Meet President Obama, Colin Powell, and Kyle Baker on Monday!

The NAACP will hold it's landmark,Centennial Convention, this July 11-16,
in New York City.

Speakers slated to appear include:

PresidentBarak Obama
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
New York Governor David Patterson
New York Representative Charles Rangel
Ret. General Colin Powell
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Rev. Al Sharpton
Republican National Committee Chairman
Michael Steele

Also on hand will be our own Kyle Baker, who will participate in a distinguished
Forum of Black Authors, based upon his acclaimed graphic novel Nat Turner.

Kyle also has a new graphic novel in the pipeline, for publisher Harper Collins,
covering the life of Barak Obama, and his rise to the Presidency of the United States.

For more information, visit http://www.naacp.org/events/convention/

Kyle Baker will be at the Author Pavilion Monday, July 13^th, 4-6pm.

The location is:

The New York Hilton

Hall of the Americas II
1335 Avenue of the Americas (btwn. 53^rd & 54^th street)

New York, NY

Bad boys, Nasty Girl

Like many cartoonists, I have more ideas than time to execute them. When deciding what my next project will be, I often go to my files and choose a great unpublished idea from years ago. Today I was working out my production schedule for the next three animated cartoons of 2009. I decided it was time to shoot a cartoon I wrote a story for in 2002.

These drawings were in that file from 2002, and I'd completely forgotten I did them! They're idea sketches, and I've changed the story a lot since 2002, so these characters probably won't be in the cartoon. It seemed a shame to let these drawings go to waste (I like them!), so I'm posting them on the blog for your amusement.

He's The Best At What He Do.

Still Marveling this week. Almost done with the story. Such things they tell me to make!

Some Marvel Deadpool Pages

Click the images to enlarge.
While I'm waiting for Bob Morales to deliver the Captain America script he's writing for me, Marvel editor Axel Alonso assigned me a Deadpool story to illustrate. Charlie Huston wrote the script, and it's one of the weirdest cool stories I've had the pleasure of working on. A special Marvel No-Prize will be awarded any True Believer who can identify the big green Monster. The pirate hat was in the script. As a matter of fact, everything in the illustrations was in the script, including the bidet.

That Tigra design I spent so much time on a few days back ended up being only an inch tall in the finished art, and also naked (it was in the script!). Maybe I'll do a Tigra story in the future so I can use the design. I like the way she turned out. There's also a naked She-hulk and Shanna on the same page, although if Shanna's naked, I'm not sure how anyone will know she's Shanna. But it was in the script.

It's fun to be doing so much Marvel work lately. They were really impressed by the Hawkman job I did for DC recently, and Axel asked if I could do some work for them in the same style. I used a similar photo-realist approach on my recent Obama bio for Harper-Collins, which has been well-received by the folks over there, so I think I'll stick with this style for a while as long as the job offers keep pouring in.

Judging from the fan mail I've been getting, readers like the new style, too! Thanks!

More Marvel Character designs

Here's some more character sketches for a Marvel job I'm working on.
It's a different job from the Captain America art I posted a couple days ago.
I'm doing a lot of Marvel work right now.

Character Sketch

For an upcoming Marvel gig.

SPECIAL FORCES PAPERBACK IN STORES NOW!

The Comic Book That Ended The Iraq War! Finally in a convenient 200-page paperback from IMAGE COMICS! This is your first opportunity to read the entire story in one sitting without having to wait months between chapters. Digitally remastered to showcase some of Baker's most detailed labor-intensive artwork in years! The individual issues have long been sold out, and now's your chance to find out why! Don't miss it!

You can read the opening chapters online for free! Then, run out to your local comic shop and grab your own copy!

HOOAH!