Sean Phillips

...Go To Hell

2012-01-24T18:21:00.002Z

FATALE inks

2012-01-23T20:23:00.000Z

More FATALE Inks

2012-01-20T18:44:00.002Z

Original Art

2012-01-20T16:18:00.000Z

Big pile of new original art has arrived at Splashpage Art including Criminal and Fatale pages and covers.

Beast Sketch

2012-01-20T11:34:00.000Z

The Heart of the Beast has red endpapers so having to do coloured sketches in them...

Last Night's Life Drawing...

2012-01-20T11:05:00.001Z

...was a waste of time. Did two terrible drawings, this is the best.
Charcoal and white acrylic on paper.

The Heart Of The Beast

2012-01-19T11:28:00.000Z

This was one of the first projects I did for DC twenty years ago. Long out of print, I've put a few copies up for sale on amazon. It's a 96 page hardcover, fully painted art, written by Dean Motter and Judith Dupre.

FATALE inks

2012-01-19T09:02:00.002Z

Inferno

2012-01-17T18:35:00.000Z

Found this today while thinking about the video game theme at What Not. Don't play games myself but I painted this and a 25 page comic for the game Inferno about 15 years ago or so.

Gangster's Moll

2012-01-17T11:41:00.000Z

Painted for What Not...

FATALE finished inks

2012-01-14T16:14:00.003Z

FATALE partial inks

2012-01-13T18:49:00.000Z

FATALE pencils

2012-01-13T16:33:00.002Z

Edgar Allan Poe

2012-01-12T11:55:00.001Z

Back

2012-01-12T10:13:00.001Z

I know, it's been a while. I've been working on Fatale all the time but just didn't feel like posting anything from it, don't want to give too much away about the story.
Here's a cover I painted yesterday for issue five....

FATALE Inks

2011-12-20T17:49:00.002Z

FATALE #4 cover

2011-12-14T17:33:00.000Z

Vanity Fair

2011-12-09T18:44:00.001Z

The perfect Xmas gift... Vanity Fair Gift Guide

Last Night's Life Drawing

2011-12-09T11:15:00.001Z

Charcoal, ink and acrylic on paper. 40 x 28 inches. 2 hours.

FATALE inks

2011-12-08T12:41:00.001Z

FATALE pencils

2011-12-07T16:05:00.001Z

CRIMINAL The Last Of The Innocent

2011-12-07T10:01:00.001Z

The trade collection of Criminal: The Last Of The Innocent is out in the UK and US today with an introduction from Patton Oswalt.

Hot Water

2011-12-05T18:31:00.001Z

Birthday Boy!

2011-12-02T15:26:00.001Z

My son Fred is 21 today.

Last Night's Life Paintings

2011-12-02T11:07:00.001Z

12 x 12 inches, acrylic on panel, 45 minutes.

I wasn't keen on that first one, too dead, so I did this as well, trying to keep it loose and lively.
6 x 9 inches, acrylic on paper, 30 minutes.

LOVECRAFT poster

2011-11-30T09:22:00.001Z

Due to popular demand, my HP Lovecraft painting is now available as a poster from my CafePress store.

H P Lovecraft

2011-11-29T16:32:00.001Z

Today I have mostly been drawing tentacles...

FATALE finished

2011-11-28T15:40:00.001Z

Well, the first issue anyway. 24 pages done, at least 264 to go. Plus covers and back up article illustrations...

Last Night's Life Painting

2011-11-25T10:23:00.001Z

Acrylic on card, 20 x30 inches, 2 hours.

Fatale inks

2011-11-25T08:14:00.001Z

Angry Detail

2011-11-23T13:56:00.001Z

12 ANGRY MEN

2011-11-23T11:14:00.001Z

DVD and Blu Ray out now with my cover painting...

12 Angry Men

FATALE #3 cover

2011-11-23T11:02:00.001Z

Conan

2011-11-22T09:50:00.001Z

The only sketch I did at Thought Bubble last weekend that I was pleased with...

Bad Dreams

2011-11-16T17:54:00.001Z

Everybody Loves A Sailor

2011-11-15T17:05:00.001Z

More Fatale

2011-11-14T20:11:00.001Z

Forgot to post yesterday...

2011-11-08T08:16:00.002Z

Nelson

2011-11-06T17:27:00.000Z

Along with Pete Doree writing, I've drawn a few pages for Nelson, out now. There will be an official launch at Thought Bubble in a couple of weeks and Pete and I will be there along with many of the other contributors from the book.
Here's one of our pages...

