Night Owls Sketches

These are the first sketches I ever drew of the Night Owls. As you can see, I knew what I thought they should look like, and they haven't changed much since, except for Roscoe.

Here Roscoe is shown with big Popeye arms and smokin' a stogie. I ditched the stogie, because I decided my characters wouldn't smoke, even though it'd be entirely period appropriate for them to do so. Besides, Buster Keaton died of lung cancer. There's reason enough to give Tobacco the high hat, if you ask me.

As for the Popeye arms, I'm not sure why I decided not to do that. Looking back, I kinda wish I'd kept them. Oh well.

There's also a sketch for my original logo idea, "the postage stamp logo".

It ended up looking like this, but I ended up not liking it very much.

And finally, here's the first actual comics page to ever feature the Night Owls:

Night Owls review

The Night Owls just got it's first review!

From the Jersey Journal!

Time to meet Danna

Anyone who's met me at a comic convention has probably met my wife Danna first.

That's because I can be a little shy sometimes, especially when meeting new people. Danna is a great ice-breaker at conventions. I see someone I want to meet and point Danna at her. She is freindly, enthusiastic, and immensely lovable.

<--This is her during our recent trip to the roaring twenties. It was a research trip.

I'm bringing her up now, because anyone who likes "The Night Owls" or "Fat Mitch"  or any of my comics should thank her for them. 

Without Danna's encouragement and support, I don't know where I'd be today. 

I think it's incredibly important to have someone like that in your corner. We all get discouraged sometimes, especially when pursuing goals that are important to us and seem difficult to obtain.

Danna is the icing that holds my gingerbread house together.

Here's me during that same trip in the Time-Wagon. -->

I tied that bowtie myself! 

Night Owls #9 on Zuda!

The first new episode of the Night Owls (beyond the first eight pages of our initial submission) is finally up on Zudacomics.com!

Episode 9 starts the tale of Roscoe's sister's wedding.

For those of you who are interested in that sort of thing, here's the breakdowns that Peter drew for me.

And here's a peek at my pencils.

Amalgamated Artists Shoutout

The folks over at Amalgamated Artists did us a solid by posting our newly created banner on their website, so I thought I'd give them a shout out in return.

"HI, Amalgamated Artists!"

One of the guys over there at Amalgamated Artists (Gary Epting) has a comic in the January Zuda competition called "A Spelunker's Guide to the City". 

This is the kind of comic you should really spend some time with, in full screen mode.

If there's anyone else who feels like linking to the Night Owls, and would like a nice li'l banner, here's the one I made for the Amalgamated Artists: