Happy Last week Sketch Saturday! Owlman!

Eventually I will remember to post these on Saturday. Anyways, Earth 3's Owlman in honor of Villains month! 

Not sure if I'll get one done tonight. been fighting with a headache for a week... it's winning.

Also, a first look at some Batman/Superman 5 pages! 

Til the 'morrow then!

Best!

Brett

Were you fooled?

Were you? 

Did you watch that Megalodon Discovery channel special? Do you think Megalodon was real after watching it? You didn't? You don't appear to be alone. While all the articles seem to indicate that LOADS of people were, it appears this is based on an online poll done after the show… so it was incredibly scientific;) People ALWAYS take those seriously. (Meg's ARE real. I used to have a real tooth on my mantel, they're just no longer alive.) So where is all this outrage coming from, because I only seem to see it in articles and blogs… mostly science ones. Can it be that there really aren't lots of people who fell for it? Can it be that this is merely a few people who are outraged for people they believe fell for it? Is the science community actually manufacturing this? Maybe not intentionally, but they do seem to be the ones who are spearheading  this, they seem to the ones incredibly outraged for others who actually didn't fall for it or could care less. I'm sure a few people were fooled after all Mountain Monsters got picked up for a second season and that's all kinds of fake! But the majority of people I've talked too knew it was fake and one guy was left questioning wether it was real or not…

Yes, some of the science was off or based on older estimates, current thinking places them at around 52 feet (it's possible they were longer OR shorter, we only have teeth and a few vertabrae as sharks are mostly cartilage and don't fossilize well. It's possible they had GIANT heads!) But besides some of that, there was OTHER science that people seem to have missed. Underwater camera stuff, hunting of whales, Meg teeth whale tail bones, whale migration patterns and tagging and tracking animals, all real science. The 2 million year old whale was wrong, but that's kind of a tricky thing. They've known about the whale, but they didn't know who that whale was related to until they tested the DNA, it turns out the whale is not related to any other existing whale species, it's related to a line that was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago. I can see how that would get messed up, but it's not right in the show. Some of the other science is, well… speculative. And it would have to be since it's explaining why we haven't seen this animal in 1.5 million years. Its OK to do this in books, just not on TV I guess.

It is funny that the other scientists in the special don't agree with the main lead in this throughout the whole thing they disagree. I liked that a lot. 

Meg lived in warm shallow seas! Or did it? Its true that all the fossils we're found have been from shallow seas, but was it strictly limited to those? Fossils underwater are hard to find and the majority of what we find is all from shallow seas because those shallow seas are now on the surface and easier to get to. By this logic, most known water animals lives in shallow inland seas, we know this isn't true with todays animals so it's doubtful it was true of the pasts. I have a hard time seeing a LARGE shark stuck in shallow seas while it pretty swims away into the deep ocean… These sharks lived for 25 million years, I'm sure they're environment shifted and moved with the continents.

Could they still exist? It's very, very doubtful they are still alive. I'm sure we would have found whales with Meg teeth in them, especially during the whaling boom of the 1800's. BUT it's possible they still exist in some form, the ocean is a very large place so I wouldn't rule it out completely. I'll just say this, we have more evidence for the existence of Megalodon than we do for Sasquatch. At least we know Megs lived at some point. We have never found a great ape species in the new world, not even in South or Central America.

Have at thee!

Batman Superman! And Guardian from Alpha Flight!

I keep forgetting to post this! Guardian from Alpha Flight!

And my new twitter avatar for my new book! Yep, as of issue 5 I'll be alternating art duties on Batman/ Superman with Jae Lee! COOL!

Issue 5 has Nightwing!!! Also, Metallo! 

OK, got to get to work on tomorrow's Sketch Saturday!

Brett

This Sunday... this is the end! And some rambling thoughts.

Everyone can be an asshole. EVERYONE. Sure the religious right seems to have this on lockdown, look at how they are trying to force their religious views on abortion down peoples throats in Texas and other southern states. The Bible says nothing on the subject, all this is is stuff that God 'told' so and so, we all know that's true… also I have some really nice land to sell you in Florida! While they LOVE the 2nd amendment, they seem to skip the separation of church and state parts of the 1st, assholes right?!?

