Brent Anderson Art - Original Comic Art For Sale

September 16, 2008
I have finished Astro City: Dark Age Book 3 #3 and am immediately jumping into Book 3 #4. As it nears completion, I'm sure DC will be putting Book 3 on the schedule.

I'm also busy inking the first issue of the Green Lantern/Plastic Man B&B two-parter. I've pencilled the first half of Part 2, as well. It's been a lot of fun so far. I LOVE drawing Plas. He's a living Warner Bros. cartoon!

I'm currently arranging a store-signing and appearance at Borders Books on Santa Rosa Avenue in Santa Rosa, California on October 12, hosted by Warren Harris and the Science Fiction/Santa Rosa science fiction group. The group meets at the store from 2:00 - 5:00pm on the second Sunday of each month. I will post more details here as they are firmed up.

Take care, all, and Keep Watching the Skies!

August 21, 2008
Boy, has this been a busy summer! I've just finished the pencils for Astro City: The Dark Age Book 3 #3 and have completed the inking through page 15. Almost there. One highlight of drawing issue 3 was designing a new character "Stormhawk." He's way cool. (click on thumbnail for larger image)

I've also done finished the layouts for Part 2 of the Brave & Bold Green Lantern/Plastic Man team-up. Part 1 is inked through page 11 and inking has commenced on the pencils to the second half. It's a fun book and Marv Wolfman's script for Part 1 is very funny.

Also, I'm posting two interviews I did this year, one with Comic Vine at Comicvine.com and the other with The Pulse at Comicon.com. You can either read the transcripts here (Comic Vine Interview, Pulse Interview) or go to the original web sites, where they've posted some artwork and such. A big thank you to Jennifer Contino at The Pulse and the G-man at the Comic Vine!

I've gotta go ink a bunch of stuff, so g'by fer now! Take care.

July 10, 2008
I will be attending Comic-con International: San Diego July 23-27, 2008. I will be in Artists Alley again this year at Table BB-03 (or so they tell me!) Anyway, come by if you are attending the show. I will be doing sketches and selling artwork. If you want a sketch, however, come early. My list for the weekend fills FAST! Seeya at the con.

June 2, 2008
I am giving two more Cartooning classes at Sonoma State University this month. The first is Monday through Friday June 23-27, 2008 as part of SSU's Excel For Youth Summer Program for 4th through 6th graders. You can enroll online at: http://www.ssuexed.com/course.php?id=1311&sem=Summer&year=2008.

Summer 2008

Basic Cartooning

Love cartooning and comics? Create your own cartoon character, then write and draw a sample comic book page or newspaper- style comic strip with a veteran comic book artist! Learn the basics of cartooning including creative layout, effective facial expressions, dynamic figure drawing and an introduction to basic comic strip story structure. Learn a few simple tricks for making your cartoons look more 3- dimensional. By the end of the day you will have the tools and the experience to design, write and draw your own comic strip!

Prerequisite(s): Grades 4-6

EXED NC - Class #1167 - noncredit - $161

Instructor: Brent Eric Anderson (EXCEL)

June 23-27, 1-4pm

Stevenson Hall 2050

EXED NC; noncredit; $161

Class #1167

I'm also teaching another all-day Cartooning class for adults on Saturday June 28, 2008 from 9 am to 4 pm. You can enroll for this class online at: http://www.ssuexed.com/course.php?id=1158&sem=Summer&year=2008

Summer 2008

Cartooning and Comics

Do you enjoy reading comic books or comic strips? Do you doodle and draw? Do you enjoy making up characters and stories? If you do, Cartooning and Comics may be for you. The combining of words and pictures into a seamless narrative language is a unique medium and a unique opportunity for you to not only practice writing and LOTS of drawing, but to have fun while doing it. This class gives you all the tools you need to write, draw and create your own comic strip, comic book page or entire eight-page mini-comic book! There will be group participation in character development and storytelling, comic strip analysis and hands-on art instruction. I invite you to bring to class a sample of your work for review and critique.

