The Hazardous Tales book 3 Deadline Crunch!

I hope you've been enjoying the weekly posts here on the Hazardous Tales blog. I've certainly enjoyed posting them. You've probably noticed that there haven't been any new posts since Thanksgiving. The reason for this is the Hazardous Tales Book #3 CRUNCH.

I'm wrapping up the third book this month. It's a lot of pages, a lot of drawing, a lot of writing and rewriting--crunchtime! But, boy, oh boy, am I excited for this one. It's going to be really good. I can't wait to unveil it soon. I'll be able to spill the beans on the subject matter around the time the Abrams catalog for Fall 2013 comes out.

So stay tuned! We'll be back with weekly posts starting in January. I'll finish the three-month sales meeting story (although by then it'll be closer to a six month sales meeting) and get back into some more great bite-sized historical comics!

In the mean time, happy holidays! Do you know what fits remarkably well into a Christmas stocking? Hazardous Tales!

The Blue Streaks of November

We'll wrap up our silly sales meeting starting Monday. But first, I wanted to show you this.

I like to keep careful charts and graphs of big projects I work on. Here's my November wall calendar for Hazardous Tales #3:

Each line represents a finished page. When a line touches the top of a day, that means a page is done. So on the 1st, those are three pages I started and finished in one day. Most other pages get spread out. There's a page on the 21st that doesn't get finished until the 26th. The key is to have some pages finishing each day.

I'm also showing this because it is an UNREAL number of pages for me. This is my all time personal record for completed pages in a month. I want to try and hit 60 before December. I'll keep you posted.

Hazardous Sales part 6

Hazardous Sales part 5

Hazardous Sales part 4

I'm ridiculously pleased with this one. There was some back and forth about "I'm gonna TAX it!" or "I'm gonna COLONIZE it!" I think tax is punchier.

Any favorites so far?

Back Monday with more!

Mystery cover!

Hey, I ran out of time to do today's silly cover mashup! Why? Because I was doing the final cover artwork for the next Hazardous Tales book (the REAL cover!) The subject matter is still secret, but here's a puzzled up version, can you make anything out?

Any guesses? It helps if you stand back. I think there are some actual recognizable shapes in there.

Be back tomorrow for the next mashup cover and more from the Hazardous Sales meeting!

Hazardous Sales part 3

I don't draw a lot of fan-art. I did it when I was a kid, but it's been a LONG time since I've drawn anything resembling fan-art. But after this week, I can see the draw (no pun intended.)

I was nervous that if I didn't draw Finn's iconic white hat-thing on Hale it wouldn't look right. But I think it turned out okay.