Colors by Sara Jerzykowski-

About my abduction...

I can't believe I've been away for so long!!!
I wish to offer Saint Blogulous (the Patron saint of blogs) this humble and crappy image of Judge Dredd as an offering.



And I vow to keep up with this thing more frequently, starting with pages from Codename Hart that I finished last... June. JUNE? REALLY?!

Fairly Odd Puppies gallery

Wow... what's with all the dust, cobwebs and skeletons wearing Dharma Initiative jumpsuits?

OH YEAH! I haven't updated anything in... a long, long time. But it's all for a good reason - I'm busy working on Codename Hart. Out this summer! More details on THAT later.

But first, here's three pieces I put together for our crew (Fairly Oddparents/Tuff Puppy) art gallery at Nickelodeon.


"Justice ful-filled in Twinkstone"





"Warlock of Fudge Mountain"





"What cost, Cupcake?"


Yay, satire!

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!