Josh Howard
San Diego Recap
Sunday, August 03, 2008
I have been putting off this recap, not because I have anything bad to say, but because I’ve been so busy catching up on everything at home and work, I haven’t spent much time on anything else. I did set up a Deviant Art Page, which has been going good. I’ll be putting pretty much the same artwork there as I do here, but with a few exceptions. I try to keep this site all-ages friendly, since I write all-ages books. On Deviant Art, however, I’ll be posting a few not so all-ages pieces, just to expand my horizon. I’ll be sure to mark those pieces as such.
The trip itself was awesome. I had a blast hanging out with Josh, Pat and Wes.
We sold out of the forty copies of Wonderdog we took up there, so that was awesome! Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy. I hope you liked it! Be sure to tell all your friends when it hits shelves in November.
I also sold a few sketchbooks and a couple of sketch cards. I sold the Isaac card I did, which is the first sketch card I think I did. That was cool.
I got to meet Matt Keesler and Natalie Morales from the show the Middleman. That was fun. Javi got ABC Family let us Viper folk into their booth to meet her and get a picture with her. It was too cool.
Big plans for next year are being, well, planned. But more on that later.
I’ll have some pics up on Flickr tonight or tomorrow, I’ll let you know when. I let my pro account expire, so I don’t have as much space for pics as I used to. Feel free to gift one to me if you like. 
Happy 7th and WONDERDOG INC!!
Monday, July 07, 2008
OK, so I’m a little late. Sometimes I’m really on the ball with this blog thing, other times, I totally forget it exists.
For those of you who follow me around the country and attend my every appearance, I’ll be heading to San Diego again this year to the geek prom.
This year I’ll have a limited edition of Wonderdog, Inc! We’ll have 40 numbered copies to sign and sell at the Viper Booth. I’m sure it will have some sort of numbered designation, but as of this moment, I don’t know what it is. It’s probably good though. So come out and see me! Or, more likely, come out to see Josh and meet me too.
In addition to the books, I’ll also be taking commissions, a con first for me. I’m going to be doing custom sketch cards for $10 bucks a pop. If you have a character you want done, bring some reference! I only have so much space in my head.
See you there!
CAPE & Commissions
Monday, May 05, 2008
Thanks to everyone who came out and stopped at our table this weekend at CAPE. And thanks to Josh Howard for letting me crash his table. And to Pat Bussey (and Faith) for letting me crash on his couch.
I got some great feedback on my homemade sketch cards, so I’ve decided to start taking commissions on them. If you want one, just fill out the form on the about page and let me know what you want drawn and where I can send it. I’m charging $10 and that includes shipping and a little plastic sleeve to keep it safe. These are drawn on hand cut bristol board, so they aren’t extraordinarily fancy or anything, but hey, I drew on it, so it must be worth something, right?
CAPE & Mine all Mine
Monday, April 28, 2008
Press release from David Hopkins:
CAPE, the world’s largest Free Comic Book Day
event, is this weekend Saturday May 3rd at Craddock Park in Dallas,
Texas. In addition to the important and cool people—Mark Waid, Gail
Simone, Robert Kirkman, Greg Pak, David Mack, Daniel Way, Scott Kurtz,
Jim Mahfood, Dave Crosland, Joelle Jones, Jamie S. Rich, and Chynna
Clugston—I’m debuting my minicomic “Mine All Mine” with fierce
indie-integrity fully intact. It’s a collection of 16 one page
vignettes, all written by me, David Hopkins, and illustrated by
different artists. It’s a minicomic about the varied ways people steal
from others, covering everything from pickpocketing to e-mail scams to
gentrification. Seems appropriate on a day when we give comics away
for free. I’ll be selling mine for $2, thank you very much.
The contributors…
Samax Amen, Joshua Boulet, Ryan Cody, David DeGrand, Joe Eisma, Jake
Ekiss, Derrick Fish, Michael Lagocki, Jim Lujan, Paul Milligan, Wes
Molebash, Chad Sell, Cal Slayton, Justin Stewart, ZeeS, and Scott
Zirkel.
Cover by Tania Kaufmann, darling of the local Dallas art scene.
After CAPE, we’ll have it available at select stores on May 14th and
for sale online. For more information, you can visit David’s website.
I’ll be at CAPE with Pat Bussey and Josh Howard signing this, Haywire and whatever else is requested.
Nara
Saturday, August 11, 2007
From Josh Howard’s .
Inked by Jason Worthington… cause he’s freakin’ awesome!
Do you do commissions?
Friday, August 03, 2007
So I knew before I left for the con that I was going to pull some sort of prank on someone. My best target was, of course, Josh Howard. I had a few ideas, but they were mostly lame. Finally, a burst of inspiration. I found a picture on Google images of a guy wrapping his arms around another guy. I put Josh’s face over the guy in front. I put the face of Matt Hebb, who I knew was going to be there, on the guy doing the hugging. I knew that Matt and Josh had never met, so I figured I’d get Matt to ask Josh for a commission from a photo and hit him with it. I printed out the image on a 4x5 sheet of photo paper, so it looked like a photo-mat print.
Matt waited until the booth was full and did the deed. Not only did he ask for him to draw from a photo, but he did it in a little creepy voice. It was great. He whipped out the photo and Josh just stared at it. He slowly turned and looked at us (Pat and Wes were in on it as well) and we all lost it. Josh was a good sport about it and both guys signed the photo.
I’ll have to start thinking now to top it next year…
