http://www.cliffchiang.com The weblog and online gallery of comic book artist Cliff Chiang Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:01:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en JUSTICE LEAGUE: GENERATION LOST #9 goes on sale this week, both in stores and digitally at Comixology.  This is actually the first cover I drew for this series. Writer Judd Winick had suggested the image, but I was worried about it just being another damsel-in-distress kind of thing, so ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/09/06/justice-leaguegeneration-lost-9/ Baltimore Comic-Con was once again a real pleasure. LOTS of fans and LOTS of comics. The show grew even bigger this year, and it's to Marc Nathan and his team's credit that the show runs with the same invisible smoothness it's always had. On top of the show, Marc also ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/09/03/baltimore-comic-con-2010-sketches/ JUSTICE LEAGUE:GENERATION LOST #8 goes on sale this week, both in stores and digitally from Comixology. I always liked the idea of Checkmate, and thought that modern black-ops knights were a pretty cool idea. Our gang has broken into the Checkmate HQ, but it looks like they didn't really have ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/08/24/justice-leaguegeneration-lost-8/ Star Wars, I have learned, is a pretty small world. Questions have been asked about my inspirations for the recent Star Wars prints I did for Acme Archives, so I thought it might be a good opportunity to show you guys what goes on in my head (I know it's ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/08/20/inspiration/ Justice League: Generation Lost #7 is on sale this week, both in stores and digitally on the Comixology app. This is the first time I've gotten a chance to draw the whole team. As with the last issue, the sketch for this really needed to be in color to ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/08/11/justice-league-generation-lost-7/ Somehow, Comic-Con feels bigger and bigger every year. Lots of old friends to track down and new ones to chat with, so unfortunately, less sketches this time around. I may scale back on the list next year, since other shows seem to be a better place for me to concentrate ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/08/02/sdcc-2010-sketches/ JUSTICE LEAGUE:GENERATION LOST #6 is on sale this week, both in stores and digitally from Comixology. Who doesn't love Saul Bass? I needed a graphic way to show the story of a man lost in time, and when the idea of time periods in concentric circles seemed like ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/07/28/justice-league-generation-lost-6/ Can you believe it's that time again? I'll be at my usual spot, BOOTH #1320, with my friends Jill Thompson, Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon, and special guests Rafael Albuquerque and Cris Peter. I will be taking sketch commissions, and I'll also have the remaining copies of my 2010 sketchbook.  It's ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/07/19/san-diego-comic-con-2010/ Okay, I've been sitting on this for a while, and it's been killing me. Based on the popularity of the Star Wars propaganda posters I did earlier in the year, Acme Archives, one of the premier sellers of original production art and limited edition movie art, asked me to produce ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/07/15/galaxy-bounce/ Birds of Prey #3 is on sale this week. Editor Janelle Siegel asked me to help out for this cover, and after hearing the story behind it -- Penguin-ized versions of our heroines -- I was in. All the monocles and tophats made me think of Alan Cumming in Cabaret, ... http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/07/12/birds-of-prey-3/