Author: cmbutzer
World War II book cover
Just finished this cover. It was a lot of fun to draw but digital painting it took more effort than I thought it would require. so much detail. I wonder why I do it to myself sometimes and then realize, no, I don’t wonder. I just can’t help it. Now onto the interiors!
Buzzfed MoCCA
My Risographed comic “fight! Fight! FIGHT!” was mentioned in a Buzzfeed article on MoCCA fest! “Full of over-the-top violence and audacious color, the action in this book comes out swinging and never stops!” Yep, that pretty much describes it perfectly. My studiomate Aya Kakeda also made the list!
Post-MoCCA Depression
It’s such a rush to get ready for a festival! pencils drawing. Risographs duplicating (they’re duplicators not copiers!), Staplers stapling… then when it’s over and Monday morning rolls around and your friends from around the country head home or you head home in kicks the post-festival exhaustion- not really depression, but it made a punnier […]
MoCCA 2015!
I’ll be exhibiting at the MoCCA festival so if you’re in or near NYC swing on by check out one of the best indie comic festivals there is (it did suck for a while but it got better, much better) I’ll be at table 349 along with my studio mates Aya Kakeda, Jen Tong, Anuj […]
Vikings are finished!
Well, at least I’m done with drawing them… for now. I really enjoyed illustrated this book. It played to all of the things I love drawing! non-fiction historical detail, swords and shields, combat, and whiff of fantasy. Tolkien was heavily inspired by Norse mythology and legends when he created middle earth and in my research […]
Vikings! RIPE! Ripe Vikings (I suspect that goes without saying)
What do you do when you’re a viking who has just been ambushed by 15 or so bandits? If you’re Egil Skallagrimsson you fight until you lose your weapon and then beat them with rocks. All of them, including their buddies who show up later. This is one of 40 illustrations I’ve been working on for […]
Character Design and Development of Nero Noir
The process of developing and designing “Nero Noir” the anti-hero private investigator who’ll make his debut in Zombie Cat #2- which if all goes as planned will be ready for the MoCCA Festival 2015. This was a tough one for me, usually it just comes to me- a couple of sketches and good to go, […]
LA Zinefest was Good Fun cue a Boxing Wiener
Ah LA. if I wasn’t nearly freezing solid in Brooklyn I doubt I could remember your warm, palm lined, streets in which I sat endlessly in traffic with more fondness. I mean really, I can run five miles faster than I could drive there. That said. LA Zinefest was excellent! I really had a great […]
World War II pencilling!
Pencils for the cover of a book about World War 2 that I’m doing for Little Brown. Love drawing the P-38 Lightning- quite possibly the coolest plane ever. EVER
LA Zinefest! woot!
I’ll be exhibiting for the first time at the LA Zinefest! Along with my studio-mate Jen Tong, Her BF Joel Alter, and former studio-mate, good friend, and new LA resident Sung Yoon Choi! I’m really looking forward to it and it’s SOON! Just more than a month away. I’ve got to get busy! I’m not a […]