The God-King is Pissed

So here's our favourite smurf, and she don't look best pleased. Also, she appears not to be a giant armoured squid-creature.
Which is a plus.
This is a detail of one of the covers for my upcoming Angel Mini-series:
'Illyria: Before the Aftermath'

Dublin Comic Con: Aftermath

Con was great; really enjoyed meeting everybody again and getting our fun on. Met amazing proper artists like Tommy Lee Edwards, jaysis can that guy draw. Spent most of the two days paneling, sketching and drawing with fellow IDW Micks Thompson and Nick Roche, and of course the legendary Declan 'Widescreen' Shalvey. Met loads've people into Angel and the like, knocked out some decent sketches. Mostly of Hal Jordan for some reason, but I sure ain't complaining. The lady fans like their Spike drawings but after the fiftieth-odd one they do start to take their toll...
Speaking of sketches, if anybody who got one could scan it in and send it to me here at stephen@moondog.cc that'd be super, ta!

So I've started on my next book, an Angel mini-series for IDW. FINALLY I get to draw badass Wesley, my personal favourite.
Three issues, and then, who knows...

Dublin City Comic Con 2008 + Angel 14

Myself, Thompson, Nick Roche and Dec Shalvey will all be guests at this years Dublin City Comic Con in Smithfield this weekend, along with actual comic stars like Dan Slott, Adi Granov, Olivier Coipel, Tommy Lee Edwards and many others. If you're in the neighbourhood ye should stick yer heads in and help us give Dec a hard time.
Linky: www.dublincitycomiccon.com

Also, the final issue in my arc on After The Fall is out today, hope you guys pick it up and dig it. I loved working with Brian on the comic of my favourite show of all time, and can't wait to get going on our next book together.
Soon...

Details Are Sketchy

Hey sports fans,
Here are a couple of recent Angel related sketches. I recently worked on a run of alternate covers for the current Angel series. The concepts for these covers were chosen by members of the Slayalive.com fansite(hell of a site). Each month Slayalive ran a contest to see who could conjure up the best cover concepts, with the winning concept being voted on by the members of the site. I'd then get sent the winning concept and try to do it justice through artistic execution(I assume whenever I eventually croke it'll be as a result of artistic execution...). Some of the concepts were really strong, and we produced some pretty decent covers between us. Anyhoo, the winners of the each cover competition were supposed to have their names immortalised in the artwork of the covers themselves. Through circumstances beyond anybody's control, a few of the winners' names got left out of their respective covers. So I tried to make it up to them by offering to draw an original sketch for each slighted person. Here are two of these sketches as requested by Erin Waggoner(Willow) and Alan Mulqueen(Illyria).

Done and...Dusted?

Hey. Finished up the art on my last issue of Angel: After The Fall last week and the feeling is bittersweet. This is a book that I'd been dying to get onto for ages, and now that my part has ended I miss it already. Wait'll you guys read issues 13 and 14, holy-moley. The sucktacular thing is that I'd had the inside scoop, I'd been privy to the the inner workings of 2 madmen, Brian Lynch and Joss Whedon, and now they've stopped sending me the scripts and I've no fricking idea what happens in the final arc! Aaargh.
Still, I'm incredibly grateful to Chris and Brian for giving me a shot at one of my dream projects, I had the best time.
So what's next? Well lets just say myself and Brian's collaborations are only just beginning, the book coming next from us...
Well, it's bad-ass.

Cut To The Chase

Issue 12 of Angel was released last week and seemed to go down pretty well with the fans. Lots of 'best issue yet' etc. I'm under no illusions, this is down to the incredible revelations in the story this month, but a decent amount of people seemed to dig the artwork too, which is a huge relief. I'm so delighted that I got to draw this particular arc because it features the return of the best female Angel character IMO, the one, the original Cordelia Chase.
Sigh, how I love her so...
Here are a couple sample pages from the issue showcasing the sassy lassy.

Greetings From Moonbase 1

Ahoy-hoy,
So here I am, married and mortgaged up to the eyeballs. That was sudden...
The wedding was a huge success, everybody had a great day, especially myself and Jackie. The honeymoon in Rome was amazing, everywhere you look the architecture and design are simply awe-inspiring. I loved it. Settled into the new house and studio now properly, well into work on Angel: After The Fall issue 14. I love this book. Its incredibly well written by Brian Lynch and Joss Whedon, and we're actually shaping the events that follow the classic 'Not Fade Away'. Issue 14 is my last(of three), but it looks like I'll be working with Brian again very soon. Which suits me down to the ground.
As for the image here? These are the credits for my Angel issues. Yep, Whedon and Mooney, together for the first(and probably only) time, because nobody demanded it. At least I can die happy now.
Angel 12 lands in the shops tomorrow, and its a doosy. Pick up several.

Stephen