ART 800 - Class #1114 - 6 Hours CEU - $114

Instructor: Brent Eric Anderson

1 mtg: Sa, Jun 28, 9am-4pm

Rachel Carson Hall 10

ART 800; 6 Hours CEU; $114

Class #1114

I've completed Astro City: The Dark Age Book 3 #2 and have started laying out #3. This issue reveals a lot about The Apollo Eleven, and a weirder group of heroes you've never seen!

I've also finished eleven pages of Part One (of two) of the Green Lantern/Plastic Man Brave and the Bold team-up. Wait'll you see those aliens!

And a quick note and request. My old computer ate my email. I lost everything between April 2004 and May 6, 2008. This included my Address Book. If I had some pending business with any of you via email over the past few years, please email me again to reenter your contact information. If you had email contact with me before April 2004 or since May 6, 2008, I have you in my data base. All others need to re-up. Thanks.

April 9, 2008

For those of you in the Sonoma County/ North San Francisco Bay Area, I'm teaching another adult education class in Cartooning and Comics at Sonoma State University for the Sonoma State University School of Extended Education on Saturday April 19 from 9 am to 4 pm.

Do you like to read comic books? Do you like to doodle and draw? Do you like creating your own cartoon characters? Then this class might be for you! Have fun writing and drawing a sample comic book page, a newspaper-style comic strip or 8-page mini comic book! There will be group participation in character development and storytelling, comic strip analysis and hands-on art instruction. By the end of the day you will have the tools and the experience to design, write and draw your own comic strip or mini comic book!

When: Saturday, April 19 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Sonoma State University, Rachel Carson Hall 14
ART 800 6 hours CEU Class #4075
To Register: Call 707.664.2394 or online @ www.sonoma.edu/exed/ and follow the catalog links to Art. I'm the only art class in there! Hope to see you there.

February 4, 2008
This week I’m finishing the inking on Astro City: The Dark Age Book 3 #1. The Beautie Special is scheduled to ship this month, so keep an eye out for it. It’s a great story.

There’s a bit more story added to “TecKnight: Jar of Ashes” in Work-In-Progress. Check it out. Also, there will be some color work added to “Good Mother Dinosaur” in a week or so, so look out for that, also.

I will be at Wonder-Con in San Francisco on February 22 and 23 (Friday and Saturday only.) Come by and say “Hi” to Kurt Busiek (the brains and guiding light on Astro City) and me (the guy who shows you what it looks like.) Buy some artwork or get a sketch of your favorite AC character.

I am teaching another Excel For Youth Cartooning class at Sonoma State University on Saturday, March 8 from 10a to 3p in Rachel Carson Hall Room 10. To register for the class go to www.sonoma.edu/exed/applyenroll/excelreg.html. The class is open to 4th through 7th grade students who are serious about the art of cartooning and comics storytelling, or to those who just like to have fun drawing cartoons!

I’ve also been asked to teach a week-long summer course for Excel in June (June 23-27, 2008). Go to www.sonoma.edu/exed/ for more information.

I’ve started thumbnailing my comic book adaptation of the ensemble play I was in last summer The Divide/La División. I will post them here when they are tight enough to actually read!

Take care, all, and have a great 2008!

December 4, 2007
Somerset Holmes pre-production sketches

Most of these drawings were done in the early Eighties in soft pencil on vellum tracing paper and measure approximately 2 x 3 inches. Some are slightly larger, some slightly smaller. All are $10.00 each (except where noted). Add $5.00 to each order for shipping and handling.

Check out the entire gallery here

November 7, 2007
This is WAY last minute, but I'm attending the Portland Comic Book Show this upcoming weekend, Sunday November 11. Kurt Busiek, Howard Chaykin, Steve Leialoha, Trina Robbins and Aaron Lopresti will be there, also. If you are in the Portland downtown area on Sunday, stop by and see us! I'll even give you a sneak peak at the upcoming Astro City Beautie Special! It's nearly finished.

