SWAMPTHING

I'm currently coloring my 5th Swamp Thing Collected cover... there's the last 4 I did before






Here's a link to the files on flickr
Swampthing on Flickr

Interview on Hey. Com

I was interviewed by Dane Golden on his Hey.com



cool experience and had a great time..

BATTLEPUG starts TODAY!!!

Battle Pug is up and running... check out the first Panel of our weekly comic. Drawn and Written by Mike Norton (the amazing!) and colored my myself.

BATTLEPUG!

Odds and Ends, Mostly covers

Here's a Few covers that I did at the end of 2010 for collected editions at DC Comics.

Harley Quinn vers Clay Face...

Art by Jonathan Wayshak colors by Me

Public Barber Salon Photography Show: San Francisco After Dark

Thursday, November 11 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location Public Barber Salon
571 Geary
San Francisco, CA

Featuring:

Jeremy Brooks, Chris Connolly, Dottie L. Guy, Pei Ketron, Cindy Loughridge, Allen Passalaqua, Patrick Power, and Seth Restaino

There will be a keg and fun times. Come on out!

here's sample of a few of my images:

Some DC Covers/Pin-ups

I've gotten to do a bunch of the DC Showcase covers over the last few years... here's some from the last few months (and an random other thing or two).

Working Class Trailer // 3 min by BREADTRUCK TV

Working Class Trailer // 3 min
by BREADTRUCK TV

Here's a sneak peak trailer for Working Class a film being done by Jeff Durkin with contribution from myself.

Working Class Trailer // 3 min from BREADTRUCK TV on Vimeo.

Working Class is a feature documentary loosely based on Charles Dickens book "A tale of two cities. With San Francisco artist Mike Giant, and San Diego artist Mike Maxwell discussing themes found in Dickens 1859 novel that are just as relevant today. Religion, Country and War, History, The Economy, and Art are chapters that tell the tale of the artists, the cities, and America. Director: Jeffrey Durkin, Producer: Allen Passalaqua, Music: The Silent Comedy / 95 mins

Preview of SUPERMAN: LAST FAMILY OF KRYPTON #2

CBR has a preview of SUPERMAN: LAST FAMILY OF KRYPTON #2



CBR PREVIEW HERE

8 steps to a double page fight scene

This was kind of a Tricky double page fight sceen... lots of powers and hard to pull off much depth but here's it in 8 steps...

1... B&Ws Art by MARK BAGLEY and NORM RAPMUND




2... FLATS


3... Starting in the Foreground and working my way back... helps set a tone for the depth (that I could get)


4.... just working my way back (little color tweaks that I missed in the reflatting)


5...


6...


7... ok done with Rendering...


8...Just ass F/X... and Done

Vector Art Show at Moxi Salon in San Francisco

Artist Statement:

The artwork hanging in my show is my attempt to capture more then just a portrait ,a pretty face, body or style. Each image is about the mood, personality and feeling within the image. If I as an artist can invoke some feeling from any of my images then I've succeeded.

Vector: A style of art or creating imagery comprised of paths, which are defined by a start and end point, along with other points, curves, and angles along the way. A path can be a line, a square, a triangle, or a curvy shape. I use those paths within my artwork to create imagery base upon photos. These photos are either taken by myself or used with the permission of the photographer. Some of my subjects are separated from myself by countries, continents, languages and cultures. While others are friends or acquaintances that have inspired me to create art.

The combination of photography and digital illustration allows me a certain flexibility with creating each hanging artwork. That said each canvas piece is unique and no image could be duplicated in the exact manor even if tried. I also never print the same size or exact color combination of any image. Each image is completely unique and should be treated as individual artworks.


Here's a few samples and rough sizes that are hanging:

this is my largest at 6' x 3'


this one is cropped a bit but hangs at 2'X3"



another large one this is at 3.5'X4.5'

Superman: The Last Family of Krypton #1

I'm excited to see this project out on the shelves... it's something I started least year and had to sit on for a long time. I am a huge fan of the DC Elseword books and am really happy to see one return. It seemed coming from reading mostly marvel and images books growing up they were a great entry into the DC universe. Here are a few of my favorite pages from this first book... there will be more. I've finished the 2nd and am about to start the 3rd... lots of work ahead of me.









Written by CARY BATES • Art by RENATO ARLEM • Cover by FELIPE MASSAFERA

• color by Allen Passalaqua

Returning to a character he's long been associated with, legendary writer Cary Bates explores a different side to Superman's legend in an Elseworlds tale that hinges on the fact that while baby Kal-el has rocketed to the distant planet Earth from his doomed homeworld of Krypton, he was not alone. How does a world handle the emergence of the Last Family of Krypton as Jor-El, Lara and Kal-El make Earth their adopted home?

a few links from other sites about it:

NEWSARAMA PREVIEW

DC Source blog

DETECTIVE COMICS #867...my part

Thanks to some hard schedules and San Diego Comic Con... I got to work a bit on DETECTIVE COMICS #867 with David Baron. The art team of Scott McDaniel, Andy Owens was great to color again too. I got to color a lot of their pages on the back up of Trinity last year and it was kinda like coming home. I colored the first half of the book with David Baron doing the last half and a bit more. Here's two of my favorite pages I did from my part.


Here's a bigger version



Here's a bigger version

SDCC photos

Here's some of my favorite San Diego Comic Con photos... just did one day of photos this year.

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA: 80-PAGE GIANT Cover by Jesus Merino and Me

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA: 80-PAGE GIANT 2010 #1
Written by MARC ANDREYKO, NUNZIO DEFILIPPIS & CHRISTINA WEIR BRANDON JERWA, ROBERT JESCHONEK, JUSTIN PENISTON, JASON STARR and FREDDIE WILLIAMS II
Art by JESSE DELPERDANG & JESUS MERINO LEANDRO FERNANDEZ, VICTOR IBA—EZ MATEUS SANTOLOUCO, BILL SIENKIEWICZ and TONCI ZONJIC
Cover by JESUS MERINO and Allen Passalaqua
Presenting seven outstanding solo adventures starring members of both the Justice Society of America and the JSA All-Stars from dozens of your favorite creators! Cyclone, Doctor Fate, Jesse Quick, Mr. Terrific, Obsidian, Sand and Tomcat demonstrate that alone – or as a group – the JSA are the first and foremost Super Hero team for a reason!
On sale OCTOBER 13 • 80 pg, FC, $5.99 US

DC UNIVERSE LEGACIES #6 Variant cover

DC UNIVERSE LEGACIES #6
Written by LEN WEIN
Art by JERRY ORDWAY & GEORGE PEREZ with SCOTT KOLINS
Co-feature art by KEITH GIFFEN
Cover by GEORGE PEREZ
1:25 Variant cover by KEITH GIFFEN
With a Crisis barely averted, the DC Universe struggles to survive other impending invasions and catastrophic events that call for all of Earth's heroes to respond! Meanwhile, Keith Giffen takes us into the future with a legion of Legions of Super-Heroes!!
Retailers please note: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the Previews Order Form for more information.
On sale OCTOBER 20 * 6 of 10 * 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US

SK2 Vector

click image to go to my flickr