Sabretooth Swordsman

TOTALLY AMAZING AND INSPIRING!!
Sabretooth Swordsman

Alexander Ross

I just came across Alexander Ross' work last night and I'm immediately inspired and really enjoy the paintings and drawings that he produces. I couldn't find an official site of his right away, but the Marianne Boesky Gallery has a lot of pieces that cover various aspects of his work.

Mike Allred

excerpt from the first Madman book, that shows the dark quirkiness of the character that I miss so much.

Mike Allred. I think that he's a great illustrator. I got to read the first series of Madman around the time I was becoming very bored with mainstream comics and it really stuck with me. I knew that it was a great comic and it looked really fresh to me. I finally dug my heels into these comics and have always aspired to reach that very human quality of his line work. But I also wanted to read more comics like this.
Even now, I don't know of any comic books that are like the first Madman series. I just wish that he would have stuck with this type of story telling.
Mike Allred was hugely influential to me when I was do The ANT at first. His pop culture references and obvious love of classic superheroes lead me down a path that was similar to where Madman went. I eventually played with other styles and moved away from those interests and his work.

Bernie Mireault

from my personal collection, a comic that help change my life

Bernie Mireault entered my comic book life in a not so flattering way. I was searching through a $1 bin of comics at a local shop and I found The JAM Super Cool Color Injected Turbo Adventure From Hell No. 1.
Nearly ten years after it was published by Comico this comic flipped my comic taste upside down. I was so happy that this comic was about people, and people who were normal. Such a simple thing to think about now, but back then in the small town I lived in this kind of comic was rare. So The JAM helped me get away from hollow superhero comics, and more towards superhero comics that had people in them and behind the costumes.

Bernie Mireault's artwork in black and white as well as in color was a huge inspiration when I was drawing The ANT comics.

Shannon Wheeler

When I was 16 I ordered through my local comic store a comic that would help change my life. That comic was Too Much Coffee Man #1.
That comic along with a few others, snapped my brain open and lead me to make my first mini comics. I've come a long way since then, but I still find so many good things in Shannon Wheeler's comics. Thanks Shannon.



P.S.
Here's a low quality Youtube of a Converse commercial that has Too Much Coffee Man in it. The lack of quality takes away from the insane amount of cross hatching that was done for this.

Jeff Warner

Jeff Warner AKA: Jilf inspired me to start blogging my daily comics a few years ago when he lived in Seattle.

Ever since, we've hung out collaborated on some street art and talked tons about art and toys.

Currently he's living in Minnesota and is working really hard on his art style.

I had to photograph this painting from my collection because he's taken down all of his old art from the internet.

Charlie Burgoon

exerpt from Quasioctix

Charlie Burgoon is a long time friend who I've gladly collaborated with on comics. He and I first met when I awarded him with the prizes for a cover contest he won for my comic the ANT.

Charlie is an amazing illustrator who has been working on an autobiographic comic that has his blunt opinions and feelings about living with E.B.N.