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This Week In Perpetual Motion 04: The New Phonebooks Are Here!

Big news this week... My copies of the first two Princess Candy books arrived in the mail and they're wicked awesome. Just look at the awesomeness in the above photo and that's just the sweet, sweet hardcover. Seriously, they look great. The colors are vibrant and just jump off the page. I'm totally stoked. I don't think I've ever been happier with how my work looks in print. Plus the design of the book is great from the title page to all the back matter stuff.

I finished a bunch of pages for book 3 this week, which is still coming along nicely. My new Intuos 3 has been a big too, so I'm glad I bought it. I plan on putting in a lot of hours this weekend so hopefully I can crank out a few more. Now I'm off to color a couple pages before bed.

I did this sketch of my Yeti character last night. I've got some big plans for this dude.


See, no harpoons this week.

Princess Candy Books available online

The first two Princess Candy titles, Sugar Hero and Marshmallow Mermaid (painstakingly illustrated by me, artfully authored by Michael Dahl) are available on the Stone Arch Books website! If you have a youngster in your life who likes things that are awesome or if you are a kid at heart yourself, head on over there and order six. You can put them in the gift bags at those posh dinner parties you're so fond of throwing. Or just keep some out on your coffee table to show off your intellectual prowess. Whatever the end use, they're the perfect addition to any home, sprucing up libraries and living rooms the world over.

Super Best Cover Version Supreme

ka-pow.

Don't Know How to Party

They're all done!

The books I've been working on that I've been so hush-hush about. Actually, I finished them at the end of last week, but I've spent most of this week catching up around the house.

So, what are these books you ask? 2 superhero graphic novels for Stone Arch Books about a character named Princess Candy. I'm not giving up any plot details, I'll leave that up to the publisher. I can say that they are sort of early-reader type books for kids about 8-12 or so and they were wicked fun to work on. The image above is one of my favorite panels from book 2.

Below are the two cover images.




In other news, I'm about to get back into the Yeti 4 Hire dummy and some others that I have planned. I'll post some stuff for that as it progresses.