October 5, 2007
I will be teaching a 1-day adult class in cartooning and comics storytelling at Sonoma State University on Saturday October 27th from 9 am to 4 pm. If you live in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and are interested in attending this class, contact SSU @ www.sonoma.edu/exed for enrollment information.

I've been teaching cartooning to 4th through 9th graders for a few years now, but this is the first class I've offered to adult students. I need a minimum of ten students to avoid the class being cancelled, with a cap of twenty total enrollment.

So, sign up or spread the word! I appreciate it. Thanks.

I have finished Astro City: The Dark Age Book 2 #4, which is currently on-sale at your favorite comic book store! This issue completes the first half of the 16-issue Dark Age story arc.

I'm currently half finished with the next Astro City Special which focuses on Beautie from the Honor Guard. It's another great Astro City POV story about a super-powered fashion doll seeking out her origins. It's titled "Her Dark Plastic Roots". Look for it on the stands in a couple of months.

Also, I recently had the honor and privilege of co-creating and performing in a community theater ensemble presentation about borders called The Divide/La División. A video version may appear soon, maybe on YouTube, but I'll keep you posted just in case you may want to see what some comic book artists do in their non-existent spare time! For more information on what The Imaginists are doing currently, check out www.theimaginists.org. Tell Amy and Brent I sent you!

I will be doing two store appearances this month in my local area. The first is Saturday October 20th at Outer Planes Comics and Games 526 7th St Santa Rosa CA 707-5746-2000 from 1 to 5 pm. For more info, check out their web site at www.outerplanesgames.com.

The second is at my friend Kathy Botterini's Comic Book Box 1451 Southwest Boulevard #103 Rohnert Park CA 707-792-0100 on Sunday October 21 from 1 to 5 pm. I will be conducting a comics storytelling chalk-talk and discussion session afterwards. Please consider attending one or both of these appearances. Thank you!

April 24, 2007
I will be attending the Super-Con in San Jose California on June 2nd and 3rd (www.super-con.com). If you are there also, please come by and say "Hi". I will be drawing sketches and selling original art.

I've begun work on Astro City: The Dark Age Book 2 #4. Astro City has gone completely nuts and there's only one hero who can save it!

And check out my newest project "Good Mother Dinosaur" while you're here.

February 23, 2007
I’m currently working on Astro City: The Dark Age Book 2 #3. Charles and Royal get even further enmeshed in the criminal underground during Astro City’s darkest age.

I’m also continuing work on Good Mother Dinosaur. I will be posting some artwork from it here very soon, maybe before Wonder Con this next weekend (March 2-4 at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco.) Hope to see you there. I will have a large selection of artwork from recent issues of Astro City for sale.

November 15, 2006
Well, my first bid for public office didn't net me a seat on the WUSD School Board, but I did gain a greater appreciation of my community and clearly just what a commitment to one's community truly means. I knocked on about four hundred doors, give or take, and saw first hand the variety of neighborhoods in Windsor (pop. 26,000). I only had one door slammed in my face (really!) and a hand full of "not interested"s, but overall, I was impressed with the reponse I received. You can view the voting results at the SmartVoter.org web site. Barring a few late absentee voter ballots, I convinced 1,118 people to vote for me which represents 6.9% of the vote total. I needed 11%-plus or 2000 to 2500 votes to win one of the three seats. Odds are good that I will run again in two years for one of two seats up for grabs then. Wish me luck.

I'm currently working on Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two #2, the continuing adventure of Charles and Royal. During Astro City's darkest modern period, we meet some wacky crime bosses and an otherworldly visitor.

I've even managed some more work on Good Mother Dinosaur and Jar of Ashes, but not enough on either to post anything yet. But soon! Check out Works-in-progress occasionally.

October 18, 2006

Well, I'm smack dab in the middle of campaigning for a seat on the School Board for the Windsor Unified School District. It's been a terrific experience so far. I've never done anything even remotely like this, and I've never been particularly interested in politics or the political process, but the chance to get involved so deeply with my local community, and in the arena of education, is just too interesting and exciting a thing to pass up.

