Category: Extras

Jerzy Drozd is a cartoonist and teaching artist and podcast producer/host who is a champion of comics and especially comics for kids, and BOULDER & FLEET is his new webcomic about a bear and a bird and their lives as adventurers-for-hire. It’s pretty great, and Jerzy’s been incredibly supportive of PIX and my work on it and promoting it, so it seemed a natural fit for me to draw my character with his newest. And darned if I don’t like drawing animals (at the risk of a spoiler: there are animals in PIX: ONE WEIRDEST WEEKEND). Meanwhile, behind-the-scenes, my original drawing of Pix with Boulder and Fleet featured a more…aggressive take on Boulder, but hearing Jerzy talk on his numerous podcasts about his thoughts about conflict resolution, and Boulder’s approach to that in particular, led to me going back and softening him up a bit. I still think it looks pretty cool.

Read Boulder & Fleet here.

Pix Plus is a series of drawings presenting Pix in team-ups with notable characters from kid-friendly comics and graphic novels. The series will run Monday-Friday, from November 17-December 24. Please do share and let people know about Pix and Pix Plus!

Ask your local comic shop to order PIX: ONE WEIRDEST WEEKEND, in the December catalog, item #DEC141546

Super Dinosaur is a talking T-Rex who uses his tiny T-Rex arms to control big, armored arms as well as missiles, lasers, jetpacks, and all kind of other stuff that creators Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard come up with. At the risk of sounding like SD’s best pal Derek Dynamo: it’s awesome. For this drawing, SD & Derek are often leaping into action with a “heck yeah, let’s kick butt” attitude, so it seemed a perfect fit that Pix would join them and dive, literally, head-first into adventure.

Get more Super Dinosaur info here.

LAST NOTICE: I’ll be at Aw Yeah Comics in Skokie, IL from 3-5pm, TODAY, 11/26, sketching, signing, and selling copies of PIX: ONE WEIRDEST WEEKEND. Come on by on your way to pick up your Thanksgiving turkey!

Pix Plus is a series of drawings presenting Pix in team-ups with notable characters from kid-friendly comics and graphic novels. The series will run Monday-Friday, from November 17-December 24. Please do share and let people know about Pix and Pix Plus!

Action Cat and Adventure Bug are the stars of AW YEAH COMICS, the independent all-ages comic series from the team of Art Baltazar and Franco, kids comics superstars known for TINY TITANS, SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES, and ITTY BITTY HELLBOY and THE MASK. With AW YEAH COMICS, and their comic shop of the same name, they continue to bang the drum and make “comics for everyone”. In this drawing it was mostly just fun to interpret the very distinctive Aw Yeah style characters into something more along the lines of what I do…and I do like drawing animal characters.

Learn more about Aw Yeah Comics here.
BONUS: If you’re in or near Aw Yeah Comics in Skokie, IL, stop by on Wednesday, 11/26, between 3pm-5pm; I’ll be in store signing, sketching, and selling copies of PIX: ONE WEIRDEST WEEKEND…aw yeah!

Pix Plus is a series of drawings presenting Pix in team-ups with notable characters from kid-friendly comics and graphic novels. The series will run Monday-Friday, from November 17-December 24. Please do share and let people know about Pix and Pix Plus!

Emily Hayes is the the AMULET series, by Kazu Kibuishi. At six volumes and counting, AMULET follows Emily as she, with her brother and mother, discover new worlds, encounter new robotic and anthropomorphic animal friends, and face many obstacles and enemies, as she learns to control and use the power of the Amulet she wears around her neck. This is a tremendous series. The first ten pages or so of the first volume, THE STONEKEEPER, are intense and emotional and quite riveting, and sets the stage for  an engaging, epic story, told deftly and with a lot of humanity. For this drawing I opted to show Emily wielding the power of the Amulet in a bold, dynamic, super heroic fashion…and Pix has her back!

See more about Kazu and AMULET at boltcity.com

Pix Plus is a series of drawings presenting Pix in team-ups with notable characters from kid-friendly comics and graphic novels. The series will run Monday-Friday, from November 17-December 24. Please do share and let people know about Pix and Pix Plus!

Superhero Girl is the star of the selfsame titled webcomic-turned-Eisner Award-Winning hardcover collection from Dark Horse Comics, by Faith Erin Hicks (FRIENDS WITH BOYS, NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG). It’s a really great read, and Faith’s art is top notch; especially her attention to facial expressions and body language. For this drawing it seemed a natural fit to have these two costumed girl heroes flying/leaping gleefully over rooftops.

You can check out SUPERHERO GIRL here.

Pix Plus is a series of drawings presenting Pix in team-ups with notable characters from kid-friendly comics and graphic novels. The series will run Monday-Friday, from November 17-December 24. Please do share and let people know about Pix and Pix Plus!