January 26th 2008

Seeing is Believing..

Outside my window in Boston, I’m glad to be back in warm weather.

Back to work on some new stuff.

That’s some new Party Bear on the screen.

Everyone should pick up my buddy Nathan Fox’s Pigeons from Hell. I have a tiny pinup in the back of the trade.

My snowboard in the new Shaun White game is super expensive, and I have yet to purchase it in game.

The little blurb you get if you press x.

I picked up a copy of Comics International, which has a sweet color feature on Aqua Leung!

December 3rd 2008

Ok, first off, I forgot I took this little progress photo a few weeks ago. It compares the pencils on my page to the way I script on the right. I believe that’s page 50 of Party Bear.

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Here’s a special Aqua sketch for my buddy Jimi Hazel of 24-7 Spyz fame. If you aren’t familiar with their music,
here’s their myspace. Been one of my favorite bands for the longest time.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=96784148

They’re playing a show with King’s X in NY December 16th. I can’t make it, but if you’re in the area you should totally catch them play, they’re awesome and so is King’s X.

November 12th 2008

❤

Just about through all my non comics art commitments.  It’s getting dark way too early here.

October 3rd 2008

Hey, ever wonder what it would have been like if I colored Suburban Galmour by Jamie Mckelvie?

Probably not.

I was actually asked to, but I turned it down as I was working on my own stuff. However, Jamie asked me to do a rush coloring job for some non comics stuff a few months back. Neither the art or the colors represent our best, but then again neither of us slept while this stuff was cranked out. Here’s a tease of something you’ll probably never see unless you’re going to that college it was made for.

In other news, I’m hard at work on Party Bear. It’s not returning until December, but here’s a sneak peek without any dialog to spoil anything.

September 16th 2008

Yesterday was a good day. I wrote ten pages of which I was very happy with.

A lot of things in the works lately, and I’m making good progress on all of them.

I just got a copy of Under the Radar magazine in the mail, and I noticed Popgun 2 was reviewed. And I was kind of sort of mentioned along with Nikki Cook and Benito. Which is kind of cool, since Prey On You, my first “credited” written story has gotten a few nods around the internet. I won’t get into the whole not getting credit as a writer thing on Aqua.

CBT also got a good review, but my story was so small it will never stand out in that 500 page monster.

Now if only they would send me a copy of CBT and Popgun so I can actually read them..

LASTLY, I would like to thank Olli Hihnala ( http://korintic.deviantart.com/) for coming on to Party Bear and beyond helping me keep the machine running by providing flatting work. Check out his work, he’s awesome.

September 16th 2008

See, I DO draw..

April 12th 2008

Here’s an interview I did with Mark.
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These two pages are an example of the back and forth coloring method Russ and I used. Above image Russ’s original colors, below image my final revisions.

Here’s the rest of the interview!
http://blog.newsarama.com/

NOTE:

My original interview asnwers had been edited down by Mark, omitting sections where I talk about writing Aqua Leung.

April 11th 2008

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=15959

April 2nd 2008

Here’s one of the first reviews of Aqua Leung.

http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2008/04/02/aqua-leung-by-mark-andrew-smith-and-paul-maybury/#more-1064
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During the making of the book I took a lot of progress photos. I wanted to use them in the back of the book but didn’t find the time to include them. I’m thinking about hosting all of them over on flickr or something.

Aqua hits stores next week!

December 16th 2007

FIRST OFF. Toadies show was awesome. They played every song in the universe, and sounded great.

SO, I should have my brand new scanner tomorrow. That’s what tracking says at least.

I’ve got about 70 pages to scan once I get it, so….yay? I’ve also got some art to scan for people. I could not believe that my laptop, x-box, ipod and scanner died on me this year. Thankfully the scanner was the last thing I had to pay for. Still, 1300 was more than what I wanted to part with.

Any ways, here’s some pictures with no LJ cut!

inking three pages a day 7 days a week!

The picture doesn’t show the dark circles under my eyes very well. But I’m starting to feel like I live in a cave chained to a drawing table.

Did a signing at Austin Books a few weeks ago. They were nice enough to set up this little table for me.

Most people got this little Aqua sketch inside.

So I have a little helper now named Solace. I spend about 25% of my day pushing her off my art.

Here’s a cat I don’t even know. I’ve become very popular with cats.

That’s all for now. If you haven’t gone over to zuda and voted for Maxy J Millionaire yet then get on it. Not only should you vote for Maxy J, you need to rate it with stars and put it in your favorites. I’m currently losing due to this.