You'll notice I haven't posted a Sunday Blasphemy in awhile. Is it because some idiot Right Winger keeps trying to make me feel bad? He literally said "Think of the Children!". It was funny as shit! Unfortunately my old 'buddy' Steve decided to show up and 'defend' me.... lets just say he misremembered what happened and any hope of a reconciliation are gone. 

Back to the topic! No, it's not due to whinny religious people, it's because the Atheist/Humanist movement is all over the place. They are attacking each other, they are showing they are no better than any other group. It's to be expected I guess, once you get enough people together this kinda thing always seems to happen. But me, I really just don't like hearing how X and Y did this, or said this when it's just stupid little shit. The unity that was once there is now gone. It's clan warfare and it's ugly.

So while my views haven't changed, I don't read about this stuff as much anymore because most of the people involved are, well…. acting like assholes. They preach one thing and then knee jerk like their religious counterparts. We all knee jerk, even me, but I TRY to stop myself. It seems like unless it's about evolution the Humanists/Atheists don't even bother to try. Twitter has become painful to read on occasions, I've already unfollowed a few people. 

There is one thing, and guys this is about us. When a woman does something you don't like or calls you on some BS, DON'T start with the insults about her sex, sexuality or how often she sleeps with others. It makes you look incredibly stupid. INCREDIBLY STUPID. 

Oh and skip Mountain Monsters, I watch 3 episodes and it's ALL fake. The tracks are planted, and are really badly done. The videos are fake, the Wampus cat was a puppet. It's legs were barely moving. And the calls are all pulled from other things, one was the T.rex in Walking with Dinosaurs. The other was done using a program similar to the one used to recreate the sound of Parasaurolophus. The hogs had been pre-killed, no blood from the claw marks and teeth punctures. NO mammalian predator has 3 toes, NONE of them. They basically use Finding Bigfoot as the base of the show and decided to find something, they just never seem to capture it! Which is funny, as they alone have found more 'evidence' than everyone else! WORST HUNTERS EVER! Skip it and watch Total Blackout, that show cracks me up!

So until something really irks me, Sunday Blasphemy is on hiatus. 

I know some people don't like twitter but I'm always one it, so if you want to chat, hit me up on it! I just use the blog to post Sketch Saturdays now. 

@demonpuppy

Best!

Brett

Ooops! Happy last weeks Sketch Saturday!

I see I forgot to upload this here, eep! Anyways, here is Elongated Man! 

Also some news. Looks like I'll be more than drawing an arc for my next book. I'll be the semi regular artist on it. Should be fun and leave me some time for a few other side projects at DC. 

News soon, at the very least next month in solicits..

Best,

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday! This week Superman and Doomsday!

So, what's new?!? Well I'm no longer drawing Nightwing, bummer. BUT I am going to be taking part in DC's Villans Month event, I'll be drawing Batman/Superman 3.1: Doomsday with Greg Pak writing! So this was just me messing around... it's OK, needs a bit of work, he's not big enough.

And here is this weeks Sketch Saturday offering, Superman! 

Sketch Saturday should be back to full strength starting this week, JLA is done and the Doomsday issue isn't due for awhile:) I'm just finishing up some Trinity War alt covers:)

Best!

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday! More Relic!

Here's another relic design attempt! This one complete with Guy Gardner for scale!

No Sketch Saturday next week, as I won't be home! I'll be at the Phoenix Comic Con in Arizona. I won't have lots of sketches this year... but I will have some cheap pages $20-40 dollars, some regular pages and Norms bringing some prints! I will be working so you'll be able to see how I do what I do!

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday! This week Blue Bird!

Happy Sketch Saturday! This week an original character... we had pitched using him in Nightwing but was vetoed. Just as well, now I can do what I want with him!

