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City Under Siege!

The drama’s been intensifying over at Playing For Keeps, which means more dramatic covers for me to draw. I haven’t been giving J.C. Hutchins proper credit for the relentlessly amazing work he’s been doing with the titles and taglines he’s put together for these covers. The stuff he did for #7 is so […]

Friday, December 21st, 2007

What Clever Looks Like

“Gee, Jared,” you say. “Sure, those Geeklabel shirts you designed for PLAYING FOR KEEPS sure are awesome, but will I look awesome wearing one?”
Judge for yourself:

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Keeping Up With PLAYING FOR KEEPS

The main irony of blogging is that if you’re busy doing things, you don’t have time to write about them on your website. Which is too bad, really. The past 3 PDF covers for Playing For Keeps have been some of my best work:

Click on the art to go to the respective PDFs.
Mur […]

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Jack In The Box

New Playing For Keeps chapter came out yesterday, which means a new PDF ready for download, which means new art. Mur’s character Clever Jack was to be the focus, and he’s a great character to draw. His logo, which you can see on his sleeve there, is my favorite of the series so […]

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Terror From Above!

The first episode of Mur Lafferty’s podiobook PLAYING FOR KEEPS is now available for download. Go download it if you like good things, like superheroes and heroines with no patience for superheroics.
Mur’s also making a PDF of each audio chapter available, which is one of those ideas that is so awesome that I’m surprised […]

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Been doing some artwork for Mur Lafferty’s new podiobook Playing For Keeps; superhero logos, comic book covers, visual elements of the rich world Mur has created. It’s been a lot of fun. Not only has it been a chance to work with Mur and J.C. Hutchins (not to mention my wife-to-be, J.R. Blackwell, […]

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007