On an online comics forum, I recently answered someone's question about what I'm doing. I figured I'd repost the answer here, with some extra detail:

"As far as possible artists on the Shade go, I would love to see JH Williams III or Gene Ha make a return visit but that seems highly unlikely. What is Gene Ha doing nowadays btw?"

The IDW Back Roads project with Bill Willingham fell apart. Willingham stopped writing scripts for it, so IDW is stuck after getting an issue's worth of art, 24 pages of pencils inks and color all by me. There's no point in publishing it unless we can get the whole story, which was supposed to run 132 pages. It's been almost a year since I've seen a new script page.

I've been doing covers for DC lately, and I think my digital painting has been improving. A few months back I did a Mouse Guard story with writer Lowell Francis. I'm working on short stories for Vertigo's House of Mystery and IDW's Rocketeer miniseries now. I'll be doing a few issues of an iconic DC character this summer, DC should announce details soon. And finally, after all that, I've been working on something with James Robinson.

Way back in 2008-9, I did a Top 10 Season 2 series with writer Zander Cannon. I'd only promised to do 4 issues of a planned 8 issue season, and hoped another artist could finish the story. But DC doesn't see much point in another Top 10 issue without me, so I'm hoping to finish the story some day so it can be collected. That's the news! Back to inking my House of Mystery short.

This New Year Goes To 11 !!!

Hey everyone! I've been off my blog for a while now. Blogger had shut down its FTP service, and I had trouble figuring out how to re-start new posts. My friend Rose Lannin and my brother Donn got me through, so I'm back.

I didn't get out a Christmas card this year, so instead I did this card based on a line from my friend and game writer Ken Hite: "This New Year Goes To 11!!!"

In two weeks I'll be doing my first Southwestern convention, the Albuquerque Comicon. If you can get to New Mexico I look forward to seeing you!

I've pretty much disappeared from Myspace, but I'm very active on Facebook. It's so nice posting here. No 140 (Twitter) or 420 (Facebook) character limit.

Last year was dramatic, and hard. The Backroads project looks kaput, because Bill Willingham remains too busy to finish the script. Sigh, I really wanted to make that one my epic. I lost both my dogs to cancer last year. I lost my car in a crash but came out fine. And much more. I'll try to post the occasional Backroads page here: I got about 24 pages of the planned 132 page epic mostly done.

Hope you're glad to see me back! Let me know in comments if there's anything you'd like me to address: work updates, comic creation advice, random links, whatever. As Christopher Reeve once said....

"Good afternoon, Mr. President. Sorry I've been away so long. I won't let you down again."