Go to www.smartvoter.org/vote/brent_anderson for a window into what I'm involved in. This web site was given to me free of charge by the League of Women Voters to use in my campaign to get my message out. I'll let you know November 8th how I fared! 'Til then, take care.

(For a look at some campaign comics I produced to help get my word out there, go to the Works-in-progress page. I hope you like them.)

September 30, 2006
In June and July I went to Nicaragua where I gave a cartooning chalk talk to a dozen kids at the Cultural Resource Center in Ciudad Darío. I hope to post a longer report and photos here soon. In July I went to Comic-con in San Diego (thanks, John, for the nice dinner and conversation at the "Top Gun Cafe" (aka Kansas City Bar and Grill). In August the family and I went to La Coruña Spain where we were wined and dined by the Vinetas desde o Atlántico arts celebration. We were treated like royalty and many thanks go out to all the people who cared for us while we were there. (More on this later, also.)

I am now running for the school board here in Windsor. The election is November 7th. If you have any interest in looking in on this interesting process, go to my web site, sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

I'm finishing work on Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two #1 this week.

That's all the news I have for now. In the near future I will be expanding my Work In Progress section. Take care, one and all, and wish me luck in the upcoming election!

March 27, 2006

Wow! I hope everyone had a good holiday season! It's been forever since I last wrote an Update. I've finished Rising Stars: Untouchable. The first issue is in stores now. I understand the second issue is right on its heels.

I've begun work on the Astro City Special: Samaritan "The Eagle and the Mountain", co-starring Sam's ultimate foe, Infidel. This is another one of those great Astro City stories where the action is in the interplay between two very distinct characters and how their relationship developed.

On the teaching front, I have been enjoying the two cartooning classes I started at the beginning of the school year at my son's school. I'm posting a wonderful article that appeared in the March 16, 2006 issue of The Windsor Times. Big thanks go out to Pete Mortensen for doing such a good job, and to all the young cartoonists in my class who make teaching them so much fun.

I have scheduled two cartooning classes with Sonoma State University's Extended Studies EXCEL For Youth Program. The first class is this coming Saturday, April 1, the second on April 29. The classes each run from 9 am - 4 pm, with a break for lunch. It's an intense (and fun) day of learning the basics of cartooning, from creating a character to basic drawing skills and comic strip story structure. Unfortunately, only 6 people have signed up for this first class. If you live in the area near Sonoma State and would like to take one or both of these classes, go to The Sonoma State University's web site for more information. www.ssuexed.com/course.php?id=1311&sem=Spring&year=2006 Thanks. I would love to see you there.

October 4, 2005

This is the hand-colored art printed on the cover of the sketchbook published for the Expo Comic show in Madrid, Spain I was a guest at in November 2003. It measures 8 1/8" x 2 13/16". SOLD.

September 13, 2005
As of September 8th, Astro City: The Dark Age Book One is finished! The three double-page spreads back-to-back almost proved to be color artist Alex Sinclair's undoing, but he got through them, and they look great!

I am now on to the final three issues of Rising Stars: Untouchable for Top Cow. They are scheduled for completion before the end of the year.

On the teaching front, I have lined up an after-school program teaching cartooning to 4th through 8th graders at my son's school. The class is two hours a week on Fridays for the duration of the school year. In addition, I will be teaching basic drawing skills for two hours a month at the Windsor Oaks Academy. I am very much looking forward to both of these opportunities to teach art and cartooning to these kids.

The second issue of Radium the Robot is posted. At only four pages, this is the shortest story I ever did for my early comics. The third issue more than makes up for it, however, but you'll have to wait until next month to see Radium's trip to Mars! Meanwhile, take a peek at my second comics story.

Thanks to everyone who dropped by Kathy Bottarini's store The Comic Book Box on August 17th for my Top Cow store appearance. If you live in the Santa Rosa area, drop in on Kathy's new location in Rohnert Park. It's a wonderful store and Kathy's a wonderful store-owner!