And this is my redesign of Bronze Tiger. I don't know much but the people freaking out on the message boards are very funny and a little blind;)

OK, now to some other news! I will be very busy this month so I'm not sure about Sketch Saturdays. Helping out again on another book and finishing up this Nightwing issue plus I have a con to go to in Phoenix and I need to do some sketches for that... So if I do post stuff it will most likely be more things like Bronze Tiger and then any sketches I get done for the show!

Also, I'm talking to DC about maybe doing a sketchbook. So we'll see!

Best!

Brett

Creator Owned Comics Day!

Today is #CreatorOwnedDay on twitter. For some reason none of the comic news sites I frequent have even mentioned it. I did a little somethin' somethin for it:

Parsec, still working on this idea... very loose in my head now...

And...

Jacob from my (and Jess's)  Lifeless idea. 

You never know what will be the next Walking Dead or Superman...

Best,

Brett

New project announcement: Nightwing!

As of issue 19 I'll be the regular artis ton NW, just a few things I have laying around, my NW avatar...

Cover to 19...

One of the costume designs we were messing with..

One in color..

More armory...

With the piping...

First image with the new arm stripes!

So I can now finally talk about things again! WOOT!

Best,

Brett

Announcement for Holiday Image

Every year I try to do one, sometimes 2 (one for comics fans, one for dino fans.) So today at 8pm mountain time I will post it. SInce some people have inquired about buying it. It will be $800. The darn thing took me 9 hours to draw, it has 9 characters on it,  and Jess asked if it was a cover so you know I went all out!

So if you're interested in buying it same rules apply as they do on Sketch Saturday, first come first served. But the one piece per month rule will be lifted as this isn't a SS piece everyone can try. If you just want to see it, I'll post it here and on Twitter:) I hadn't planned on selling it until I started getting requests....

If no one buys it I might make a print of ir for a show next year:)

Best!

Brett

This Sunday, do you suck at your religion?

A very funny comic about the suckieness of religion.

I'm gonna do something I know I shouldn't, but I feel it needs to be addressed. What happened this week in Newton was horrible, words can't describe how horrible this is, just like what happend last week and again in Aurora. And I thinking talking about this is a good thing, get your anger out. My Twitter feed exploded and I had to stay off for most of the day. People are angry and lashing out. Lots of "Don't say his name, he wants the press!" and "Fuck you gun owners and your rights!" And of course the gun owners "It's my god given right to own a gun!"But it's good to vent and Twitter is a great place for it.

Unfortunately they also decided to take 'action'! Now action is good, we need people to get off their asses and make a difference. But this isn't really action, it's reaction, it's all feeling and outrage and no thought or introspection.

I own a gun/rifle. I've fired it like 3 times. It's not a big gun, but it does hold 9 shots. Why do I have it? Protection. WELL, you say, people are more likely to be shot than to be able to use that gun for protection! Fair enough. But I live 40 minutes from the nearest police station. Sure they can drive faser than I do on regular roads, but they will most likely crash as the roads aren't that great, they're all dirt... All 20 miles of them. So if something does happen, like say people come to rob us, or drug runners from Mexico show up, at least I have something, the police will always be too late. (A couple of grifters killed a guy out this way a few years ago, nobody knew for days.) I've actually thought of getting a shotgun and a handgun just to be sure a weapon can be gotten too easily, just in case.

So I'm being 'asked' by these people to simply give up my gun, my right. Would this have saved those kids in Newton? Maybe, maybe not. But am I willing to give up the safety of my family for it. No. But Brett, those were children! Yes and it's very, very sad all deaths are. But giving rights way is a slippery slope. Look at the Homeland Security laws that gave the government so much power over us, and our personal lives.

So what should be done? The Left will demand action so why not take this opportunity to really look at what we can do to mitigate further shootings, WITHOUT taking away peoples rights. What has happened here, really happened, facts, not crazy assumptions. Limiting shots to guns? Limiting ammo? Limit ful auto? I'm not sure, but whatever is decided, lets not doing it hysterically, lets do it with knowledge and thought. Not everyone lives in cities with easy access to police and help. Some people still live in rural areas where help might be hours away, should these people give up their only means of protection?

So to sum up, not everyone lives under the same conditions, calm down and think don't just react.

