D.J. Coffman - Sequential Artist, Thinker

This month is flying by. 6 days until New York Comicon. Hurm.

Comics reading… All-Star Batman and Robin did get better– I guess it was just a kick to my senses seeing Batman so damned “crazy”. I’m starting to dig it, and I think my mind is where Frank Miller wants it to be now when reading this. And I was wrong, it does seem a bit like he’s running in some continuity with the Dark Knight to come, only that Dark Knight was a tad saner.  — Still couldn’t give this one to my kids to read… unless I was… uh, the cool dad, who “accidentally” left t laying around. What’s become of me! Curse you Frank.

I was working on something kinda top-secret yesterday. Here’s a peek. Colors by Jason, of course.

Still hard at work on HBN #4 too. I’m trying to, what’s the word? Step it up a notch as we go here. I started penciling on the 11×17 bristol I have, for no other reason than I have 90 sheets of it sitting that I bought when I first started drawing HBN in 2006, but chose the 11×14 bristol insteady. The Eon boards are pretty cool though, and I hate to see them go to waste. It gives me a little more room to get some details in i guess, but really the REAL work is still done in the inking process on the screen, I can go in and add detail then, and since I can zoom to the panel being the size of my monitor, I guess it doesn’t matter what size I penciled in the rough layout. — Someday I’ll try paperless out of the blue— I’m getting better with the custom brush and pressure tools to where I think I could actually pencil, but I’m still faster on paper.

Done blogging– I have some running to do today and I want to get back to the drawing board ASAP while I’m in a groove.

Go read Hero By Night!