August 8, 2005
Well I finished Astro City: Dark Age Book One #3 on July 8th, directly before going to San Diego. *Whew*! I'm currently working on ACDA#4 pages 6-11, three double-page spreads of a monster invasion of Astro City. I'll wager you've never seen so many monsters in one place before! And poor Royal Williams has to not only survive the invasion, but elude the Blue Knight as well! Yow!

I want to thank everyone who came by my Artists Alley table in San Diego. I enjoyed talking to and meeting all of you.

My busy Teaching Summer is over and I truly enjoyed the experience. The Art Toon Cartoon Wall next door to the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa looks great. I'll try and post a photo of it here, but if you live in Santa Rosa go check it out. The ArtStart program is a truly wonderful thing and I hope to be invited to participate in it again next summer.

My week-long EXCEL Cartooning For Comics class at Sonoma State University went well (except for getting a parking ticket and killing my battery by leaving my headlights on!) Once again, I learned as much or more about myself as a teacher as I'm sure my students learned about cartooning. I will definitely be teaching the class next year, but maybe as two classes, splitting the age groups up, younger and older. The university wants me to teach an adult Extended Education cartooning class next Spring in addition to the EXCEL Saturday University one-day offering. The kids really enjoyed seeing (and reading) the "Radium the Robot" comics I wrote and drew for myself when I was twelve. They suggested I publish them. I explained the realities of how expensive color printing is and how there is no mass market for such a thing, but they did give me the idea of publishing them on this web site! So go to "Radium the Robot" and see where I started. I will be publishing an issue per month, intending each issue to "stay on the stands" for about three months. I produced 29 issues over a three-and-a-half-year period between November 1968 and March 1972, so there's a lot to come. Enjoy!

After I've finished Astro City: Dark Age #4, I will be drawing the three remaining scripts (of five) to Rising Stars: Untouchable. It's Laurel Darkhaven's story written by Fiona Avery, about her life as an assassin for a clandestine American espionage agency.

Also, I will be at the new Comic Book Box retail store in Rohnert Park on August 17th from noon to two o'clock, signing books, showing artwork and generally enjoying Kathy Bottarini's new digs. Come by and say "Howdy"!

July 20, 2005
TECKNIGHT: Jar of Ashes
Created and written by Brent E Anderson and Shirley Johnston

TECKNIGHT: Jar of Ashes is a 200-plus page graphic novel I started putting together well over ten years ago. I had created the TecKnight's world but I had no story. I had a beginning and an end, but no middle. This is where my wife Shirley came in. She is a poet and prose fiction writer, and had written some science fiction, so I asked her if she would read over my world-building notes, and, if inspired, write me a story. She did. And it's a corker.

The story:

An anachronistic Batmanesque super hero is lured out of retirement to save the inner planets of our solar system from certain destruction and provide salvation for the far-flung society itself.

Virtual reality is an environment where anything is possible. Where computer code can make one's wildest desires real. Where a good code writer can be God in his own universe and earn the ratings to prove it. Where being a hero is only limited by one's imagination.

This is the universe of the TecKnight.

In this future high-tech world anyone can create and program a virtual reality domain to compete with the millions of other creative souls who reap the rich rewards of popularity from the billions who consume their virtual products.

Nanotechnology has made every necessity of life infinitely available. Nano-medicine has made people virtually immortal. Work and money are obsolete. Entertainment is all that matters. Constant ratings tabulations determine wealth. The more ratings one has the more prestige one gains. Popularity, whether fleeting or lasting, rules.

The TecKnight comes out of retirement to investigate Joquesne, the upstart head of the fourth most popular network in the solar system. Joquesne has hatched a fantastic plot to destroy the inner planets and terraform the moons of Jupiter. He has discovered a way to ignite the gas giant into a second sun, effectively giving him a 100% share of VR ratings, making him the wealthiest, most powerful individual of what remains.

The TecKnight hunts for clues as to Joquesne's intentions with the help of Sylvia, a 12-year-old girl searching for her father, a gifted game programmer who has disappeared into the Joquerverse.

