The New York Comic con was awesome!!! I did a little photo coverage and chat about it sponsored by the Toysrevil blog run by Andy Heng:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2008/04/down-nycc-2008-with-eric-nocella-diaz.html
I wanted to take way more pictures but I had to work the Xmoor Studios booth and it got crazy busy with that huge crowd that attended. Just want to say thanks to all who stopped by and bought some Xmoor books and stuff from Rob G. and myself. Galtow issue # 4 coming soooon!!!!
See ya next year!

The two funniest things I saw at the convention this year (of course it had to do with Dookie Poo....cracked me up something fierce and made my day):

New York Comic Con April 18 - 20th!!! (http://www.nycomiccon.com/App/homepage.cfm?moduleid=2577&appname=100453)
Here we come!!! I 'll be there with Xmoor Studios (http://www.xmoorstudios.com/) at Exhibitor booth # 1963 along with some special guests Steven Harris who publishes The Fringe : http://nstevenworks.com/2005/
Regine Sawyer of LockitDown Publications who is getting ready to release her book The Rippers: http://www.myspace.com/lockitdownpublications
and Julio Roman of Roman Studios with his Uughs property:
http://www.zstudiosnyc.com/uuughs/index.html



Sneak peek time!!! Galtow issue #4 is under way and nearing completion so I thought I'd drop a teaser of one of the pages:

The Xmoor Studios convention special bust for the NYC con and the ECBACC con right after. Almost forgot about this - my bad...

The finished full color Papa Legba image I submitted to John Jennings - "The Hole" pinup book. My buddy Grimbro drop some wicked colors on my lines really brought the image to life. I told him to run free on it and surprise me - and he sure did! Thank you Grimmy!!!
See more of Grimbro's awesome works here:
http://grimbro.deviantart.com/ and here: http://www.grimbro.com/

The Revenant/Ghost Zero is back in a new color scheme and with spooky blue light up eyes! See more photos of this "one of a kind" here on Dave Flora's Ghost Zero blog: http://ghost0zero.com/2008/03/25/ghost-zero-bust-mod/
Paints and lights by super uber Rick Cantu:
http://www.dragonstoothminiatures.com/

Look who's here!!! Dookie-Poo!!!


Manny Galan's funny little guy is now in vinyl. I did the prototype sculpt a few years ago and it's just great to see the little guy on the loose. You'll be able to get him at the Big NYC con in April plus a few surprises are also in store for this guy. The exclusive with more images was dropped here on Andy Heng's super uber blog Toysrevil (great job Andy!!!): http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2008/03/dookie-poo-made-vinyl-by-chaotic.html
I have a feeling this guy is gonna go quick....could a Tofu be close behind??? I hope so...
More Pooism can be enjoyed here:
http://dookie-poo.com/
and here:
http://dookiepoo.blogspot.com/
Shout out to Erick Scarecrow of ESC Toy on the overseas project management on this bad boy!
Great job guys - never thought I'd say this but Dookie looks good...pun pun...

Comics2film round 3!!!
Dave Flora's Ghost Zero (http://ghost0zero.com/) has made it into the elevator on the Comics2film (http://www.comics2film.com/index.php) website!!!
See the pitch here:
http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=31992&c=22

Comics2film round 2!!!

Another property I've done a sculpt for (Mikhail - scroll down for images of the figure and packaging) has been featured on Comics2film (http://www.comics2film.com/index.php) - Dion Floyd's Immortal Kiss for Graphic Illusion Studios.
The pitch:
http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=31673&c=22

Congrats go out to Dion Floyd for his elevator ride!!!

Comics2film!!!
Xmoor Studio's (my little indie pubilishing shindig with Robert Garrett) flagship comic book series Galtow gets featured on Comics2Film - (http://www.comics2film.com/index.php) in the "Elevator" - http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=31672&c=22

More big Xmoor Studios news real soon!

Neptoon Studios is having a DIY (do it yourself) contest with their all white Crush vinyl toy figures. Too bad there isn't a vinyl toy award show...all Crush needs is that little bow-tie...

Crush DIY vinyls are now available! See the Buy Me link here: (http://www.neptoonstudios.com/shopneptoon.html)
to get your very own...and show us what you've got - creatively... ; )

Send pictures of your original painted version of CRUSH to neptoonstudios@gmail.com

The artist with the most creative and best executed CRUSH will be the WINNER of this one of a kind, signed CRUSH OSCAR!!! And will be featured on the Neptoon's blog - (http://neptoonstudios.blogspot.com/) for all to enjoy.