More FATALE

2011-11-05T10:23:00.000Z

Last Night's Life Painting

2011-11-04T09:58:00.000Z

Acrylic on card, 20 x 30 inches, 90 minutes

FATALE inks

2011-11-03T16:15:00.002Z

FATALE pencils

2011-11-03T14:08:00.000Z

Fatale

2011-11-01T19:03:00.001Z

Back to Fatale today...

CONAN

2011-10-26T17:13:00.003Z

Finished at last!
Now back to Fatale after a couple of days off.

COWARD Optioned

2011-10-25T19:51:00.000Z

Coward

More CONAN In Progress

2011-10-25T18:04:00.002Z

FATALE #2 cover

2011-10-24T12:25:00.000Z

Life Painting

2011-10-21T08:22:00.001Z

Acrylic on panel, 12 x 24 inches, 2 hours.

Restricted palette: Black, white, raw umber, burnt sienna and yellow ochre.

More CONAN Pencils

2011-10-20T14:05:00.000Z

These are my two favourite pencilled figures in this Conan story. Hope I don't mess them up in the paints...

Finished page - detail

2011-10-19T17:39:00.000Z

Still working on these Conan pages, but don't want to give away any more of the story, so here's just a detail of today's page...

Coming Soon

2011-10-19T07:40:00.001Z

ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAVAGE SWORD #4

Various (W/A)

On sale Mar 28

FC, 80 pages

$7.99

Ongoing

Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #4 features eighty full-color pages crammed with the best creators in comic books putting their spin on Robert E. Howard’s finest creations!

Sean Phillips takes on Conan! David Lapham writes the conclusion to the seafaring adventure of Kull’s right-hand man in “Brule: The Spear and the Siren.” The Sonora Kid has a buffalo-sized showdown with Grizzly Gullins. We bring you one of Howard’s most frightening stories, and to top it off, part 2 of Kull: The Vale of Shadow!

In Progress

2011-10-18T16:07:00.000Z

CONAN detail

2011-10-17T12:38:00.002Z

FATALE trailer

2011-10-17T08:45:00.000Z

FATALE

2011-10-15T09:08:00.002Z

Life Painting

2011-10-14T09:04:00.001Z

And from last night's life drawing class.
Acrylic on panel, 12 x 12 inches, two hours.

CONAN White Death

2011-10-14T08:31:00.003Z

First finished page...

Another CONAN page in progress

2011-10-13T16:52:00.001Z

In Progress

2011-10-12T18:03:00.001Z

Almost finished that main figure. Just the skin parts to do I think.

CONAN value study

2011-10-12T08:44:00.000Z

Thought I'd just do a quick marker value study before breaking the paints out...

CONAN detail

2011-10-11T12:36:00.002Z

More CONAN pencils

2011-10-10T14:14:00.000Z

CONAN pencils

2011-10-08T11:49:00.000Z

First page of pencils. These will be transferred to a board and then painted...

Life Drawing

2011-10-07T08:30:00.002Z

From last night.
Charcoal, conte and emulsion on paper. 50 minutes.

More CONAN

2011-10-06T14:39:00.002Z

Outfit ideas for Conan and his lady friend.

More GABE

2011-10-05T16:33:00.000Z

CRIMINAL The Last Of The Innocent

2011-10-04T11:17:00.000Z

Out in December...

CRIMINAL vol. 6: The Last of the Innocent TPB

By Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

THE BEST-REVIEWED COMIC OF THE YEAR COLLECTED JUST IN TIME FOR X-MAS!

Obsession, sex, money, and nostalgia for days long past all collide in THE LAST OF THE INNOCENT

Riley Richards' got it all… The hottest girl in school and a ticket to the big time. So why isn’t he happy now? Why can’t he forget the life he left behind in small town Brookview? And why is he plotting a murder?

COMICS BULLETIN says this ambitious CRIMINAL story does for kids comics “what Alan Moore did for superheroes with WATCHMEN” and now is your chance to read the comic everyone’s been talking about.

Introduction by best-selling author, actor, and stand-up comic Patton Oswalt.

112 PGS./ Mature Content … $14.99

ISBN: 978-0-7851-5829-5

More VOID 01

2011-10-03T16:40:00.000Z

Conan

2011-10-03T11:23:00.002Z

Just started on a nine page Conan story for an upcoming issue of Robert E Howard's Savage Sword from Dark Horse. Written by Pete Doree and painted by me. Here's some of the (very basic) thumbnails...

Splat!

2011-09-30T14:23:00.000Z

Back To Life

2011-09-30T09:50:00.002Z

Started a new term of life drawing class last night...
Sharpie, ink and oil bar on paper, 40 minutes.

