I added some pieces from the Days of Geeksmas and from the FOCer Sketchblog up for sale at http://burnhamania.bigcartel.com/ — go see! I’ll add more when these have sold or when I feel like making a change. (:
Pain, Projects and other Stuff
Ugh. It’s been a long week. I was ninja-attacked by a kidney stone that really knocked me for a loop and took away a week’s worth of productivity — ending with me at the hospital on Saturday, taking IV for a severe dehydration. Yuck.
I’m still dealing with the recovery symptoms – lesser degrees of pain and such while I stitch myself back together. Here’s to a speedy recovery, I have plenty of work to do!
First off, I’m putting together HAUNTED AMERICA, a story for Ghostbusters #9-12 that will send the boys to four cities across the country… first stop is Detroit, and that’s what I’m working on now!
I also got word that a pitch I put in (for what I’m calling Secret Project Theta) was accepted, and I’ll need to have a draft done soon — so yeah, need the residual pain to subside FASTER!
As for other stuff… I sure would like to be involved in a Chuck: Season 6 comic book. I’m just putting that out into the internet ether, no matter how unlikely the prospects. Smallville and several Whedon properties got more storylines in sequential form, and I think Chuck could go that route.
So there.
Back to work for me!
Odds and Ends!
Hi, everybody. I know, I know, I need to start keeping my home page updated like a good boy. (:
Today, I recorded a podcast interview for Geekvolution — fun times, though it seemed like the off-air conversation was more fun than my babbling on Ghostbusters! lol. Seriously, though, I had a blast.
I also got caught up on my sketch blogs. I’m part of two –
FOCers Sketcblog, a group of artists from Frank Cho’s message board. (Greats like Steven E. Grant, Scott Sava, Blair Shedd, Axel Medellin… I could go on, we have a lot of GREAT folks contributing.) That’s here:
Also,it was the first week of Sketchbook Showdown, with my pal from across the pond, R J Bavington. That’s here:
SKETCHBOOK SHOWDOWN
Please, do visit and comment.
Working diligently on the writing, having caught up on Ghostbusters and mailed off a pitch for another thing to IDW here this week. Knock wood, fingers crossed, etc. Hope to announce it soon, should I get it!
I hope to have a new NICK LANDIME collection for C2E2, but if I can’t pull that off, then I at least hope to pull a print together for the show. Public domain fun. If anyone has any ideas, let me know!
Back into the breach!
-E
I need to update this site, but… but…
…I’ve been busy. With real, paying work. One should have such horrible problems, right?
Anyway. Gonna do an overhaul as SOON as I can. But first I wanted to put out my AS OF NOW 2012 appearance list:
* C2E2
Chicago, IL
April 13-15
* MCBA SPRINGCON
St. Paul, MN
May 19-20, 2012
More will be announced as plans finalize. (And if any stores or cons want my attention — gimme a yell!) (;
It’s 2012, and the livin’ is easy…
Sorry, I somehow segued, in my mind, to Sublime. Pay it no heed.
It’s 2012. I didn’t do anything special for New Year’s Eve; the roads were slippery. Am I that bad a driver? Hardly. But there are residents in the area I’m wary of with perfect road conditions, never mind slippery and foggy with possible alcohol in their system. (It’s okay to judge like that when it’s for your own safety.)
My brother was up; I don’t see him but once or twice a year, so we chatted. Played some Skyrim (which he bought me for Christmas) and then… I went to bed at 11:12 PM. Didn’t ring in the new year. Don’t even have any resolutions.
Yeah, yeah, I’m a spoilsport.
But I do want to reflect a bit on the last year.
At the dawn of 2011, I was working in a job that I didn’t enjoy. The co-workers were fine and the work was easy, but I was bored out of my mind and it took time away from everything else I could be doing… which rankled me all the more.
And then, in March, the Ghostbusters tie-in to IDW’s Infestation event came out to rock solid reviews… which lead to me pitching for an ongoing series. The ongoing was approved by Sony, by IDW, and by September… it came out.
It sold out. The first three issues sold out, in fact, and the reviews, the fan response, it was all great. And it allowed me (along with some other writing jobs) to leave the job I didn’t enjoy.
