2011: Year in Review

Looks like I forgot to do one of these last year. Oops. Anyway, here's pretty much everything I designed, art directed, illustrated, or wrote in 2011 (apart from stuff that hasn't been announced yet.) In no particular order:

Liar's Kiss by me and Jhomar Soriano

Branded to Kill

Tokyo Drifter

Blind Goddess

Leaping Tall Buildings

Tiny Furniture

The Moment of Truth

The Comics Journal #301

Sweet Smell of Success / art direction by me, illustration by Sean Phillips

Le Havre / art direction by me, illustration by Manule Fior

Three Outlaw Samurai / art direction by me, illustration by Greg Ruth

Godzilla / art direction by me, illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz

Labor Rising

Cul-de-sac

Blow Out

American Noir

A Night to Remember / art direction by me, illustration by Gregory Manchess

On Intersectionality

The Killing / art direction by me, illustration by Connor Willumsen

Senso / art direction by me, illustration by Glen Orbik, type design by F. Ron Miller

The War Room

ATP 2011 postcards

12 Angry Men / art direction by me, illustration by Sean Phillips

Shock Corridor / art direction by me, illustration by Daniel Clowes

The Naked Kiss / art direction by me, illustration by Daniel Clowes

Jim Henson's Tale of Sand / design by me, illustration by Ramón K. Pérez

The Phantom Carriage / art direction by me, design & illustration by Christopher King

Four Feathers / art direction by me, illustration by Gregory Manchess

Broadcast News

Diabolique / art direction by me, design & illustration by Dave Plunkert

The Muses Go To School

Topsy-Turvy / art direction by me, illustration by Yuko Shimizo, type design by F. Ron Miller

The Mikado / art direction by me, illustration by Yuko Shimizo, type design by F. Ron Miller

Island of Lost Souls / art direction by me, design & illustration by Aesthetic Apparatus

EGG # 3 / stories written by me and drawn by Jorge Coelho, Robert Goodin, and (kind of) Leonard Starr. Cover by me.

Here's to a great 2012!!

Best of 2011?!

Hey wow! Critic Nathan Wilson at Graphic Novel Reporter just selected Liar's Kiss as one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2011! (You have to scroll down a bit in that link.) He also says the book "combines all the flavors of a classic Bogart film with the soulless debauchery of a Jim Thompson novel," which might be my favorite pull-quote yet. Thanks, Nathan!

(P.S. Hope to see any NYC-based folks at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival in a couple hours!)

Another review

Hey, best review so far! And from the notoriously demanding Comics Journal,* no less! I feel almost immodest linking to a review like this... (Not that I'm not gonna let that stop me.)

"[N]ewcomer Eric Skillman deserves a place alongside Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke as a vibrant storyteller based on his debut graphic novel, Liar’s Kiss."

"Soriano has achieved a delicate middle ground between overtly heavy lines and reliance on deep blacks to create the atmosphere. [...] A solid story with powerful illustrations, Liar’s Kiss is a strong addition to Top Shelf’s catalog."

*Full dislosure: I did design the latest (print) issue of TCJ, (though I don't believe I ever met Nathan Wilson.)

I'm married!!

Crazy, right?!

(The image above was our (awesome) wedding gift from Rachel Friere of Dental Hygiene & Secret Identities fame. )

Updates!

So... if you know me well enough to care, you've probably heard the news already, but it's worth mentioning as an excuse for the extremely light posting schedule around here lately: I went and got myself engaged! That's right: the lovely and talented Mariel P. Isaacson and I will be tying the proverbial knot this August. And just to keep things vaguely design-related, here's a look at Mariel's ring, custom-designed (with some input from me, of course) by Brooklyn-based artist Camile Hempel:



So... yay! Exciting times!

Anyway... regularly "scheduled" design post coming in 3... 2... 1...

2009: The Year in Review

We always get a good response to our year-end cover grid newsletters at Criterion, so I thought it might be fun to do my own year-end retrospective, post all the various DVDs, books, posters, comics, CDs, and random illustrations I've designed, written, art directed, illustrated, or colored this year, minus a few things I've been working on toward the end of the year that haven't been announced yet. In alphabetical order, just to have some way of organizing them:

ALEC: The Years Have Pants


AX: Alternative Manga


"Below the Fold," written and colored by me, art by Jorge Coelho


Che


"Cold Feet," written and colored by me, art by Evan Bryce




Drawings for Robert Goodin's Covered blog, after Jon Bodganove and Jerry Ordway


Downhill Racer


EGG #1: written & colored by me, art by Connor Willumsen, Jorge Coelho, Jhomar Soriano, Dan Duncan, and Joe Dellagatta. Cover by me.


El Norte ("Designed" by me, but the illustration is from an old poster, the artist of which I can't remember at the moment.)


The Empire Strikes Out


The Finding/El Descumbrimiento


Il Generale della Rovere


Golden Arrow by the Randy Bandits


Gristle


"Lost & Found," written and colored by me, art by Ming Doyle


Make Way for Tomorrow, "art directed" by me, designed and illustrated by Seth.








Pigs, Pimps and Prostitutes


The Playwright


Political Awakenings


Rashomon poster, art directed by me, painting by Kent Williams


"The Real Thing," written and colored by me, art by Dan Duncan


Walk, by Red Rooster


Revanche poster


Revanche DVD cover


"Spared," written and colored by me, art by Joe Dellagatta


Saving State U


Poster for The Stumblebum Brass Band


"These Kids Today," written and colored by me, art by Connor Willumsen


"A Troubling of Goldfish," for the "A Murder of Crows" show


"Uninvited," written and colored by me, art by Jhomar Soriano


"The Wheel Turns," colored by me, art by Jorge Coelho, written by K.D. Stockton


Wise Blood, art directed by me, illustrations by Josh Cochran.