Mara

Mara, a miniseries by Brian Wood, Ming Doyle and Jordie Bellaire:

The world of MARA is a war-and-fitness obsessed future, where the angst and insecurity of average citizens is compensated with an extreme focus on sports and battle. Mara Prince is a superbly gifted athlete, playing in a women's volleyball league, and is as famous as you can imagine, with endless endorsements, comped everything, and millions of screaming teenage fans. Until one day...

Seems like there should be a Red Bull sponsorship in there somewhere.

Illustration roundup

Good idea that should be explored more - - comparing how artists draw Psylocke. (This is a page from the outstanding The Apocalypse Solution, btw.)




Hunger Games game coming soon. You can read about it here.



80's-style cartoon adventurers by Cory Loftis.



Eric Orchard put a bunch of original art from his webcomics on sale at Etsy.

Illustration roundup

Two pages from the just released Dark Horse Presents #9, featuring art by Michael Dialynas.




New poster for Red Hair.




Mini-painting by Gabrielle Rose on sale at Etsy for $6.




Secret #2 cover by Ryan Bodenheim. Via.

*Buy Brave posters at Amazon.

Best Covers: Marvel Comics Solicitations for May 2012

Marvel Comics Solicitations for May 2012:


SUPERCROOKS #3 cover by Leinil Yu




DEADPOOL #54 and #55 covers by DAVE JOHNSON



WOLVERINE #306 cover by CHRIS SAMNEE



DAREDEVIL #13 Cover by KHOI PHAM




MARVEL ZOMBIES Destroy! #1 and #2 covers by MICHAEL DEL MUNDO



INCREDIBLE HULK 7.1 cover by MICHAEL KOMARCK



ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES #10 cover by KAARE ANDREWS



ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #10 cover by KAARE ANDREWS



WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #10 cover by CHRIS BACHALO

Illustration roundup

Concert posters and t-shirt by Dan Stiles, some of which are on sale here.




The Kills poster by Rb Jones on sale here. Via.




Dustin Harbin's print and commission sale is still going on.




Daredevil #12 cover by Paolo Rivera.





742 Evergreeen Terrace prints by Tim Doyle going on sale at Spoke Art tonight at midnight.

*Buy Gig Posters Volume 2 at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Cory Doctorow:

I believe that Google has created an enormous internal urgency about Google Plus integration, and that this pressure is leading the company to take steps to integrate G+ at the expense of the quality of its other services. Consider the Focus on the User critique of Google's "social ranking" in search results, for example. In my own life, I've been immensely frustrated that my unpublished Gmail account (which I only use to anchor my Android Marketplace purchases for my phone and tablets, and to receive a daily schedule email while I'm travelling) has somehow become visible to G+ users, so that I get many, many G+ updates and invites to this theoretically private address, every day, despite never having opted into a directory and never having joined G+.

2. Warren Ellis on what would get him writing more comics:

Loads and loads of money would be nice. Access to trusted collaborators would be a bigger part of it. Without going into details, I’ve had some fairly bad luck with artists over the last several years, and it gets dispiriting! There are other factors that tend to discourage me from developing new comics work right now, but that’s one of the main ones — I ran out of people to work with.

3. I love Max Silvestri's bad movie reviews.

4. Million dollar jewelry heist at my local mall.

5. My thanks to current sponsor Alien Vault. The book's terrific - - I posted several photos of its contents in November.

Illustration roundup

Dustin Harbin is offering a big discount on prints and commissions.




Kyle Hilton created a series of Downtown Abbey paper dolls for Vulture.



The Spider #1 by Francesco Francavilla.




Hulk and Hawkeye by Noelle Stevenson, who has art on sale here.



Edie Sawyer commission by Mike Allred, who has a ton of original comic art on sale here.

*Buy Mondo's Drive poster at eBay.

New Dark Horse and Vertigo comic book covers

Star Wars: Blood Ties-Boba Fett is Dead #2 cover by Chris Scalf. Via.




Reset #2 cover by Peter Bagge. Via.




Ragemoor #3 cover by Richard Corben.





Mind Mgmt #1 covers by Matt Kindt and Gilbert Hernandez.




BPRD Hell on Earth: The Transformation of JH O'Donnell cover by Mike Mignola.




BPRD Hell on Earth: The Devil's Engine #1 cover by Duncan Fegredo.




Alabaster: Wolves #2 by Greg Ruth.




Mystery in Space variant by Mike Allred.




Saucer Country by Ryan Kelly. Via.




Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child by Rafael Grampa.




The New Deadwardians by I.N.J. Culbard.

*Buy sketch cards at eBay.

Illustration roundup

Chimera by Chris Buzelli for Global Brief.




Madman by Jim Rugg and Aquaman by Mike Allred.




Black light poster by Pale Horse design on sale here.



Jormungand by Richard Cox, who has art on sale here (NSFW).

*The Madman 20th Anniversary Monster Hardcover is 50% off at Amazon.