In honor of Bonnie and Lola and THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING we continue our 30 Days of Superheroines!
Ross Campbell’s Scout Montana aka SHADOWEYES!
By Ross Campbell
SHADOWRESEARCH! Via DeviantArt
By Ross Campbell
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So it’s pretty much ALWAYS awesome to be friends with Ross, but sometimes he really pulls out ALL the goddamn stops.
Some of you that frequent the blog regularly may remember this post, in which I talked a bit about some projects I was working on and wanted to work on, and one in particular that I conceived as a television show, but realizing nobody was going to let little ole me do a TV show, turned it into a novel. It’s the novel I wrote for this NaNo last November (you may remember my daily posts on that as well).
Tessa Battle and her axe The Black Dove by Kelly Thompson
Anyway, the sketch above was a quick little sketch that I did of the main character Tessa a long ways back.
Ross, who read the novel a few months back, for my birthday did the MOST GORGEOUS DRAWING EVER of Tessa.
Tessa Battle and her axe The Black Dove by Ross Campbell (and Kelly Thompson)
I am just in heaven over this. I have to tell you guys, ever since I started wanting to do comics as a teenager I always used to want to write and draw my own comics and graphic novels, but over the last six months, working with Stephanie, Ross, and Meredith (as well as a few other wonderful artists here and there) has made me realize how much I would rather have someone else fall in love with something of mine and breath their own life into it. It’s so damn rewarding I can barely describe it. Especially when I’ve been lucky enough to work with these insanely talented people.
So…THANK YOU ROSS. YOU ARE AN ULTIMATE BADASS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
(Even Tessa says so).
Tags: things made of awesome
So in honor of THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING and the two kickass superpowered teenage protagonists I’m going to do a superheroine a day for the entire run of my Kickstarter.
I’m not going to write a big thing for each post, but I’m going to post tons of gorgeous art – both professional and fan art – to celebrate these great characters. I’m going to do my damndest to link back and credit, but if I miss something, please forgive and correct if you’ve got the right information in the comments.
Today we’re naturally starting with BONNIE & LOLA and I hope you’ll all enjoy them mightily.
There’s of course not a lot of fan art out yet for Bonnie & Lola since everyone is just meeting them, but a couple really wonderful people have already given me some art for them to get the ball rolling.
We obviously have the gorgeous cover work and illustration by Stephanie Hans which you’ve all seen – and if you go here you can see a dialogue between she and I about the cover process as well as her early sketches:
And then Ross Campbell contributed these absolutely gorgeous Lola and Bonnie heads:
And Meredith McClaren did these brilliant Bonnie and Lola “itties”:
And THIS one by Stephanie Hans – an original painting of Bonnie – from a scene in the book – and available for purchase on Kickstarter!
This has been so much fun already that I could just die.
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, bonnie vs lola, cute superheroes, Lola LeFever
I’ve got a new piece up on Lit Reactor about the importance and advantages of following creators, not publishers or characters, especially when it comes to comic books. Check it out!
Tags: comics!
If you’ve been waiting for Womanthology, now’s your day! Womanthology should be in your local comic book stores today – so make sure to hunt it down!
You can also buy it online, but it won’t be released there until 3/27.
You can read a preview of Womanthology (including my story “Superless Hero” with phenomenal art by Stephanie Hans in full HERE.
And here are some early reviews (several of which mention “SuperLess Hero” – woo!) of Womanthology:
Also out this week – and a MUST read is:
Saga #1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, and I wrote a detailed review of it here on Lit Reactor:
And don’t forget to pick up this completely mind-blowing issue of Buffy – Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Nine #7, which I gave 4.5 stars on CBR. The review is mostly free of spoilers, unless you didn’t know about that one thing that was spoiled for all of us a couple months ago.
In fact, this is really a great week for comics…you should also be picking up Paul Cornell and Ryan Kelly’s Saucer Country #1, Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s Conan The Barbarian #2, Ross Campbell and Joe Keatinge’s Glory #24, Jason Aaron and Nick Bradshaw’s Wolverine & The X-Men #7, J.H. Williams III, Haden Blackman, and Amy Reeder’s Batwoman #7 (get these Reeder issues while you can!), Though I am behind on Greg Rucka’s Punisher that is also out this week and worth the pick up, as well as The Ray #4, and Powers #9. AND the final (long awaited) issue of Marjorie Liu and Phil Noto’s X-23, which I’ll be reviewing for CBR this week.
Easy win last week for Ross Campbell’s Glory #23 which is a thousand kinds of awesome:
Honorable mentions to both absolutely gorgeous covers of B.P.R.D. Hell On Earth: The Long Death #1, the first by Duncan Fegredo:
And the variant by Mike Mignola:
Additional Honorable Mention to Cliff Chiang’s gorgeous Wonder Woman #6. This is perhaps my favorite Chiang Wonder Woman yet!
Tags: comic covers, comics!, Cover Of The Week
I bitch and moan (fairly regularly) during Drunk Cover Solicits about being tired of “split face” covers where a comic character’s face is split down the middle. I think I even said recently that I was officially over those kind of covers.
Well, sometimes it’s damn good to be wrong. Check out this dynamic completely badass Ross Campbell Glory #24 cover (which is issue #2 since its “re-start”). “Split face” and all, it’s awesome.
I’ve been excited for a while now about the forthcoming announcement from Image that Ross Campbell is doing the art for their new GLORY book. Look how crazy buff she is?! I love it!!!
You can read more about the new Glory book from Image as part of the rebirth of Extreme Studios on iFanboy here, and on CBR here.
Tags: comics!
…to have really talented friends that draw comics. Cause then you get birthday presents like this!
MOST. ADORABLE. ROGUE. EVER.
Courtesy of my good friend and supremely talented writer and artist Ross Campbell.
Thanks Ross!
xoxoxo, Kelly
Tags: comics!, things made of awesome
You can buy from Ross at TCAF…!
Also, check out my advance review (plus preview pages) of the SiL on Comics Should Be Good
AND squint really hard and you can see my name on the back of SIL…! So cool!
Tags: comics!, things made of awesome