Ramona Flowers

A Ramona Flowers, done for my friend Tom as a graduation-from-law-school gift.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

4 x 6" piece for my friend Hunter's birthday (which was a couple of days ago).

Ralph and Mikey were always my favorite. Also, why did the cartoon Turtles not have nostrils? Even when I was a kid, I was like, "I doubt that Ooze would make the Turtles' nostrils disappear. That's just unrealistic."

"Sad Baby Monsters" on Comics Alliance!

Fluke was awesome. It's improved so much since I went two years ago. Fluke has grown, but it's still small enough that it's easy to meet people and talk comics.

One of the great people that I met at Fluke this weekend was Chris Sims, writer on Comics Alliance (This is my favorite "Ask Chris" article of his. Read it. It's awesome). Check out his website!

Remember that article that was up on CA about the "American" super hero redesigns? That was written by Chris. :D

Chris was nice enough to write up an article about my "Sad Baby Monsters" mini that I had at Fluke, which you can read here!

Thanks, Chris!

Fluke 2011

Fluke is happening this weekend! For those who are unfamiliar, Fluke is an annual minicomics and zine con that usually takes place in a bar (which is great because that means that there are drinks). This year, it'll be at the 40 Watt Club from 11am-6pm, but I'm going to try to get there so that I can get a table. Visit the website at Fluke is Awesome and you'll know all the things you need to know.

I'll have a bunch of minis: Skein, when i was little, BC/CC, and Sad Baby Monsters and Build-a-Beast.

No Face

American Heroes on ComicsAlliance

I have to say, I am super excited. Comics Alliance is my favorite source of comics news, and they've posted an article about our effort here at SCAD Atlanta to transform characters with colors in their names into "American" counterparts (all of this has been spurned on by Marvel's recent announcement that Black Panther will be changed to "American Panther"). Please, enjoy (my American Skull is all the way at the bottom, so you get to read the whole article to get to it).

AMERICA ALL THE THINGS

In response to Marvel announcing that it's changing Black Panther into American Panther, the SCAD Atlanta folks decided to re-imagine other characters with color names as American. Here's my answer to that (with super mega awesome foxy hot colors by Falynn Koch):

U.S.A. All the Way!!

Pay attention to The Temple of Cartoon Mojo at noon today. Something pretty cool is going to happen.

New images to come soon!

I've been working on a ton of stuff for my mini comics class, and there will be a massive post soon! With new images!! Lots of them!!! And you'll like it!!!! (I promise.)

Student Spotlight

Hey, folks!

I've been diligently working on my Oni book, and trying to get back into the swing of things at SCAD. We had a weird week there when Atlanta got totally snowed in, but we're recovering with make up classes.

Aside from pro work, I've got several projects in the works in the form of mini comics (that I will most definitely have at Fluke and Heroes Con this year) and long-form story pitches. I will definitely keep you guys updated on all that.

ALSO! I am the focus of the student spotlight on The Temple of Cartoon Mojo, which is a blog/group dedicated to SCAD-Atlanta sequential art students. Go check it out here.

Here's the very nice intro that my friend and professor, Nolan Woodard (who is an amazing artist and one of the smartest people I know), wrote for my interview:

"Our latest student spotlight came to us without a background in drawing at all. Jackie's BA is in Theater Studies from Emory and needed to take some provisional courses to prove she was up to snuff and could make it in our graduate program (since we don't let just anyone in). Not only did she prove herself but she excelled. Jackie Lewis took to drawing and storytelling like a fish does to water. The transformation from newbie to literally everything to proficient and accomplished artist as one of our lead graduates has been an amazing thing to behold and we at SCAD-Atlanta feel blessed we got to be there when it happened. Editors have taken notice of her work too and even before she has completed her studies she has already been published in an anthology and is also hard at work on her first graphic novel with Oni Press. You can check out more of her work and follow her at her blog aptly named Jackie Makes Comics. And, boy, does she ever!"

Thanks, Nolan!