#josh lees

[heartsandminis]

Josh Lees @lickspittlecomics and I will be at SPX this weekend at table G1. Selling comics, comics and a few comics.

[maplekeycomics]

If you thought that earlier post exhausted our store of original art that's on offer for our Kickstarter Backers, you were very badly mistaken! We've got EVEN MORE PREZZIES in store for our supporters! Have a peek below!

Above is one of Sophie Goldstein's ( redinkradio ) pages from her soft SF story "the Oven." Sophie's lines are always so crisp, her compositions so artful--her originals are really works of art in themselves!

Rather than inking right on top of her pencils, Sophie tends to do her initial drawings on sheets of copy paper, scan them, convert them to cyan lines, and print enlarged version out on bristol board before attacking them with fixed-width pens. The results are as above--clean, elegant inks with a minimum of correction involved. You can own this page by backing our Kickstarter for $200 or more! (EDIT: Some lucky soul has already claimed this piece! Don't let the rest of our originals escape your grasp!)

Also available are some pages from Josh Lees' ( lickspittlecomics ) "Rigel and the Star Teens!" Josh is doing his best Dan DiCarlo in these pages, and the results are stunning.

Well, okay, you might have seen the page above already, but not this next one!

Wait, what? Are those mechs in the first two panels? Wearing centurion skirts? This demands closer inspection!

Crazy! Also, look at how tight Josh's line work is! The man's skill knows no bounds. You can own either one of the beauties above by backing us for $145 or more--you'll also get all five of the prints we have on offer, plus a digital AND analog edition of the first issue of Maple Key Comics! Which is a steal!

But wait--there's more! The ineffable Mathew New ( mathewnew ) has also generously donated a page from his story "Emi Foster and the Pets from Outer Space!"

Oh man, look at that action-packed composition. And don't get me started on those spot blacks--it's a straight-up exciting page! Let's zoom in a bit, shall we?

Jeepers, how's Emi going to get out of this jam? The answer awaits in Maple Key Comics, but you can receive this one-of-a-kind piece of original artwork, plus digital and analog subscriptions to the first THREE issues, plus all 5 of our super-limited edition prints, for backing the Kickstarter for $166 or more!

We're already around 75% funded, but we still have a ways to go! So stay tuned for more exciting updates from our contributors!

[maplekeycomics]

Maple Key contributor Josh Lees ( lickspittlecomics ) has a pair of cowboy boots in the colors of the New Mexican flag. His 6-part story "Rigel and the Star Teens" will run through the entire first year of Maple Key.

Lees' work--in particular his Star Teens stories (which are part of his MFA Thesis at Vermont's Center for Cartoon Studies)--is largely concerned with coming-of-age narratives in fanciful settings, drawn in a fun, Archie-influenced style.

In each of Lees' Star Teens vignettes, his pubescent heroes search for love, adventure, and their own place in the galaxy--all in between puns, of course. For more of Lees' work, please visit his website. In the meantime, keep it locked here for more creator spotlights and more information on Maple Key! If you like what you've seen so far, won't you consider backing our Kickstarter?

[benkevans]

This was an anthology I did with fellow CCSers Luke Healy, Iris Yan, and Josh Lees. I wrote the Tucson, Arizona story.