I’m going to be set up in Artist Alley table BB-13 during San Diego Comic-Con. I’ll have two limited edition prints (a Young Justice print, a Spider-Man print), and my  2010 sketchbook available for sale and I’ll be drawing as many commissions as I can.

I have the honor of sharing my table with one of my best pals in the industry, Marvel’s superstar inker/writer, Andy Lanning! He’ll take over my table for an hour or two each day of the con. He’ll have lotsa cool art for sale and may whip up a few commissions as well. So bring your Nova, Guadrians of the Galaxy, and War/Realm of Kings comics to get signed!

I plan on doing my traditional 7.5″x10″ head/bust shots. And I am also going to take a limited number of 9″x12″ figure commissions. Not sure how many of the figure ones I can do during the con, so be sure to hit my table early and see if you can get on the list.

I’m also appearing at the Marvel Booth #2329 for signings, Thursday, July 22, 10 – 11 AM and Sunday, July 25, 10 – 11 AM.

See you at San Diego Comic-Con!

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I’ve finally pulled the trigger and put together my first full-sized sketchbook. My thanks to J. Scott Campell, Jonboy Meyers, Sean Galloway and Humberto Ramos for all the info and advice. And thanks to Benny Fuentes for the awesome colors for the cover!
Volume 1, “Number #1 with a Bullet” (featuring Wannabe from my creator owned series, WildGuard), will debut at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. I’ll be set up in Artist Alley at table BB-13.

This book measures at 8.5″x11″, color front and back cover, and 36 pages of black and white sketches, prelim pencils, tight pencils, inks, and grayscale artwork. Its priced at $20 and quantities are limited. So be sure to swing by the table and pick one up!

For those unable to attend this year’s Comic-Con, I have set aside an allotment of books to be sold here on my site and can be shipped to your door (U.S. shipping $7, International shipping $15)! Just click on the appropriate BUY NOW button for your location, U.S. or International. The book will be available after July 26th. I’ll autograph it and send it out in 5 business days.

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Thanks for all the support and inquiring so frequently about seeing my art in a sketchbook!

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I drew up this piece as a possibility for a new banner stand for my convention appearances.
Though I am happy with how the piece turned out, I’m thinking of doing something different for my new banner stand.

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As a kid I always loved superheroes. Superfriends being a favorite cartoon.

But in the early 1980’s, NBC added Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends to their Saturday morning line-up… Spidey’s amazing friends being Iceman form the original team of X-Men and a brand new character created for the show, Firestar. This show really introduced me to Marvel Universe. It guest starred characters like Captain America, Sub Mariner, Iron Man, and Dr. Strange.

My favorite 2 episodes were the ones where Iceman, and then Firestar, reunited with the X-Men. That was the first time I had heard about the X-Men and they blew me away. It wasn’t long after seeing them in those cartoons that I started reading Marvel Comics to discover more about all of these characters.

In fact, the first issue of my Uncanny X-Men subscription was issue #193. This was the issue that introduced Firestar into the Marvel Universe. She later showed up in 1990’s New Warriors. I really enjoyed the first 25 issues of that series. I lost touch with her as she joined the Avengers in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s. But now she is back in the new series, Young Allies. I think that comic comes out today. So I’m gonna check it out and see what this character is up to.

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This is a piece I started sketching on during my warm up times. Then I started throwing on some inks. It’s fun to watch an image evolve just playing around with the lines and shapes a little bit at a time.

I remember first seeing Spider-Woman on the ABC Saturday morning cartoon as a kid. She kind of confused me. I could tell she was a Marvel character. But her cartoon being on ABC threw me.

All Marvel super hero cartoons were on NBC: Spider-Man, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. So why was she on ABC? Is she NOT a Marvel character? Her costume doesn’t look like Spider-Man’s (going off the assumption the female version had to match the male version like DC’s Superman/Supergirl and Batman/Batgirl). This frustrated me and my young understandings of the superhero motifs.

So I didn’t watch much of her cartoon. But she did intrigue me. She flew instead of shooting webs. She shot spider-stings instead to subdue her opponents. And, again, back to frustration…

Glad to see she has a more pivotal role in the Marvel Universe. I do like how simple and strong her design in is. I don’t think she could ever benefit from a redesign.

View this piece on my DeviantArt and Facebook FanPage.

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I did this piece for a friend, Dann McN. I was in search of the elusive Vision action figure from the Marvel Universe 3.75″ line. He had an extra Vision figure he didn’t need. So we did a trade at the Long Beach Comic Expo one day show last month. Action figure for a piece of art. He requested Ms Marvel from the Dark Avengers series.

I really like how Marvel is incorporating classic costumes into the current universe. Like this 1970’s Ms. Marvel costume, now worn by the villainous Moonstone posing as Ms. Marvel on Norman “Green Goblin” Osborn’s Avengers team.

And my Vision action figure stands proudly amongst the other Marvel superheroes and villains I’ve collected on the shelf above my drafting table.

Pigma and Sharpie Marker on 6.5″x10″ art board.

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Gotta say, I miss this costume Havok originally wore. I think his power signature with the circles play off the black suit in ways that are fun and challenging to draw.

Never understood the head ornamentation. But he made it his.

Havok was a part of my favorite team of X-Men back when I was in high school. The Outback X-Men team was Wolverine, Colossus (stuck in metal form), Havok, Longshot, Dazzler, Psylocke (pre-ninja), Rogue, and (the newly re-powered) Storm.

Maybe I’ll try to draw that team sometime.

See the inked version of Havok on my DeviantArt page and Facebook FanPage.

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From the WildGuard: Casting Call trade paperback, a Hostess Fruit Pie parody starring WildGuard’s Teri Vaughn.

Teri Vaughn started off as a superhero child star. At a young age, Teri exhibited four separate powers: a super strong, near invulnerable metal form, a malleable mist form, concussive mental force bolts, and laser projection. She began as Four-Powered Girl. Then in her teen years, she took the name Four-Teen. Now she is simply known as Four as she heads up the reality TV superhero team, WildGuard.

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Wildguard, Teri Vaughn: For-Powered Girl, Four-Teen, & Four and Speeding Skull are © and ™ Todd Nauck 2010.

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This is the sketch work I did for a commission for StretchyGalFan of Spanner of the X-People from the Marvel 2 Universe.

See the inks on my DeviantArt page and Facebook FanPage.

For commission info and to get on my commission list, send me an email at mail@wildguard.com.

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The original New Mutants series is one of my favorite runs in comics. Mainly because I was a teenager when volume 1 was running.

The other day, I spent some time working on this piece featuring Illyana Rasputin, AKA Magik. The Russian girl who can teleport through a hellish dimension called Limbo.

It’s cool to see her back in the current new Mutants series along with almost all the other original New Mutants. I’m more-than-likely going to end up drawing all of these characters at some point. So stay tuned!

See the inked version here on my DeviantArt page and Facebook FanPage.

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