...Sometimes Loving then Killing the Aliens!

Following up yesterday's post, it seems Oni has released my cover for the first issue of Tek Jansen. Now you can see what the book will look like:


This was digitally "painted" over my pencils by comic book super-colourist Dave McCaig, who did a great job. My pencils are below, just to show the process for anybody interested. The interiors won't be painted like this (they're coloured in a sort of Photoshop-y Marvel Comics style by Powers colourist Peter Pantazis) but they have a similar old-timey heroic sci-fi feel. I've tried to capture the vibe of bad comics...hopefully without actually being a bad comic.


Oh, and the Oni site now lists the ship date for #1 as June 20 (same week as The Annotated Northwest Passage, I believe...big week for me.) Not sure how firm that is, but keep your fingers crossed, Colbert fans!