Halloween is just over three weeks away! Celebrate by coloring this drawing of Vermillion, the nasty witch from my graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale. To print: simply click on the image to view it at full-size, and then print it out for your family, party, or class. Be sure to print out last week’s Halloween…
DRAWN INTERVIEW: TOP SHELF KID’S CLUB AUTHOR JESS SMART SMILEY Drawn Words blew our minds back in May with their fully-illustrated interview with comics creator Jeffrey Brown, and now they’re at it again, only they’ve significantly lowered their standards by interviewing me. In all honesty, I’m completely floored by the amount of thought and effort…
SLUG Magazine’s Contributing Editor, Ricky Vigil, gave me a call early last week to talk about my soon-to-be-released graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale, out this month from Top Shelf Productions. Ricky and I talked about the joy of reading and making comics, my one goal for 2010, as well as making the jump from…
One of my biggest influences in drawing, comics and storytelling is a creative force known as Doug TenNapel. Doug has created video games, animated tv shows, and graphic novels, not to mention one of the world’s most beloved characters: Earthworm Jim. I’ve been following Doug’s work for 16 years now, and own all of his…
John Hogan of the Graphic Novel Reporter got in touch with me to talk about my upcoming graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale (October 2012, Top Shelf Productions). Here’s a snippet of our conversation: “Congratulations on your first graphic novel! What’s the story behind it? Thank you! Upside Down has been a lot of fun to make, and…
My first graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale (October 2012, Top Shelf Productions), was recently nominated for an Arty Award from the Salt Lake City Weekly, and I just found out that my book won for the Best Graphic Novel/Zine! Hooray! Thank you to everyone that voted and got involved. Keep watching this blog and…
Upside Down: A Vampire Tale comes out next month — just in time for Halloween! Pre-orders ship later this month, but in the meantime…meet Vermillion: Vermillion is the last witch on Earth, which makes her extra nasty! Armed with a spell book written by Madame Rose, Vermillion is determined to get revenge on vampires everywhere and…
As we get closer and closer to the release of my first graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale, I realize that (although I’ve done a lot of planning for the release) I still have a lot of work to do. Things like, oh, scaring up some travel money for the signing tour. That’s why… I’M…
Yesterday I approved the proof of Upside Down: A Vampire Tale with Top Shelf and the printer, and the book has been sent to press! Exciting! With just 39 days until October arrives, I’m finding that there is still a lot of work to be done. While we wait, I thought I’d share some more about…
With my very first graphic novel coming out in just a month and a half (so exciting!), I thought it would be fun to have a little getting-to-know-you of sorts, right here on the blog. So, without further ado, meet Harold: Harold is the main character in Upside Down: A Vampire Tale—my first graphic novel, coming this…