A slew of projects I penciled and inked, this day, back in 2010.
Today, I can’t remember what most of these were for. A couple were for my Swampy’s Florida site.
I can tell each is drawn on 11″x 14″ Bristol cardstock. The paper used to be easy to acquire back then, Today, it’s very, very difficult for a singular artist to get reams of paper like that as I once did.
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6 years ago today I was digitally coloring the illustrations I did for a series of books for children starring this little dog.

Here’s a watercolor painting I did in 2015 with the person who purchased it.

The painting was done on 17″ x 20″ Arches watercolor board.
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Dark Night of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This excellent volume of Smoke Jensen wraps the 20th anniversary of the death of William Johnstone. The writer of this creates a tale and writes quite differently than Johnstone, but with the same panache and skill the pull a reader through. Some recent johnstone books have been missing this.
This writer also pulls in elements of Johnstone’s earlier horror books, but includes humor often absent in those. Overall one of the best of the last ten years or so.

The plotting is very well done. Writing in the attacks and the town organizing and pursuit is well paced with a very satisfying conclusion. Whereas I’ve noticed far too much extraneous material in many recent Johnstone Clan novels, this one is far better tightly written.

The expected well-written characters are included and the settings also better depicted. A few new characters are written in with such ease, I wasn’t sure whether I had or hadn’t read of them before. Great!

The ending is also better than most. Not the typical Johnstone ending with the reader feeling nearly in free-fall. Satisfying.

Overall, this is a great book!

Bottom line: I recommend this book. 10 out of 10 points.

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The Dark Side of the Z (Volume 20) by Fabien Vehlmann
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A very good Spirou tale that continues from earlier tales. The graphic take of the moon-tale is particularly good. Simply moving characters from earth to moon without a lot of explanation than the underlying tone of universal evil works well.

The artwork well continues the excellent work of earlier tales. A little sloppy here and there. Forgiven with such a large complex to create and illsutrate.

Great job and something the ‘Big 2’ need to note and work toward. The 2 are at such a low level, it’d be better to just shut down and let CineBook take over it all.

Bottom line: I recommend this book. 10 out of 10 points.

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