SPIDEY COVER ROUGHS

Here's my cover roughs for The Amazing Spider-man Marvel pocket books cover i ended up drawing 6 cover roughs and the final pencils got changed abit from the roughs.
this will be my 23 cover for the pocket book range produced by Panini
i'll show the finished pencils when i have permission from the publisher till then you can guess which cover the editor liked best.

Spiderman /Green Goblin copyright marvel characters inc 2009

IRON MAN COVER

Iron Man cover for a Marvel Pocket book cover 2008 my pencils for the cover where auctioned to raise funds for Gene Colan's health care, Gene is a fantastic artist who has always inspired me to draw since my youth.it was a real honour for me to draw this cover, inks by Gary Erskine and colouring by Junior Tomlin published by Panini UK LTD

IRON MAN AND CHARACTERS COPYRIGHT MARVEL CHARACTERS INC 2009.

DOC SAVAGE SKETCH and WEDNESDAY COMICS

Drawn for fun ,always liked the man of bronze . glad to read DC comics are bringing him back into the funky world of comics.

by the way really enjoying DC comics Wednesday comics a weekly newspaper format with fantastic art and fun stories ,that would have been a fantastic publication to have been in.

MACBETH NEWS

Just heard that sales for the American original text are going so well the book will be going back to press soon for a reprint!,so that means a reprint for the U.S version and the U.K original text version has already gone back for another reprint, this is all very encouraging news and i hope The Tempest does as well if not better when it gets published next month

also here's a image from the Classical Comics website Macbeth in Turkish

KISS MANGA

These where drawn for a u.k mag called Clown white issue 3 (a Kiss fan magazine)in 1999 they only published Gene and Paul

I'm surprised that Kiss haven't had a Kiss Manga book drawn for the u.s market it would sell loads.

GENE AND SHANNON PAINTING

Painted this 11 years ago for fun, gave the original to a friend for a birthday present a few years ago as he's a big Kiss fan

MARVEL MAN TO BE PUBLISHED BY MARVEL

Fantastic news , and it makes sense that Marvel now have the rights to publish the character and what a fantastic image Joe Quesada has drawn for the first promotional poster.

my pin-up was drawn for Jason Harris a huge Marvel man fan ,i drew it as a kind of tribute to Alan Davis

images copyright marvel comics 2009

DEMONS OF KENSEI

Enjoyed drawing these fun characters based on Japanese legends

ART COPYRIGHT JON HAWARD /MITCHEL SCANLON 2006

KENSEI LEGEND OF THE SWORD SAINT

This was drawn in 2006 for a project with Mitchel Scanlon ,due to work and other factors we never got around to telling his story, i like Samurai movies and drawing this scratch type style maybe one day we will get to tell his saga....

art copyright JON HAWARD / MITCHEL SCANLON 2006

WASTED ISSUES 1 AND 2 OUT NOW TO BUY!!

wasted the adult humour title out now to buy issues 1 and 2 ,the third issue's cover features ''tales of the buddha'' drawn by SIMON BISLEY!! you can order the mags direct through http://www.badpressltd.com/ or diamond previews u.k section

X-MEN VS THE BROOD MARVEL POCKET BOOK COVER

Here's another Marvel Pocket book cover ,the book should be out to buy now.
the Uncanny X-men vs the Brood my pencils where inked by Gary Erskine.

I'm working on a Amazing Spider-man pocket book cover today featuring Spidey getting a beating by the Green Goblin again I'm drawing it in Classic Marvel style ie like John Romita Sr,will post the art once i get permission in the meantime here's the X-men had alot of fun drawing this one in the style of Dave Cockrum.

X-MEN,BROOD CHARACTERS COPYRIGHT MARVEL CHARACTERS INC /PANINI 2009

happy weekend everyone who cares to view this blog!

photo by Timbo Perkins

COMIC EXPO CARD SET 2000AD IMAGE

This image was drawn for one card in a pack of cards for the charity Childline .
for sale at Comic Festival Bristol i think in 2003 ,my art was coloured by the brilliant David Pugh.

all characters copyright Rebellion a/s 2009

JOKER SKETCH

Another quick sketch book drawing while i was listening to Linkin' Park's cd

SUPERMAN QUICK SKETCH

UP UP AND AWAY...this was drawn in 10 mins, always loved supes

SPIDEY VS THE HULK PANINI MARVEL POCKETBOOK COVER

Here's a new ''the Amazing Spiderman'' Marvel Pocket book cover which should be out to buy now featuring inside fantastic art by Gil Kane and John Romita.

my pencils where inked by Gary Erskine

i really loved drawing this one!!!

artwork copyright Marvel Characters inc/ Panini 2009

ART BOOK OF THE YEAR /THE MARVEL ART OF MARKO DJURDJEVIC

My brother bought me this book as a present ,it's amazing stuff Marko is up there with Boris,Alex Ross,Bisley , every page has a fantastic image .
worth every penny if you love comics and Marvel characters this is a must buy.

