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| black & white art from The Brother: Run Alonzo Run © Jay Kelley |
At about five or six years old, I figured out that comics were made by people, and that some of them actually got PAID for it! Ever since then, I wanted to be a comic book artist. I drew my first comic in the third grade (an unofficial Marvel Team Up story starring Spidey and Nightcrawler, since you asked) and never looked back. My first published work was in Template/Max Damage #0 from Head Press (thanks, Bob!) which I did in college.
The bulk of my paid comics work is for non-traditional sources. For example, I drew, colored and lettered over 200 pages of comics for an E-learning company's online reading intervention program. Here's the splash page I drew, colored and lettered from Herman Heed: The Most Valuable Videogame Ever Made
Here's a page from my comic Manchild: Birthday Boy. Since it's a darker story, the colors are darker as well...
The black and white sample from The Brother represents a more realistic and traditional style. On Herman Heed I was going for a more cartoony, kid-friendly style. Because Manchild stars a child but combines cartoon action and a dark subject matter and tone, I combine the two styles on Manchild. I think these examples show the span of my work best. Talk to me about the style and feel you want on your comic.
I use a combination of physical and digital drawing tools on my comics, but I'm leaning more and more digital as I go on. I will probably never abandon traditional drawing completely, but working digital helps keep costs down.
- The rates listed are for finished black & white or color artwork.
- I am happy to digitally letter your pages at no extra charge if you make full scripts available to me in word documents or some similar digital format that I can copy and paste from.
- I'll also include a unique color cover or chapter illustration page for orders of 8 pages or more.
- I am also happy to help to work "Marvel Style" from outlines, rough scripts, or verbal outlines, but redrawing pages and excessive changes will be billed separately.
- So you don't have to be Shakespeare, but knowing what you want first is cheaper than not knowing what you want.
You will own the copyrights to all the work I do for you. I like to have the client's permission to reprint work in my artbooks and/or magazine (good ways to promote your project in addition to your own promotions), but that is up to each client to decide.
It's definitely okay to say no.
Please contact me via email, Facebook, or Twitter if you have any questions. I am happy to communicate via cell phone or text too, so just ask for my number if you need it.
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