End of the year BLOW-OUT!

Here's a little something to keep everyone warm until spring. And by "keep warm" I mean some of my artwork to throw on the fire.

 (Apologies to Brian Bolland)

First we have the worst kept secret in DW fandom, the first Darkwing Duck annual from Boom Studios. Unfortunately my duties on the regular series will keep me from illustrating the main story but Ian Brill's words will be in the more-than-capable hands of cover artist  and #1 DW fan, Sabrina Alberghetti.

Now while most of you might be thinking "Thank God. A break from Silvani's crayon scribblings." You would be wrong. Not only will I be contributing the A & B covers with colors by the witty and wenchtastic Amy Mebberson, but I will also be inking a special incentive cover by DW creator Tad Stones! And if that wasn't enough to put your persimmons in a pickle I will have the honor of illustrating the first ever Darkwing Duck comic book story written by Mr. Stones. 8 glorious pages of flapping terror colored by our very own Andrew Dalhouse.

But let's not forget our regular dose of DW in March. "F.O.W.L. Disposition" continues in March with a cover that was colored by Amy Mebberson. We also collaborated on the B cover for the 4th issue of Rescue Rangers.

Now since most of the art here can be seen in one form or another around the intranets, here's a special end of the year present to all of you who have made this the best year of my professional career ever. These are some of my sketches for the many alternate Darkwings that appeared thought the soon-to-be-wrapped-up "Crisis on Infinite Darkwings" storyline. When I first got the script, the story called for about 10 or so alternate DW's. But with a title like "Infinite Darkwing's" now could I not go a little overboard. I think when it was all said and done, I had created over 12,522 alternate DW's. Hey Kids, collect 'em all!

Happy New Year! Thank you all for checking out my site and for not using my comics as just a coaster.

...And to all a good night

From my family to yours.

Sketchbook Shenanigans

Darkwing Duck #8 is in the bag and it's time to move on to greener pastures.... Like Darkwing Duck #9. But in the 5 minutes I have between issues, I thought I'd share a few pages out of my sketchbook.

Now if you've paid attention to this blog at all you know I hate keeping sketchbooks. I can fill up a book with great stuff and do one lousy drawing at the end and the whole book is ruined for me. But lately with my work on DW I've actually found it pretty useful to keep all my sketches for the series all in one place.

I'm not really a Marvel guy but I remember reading The Defenders as a kid. I just thought the idea of a team of non-team players was kind of cool.

I really hope if we get to shoehorn Glomgold into DW he's the Afrikaner version. That just seems more evil.

Clayduck. Just in case there's a Batman/DW crossover

Or Manroot, in case you know fear.

Epic Mickey get me thinking of the possibilities....

Not to forget my Muppet roots...

...or my Ninja Turtle roots. My first job out of college was doing merchandising art for the turtles. Of course that was the FIRST time they were popular (God, I'm old)

Always gotta throw in a little Star Wars Love. By the way, when did Jabba go from 3 fingers in ROTJ to 4 fingers in everything else?

Of course a little cheesecake for desert.