VENOM

been busy this week on Hamlet layouts and cover roughs for The Amazing Spider-man for a marvel pocket book cover, looking forward to the weekend rain free i hope.

anyway here's another fav cover of mine Venom i was told to draw it like Todd Mcfarlane , it was inked by Lee Townsend and coloured by the award winning colourist Jason Cardy (Henry the 5th, Frankenstein)I reckon it would make a great poster!!

have a great weekend all
best
jon

VENOM COPYRIGHT MARVEL CHARACTERS INC /PANINI

Macbeth the Turkish edition

Received from the postman today a copy of the Turkish version of the Macbeth graphic novel i worked on for Classical Comics , it looks a lot like the British and American versions apart from at the back they have adverts for 1066 TV prog and Merlin the BBC 1 TV show ,and of course the balloons are in Turkish ,so now there are to date 5 different versions of this work ...still waiting to see the Japanese version, it's nice to know this book is getting a global audience after all the hard work went into drawing it and the production of it as well.

FANTASTIC FOUR VS THE SANDMAN COVER

Following the Kirby last post i was asked to draw this cover in the style of Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott, David Roach did a great job on the inks and it was coloured by Junior Tomlin the cover was another Panini Marvel pocket book cover drawn in 2007, this was great to draw and i think it's one of my best covers for Panini.

FANTASTIC FOUR /SANDMAN COPYRIGHT MARVEL CHARACTERS INC

COMIC BOOK IDOL NUMBER 5 JACK (THE KING) KIRBY

Growing up in the 70's in the UK Jack's Marvel work was reprinted in A4 size comics in black and white from Marvel U.K ,if you where lucky the odd railway station or corner newsagent would have the odd full colour american comic .

what i love about his work is his designs, his dynamics the sheer power of the characters as they leap off the page at you , he had a great energy going on in his pencils and a unique style , he had an incredible ability to create fantastic characters for the main publishers in a 50 year career .

to read more about the king and to see more fantastic art my friend Tim Perkins website Wizards-Keep has a Hall of Fame section with a terrific tribute
here's the link
http://www.wizards-keep.com/index.asp-Q-Page-E-hall-of-fame--26699466

Kirby was a genius and there will never be another artist like him who could work like him or create like him.

FANTASTIC FOUR VS THE SILVER SURFER COVER

This cover was drawn in 2007 for a Panini Marvel pocket book cover,

i was asked to try and draw it Kirby style which was a thrill as I'm a huge Jack Kirby fan i asked David Roach to ink it in the style of Joe Sinnott , it was coloured by Junior Tomlin

it's been a real honour the last few years drawing these covers as the material inside was the stuff i read as a child which inspired me to be a comic artist.

FANTASTIC FOUR , SILVER SURFER COPYRIGHT MARVEL CHARACTERS INC

WARRIOR NUN ANNUAL COVER 2000

guest on the scotch corner blog today ,thanks guys your stuff looks knock out ,check it out http://scotchcorner.blogspot.com/

this was a cover for a Warrior Nun black and white annual i drew it in 2000 coloured by Len o'Grady

THUNDER REALM PIN-UP 2000

This was for a pin up for Thunder Realm a Warrior Nun mini series that never happened the colouring was by ''cool beans'' Len o'Grady ,at the time i was really into Joe Mad's stuff on Battle Chasers.

JULIUS CAESAR BY SEAN O'CONNOR AND GARY ERSKINE

Just check this out it's a spread from Julius Caesar from Classical Comics ,it's fantastic the art reminds me of Brian Bolland from his days in 2000ad

this looks like a winner already

http://twitpic.com/94ngh

HAMLET UPDATE

I'm art directing Hamlet for Classical Comics ,I'll finish designing the main characters in the play today that's 17 different looking characters and around 94 drawings,

next will be the layouts/roughs for the artist that is drawing the book to follow .
Hamlet is going to be a monster project as it's the full play it will be 186 page graphic novel

ACTION MAN TRY OUT SAMPLE PAGES 1995

Drew these pages in 1995 for a Action man comic ,the style of the comic was more grown up than the later Panini version , soon after these samples where drawn the title was cancelled which was a shame ,they used to have wonderful painted covers by Colin Macneil.
i inked one of my pages using a brush and i got my good friend Mike Perkins to ink the first page ,mike of course now is a respected artist and inker super star for Marvel working on lots of titles like House of M,Union Jack, Captain America and The Stand.
these pages have never really been seen by joe public