EDIT: Laurell K. Hamilton retweeted this on Twitter and I think EVERYONE needs to read this.

Best,

Brett

I'll leave the comments open but if I get hysterical comments I will close them.

Failed Earth 2 Flash design

See, not all of them make the cut... Well, this one was a longshot after all. But I gave it a shot.

Anywho, enjoy!

Brett

Free shipping this weekend on all art!

Want some TT art? Well it's free shipping this weekend in the US!

Besides what's listed I have the cover to TT 11, 0 and 17 in pencil form and Team 7 #2, we were a bit rushed on those so $400 for any of them or 2 for $700.

Also, I have 4 Joker pages from Red Hood 0, also pencils, we didn't use inks, for $150 each or 2 for $250 or all 4 for $400.

In addition I have pages from TT issues 10, 11 and 12 here, (last half from 10 and 12 and first have from 11.) If you're interested let me know and I'll give you a good price!

Best!

Brett

This Sketch Saturday, it's Grifter time!

20 years ago this past week I received a call from Jim Lee in regards to my Homage Studios Talent Search submission. It went pretty well as I started working there a few months later. So in honor of the HSTS that was in the back of WildCats 2 I drew up an old buddy, Cole Cash, AKA Grifter.

On another note I finished up my Teen Titans runs today, just finished drawing the last page (not page 20, but the last pages that needed to be drawn.) Later today or early tomorrow I start on my next DC book. A happy sad kind of day.

Anywho, more info when I can finally talk about it!

Best!

Brett

This Sunday, go read this!

Go read this!!!!

And then go check out this guys website!

Jerry Coyne has it as "The Republicans platform in one image." I wasn't sure I agreed with that and then I thought about it and well it really is the only thing the Republicans have actually made clear, Mitt and Ryan keep dodging all the other issues... Oh this and Obama's a bad president I guess... Idiots.

Best!

Brett

Batman, Robin and Nightwing Prints!

Andrew Dalhouse is at the NYCC this weekend, table I-8 with PRINTS!!!! These are 2 of them, I believe he also  has a Flash and Kid Flash as well! Why aren't you buying them yet?!?! GO!

I'm gonna have to get one of those fancy banner things if I go to any more shows, SO COOL!

Best!

Brett

Teen Titans trade is a New York Times bestseller!

Here's the list! So I'm now officially a New York Times Bestselling Artist. I'm told this is like being knighted, so you must now all refer to me as NYT Bestselling Artist Brett Booth when you refer to me;P

This is good news as I'm worried my TV speakers are starting to go:/

Best,

Brett

Er... Happy Sketch Saturday?

Sorry I keep forgetting to post these here. Anyways a redesigned Catman, just for fun. I didn't like the Huntress I was working on first. And when I can post the other actual redesign I did for another DC character this week I will!

Also just finishing up TT 15 today. I should be starting my final issue next week!

Best,

Brett

9 Warning Signs of an Amateur Artist

I've been getting lots of people looking for art advice on twitter lately. They send me pictures and ask questions (always a good thing!) But I have noticed that some of those pictures are unfinished, like they started it then stopped, like they got bored or were having too many problems with the legs or the hands (trust me, I know how this goes!) And even recently I was asked about colleges with comics classes.

In January I will have been working in the comics biz for 20 years. I graduated from college (they discouraged comic work, or at least some of the teachers did. I did it anyways) in 92 with a 2 year degree (degrees are pretty mush useless in comics, but I figured is I flamed out I could always go back for something else.) I REALLY have little to no knowledge of what's out there school wise now, so I'm pretty useless there. BUT you do pick up things, and even now I'm still learning, which brings me to the point of this post.

Today on the twitter, I came across this; 9 Warning Signs of an Amateur Artist. This is fantastic! If you want to be a professional comic artist, writer, inker, colorist then THIS is your Bill of Rights, you're 10 Commandments. I will admit I do fall into the last one a bit, but I am trying to reach out (I have to say, twitter is great for that!)

Go read! Learn! Enjoy! And then DO!

Best,

Brett