For my birthday a couple of months back, the Pirate Queen gave me a fistful of cash to put toward new art commissions. That’s what you get for the guy who has… well, not everything, but pretty close. Wanting to stretch my windfall as far as possible, I turned to fellow collector Damon Owens for [...]
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Comic Art Friday: Two hawks, no doves
February 17, 2012My funny Valentine
February 9, 2012For those of you who’ve expressed an interest in my burgeoning voice acting career, here’s a little something I voiced recently. It’s a promotional video for a Bay Area men’s chorus that delivers Singing Valentines. NIA Creative, an awesome marketing and production company, produced the project. Fun stuff… …and if you decide to purchase a [...]
Comic Art Friday: RIP, Al Rio (1962-2012)
February 3, 2012I was shocked and saddened on Tuesday morning — as were many of my fellow comics fans and comic art aficionados — to receive the news that artist and former Disney animator Al Rio had passed away in his native Brazil, the result of an apparent suicide. Those of you who have followed Comic Art [...]
Comic Art Friday: Somebody scream!
January 20, 2012You ever have one of those days when you just wanna scream? Tyroc and Songbird have those all the time. A hypersonic scream seems like such a bizarre superpower that it’s actually rather amazing how many comic book characters possess it. In addition to the subjects of the dazzling panel above — commissioned from the [...]
Comic Art Friday: Heavenly creatures
January 13, 2012We’re not fully two weeks into 2012, and already it’s been an exciting art year at the new Casa de Swan. Here’s the first of several reasons why. I frequently discuss with other comic art collectors our approaches to our theme commissions. Many of my fellow hobbyists present elaborately detailed scenarios to the artists they [...]
Comic Art Friday: The best of 2011
December 30, 20112011 was another light year on the commission front, due to economic circumstances with which I’m certain many of you could identify. It was, however, what the late film star Spencer Tracy might have termed a Katharine Hepburn kind of year — there wasn’t a lot of meat on its bones, but what there was, [...]
Comic Art Friday: Nice people rock!
December 23, 2011As most of you are aware, I celebrated yet another anniversary of my birth on Monday of this week. (That’s December 19, for the calendar-impaired.) That very day, I arrived home from a fun time touring the holiday sights of downtown San Francisco with The Daughter only to discover this beauty of a birthday gift [...]
SwanShadow Gives Thanks: Eight Is Never Enough
November 24, 2011Welcome to the eighth (count ‘em, eight!) edition of my annual A-to-Z Thanksgiving post. After the darkness and loss that characterized much of 2010 — as most of the regulars here know, my wife KJ lost her decade-long battle with breast cancer in July of that year — 2011 has been another year of sweeping [...]
Comic Art Friday: Wonders from WonderCon, part 3
April 29, 2011In our two previous Comic Art Friday posts, we looked at two of the new artworks I commissioned at this year’s WonderCon. Today, we’ll look at the last of my big scores. A commission from Brian Stelfreeze topped my wish list for WonderCon weekend. Brian is, in my rarely humble opinion, one of the most [...]
Comic Art Friday: Wonders from WonderCon, part 2
April 22, 2011Last week on Comic Art Friday, we took a peek at the first new artwork I picked up at WonderCon 2011, a Common Elements commission that comics legend Ernie Chan drew in advance of the convention. But I wasn’t done with either my Common Elements theme, or with the Amazing Chan, quite yet. The design [...]
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