While I’m waiting for editorial at Scholastic to approve my thumbs for Good Neightbors 3, I’ve cooked up a plan to get a gig from DC comics drawing a Batman fill-in or two. What can I say? Daddy needs a new pair of shoes. Here’s the first taste of my sample work. More is coming very soon.

List of resolutions, in no particular order: Finish Good Neighbors Start Princess Ugg Get a Batman or Batman Family fill-in set up. Dream writers: Rucka, Winick, Dini. Get a new banner for conventions. Learn fancier ways to lay out pages. Look good naked. Here’s a set of fan art and sketches. I have a bunch more, but I need to get them out of storage. I’ve been meaning to put together an album so I can enjoy them more regularly. A web album will have to do for now.

Joanne Rowling once explained that she rewrote chapter one of the first Harry Potter book five times. The whole chapter was foreshadowing. She kept giving too much away, and would rewrite it more and more cryptically, until she settled on the present version. I always thought book 1 chapter 1 was the weakest part of the entire Harry Potter series, and feel that Rowling might have done better to cut the entire chapter and do without it. With the script of Princess Ugg almost finished, I’m finding myself going back and rewriting the opening scene over and over, trying to get it right. For a while, I had it to…