JH Williams III - News, Gallery, and Original Comic Art for Sale

These were just done for an AIDS benefit to be held in London later in the year. I will post more information about this at another time. But in the meanwhile you can check out www.crusaid.org.uk or www.waynedidit.com

This set of two sketches were done on watercolor paper postcards using copic markers and a little bit of pencil.

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Detective Comics 858 cover (in stages)

Saturday August 22nd 2009, 12:05 pm

Stage 1- Rough sketch done for editorial approval. The concept was verbally communicated over the phone…

Stage 2- Ink drawing of top area of design.

Stage 3- Painting for bottom area of the design

Stage 4- Digitally coloring/toning the top area. Combining stages 2 and 3 by sort of blending or melting them together. Digitally enhance the colors of the painting, giving more vitality to the palette.

Stage 5- Add logo and text, finishing off the design concept.

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Announcement…

Sunday August 02nd 2009, 5:37 pm

Art for Detective Comics #855 will go up for sale in the online store on August 10th at noon California time. And for your enticement…

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Mini Contest…(Over already!)

Friday July 31st 2009, 11:15 am

There are four words sort of hidden in the top of this spread, see below. The first person to post the correct answer here on this blog comments section will get a prize sent to them.

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Detective Comics 855 (Batwoman 2)…

Wednesday July 29th 2009, 12:40 am

…is Out Now!!

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Announcement…

Thursday July 16th 2009, 11:57 am

Art for Batwoman Detective Comics #854 will go on sale Friday July 17th at noon California time. #855 art will go on sale in August and another announcement will be made with a confirmed date.

Jonah hex #35 art will also be on sale beginning tomorrow July 17th.

For those who are thinking of waiting until SDCC, we will not be attending that show this year. We will not be making any other convention appearances in the near future. So the online store will be your only source for purchasing the art this year.

Now for your enticement…

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Everyone, meet Kya…

Tuesday July 14th 2009, 5:43 pm

She knows good comics.

not a paid endorsement.

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Back To Print

Tuesday July 07th 2009, 11:03 am

Our first issue of Detective Comics is selling out and we are going back to press. Here is the new cover design by Dave and I…

I thought I’d add a little commentary to this. This cover design was literally at the last minute. We got the notice from DC Monday afternoon about going back to press and they wanted a new cover FAST! Like the very next morning fast. So the best solution was to come up with a simple design and add The Question as an additional point of interest. Since I had almost no time to get an image to Dave for him to have time to toy with it, we had to go with a wash and marker sketch look that Dave would colorize different parts of the drawing. I did the sketch art, scanned it, placed it into the blue circle and red lighting bolt design, then finished it up by adding the colored text. This then went off to Dave, and after discussing things with him a bit the next morning, it was done. The entire process was accomplished in roughly 6 hrs total. I’m happy with it even though I had no time to really do a tighter drawing. The looseness in combination with the simple graphic palette approach, working in tandem with the logo font style, looks classic and modern at the same time. A rush job, but a nice stylish one I think.

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Another new interview…

Thursday July 02nd 2009, 3:59 pm

For CBR.

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Signing event approaching…

Monday June 29th 2009, 6:26 pm

Festivities with Greg Rucka and myself will occur in Las Vegas Nevada. You can get this commemorative print, see above, in support of the Hero Initiative exclusively at the signing. All proceeds go to Hero Initiative, a benefit for those in need. Details of the event can be found in the schedule section on this site. Please come out and see us at either store, or both, if ya just hang out and chat.