THIS BLOG HAS BEEN RETIRED

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN RETIRED. I'm still going to be keeping it up here, though-- there's some pretty cool old stuff on it. That said, if you want to keep up to date with me, please go to www.georgeoconnorbooks.com.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

More old Marvel stuff

People seemed to like seeing my old superhero stuff, so here's some more. The X-men versus Arcade, from the second Marvel tryout book (I missed the first one). Really not much of a script, if I may say so, in terms of being able to do some storytelling, just a lot of rapid scene shifts withthe opportunity to draw a lot of cool stuff. Heck, it was the 90's, what do you expect?





Tuesday, August 25, 2009

More Athena

Another page from Athena, this time in the Medusa sequence. I love when I can get away with wordlessness.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Postscript to the No Love From Marvel

Readers of the first post in this series will recall that I was compelled to dig up my old mid-90's Marvel samples due to the fact that I was drawing a honking big whale monster in my new book Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess, and I remembered drawing a cool whale monster way back then. So, now, over ten years after I created it, Honking Big Whale Monster makes will make his publishing debut as Cetus, the sea monster whom Perseus rescues Andromeda from. A page from the big guy's debut below:

No love from Marvel Comics, part 2

Part 2 of that Namor versus the whale story I drew way back in the mid 90's. I don't normally like to post spoilers, but I'll tell you this-- Namor beats the honking big whale monster up.






I'm getting some nice feedback from this, so I'll be posting up some more old school superhero stuff from the 90's. Hold on to your hats.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

No love from Marvel Comics

Recently, while working on Athena, I had the occasion to draw a honking big whale monster. I half-remembered way, way back in the mid 90's drawing a Sub-Mariner sample for Marvel Comics that featured Namor fighting a honking big whale monster that I seemed to recall I had come up with a pretty nifty design for. I dug the pages out of my studio closet and was pleasantly surprised to see how nice they actually were (didn't get me any Marvel work though). Inspired by my buddy Michel Fiffe's recent brave example I decided to post the whale/Namor story online. Enjoy the first four pages below, the second half will go up tomorry.









Namor is trademarked Marvel Comics. The honking big whale monster is all me, baybee.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Athena pin up



A pinup for the back of Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess (and the upcoming Olympiansrule.com website) that I thought came out rather well.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Gigantomachy



I was pretty happy with the way this page from Athena: Grey Eyed Goddess turned out, showing the opening stages of the Gigantomachy, the war of the Giants. Thought I'd share it with y'all.