The first six pages of the story are reproduced here, and there is pre-production art for this project published in my sketchbook (on sale elsewhere on this web site).

I will be adding art periodically to the Work in Progress page, so keep checking back. And enjoy!

June 27, 2005
I've now posted a short story called "The Hero" on the site.

I originally wrote and drew "The Hero" in San Diego, California in the late 80s for T.A.G. Rag, a never-published collection of stories written and drawn by a collective of great people who called themselves the "Tuesday Art Group" (T.A.G.). We would get together every Tuesday to talk about comics, discuss movies, play a version of Hacky Sack we had dubbed "Squoob" (don't ask), and to suffer rehearsals of my comics art seminar presentations.

The incident related in "The Hero" truly happened (insofar as my imperfect memory can recall it) and was printed in Streetwise published by TwoMorrows Publications in 2000. I've reprinted it here for those of you who never saw Streetwise. Check it out.

June 23, 2005
I've decided to sell this Star Wars poster and wanted to give my fans and web site visitors first crack at it. I bought this poster shortly after the original Star Wars film hit theaters in 1977. I wanted to mount and frame it and put it up in my house, but my current house doesn't have a wall big enough!

For sale: ORIGINAL STAR WARS Foreign 3-sheet movie poster (41"x77" folded)

Artist: Tom Jung
Sale price: $900.00 or best offer

Return Policy: Item may be returned within seven days for a full refund including shipping if customer is dissatisfied with condition and if item has been insured for full amount.

June 22, 2005
Life and work are hectic in the month of June. Two birthdays, a wedding anniversary (our 11th), Father's Day, the end of the school year and, topping it off, my teaching gig at Sonoma State University. The class proved so popular, there is a long waiting list (thirty-five students!) My Saturday College class on cartooning in April went very well. (Big thanks to all my students who made it the great experience it was! You guys taught me a thing or two! THANK YOU one and all!)

Another project this summer for me: I've agreed to be a cartooning advisor for three kids who will be designing a comic strip style wall mural for the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa. I will actually be meeting with them this afternoon, about one hour from now! I'll let you know how it goes.

I finished ASTRO CITY: The Dark Age Book One #2 on May 11th and immediately jumped into #3, which I am pushing to finish by the end of this month. The story so far is a nice mix of pathos, comedy, drama and great character interplay. (And the poor Silver Agent... tsk, tsk.)

I will be returning to Rising Stars: Untouchable for Top Cow next month. The first two issues of this RS spin-off series were completed at the end of January last year. The remaining three issues are scheduled for completion by the end of this year. It's written by Fiona Avery and covers the life story of Special assassin Laurel Darkhaven.

I will be in San Diego again this year, so come by Artists Alley and say "hi".

March 8, 2005
I've finished the first issue of Astro City: The Dark Age Book One and am immediately on to #2. Charles the cop and his brother Royal, the petty criminal, are the protagonist brothers in this story arc. I'm really enjoying the unfolding of their characters.

I officially and professionally become a teacher this year. I will be conducting a class at Sonoma State University here in Sonoma County for kids in grades 5 through 9 called Cartooning for Comics. It's through the university's Extended Studies EXCEL program. The first class is a one-day workshop on April 23rd. The second class is a weeklong expanded version of the one-day workshop held June 27th through July 1st. This class will include the opportunity to write, draw, print and self-publish an 8-page mini comic book out of one 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper! I've always enjoyed sharing my passion for comics through teaching and now I am doing it officially as a true professor! In every poll the EXCEL coordinator has taken among young people asked what kind of art class they would enjoy most, comics and cartooning are by far kids' favorite choice. Video games are second. So, if you live near here and would like to join us, contact the university at www.sonoma.edu/exed/EXCEL/default.html for more information on attending these workshops.

I'm also reprising my workshops at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa for the third straight year. On Wednesday July 27th, I will be teaching kids in grades 1 through 3. On Thursday July 28th, grades 4 through 6. And on Friday July 29th, grades 7 to adult. Contact the Charles M. Schulz Museum at www.schulzmuseum.org/ for more information.

