johnpweber Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Months back, I was running into my LCS to pick up some books (literally. One fo the girls got sick kid and it's an hour from home) and a book caught my eye. The image was so stunning, I had to pick it up. The book was called Monocyte. If you get a chance, I highly recomend it. I'm really looking forward the the oversized trade coming out in July. He also has a band called Saltillo, and I recomend checking that out too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esco Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Cool stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padre Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Looks pretty cool alright. The artwork reminds me of Giger a little bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayesse8 Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Indeed, very cool and Giger-esque. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AdminGuyX Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 NICE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpweber Posted June 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 It's funny you mention Giger. This was one of the blurbs for Monocyte, and probably my favorite blurb of all time for any book: -”MONOCYTE is like Deadwood being sodomized by HR Giger in a cathedral, as narrated by Tom Waits.” – BEN TEMPLESMITH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esco Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I'm buying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike V Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 If that's not a glowing recomendation, I don't know waht is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosella Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Menton3 & Ben Templesmith are both attending HorrorHound Weekend Sept. 7-9, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana http://www.horrorhou...9/default.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpweber Posted September 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 Long story short, I fell into some money I did not have. Not a lot, but a nice chunk. Most of it went to savings (trying to save for a down payment for a house) but I used some to achive something I've always wanted to do, commission a piece of art. After months of waiting, it is finally here, and I found out that it is going to be used as a varriant cover for Memory Collectors due out October 30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosella Posted October 1, 2013 Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 Long story short, I fell into some money I did not have. Not a lot, but a nice chunk. Most of it went to savings (trying to save for a down payment for a house) but I used some to achive something I've always wanted to do, commission a piece of art. After months of waiting, it is finally here, and I found out that it is going to be used as a varriant cover for Memory Collectors due out October 30. memorycollectors.jpg Congrats, John!! Now, that's quite an accomplishment worth feeling proud about! But I wasn't able to download those images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayesse8 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 That is a fantastic piece. How does one go about commissioning art ... do you describe what you would like to be the image, etc.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpweber Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Most artists you can go to their web site and they have commission info. In this case, he did not, so I just shot him an email. I knew what his strengths were, and it was his previous art that lead me to want an original, so we worked out a price and he asked what I wanted. I gave him a vauge descirption, playing to his strengths. I spent weeks trying to figure out what to have done, I had a list of about 3 characters that I would have liked to have seen done, but in the end, I wanted something compleatly original and I also wanted to be surprised by not knowing what it was going to look like. Needless to say, I was very happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AdminGuyX Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 Great story! Congrats all around John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpweber Posted November 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2013 Ok, final picture: The painting with the comicbook. Sad to say, but this is my first time seeing an original next to the book. One of the things I noticed right away was the loss of color and detail. Really makes me want to check out one of Tim's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayesse8 Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Oh, I see what you mean - stunning though, to have the real thing and imagine how good all those other cover pieces really are! Mind blowing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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