More VOID 01 inks

2011-09-29T16:22:00.002Z

VOID 01 inks

2011-09-28T14:10:00.000Z

More VOID 01

2011-09-27T17:21:00.000Z

Open Up North

2011-09-26T14:29:00.001Z

I've had this painting accepted for Open Up North, an exhibition of artists in the north of England starting this Saturday.

Void 01

2011-09-23T17:44:00.000Z

Some more Void 01 today. Outer space will be added outside that porthole when the page is coloured... Some white panel borders will be added too.

Back To Blogging

2011-09-22T15:40:00.001Z

It's been a strange couple of months where I've mostly been working on projects I can't show, including Fatale, my new book with Ed Brubaker. I'm back working on Void 01 today and for the next couple of weeks, so hopefully I'll be back to posting something every day.

Green Door Art Trail starts tomorrow...

2011-09-16T16:09:00.002Z

Void 01

2011-09-15T07:32:00.000Z

Another page...

CRIMINAL

2011-09-14T08:06:00.000Z

Criminal: The Last Of The Innocent #4 is out today...

Chewie

2011-09-12T09:59:00.000Z

Star Wars blurays out today!

Village Voice

2011-09-08T08:48:00.000Z

I drew the cover for this week's Village Voice...

More Gabe

2011-09-05T17:50:00.002Z

Green Door Art Trail

2011-09-03T11:56:00.001Z

I'll be opening up my studio as part of the Green Door Art Trail in and around Kendal, Cumbria in a couple of weeks. It runs from the 16th of Septmber for 10 days, although not all artist's studios are open every day. Please see the brochure for details.

I'll be showing, and hopefully selling, a selection of original comic art, illustrations and paintings along with copies of my graphic novels.

Gabe and the Sandpiper

2011-09-02T12:15:00.000Z

Coming soon from Dark Horse...

More John M Burns... Eartha

2011-08-29T14:23:00.000Z

Finished Cover Painting

2011-08-23T17:41:00.000Z

CRIMINAL The Last Of The Innocent

2011-08-19T14:34:00.000Z

Only finished drawing the last issue on Sunday, and already I have to start thinking about the trade. Here's a cover rough...

12 Angry Men

2011-08-15T21:48:00.000Z

Here's a large scan of my cover painting for 12 Angry Men, out in November from Criterion.

SWAT

2011-08-15T15:09:00.000Z

I know, it's been a while. As well as having a holiday, I've been finishing the last issue of Criminal: The Last Of The Innocents and there wasn't many pages without spoilers I could show. I finished the issue over the weekend, and today I've doing this painting for the back up article...
It's about the TV show SWAT, and is written by Duane Swierczynski. This issue will be out in four weeks.
Next up for me is a couple of other short stories with other writers, before the next project from myself and Ed Brubaker.

More Jane art

2011-07-20T09:44:00.000Z

After all that scanning of John M Burn's Jane art last week, I couldn't resist, and had to go and buy some original art... I bought this daily along with a Frank Robbins Johnny Hazard daily I'll get round to posting someday.

Drive-In Saturday

2011-07-19T13:05:00.002Z

John M Burns Original Art

2011-07-15T09:45:00.002Z

Bought these two pieces from John back in 2005....

Original scan

2011-07-14T18:02:00.002Z

Here's what I'm scanning... Takes a lot of work to get it looking good.

THE BIONIC WOMAN by John M Burns

2011-07-14T15:40:00.000Z

And some nice colour work from Look-In magazine from 1977.

JANE by John M Burns

2011-07-14T11:22:00.000Z

Started scanning some 25 year old clippings of the Jane comic strip drawn by the splendid John M Burns. He's one of my favourite artists and I've got about a thousand of these daily strips cut from the Daily Mirror. The newsprint is starting to turn brown so I'm going to scan and clean up all of these before they disintergrate. These are the earliest episodes I've got, does anybody know when the strip started in 1985? The first one is labelled T96 and is quite early on I think.

CRIMINAL thumbnails

2011-07-13T16:03:00.000Z

Thumbnailing and lettering today.

Gotham Central

2011-07-12T16:25:00.000Z

While looking for a Gotham Noir picture to post, I came across this unpublished cover for Gotham Central #36. No idea why it wasn't used.

Batman: Gotham Noir and Incognito: Bad Influences

2011-07-12T16:22:00.000Z

Out tomorrow, the first book Ed Brubaker and I did together, Batman: Gotham Noir, and the latest, Incognito: Bad Influences.