Oh, something I almost forgot: On Saturday, May 14th, in partnership with the Northern California Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society, I will be at the Charles M. Schulz Museum from 1 to 3pm as a Cartoonist-in-residence. The museum does this on the second Saturday of each month. Visitors will have the opportunity to see my current work, ask questions, and gain a better understanding of the fields of comics and cartooning. See you there!

February 15, 2005
I'm currently working on the last six pages of Astro City: The Dark Age #1. This issue introduces a new group of supers called The Apollo 11. The Alex Ross designs are superb and I look forward to drawing them more into the continuity in future issues.

I will be attending Wonder-con in San Francisco all three days (February 18-20). You can find me in Artists Alley and I will be drawing sketches this year. Stop by if you get the chance. I would love to meet you. (I'll even give you a sneak preview of Astro City: The Dark Age #1, as long as you don't tell Kurt!)

Okay, I'm back to work. Take care.

December 19, 2004
I finished Rising Stars #24 (and the end of the series) on December 17th, two weeks later than I had planned. My mom had a heart attack on November 19th and I was away from my drawing table for ten days to help her in her recovery. To all of you, and especially those of you who met her a few years ago in San Diego, she's doing well, and is coming along in her recovery. Stents are wonderful things!

Astro City News: I currently have three Astro City: The Dark Age scripts in hand and I've started working on the first issue. As you may have already read, this 12-issue series is based on the script Kurt Busiek had written for the sequel to Marvels, but it is being altered (and added to) quite a bit. The Astro City super hero archetypes are generally much more amenable to change than are most of their Marvel analogs. This story of Kurt's is excellent and I am glad it will be presented in the pages of Astro City over the next couple of years. And, no, I won't get too tired of the 70s cultural design milieu, the fashions or the hair styles any too soon. Not on a story THIS good!

October 8, 2004
I have just finished Rising Stars #23 and I think fans are really going to like the way JMS is concluding his long-running series. If all goes as planned, the final issue will be finished by the end of the year. I've started inking The Pulse #7 this week and it is more of Bendis' comics wonderfulness. The more I draw of these characters, the closer I feel to them. Ribbit!

September 15, 2004
I've finished The Pulse #6 and have now thumbnailed and half pencilled The Pulse #7. Rising Stars #23 is pencilled and ready for inking. Both books should be done by the end of October, so everyone knows where I'M going to be for the next six weeks!

July 19, 2004
I am now making my sketchbook available to all web site visitors. Check out images from the sketchbook here. These drawings were published in a Special Edition sketchbook for a comic book convention in Spain in November of 2003. The drawings were selected from over a dozen personal sketchbooks dating as far back as 1973. This first volume includes life-drawings and preliminary sketches as well as finished pieces from both my years as an amateur and as a professional. Only 350 copies of this signed and limited Spanish edition were printed and many were unfortunately destroyed, so supplies are limited. The sketchbooks are $20 each plus $5.00 shipping and handling.

Contact me to order one for yourself by clicking here.

July 1, 2004
I am currently finishing pencilling and inking Rising Stars #22 for Topcow. Then I'm on to The Pulse #6 for Marvel Comics and Astro City: Dark Age #1(of 3) for DC/Wildstorm. I've signed on with Marvel to draw five issues of The Pulse.

In June, I taught three cartooning workshops for the Charles M. Schulz Museum and in July made a return appearance at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds to judge in the Cartoons and Comic Strips Children's Division of the Sonoma County Fair Art Show.

Last year I mentored a student from the local high school in his Senior Project, to create, draw, publish and sell his own comic book. The student needed to successfully complete this project in order to graduate. He did. (Congratulations, Ben!)

I attended the Alternative Press Exposition (APE) in February of this year and Wonder Con this past April. I will be attending Comic Con International: San Diego again this year where you will find me in Artists Alley.

August 1, 2001
Brent Anderson recently sat down with Drew Reiber of PopImage.com to discuss the comic business, Brent's start in it and his current work on Astro City. Read the full interview here