Monday, December 30, 2019

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 36


Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

A very special Christmas robot edition: Roboto, heroic mechanical warrior!  I always did like Roboto.  He's a real mensch.

Enjoy!

--B

Friday, December 27, 2019

The Wampa Wumble Bumble


From The Line It Is Drawn, December 20th, 2019:
I had another theme, but Caanan just NEEDED to get his Baby Yoda on, so the theme for next week is to mash up Star Wars with Christmas movies/specials
Twitter follower, werehawk1 suggested: A Wampa as the Abominable Snowman.  I went with the Bumble from Rudolph and added in a couple of buddies.

Check out the other talented Liners' Star Wars Christmas specials here.

--B

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Simpsonize Me



Here are two examples of commissions I have done for people who asked for their family to be in the Simpson couch gag scene.  With thanks and apologies to Matt Groening, natch.

--B

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Christmas Cards





Merry Christmas! Here are a few Christmas cards from this year.

--B

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Terrible Tiny Tableside Comics 50



Here are the last two comics thus far in the saga that is TTTC!  Enjoy.

--B

Monday, December 23, 2019

Ho Ho Ho! MOTU Drawing Challenge Week 35

This past week was Prince Adam, dressed as Santa Claus for the 35th week of the MOTU Drawing Challenge! Here you go!

Merry Christmas y'all!

--B

Friday, December 20, 2019

Action Kirby!



From The Line It Is Drawn, December 13th, 2019:
As part of our Fred Van Lente Day CSBG Takeover, Fred Van Lente has determine the theme for next week. It is Action COMIC BOOK CREATORS! Come up with a comic book creator (living or dead) and our artists will draw an Action version of them, like Fred and Ryan Dunlavey's acclaimed Action series of comics (Action Philosophers, Action Presidents, etc.). Oh, and of course, be sure to check out their Comic Book History of Comics, now discounted at Comixology!
Twitter followers, CraigJoly, JeffKeely and RandallJSanders suggested: Jack Kirby! I never give up a chance to draw something in the Kirby Style!

Check out the other talented Liners' Action Comic Bookers here.

--B

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Tiny Terrible Tableside Comics 49




I recovered the tiny notebook these originate from finally, months after the move!  I had four blank pages left and filled them with terrible comics.  Here are two of them.

--B

Monday, December 16, 2019

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 34: Frosta!



Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

Meet Frosta, because I just did.  I'm not at all well versed in the characters of Etheria that populate She-Ra's series, but Frosta here is an ice princess of some sort.  I went with the old school version and had fun making this one.

Enjoy!

--B

Friday, December 13, 2019

FrightBike and Dig Dug Mole Man




From The Line It Is Drawn, December 6th, 2019:
In honor of the new Jumanji movie, put comic book characters into a video game!
Twitter followers, CraigJoly suggested Ghost Rider in ExciteBike and shurwitt suggested Mole Man in Dig Dug.  Always go 8-bit, baby.

Check out the other talented Liners' video game mash ups here.

--B

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Happy Monthiversary: December!


Here's the last of the batch for 2019!  Happy monthiversary, Nina!  Love you.

--B

Monday, December 9, 2019

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 33: Orko!


Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

Everyone's favorite heroic court magician is fixing himself up a little snack!

Enjoy!

--B

Friday, December 6, 2019

The Line It Is Drawn: Thanksgiving Leftovers!





Time to play a little catch up here as we observe the annual ritual of The Line It Is Drawn's Thanksgiving Leftovers!

As posted here, the pieces are as follows:

•  From The Line It Is Drawn, September 14th, 2019:
In honor of the release of It, Chapter Two, pick a famous comic book cover that you'd like to see our artists hide Pennywise within!
A twitter follower suggested: Iron Man 128


•  From The Line It Is Drawn, April 26th, 2019:
In honor of Avengers Endgame and its endless theories, come up with an unlikely way for the Avengers to defeat Thanos!
A twitter follower suggested: Thanos in a Hostess ad.


•  From The Line It Is Drawn, March 8, 2019:

This one I include because though I got a piece in on time to be included that week, I was unable to color the thing.  In all it's glory, here is the colorized version.
In honor of Captain Marvel's release next week, mash-up Carol Danvers with a piece of pop culture (movie, book, TV show, song, dance, whatever) from the 1990s! Caanan Grall suggested this theme!
Twitter follower KeithAlanMorgan suggested: A '90s style extreme costume, all the cliches!

All in all, I had a pretty productive Line year this year with very few gaps in submissions from week to week.  I hope to get through the end of this year and we will see what tomorrow brings us.

--B

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Der Krampus!


...or whatever.  Here's a detail from a piece as yet to be released, but I figured I should share it for Krampus Nacht.

Celebrate your Christmas devil idol observance responsibly.

--B

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Zeebort-7 and Murphy

I've been trying to get my legs in Procreate with varied success, the piece above being one of them.  I downloaded some brushes and hope to purchase more.  This comic was made entirely in Procreate and will be included in Tolerable Tales of the Adequate vol. 2, which will be out next year.

