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Roll-a-Sketch: Now on Instagram!

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It’s been a dozen years since I started doing Roll-a-Sketches at conventions!

Sometimes, even, your old pal Stan Lee shows up to help:

I’ve posted a ton of them here to the blog over the years, and to Twitter.

But there are SO MANY MORE drawings that still live on my camera roll, unseen.

I’m proud to say that I did some new sketches at the show in Juneau recently:

WONDER WOMAN + FISH + FARMER + HAM SANDWICH:

STAR TREK + LOGIC:

There were a few more, too — and you can see them on Roll-a-Sketch’s new Instagram page, @rollasketch.

I’ve started posting some of my favorites from the past decade to IG!

There’s also a Roll-a-Sketch Facebook page, which will shortly start mirroring the new posts — but which already has a huge backlog, from the last time I tried doing this.

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Roll-a-Sketches from SDCC! & This week: GEN CON

This week I’m at Gen Con in Indianapolis! I’ll be with the Blind Ferret crew at booth 1537.

The booth will probably look something like this — this is last year’s setup:

It’s pretty colorful.

Here are a few of the Roll-a-Sketch drawings I made for folks at San Diego Comic-Con last week! Click any drawing for a closer look.

ROBOT + POLICE + STAR TREK:

POLICE + ALF + GORILLA:

NINJA TURTLE + WARIO + FLASH + BIBLICAL:

HALLOWEEN + X-MEN + PIXAR + ROYALTY:

The word balloon in this last one reads: “I’m the best there is at what I do, and what I do is rule the land of pumpkins with an iron fist! That’s got claws sticking out of it!!”

Also, a brief housekeeping note. I apologize for the somewhat sporadic comics of late. We’ve been dealing with a very sick kitty who’s required a lot of care over the last few weeks. Sadly, we said goodbye to our buddy over the weekend.


All proceeds from sales of Feral Cat jigsaw puzzles go to the Charlie’s-vet-bills fund. As well as everything else I sell, I suppose.

(Feral Cat herself is fine; she has graciously donated her likeness to this cause close to her heart.)

11 portraits of me from Alaska

I am back from the Alaska Robotics Mini-Con & Comics Camp in Juneau, Alaska!

(I wrote about camp previously here and here).

It was a great time. But here is one very specific thing that was fun! Celebrated likeness-capturer Scott Campbell had the idea for a group of artists to break into groups and draw portraits of each other.

Here is Scott hard at work on some of them (with bonus Raina Telgemeier):

And here are a bunch of Scott’s portraits, next to a bunch of other people’s portraits of him:

I didn’t have the presence of mind to take pictures of all the ones I drew. But here are the ones people drew of me! I love seeing all the different styles and perspectives. Click any image for a closer look.

CREDITS:

1. Kerstin LaCross @Kerstinlacross
2. Mike Grover @mikegrovercomics
3. Colin Anderson
4. Tony Cliff @TangoCharlie
5. Scott Campbell @scottlava
6. Averyl Veliz @averylveliz
7. Chris Yates @superyates
8. Hollis Kitchin @hollis_kitchin
9. Payton Francis
10. Megan Baehr @nonesuchmegan
11. Haley Boros @hihaleyboros

…For reference, I actually look like this:

(Kate Beaton, April 2008)

ECCC Roll-a-Sketches! + THIS WEEK: WonderCon!

THIS WEEK, Friday March 29th–Sunday the 31st, I will be at WonderCon in Anaheim!

I’ll be at booth #1704, right near the entrance, with my buddy Sam Logan, who will be happy to draw your pet for you, or anything else.

As for me? I’ll draw you a Roll-a-Sketch!

Here are a few of the ones I drew in Seattle the other weekend (click any image for a closer look)…

X-MEN + DRAGON:

UNICORN + CONSTRUCTION + FRANKENSTEIN + CYCLOPS:

LION + KNIGHT + YODA + SITH LORD:

BAT + TERMINATOR + YODA + PEANUTS:

And of course, RACCOON + CONVICT + SUPERMAN + GRADUATE:

If you’ll be at WonderCon, I’ll make one for you, too! What a deal!!

I’ll be offering Roll-a-Sketches online, too, later this year — probably in May or June. Probably!

Roll-a-Sketches from Gen Con!

Here are a few of the Roll-a-Sketch drawings I did for folks at Gen Con earlier this summer! (Click the images for a closer look.)

TERMINATOR + BAT:

SCHOOL SUPPLIES + OWL:

RACCOON + MAID:

UNICORN + GRADUATE + PAINTER + SITH LORD:

I’m pretty fond of this last one, I gotta tell you. But lest we think there’s only one way to do a unicorn artist:

UNICORN + PAINTER + NERD + PEANUTS:

I have it on good authority that this is the original version, and Rockwell just cribbed from it from the past somehow.