Entry 127: Interview, L'Enfant, Barlow

If this is your first time visiting here: Hello and welcome. My name is Dustin Weaver I draw comics and this is my blog. I hope you enjoy it.

If you're  a regular visitor: Hey... me again. Wanna see some more drawings? No? Well, I haven't got anything else. It's pretty much all I do.

Moving on!

-My first order of business: I recently did an interview at Multiversity Comics. Please go check it out! Multiversity Comics Interview
Let me know if I sound like a dick.

-Second order of business: SHIELD got a review on the Geek Dad blog, and they were very nice! That's a super great sight and you should check it out. You can find that review here Geek Dad's spotlight on SHIELD

-Third order of business: Speaking of being a geek dad, I suppose I qualify as a geek dad and I'm currently developing a project that draws a lot of inspiration from my daughter.

Jeremy Barlow and I are in the early stages of developing another short story for another Image anthology. Jeremy and I last collaborated on They'll Bury You Where You Stand!, a short western which appeared in the anthology Outlaw Territory volume 2. In that story we were ably to express our love for European comics and spaghetti westerns, and we continue our Euro comic love with this new short story tentatively titled L'Enfant D'Etoiles.
L'Enfant D'Etoiles well be an epic space sci-fi along the lines of books like The Metabarons- but with a baby. And yeah, my daughter is a big inspiration for this character.

Here's a look at the design for L'Enfant with different color schemes. Look at them. Tell me which one you like. I should say that though my daughter is a girl, L'Enfant is a boy... Well actually, one might assume he's a boy. I'm not sure if we'll be confirming that or not.

-Fourth order of business: (am I still doing this "order of business" thing) They'll Bury you Where You Stand! -you can now read in it's entirety right here on this blog. Check it out. You can find the link to the page on the right side

-Which leads into my last order of business: Jeremy Barlow has a new blog! Check it out. Obviously, he is a friend of mine, we collaborated on TBYWYS! and now you can find out a whole lot more about him. Jeremy Barlow's Blog!

On his blog you can read another short story that he did with Ben Bates, A guy I have also mentioned here on my blog.

Here are a couple pages from that.

 

Find more of Ben Bates's stuff on his sight at bbates.com/wordpress He's the best thing to happen to Sonic The Hedgehog comics in ever.

I'm still working on issue 3 of Shield v2. Jesus, is this a hard issue. When you see it I think you'll know what I mean. We'll talk more about it then, provided I survive it. 

Entry 116: Free Comic Book Day

Hey! So, this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day and as you can see I will be signing at Things From Another World on Sandy Blvd here in Portland.

Check it out. Also signing at that location on free comic book day: My friends and studio mates Ben Dewey, Paul Tobin, Steve Lieber, Paul Guinan, David Hahn, and occasional studio mates Terry and Rachel Dodson.

But it doesn't stop there. Periscope Studio people will be signing all around the Portland area. Ben Bates will be in Beaverton, Ron Chan and my co-creator of They'll Bury You Where You Stand! Jeremy Barlow will be in Milwaukie.

You could run all around town and meet all of them.

So, I had a couple left over commissions to do from this past Emerald City Comic Con that I was finally able to get done.
Check them out-

I've been experimenting lately with creating screen tones in photoshop and printing them into a drawing and I'm really liking the results. I've always been a fan of zipatone and this is a way to accomplish that look in a fairly simple way. 

Anyway, if your in the Portland area this weekend I hope to see you on free comic book day. Maybe I'll draw a sketch for you. It won't look as nice as what you see above, but it will be cool, I promise.

Entry 115: S.H.I.E.L.D. Architects Of Tomorrow!

Hey, everybody-

Guess what comic I got today.
 

Yeah, yeah, Bakuman and Mister Wonderful, but what I'm actually talking about is the S.H.I.E.L.D. Architects Of Forever hard back!

Pretty exciting, huh? Check it out.

Every issue of SHIELD, so far, put together into one shiny slick book.

What's that? You want me to show some pages from Bakuman and Mister Wonderful? Damn it, I need to stop taking pictures of my books along side vastly superior books.

Speaking of which.
Remember this picture

Go  Buy Outlaw Territory 2!

Check it out, we got mentioned on Fresh Ink.

Entry 108: SHIELD #6

This week the final chapter of SHIELD VOL. 1 hit the stands. Which means that soon there will be a collection of the first 6 issues in a single book.  There's going to be a hard back version which is really exciting to me. This will actually be the first graphic novel to be published completely drawn by me. I can't wait to have it in my hands.

Entry 99: They'll Burry You Where You Stand! IS COMING!

That's right, big fat guy, something IS coming!

Finally, Mine and Jeremy Barlow's short Western story, They'll Bury You Where You Stand! is coming out. It will appear in Outlaw Territory Volume 2. Here's the ad that I believe was in Previews with a look at the cover.

There you have it. October 6th is the date. 240 pages of old west goodness.

I posted about this story some time ago and why it's an important project to me. You can check that post out here. Entry 68
Jeremy and I worked closely on this thing. If you're not familiar with Jeremy and his work. You should check out his sight at Jeremy Barlow.com. He's a talented writer with a lot of great ideas. He's also very versatile. He's primarily known for his Star Wars work, but I hope this story shows that he's got a lot more to offer.

Here's another page.

Entry 68: Preview-They'll Bury You Where You Stand!

I am not going to comic con this week, but if you are and you happen to run into Jeremy Barlow you might have an opportunity to see a sneak peak at our western comic, They'll Bury You Where You Stand!

It's a short story that will be published in Outlaw Territory Volume 2, which doesn't yet have a release date.
This story is an exciting project for me for a few reasons:

For starters, It's the first thing I've worked on in my professional career where I've been involved with it's creation from the start. Everything I've worked on up to this point has at least had a story and script done before I get to put my stamp on it. TBYWYS! has my stamp on it from the very start.

Second, it's the first story I've done that I've colored myself. From the inception of this story color played an important part. In fact I knew how I wanted to color it even before there was a story.

Third, I got to collaborate with my friend Jeremy. He got me into Spaghetti Westerns. I was a fan of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly but I really hadn't delved into that genre until Jeremy started suggesting titles. And in general, western stories have been an ongoing topic in our friendship. So when the opportunity to do this story came up we booth jumped at it.

Another reason I'm excited about this story is that I think it's pretty cool. We really wanted to do a western that was different than any western we've seen. I think that we were able to make it everything I was hoping it would be.

I'll have a lot more to say about it when it comes out. When I know the release date I'll let you know. I'll be excited to hear what you think of it.

Here is a page from They'll Bury You Where You Stand!