--B

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Wonder Boy Inktober Extended 03





Here are the last panels of our story of the Wonder Boy and the Beneather!  I will be working on a cleaned up version of the story that will be for sale in the upcoming year, 20 pages, b&w.  Stay tuned!

--B

Monday, December 2, 2019

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 32: Keldor The Pre-Skeletor!


Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

This week brings us Keldor, the man who would become Skeletor! Good for him.

Enjoy!

--B

Saturday, November 30, 2019

Happy Birthday, Nina!


Happy birthday to my amazing, sweet, lovely wife!  I love you and hope you have a happy and special day!

--B

Friday, November 29, 2019

Muppet Rider


From The Line It Is Drawn, November 22nd, 2019:
In honor of the debut of Disney Plus, we want you to merge together any two properties available on the streaming service. Captain Marvel plus Gravity Falls, The Clone Wars plus Mary Poppins, you get the idea.
Twitter follower, daviddwwilliams suggested: Ghost Rider meets Sesame Street.  D'oh! Not my first Simpson FF piece!

Check out the other talented Liners' Disney+ celebrations here.

--B

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Page Three Of Batman Day


Continuing the celebration of Batman's 80th year, here's page 3 of the Dr. Death story from Detective Comics #29, published in July 1939, by Bob Kane and Gardner Fox.  I'll try to get more pages to you soon!

You can read the rest of the story at:


--B

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Movember MOTU Drawing Challenge: Super Stache Bros





Movember is wrapping up and those participants out there are hopefully sporting a pretty decent push broom or crumb catcher!  It's all for a good cause, that being men's health awareness.  Here's two Masters I made up, cashing in on the fact that with each new wave of the original MOTU toy line, a new version of He-Man and Skeletor, complete with some gimmick, would be at the forefront.

Check out more MOTU goodness on the Twitters!

--B

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Wonder Boy Inktober Extended 02



Inktober may be over, but I am finishing up the storyline. Here's three more.

--B

Monday, November 25, 2019

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 31: Teela!


Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

Here's a little Teela, heroic warrior goddess! Boop!

Enjoy!

--B

Friday, November 22, 2019

FF Couch Gag


From The Line It Is Drawn, November 15th, 2019:
In honor of the debut of Disney Plus, we want you to merge together any two properties available on the streaming service. Captain Marvel plus Gravity Falls, The Clone Wars plus Mary Poppins, you get the idea.
Twitter follower, werehawk1 suggested: Simpsons and Fantastic Four. D'oh! Not my first Simpsons FF piece!

Check out the other talented Liners' Disney+ celebrations here.

--B

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Wonder Boy Inktober Extended 01




I decided to finish the storyline that inktober hath brought upon us.  Here's three entries of nine.  The rest will be posting soon.

--B

Sunday, November 17, 2019

Happy Birthday. Erich!


It's been a great year and you've matured so much! I am proud of you, bud, and celebrate you today.  Love you.

--B

Friday, November 15, 2019

MOTU Drawing Challenge: Stratos!


Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

This week brings us the winged bird-man Stratos! I love this guy! The toy was such a cool design and I wanted it so badly, but alas, I never did find him.  This early disappointment in life is probably why I became the twisted monster I am today.  Oh well...

Enjoy!

--B

Fury's Angels


From The Line It Is Drawn, November 8th, 2019:
In honor of the newest Charlie's Angels film, put together your own Charlie's Angels team made out of three female comic book characters!
Twitter follower, weaponxtra suggested: Nick Fury's Angels: Black Widow, Mockingbird and Quake. Meh.  I could have done better.

Check out the other talented Liners' Charie's Angels team-ups here.

--B

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

BCR Playing Card


The Boston Comics Roundtable, a group of comic creators in and around Boston, have released a deck of playing cards.  All cards were designed by members and affiliates of said organization and I, in a random lottery I assume, drew the 6 of diamonds, in both senses of the word.

Not sure how you can get a deck beyond at events in which BCR tables, like MICE for example, so keep an eye out!

--B

Monday, November 11, 2019

Happy Anniversary 2019!


Some Victorian portraiture for my beautiful wife!  I love you!

--B

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Page Two From Batman Day!


To celebrate his 80th year this past Batman Day, I drew the first page of the Dr. Death story from Detective Comics #29, published in July 1939, by Bob Kane and Gardner Fox.  I promised more pages to come and here is one of them: Page 02!

You can read the rest of the story at:


--B

Friday, November 8, 2019

MOTU Movember: Man-At-Arms!


It's Man-at-Arms week for the MOTU Drawing Challenge! To recognize the efforts of Movember, a charity that raises awareness for men's health by asking it's participants to grow a mustache for the month of November, I'll be posting the mustachioed warriors of the MOTU!

 You can follow along on the Twitters.

--B

Terminator Doombot


From The Line It Is Drawn, November 1st, 2019:
In honor of Terminator: Dark Fate, pick a robot from comics, TV, movies, novels, songs, etc. and have them become a Terminator! Feel free to name who you'd like to see them hunt, as well!
Twitter follower, BackintheBronze suggested: A Doombot chasing the FF! I had fun researching and recreating the Terminator's HUD screen, as well as drawing DOOM!

Check out the other talented Liners' comic robots as Terminators here.

--B