The Life and Times of Hal Foster

This is a piece I did for a press conference about Hal Foster creator of Prince Valiant. He was born in Halifax, NS and some of the local artists and business people have been trying to raise awareness. We at Atlantic Comics were asked to submit art and help organize the event. Here's my contribution.


-Gino

Slam Fan!

A piece of fan art I did for Dave Howlett's amazing old school Wrestling comic: Slam-A-Rama

Check it out. It's a whole lot of fun!

-Gino

ACK Comics Issue #0.

I recently became involved in a new independent comic project with a couple of my friends: Brent Braaten and Shawn McLeod. Issue Zero of ACK comics (after much delay) should be out in local Halifax/Dartmouth comic shops this week. Here's the coloured version of the Table of Contents for issue Zero. Pick it up!

-Gino

Bus Hero

 This is a scene from a story that's kicking around in my head and hopefully get to to sometime. I've been enjoying coluriong the last little while. I still need to figure out textures yet but not bad.
-Gino

The Return - A Web Comic

Over the summer, Cold Blooded Chillers--an award-winning publication from Robert Heske--ran an open submission contest for its latest anthology: 2012. The challenge was for creative teams to come up with a short comic based on the 2012 'end of the world' mythology.

I was contacted by my writer friend Michael Moreci about providing the art for a script he had written for the occasion. The story departed a little from what the anthology was asking for but we both enjoyed the story and decided to submit it anyway. The end result is what you'll see here, a short called 'The Return.'

Michael and I earned an Honorable Mention for the strip, but not publication. Both of us liked the story, and rather than allow our completed work to languish in a drawer--or hard drive, rather--we decided to use the power of the internet and get the story out there.

So here's the deal: Michael and I are both posting this first page (of eight) on our sites. Every Friday, I will post even numbered pages; every Monday, Michael will post the odd pages. As mentioned above, the story is eight pages long. So in four weeks, we'll have posted the complete comic--and for free no less!

Cheers and I hope you enjoy!
-Gino

(Some of the above was taken verbatim or adjusted slightly from Michael's site. He is the writer after all!)