You 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 [...]
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Comic Art Friday: Somebody scream!
January 20, 2012Comic 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 [...]
Comic Art Friday: Happy birthday, Supergirl!
March 25, 2011Supergirl turns 22 today. No, not that Supergirl. My Supergirl. Twenty-two years ago today, The Daughter entered my world, and changed it forever. I’ve called her Supergirl for years, because she often used to wear a pink hoodie with the Kryptonian shield emblazoned on the chest. Truth to tell, though, she’s really more of a [...]
36 Days of Adrenaline: Day 11 — “Life in the Fast Lane”
March 7, 2011Artist: The Eagles Why this song is an adrenaline rush: If there was ever any doubt that Joe Walsh is one of the most spectacularly gifted guitarists in the history of rock, the opening riff of “Life in the Fast Lane” should dispel said doubt. And if there was ever any doubt that Walsh playing [...]
Abby turns 10
February 28, 2011Happy First Decade to my personal assistant Abby. After wearing herself out mauling her new octopus toy — sent to her via Amazon by The Daughter — Abby is, at this writing, celebrating with a nap. Because that’s how she rolls.
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