The winner will be announced - May 1st 2008 ~ Good luck!

What if Skrulls infiltrated your world? What if?

Black and white teaser for the 3rd Galtow poster featuring Jiya I did for Xmoor Studios with Jesse Heagy on the colors...color version coming soon. Hopefully we'll have some full color prints of all 3 posters for sale at the big NYC con in April this year.

A little sneak peek of a something I'm working on for John Jennings Hole pin-up book for charity. I'll post all the info and the full image soon.

Another Goldmane Entertainment project off full blast - From the Immortal Kiss comic book series written and created by Dion Floyd and produced by GIstudios comes the Mikhail Vladimir resin statue and base. Mikahail stands at 8 inches and can be purcased either as a full prepaint or in a solid colored resin cast. This will be a very very limited run and more info can be found here on the GIstudios website:
http://www.gistudios.com/
GIstudios webstore:
http://www.gistudios.com/webstore.html



I'll add more full color pictures very soon so stay tuned!

Been drawing more lately. Keeps the sculpting fresh going to 2D art every now and then. Been also trying my hand at computer coloring too.

Neptoon Studios did a interview with a roving reporter for Toybreak in episode #24 featured here on the Toysrevil blog (thanks again Andy - nice work on the Neptoon only edit!):
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2008/02/toy-break-episode-24-neptoon-studios.html

They actually show the fully painted Crush and Harry designer vinyl toy prototypes I did for them together for the first time. Did I hear them say 3 colorways for Harry??? Niiice...Thanks for the mention Todd and Mark...I enjoy working with those megatalented guys...15 years each in animation?! Yowza! I could only muster up 5 max...

On another few notes:
Dookie-Poo is at it again - funniest blog going right now:
http://dookiepoo.blogspot.com/
Rumor has it there's some wicked looking merchandise in the works...hmmmm....

There's also new hot toy forum in town run by a few pals of mine called Vinyl Toy Freaks:
http://vinyltoyfreaks.com/index.php
Matt Beers was gracious enough to give me a artist corner over there where I'll be posting all kinds of cool stuff AND will be starting up a contest where a new vinyl toy that I sculpted up will be given away real soon. Swing by join up and drop some posts - they have a really cool and supportive group there - and they love toys...

Crush loot!!! Finally got a batch of Crush designer vinyl toys from Neptoon Studios...thank you Todd and Mark!!! Another project I truly enjoyed working on.If you'd like to get your hands on one of these bad boys go here -
http://www.neptoonstudios.com/shopneptoon.html
They have some DIY's too...

The Revenant bust I produced for Dave Flora's Tales of the Revenant/Ghost Zero has been reviewed in this month's Amazing Figure Modeller #40. Dave was kind enough to put this little promo together and send it to me since I can't seem to find the AFM mag on sale near me. See more of Dave's awesome Ghost Zero goodness here:
http://ghost0zero.com/
The unpainted grey resin garage kit version of this bust is still available ($65 plus S&H) and we'll be offering a limited run of fully painted verions (below) of the bust with the release of Dave new printed comic book series.

Some quick turnaround art of Lord Wu Reymos for Xmoor Studios Galtow property.

Some shots of the resin castings for Neptoon Studio's Harry Weinerski vinyl toy proto. See the making of journey here:
http://www.vinylabuse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2909&sid=afcc481b2d60798c22136b3be764b5b2
along with the behind the scenes on the Crush sculpt I did for Neptoon last year:

Color pics up next! I brought in the talented paintmaster Andrew Scribner (painted the Crush toy prototype too) to sling the paint on this bad boy.

Harriet Carney of Carnival Cartoons takes fourth place for best sculpting in PlasticandPlush's 2007 Toy Awards!!! http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/2007_toy_awards/index.html
Buzz Carney got third place for sculpting in their 2006 Toy Awards:
http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/2006_toy_awards/index.html
Just want to say congrats to Jared Deal and Garnet Syberg Olsen (two awesome artists and designers - you guys are on a roll!!!). Thanks also goes out to Plasticandplush for including the Carney toys in their awards and to Erick Scarecrow for overseas project management. That's all you get because my writers are on strike too...no red carpet coverage either...sorry.