Wizard World Chicago 2011

This weekend I will be in the Artists Alley at Wizard World in Chicago, Table 3600! I'll be sharing the table with my friend and fellow artist Rod De Jesus. He'll be doing watercolor sketches and I will be selling prints of most of the work I have posted here on my blog (including the one just to the left of all this text) and copies of my comic book Redemption. If you're at the convention, stop by and say hi!

Nightwing

Last year I started reading back issues of Nightwing comics and the character quickly became one of my favorites. The main thing I like about the character is that in the comic book medium, where characters are only allowed to develop and mature to a certain point, Nightwing was born out of Dick Grayson "outgrowing" his persona as Robin. To go from a teenage sidekick to becoming an independent adult hero isn't something that really happens in comics, or taken seriously. Instead of it just being a ploy to sell a few more issues, then revert back (like 'deaths' in comics), this was a change that has stuck for over 20 years.