The latest noir illo - NUFF SAID!

This is not one of the series of noir style illos but a promo image for a project of mine...this has more of a 1960's vibe for me.

Another noir illo.

Another 'noir' style illustration; I'm doing a series of these...I love noir and the crime genre, does it show?

This is a version of my Joker illo coloured by my incredibly talented friend, JOHN KEANE.

The first in a series of 'noir' style illustrations I'm doing.

The latest chapter in BATMAN: THE LOST SERIAL;  this one features everybody's favourite sexy bad girl - CATWOMAN! 

Art copyright Rob Moran/VoodooVision Studios.

Characters copyright D. C. comics

This is all Ted Naifeh's fault…yes Ted, I'm blaming you…in the nicest way possible, that is. Ted seemed to really like the Serial Batman/Joker illos I put up on Facebook…he even suggested I should do a strip in that genre/style. Well…this planted an idea in my empty little head that I just could not be rid of. I knew I did not have time what with deadlines and such to write and draw an entire strip just for fun (as much as I'd like to), but I came up with this concept of "BATMAN: THE LOST SERIAL" - as if one of those old serials from the 1940's had recently been discovered, one never seen before, and with that I thought I could draw a series of illustrations that looked like lobby cards or stills from that serial. So that's the plan, folks; I don't know how often I will be able to post these but I'll try for one a week, each featuring a classic Batman villain…and first up is the RIDDLER. Let me know if you like them.

I've been watching a slew of the old Batman film serials of late and as cheesey as they are I do love them; always bothered me though that the filmakers never used any of Batman's villains...why the heck did they not use the Joker? So, I have done my own version...this is what the Joker would have looked like in the Batman serials...I think!

When I posted this on Facebook artist/writer Ted Naifeh said, "This is the best Batman pin-up I've seen in years."  How cool is that?!

Another BLOOD NATION MOVIE announcement - this one actually gives me and the artists on the series a name check. -- http://www.shockya.com/news/2010/04/28/blood-nation-coming-to-the-big-screen/

BLOOD NATION MOVIE!!!

An article on Variety says that my mini-series from a couple of years back - BLOOD NATION - is being made into a movie.  Here's the link - http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118018415.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

DYLAN DOG...plus friends and fiends; this is one comic book I'd dearly love to draw.

This is a page of pencils from quite some time ago...I still like the explosion when the big critter hits the car!

Another BONESAW character design, one of the Talion - NERVE HOOK - this guy was a killer dentist back when he was still human...if you are creating villains it never hurts to cast one as a dentist!

Another character design - from BONESAW this time.

This was a character design drawn for the BLOOD NATION mini-series I created; though I did not draw the book I designed all the major characters and vampires.  This one was a favourite of mine that did not make it into the series...I like to think of him as my 'bondage vampire'!

This is a warm up brush drawing from my sketchbook...yes, this is the sort of image that slithers through my widdle brain on a daily basis.

Here's a spin on the previous cover; I was going for a 1970's Italian horror film poster style with these, I think...channeling a Dario Argento vibe!

Today I am going to be posting a short series of cover roughs for my book BONESAW that used the illustration I put up a couple of days ago...all variations on a theme really; my way of visually thinking out loud.

Pencils for the little girl figure in the cover below.