I just walked out of the comic shop yesterday with a hefty stack– many of those nuDCU books. My current favorite of the bunch is Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s BATMAN so far. To think that I’ve never really collected more than 2 DC books for an extended period of time before, this is pretty impressive. I’ve also never read such a mainstream list of books before. Yesterday’s stack had Flash, Batman, Justice League, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Thor, Captain America, and several other comic book icons, as well as several other creator-owned titles that I adore. More on that soon.

On with the sketches!

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Spider-Man

Hey! That’s my artwork! Where’s my money, shirt makers and/or Hasbro?!

Harley Quinn

Black Adam

Superman

Tomax & Xamot, the Cobra Twins

Cute Supergirl cosplayer loves discount graphic novels!

Captain America

Colossus

Bonnie, Firestar’s high school nemesis

Plastic Man

Green Arrow and Aquaman

Lex Luthor

Jeremy right before attending  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!

We. Had. An. EPIC. Show. New York was great to us, and we couldn’t have ended the convention season better. Thanks to all the fans and friends that swung by, bought us drinks, hung out after-hours, or, y’know…

… Invited us to a live taping of Saturday Night Live as a special guest! Anna Faris was hosting, and we had a wonderful time. Even got a backstage pass afterward and saw a bit of how the magic is made every week. Thanks, Scott!

CLICK THE IMAGE TO MAKE IT ALL BIGGIE-SIZED!

Enjoy! Let me know what you think.

- jeremy

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Now playing: Switchfoot – Chem 6A
via FoxyTunes

BUY my new series SKYWARD #1 today!

TWO HUNDRED Skratchadays! Hope you guys are having as much fun with these as I am. I wanted to have this massive, over-the-top, 200 images in one post thing, but I got pretty behind after a few big projects popped up. I’d get all depressed, but I’m sharing some cool stuff today regardless.
Enjoy!

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Two sketches from Dragon*Con EXCLUSIVE to this blog? AND– AND AND AND a colored page from an upcoming Skyward story? Yeah, I’m spoiling you guys.

Comment away so I don’t regret it! hehehehe

Colors by Dash Martin on that Skyward page. Check out his website and show him some love, too.

CLICK TO EMBIGGEN!

- jeremy dale

ALSO, BUY my new series SKYWARD #1 today!

BUY my new series SKYWARD #1 today!

I’ll be at Fan-Expo Canada in Toronto this weekend– I THINK I have enough stuff scanned to keep the blog updating daily through the trip, so no down time!

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Here’s a con sketch for a fan of G.I. Joe that was picked up at Baltimore– of Lady Jaye in her fan garb she wore one episode at a rock concert. In the episiode, Cobra added subliminal lyrics to the music to brainwash those in attendance to serve their cause. G.I. Joe intervened and stopped them, but the fans still wanted a show. Logically, this is when the Joes got up on stage and performed for the crowds… what did they play? Why, the G.I. Joe theme song, of course.

It’s camp, it’s hilarious, it’s a must-see. Go find it on Youtube like I did and be prepared for a real gem of 80s animation.

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- jeremy dale

ALSO, BUY my new series SKYWARD #1 today!

Long story. Humbling, though. :/

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Here’s a Snake-Eyes/Scarlett from SDCC 2011 that I really enjoyed– one of my favorite con sketches of the show.

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- jeremy

Hey, guys– FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2011 was a smashing success. Perhaps you saw this photo on BleedingCool?

Acme Comics in Greensboro, NC

Yeah– I took that photo. I was dropping off Jermaine Exum, who runs ACME COMICS, after seeing THOR earlier that night– when we saw guys camping out for the Free Comic Book Day even the next day! Spectacular!

In fact, BLEEDINGCOOL.COM picked up the story: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05/07/camping-out-overnight-for-free-comic-book-day/

And the local news reported live from the event as well! Check it out at:   ACME COMICS\’ FCBD 2011 Channel 2 News recap

On with the sketch!

Baroness from COBRA for Free Comic Book Day! Playing a flute, no less. Bizarre, I know– but that was the request, and I was more than happy to work on that for the lady in question. She even provided reference! Bravo. Well played.

Enjoy! Click to embiggen.

- jeremy dale

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Now playing: Miles Davis – But Not For Me (Take 2)
via FoxyTunes

Yeah, I missed out on that whole April Fool’s Day gag– but just in time for CINCO DE MAYO (also known as Womb AH!-viction Day to those in the know), I remembered. So yeah… that happened.

Oh, hey– I will be appearing at ACME COMICS in Greensboro, NC this Saturday for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!

From AcmeComics.com:

Click here to view the embedded video.

We’re thrilled to kick things off with a roll call of friends old and new for the Sketch Cave! Joining us will be Reilly Brown (Incredible Hercules), Jacob Chabot (Mighty Skullboy Army), Jeremy Dale (G.I. Joe), Ryan Dunlavey (Comic Book Comics), Matt Frank (Godzilla), Chris Giarrusso (G-Man), Jamal Igle (Supergirl, Lyle Pollard (The Dead Don’t Sleep), Chris Samnee (FCBD Captain America/Thor, Gregg Schigiel (SpongeBob Comics), Nick Spencer (Morning Glories), Brian Smith (Intrepid Escapegoat), Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules) and Michael Watkins (Sonic the Hedgehog).

We’ll be doing free sketches ALL DAY LONG and the shop with have bags filled to bursting with FREE COMICS! For more information on a Free Comic Book Day event in your neck of the woods, check out:

http://www.freecomicbookday.com

On with the sketch!

Looks a little tighter a sketch than usual? That’s because this is a FREE SKETCH won by a blog commenter recently right here on the Skratchaday blog. They requested DUKE from G.I. Joe in his jetpack from the 1980s animated motion picture’s opening sequence… which is, by the way, one of my favorite animated scenes of anything ever. It still gets me excited. How cool was that opening 2 minutes? It was SPECTACULAR– and it really made me a lifelong Joe fan as a kid.

Enjoy! Click to embiggen.

- jeremy dale

From http://cranboyz.blogspot.com/ :

Fundraiser Details

Here it is in glorious Four Color! Details for the Fundraiser Dinner!

April 2, 2011 at the Greentown Athletic Club in Greentown, Ohio.
Doors will Open at 3 and Dinner will be from 4 to 7. Silent Auction will end at 7 and Winners will be announced!

The Cran is currently going through Chemo and additional treatments that leave him unable to work. Running Land of Cran Comics for the last 20 years left him without Health Insurance. We are trying to raise as much as possible to help him with his bills and expenses so that he does not have to worry about these while receiving medical treatment.

We have more Comic Book Professionals donating their artowrk and even some of their books!
These items will be Auctioned with All of the proceeds going directly to The Cran!

Added to the list of gracious creators are:
Scott McDaniel (Batman, Nightwing)
Craig Rousseau (Perhapanauts, X-Men First Class)
Todd Dezago (Tellos, Perhapanauts, Super Hero Squad)
Jeremy Dale (GI Joe, Skyward, Absolute Zeroes)
SL Gallant (GI Joe, Marvel Adventures: Avengers)
As well as Dark Horse Comics and IDW Publishing!

And please don’t forget, if you are interested in donating money to help The Cran, the Donation Button below accepts Credit and Debit Card, as well as Paypal!

Fundraiser! Donate to the Benefit for the Cran!

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Information right here from Blair Butler @ Fresh Ink Online! The action starts around 5 minutes in:

Pencils by Jeremy Dale

Inks by Kelly Dale

Colors by Steve Downer

This one’s for Bill Yu, an amazing guy and big G.I. Joe fan– I met Bill at Fan-Expo Canada 2009 in Toronto, I believe. He was extremely enthusiastic about my work and the entire Joe mythos, and we’d often talked about me doing some Real American Hero-related pieces for him. Here’s the latest result! Enjoy, Bill! I’ll have it for ya at SDCC this week.

- jeremy dale

I was recently featured in Olivet Nazarene University‘s student newspaper, The Glimmerglass (volume 69 issue 3)! The article was primarily on my successes in the comic industry thus far, including my G.I. Joe run, my work on the 2008 Harvey Award-winning Popgun v.1 from Image, and the movie option for Miserable Dastards. Thanks, all! Much appreciated.

- jeremy dale

Since I get this question all the time from fans, I thought I might as well compile the answer here so I can direct them to one cohesive answer in one link. Enjoy!

- I was hired starting in late 2007 by Conceptopolis to illustrate several G.I. Joe comics.

- They were  written by classic Joe creator and legend Larry Hama, and the continuity from these would fit neatly in between the issues (and sometimes literal pages) of the original 1980′s Marvel Comics G.I. Joe run.

- The all-new comics were packaged as the main box art and inserted into the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero 25th Anniversary toy line in their two-character packs.

- I did 6 of the 12 issues. The others were illustrated by Andrew Froedge, Sheldon Goh, and Eduardo Ferigato.

- Here’s an easy-to-follow checklist of the Jeremy Dale G.I. Joe comics:

- I have tons of pages in my gallery here on www.jeremy-dale.com from this project. Check them out here:

http://www.jeremy-dale.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=381

- As of this writing, there are no current plans known to me to reprint these outside of the action figure packs.

- If you’re interested in purchasing original artwork from my G.I. Joe run, contact me at jeremyhdale@yahoo.com . I’m selling them as cheap as possible to make room in my studio for the constant influx of my latest work.

- You can still find these comic packs on Amazon and many other online venues, and the copies I sign at conventions for the fans sometimes end up on Ebay as well. Good luck!

- jeremy dale

Yo, Joe.

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Now playing: The Minibosses – GI Joe
via FoxyTunes