Just not in place of the Hulk statue. Pay attention, kids– hostage negotiations are all an integral part of the institution of marriage. Take notes, I’m passing along gold here.

On with the sketch!

Not counting yesterday, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted multiple-image Skratchadays, so I thought with all these Free Comic Book Day images on hand, why not?!

A little bit of everything here, from mutants to busty kittens to women torn between a ninja and Nick Fury’s son. Digest those little trivia pieces for a sec.

Okay, yeah– hope you dig them! The owners seemed to. Hard to tell when the sun is screaming down at you, y’know? hehehe

- jeremy dale

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Now playing: My Chemical Romance – Teenagers
via FoxyTunes

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

Above and beyond posting the KELLYDAYS sketch blog posts to give me a break from the crazy schedule, Kelly also inks for me from time to time, and sells her inks at shows. Using any tool she can get her hands on from brush to Micron to brush pen to Copic Special Black and back again, Kelly inks furiously over blueline printouts on bristol, and isn’t bad at all! I’m proud of her– she’s come a long, long way in just a couple years inking.

Here are a couple of her more recent pieces– scroll down to my C2E2 SKETCHES post to see more!

By the way: She doesn’t know I planned this blog post. So comment it up and let her know what ya think! Shhh, it’s a SURPRISE.
Enjoy! Click to embiggen.

- jeremy

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Now playing: Daft Punk – Castor
via FoxyTunes

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

Strangely enough, I didn’t get photos of about 2 dozen MORE sketches from last weekend– so if anyone has scans of theirs not posted here, let me know!

- jeremy

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

Baroness, Stormshadow, and Firefly

Dragon and Mr. Glum from Savage Dragon

'Hero' owned by David Hammond

White Witch from the Legion

Here’s another four commissions– the Cobra one I’m fairly pleased with, definitely. I always enjoy illustrating the Cobra-aligned characters in the G.I. Joe universe, and this commission was a breath of fresh air in that it wasn’t just another ninja piece. Always fun!

I won’t lie– Savage Dragon is one of my favorite comics currently being published. Erik Larsen’s work on that book is inspiring to see unfold, and so far this year he’s put out 15 issues! Crazy. I’d love to do a creator-owned book at Image one of these days… here’s hoping! That’d be very cool.

Hero is a creator-owned character I was requested to render. I had a heck of a time working out how to draw his helmet, but in the end it turned out pretty strong, I think.  Fun fun.

White Witch is from the LEGION books DC Comics puts out, and the reference I found for her online was fascinating– I’d never seen that before! The eye tendril thing is kinda creepy in some ways. I’ve been playing catch-up on all matters Legion, I’m afraid– although it’s one of the top requests I get for convention sketches and commissions, I never really investigated the series myself until fairly recently. The Jim Shooter/ Francis Manapul run was simply GORGEOUS, and I really wanted to see where it was headed. Too bad it got cut out behind the scenes towards the end of their run. :/

Enjoy!

- jeremy dale

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Now playing: Mute Math – Chaos
via FoxyTunes

Jeremy Dale a Special Guest @ WizardWorld Chicago 2009!

I am happy to announce that I was just added as a special guest at this year’s WizardWorld Chicago Comicon 2009! Check out my sidebar on the right for links and show information, or click HERE to be taken directly to the show page.

See ya there!

- 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

Here’s a few sketches from HeroesCon that I drew over the course of the weekend. Enjoy!

- jeremy dale