Happy Christmas everyone. I know the above image is tongue in cheek but I hope you take today to celebrate the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. As the years pass by I become even more aware that what the Christmas season needs isn’t more gifts under the tree but more Christ. Before opening that first present, before taking that first bite of Christmas dinner and before watching that football game please take a moment and give thanks to God.

My second try for “The Line That Is Drawn” over at CBR. My apologies to Frank Miller and Jeff Smith.

Has it really been almost a month since my last update? What the heck happened to November?!

I did this Bogart piece for a blog on CBR called Comics Should Be Good which has a column called “The Line it is Drawn.” There was recently an open call for submissions so I tried my hand at it. The theme was make any person (real or fictional) into a comic character. The catch was that I had unwittingly contacted them about the submission process on the very day it was about to close. I had about five hours to put something together so what you see above was done very quickly (for me anyway). The idea of Bogart being a kind of  ”punisher” came to me when I ran across the above quote in a book I have called Movie Icons: Bogart (published by Tachen). It was perfect. The inking was completed in about two and a half hours. Unfortunately I ran out of time before I could complete the piece to my satisfaction and I had to send them an earlier version. Once I did that I kept working on it to bring it up to where I wanted it. Overall, I’m happy with it. I think I could have pushed some things further but I’m just happy I was able to send them something on such short notice. Plus, I had a blast doing it!

The Fixer from Frank Miller's 'Holy Terror.'

Thank you for being my wife. I love you.