There were two other consequences to leaving that job; the good one – I got to have some free time this summer to spend with a friend who was in town for a few months. We went to a baseball game, and a concert, and hit some interesting restaurants none of my other friends or family would go near. Good times.
The bad one – I’m sitting at a computer so much I put on 20+ lbs that I had previously lost, and need to lose again. Oy!
This year I have some goals. Not the same feel as resolutions, but things I’d like to get done…
* A new Nick Landime book for the character’s 10th anniversary. (This is close to a resolution; it may be tough to schedule!)
* Revamp this website.
* Run a 10K in April.
Three goals, and they are dangerously close to resolutions. Ah, well.
I want to do some more traveling this year, too – so I’d better start earning some cash, huh?
Onward!
-E
Geeksmas FAIL!
Yes, I know, I only got 7 of 12 Geeksmas sketches up.
Insert the groveling scenes from either Blues Brothers or The Golden Child here.
I just got busy writing, and that pays the bills. (:
E’s 12 Days of Geeksmas Day 7: Trap Jaw
…And here’s both the second half of the Masters of the Universe weekend and the 7th Day of Geeksmas: Trap Jaw!
E’s 12 Days of Geeksmas Day 6: Orko!
Day Six of Geeksmas brings us the start of a Masters of the Universe weekend! First up: Orko. Join us tomorrow for part two (not to mention day 7 of 12!)
E’s 12 Days of Geeksmas 5: Spider-Woman
On the 5th day of Geeksmas… this Spider-Woman may not be a 100% new-for-Geeksmas piece of art (it was a commission piece) but it turned out SO well I’m sharing it (since I found a scan of it.) Enjoy!
(Oh, a disclaimer… since it’s already been posted online, I figured it was fair game to do so again…)
Join us tomorrow for a Masters of the Universe Weekend!
E’s 12 Days of Geeksmas Day 4: Samus Aran
Onto day 4 of the 12 Days of Geeksmas! One more 80s character I’ve never drawn and I decided to have some fun with: Samus Aran.
E’s 12 Days of Geeksmas 3: Ookla!
The third of my 12 Days of Geeksmas series, 12 fun, geeky drawings to get me through the hectic Holiday season. Here’s Thundarr’s pal, Ookla the Mok (that is such a damn fun name to say…)
Join us tomorrow for the next one!
E’s 12 Days of Geeksmas Day 2: Leader-1
The second of my 12 Days of Geeksmas series, 12 fun, geeky drawings to get me through the hectic Holiday season. This is Leader-1 of the Go-Bots (the Challenge of the Go-Bots is remembering them these days!) It’s the second of the 5 (so far) 80’s-properties-I’ve-never-drawn that front load the first few Geeksmas offerings.
Join us tomorrow for the next one!
E’s 12 Days of Geeksmas Day One: GREMLINS
The first of my 12 Days of Geeksmas series, 12 fun, geeky drawings to get me through the hectic Holiday season. This depicts Gizmo and Stripe from Gremlins, a holiday classic of a sort itself.
Join us tomorrow for the next one!
Flash Gordon
From the FOCer Sketchblog, here’s my version of Flash Gordon!
Hey You Guys! Win stuff from me!
In an attempt to widen my social networking range, I’ve got prizes for folks who follow me…
Wanna win a sketch card? Or a sketch? Or a signed comic book? Or a signed trade?
Follow me!
No, really.
You can follow me on twitter — http://www.twitter.com/erikburnham
You can be a facebook fan — http://www.facebook.com/erikburnhamfanpage
Or on Tumblr — http://erikburnham.tumblr.com
But the gig of it is… hey, follow me. I’m giving away a sketchcard for a random follower when my facebook fan page hits 100. When it hits 500 a signed comic. 1000 a signed trade. (Same for Twitter!)
On Tumblr – if it hits 100 followers, a random winner will get a sketch or a copy of Ghostbusters #1… their choice.
And in between those benchmarks, at random, I’ll be giving away sketches.
So… there we go. You don’t have to do anything else to win. Cool, huh? (:
