The Oxymoron Hardcover Graphic Novel!

As of late Tyler James and Comix Tribe have put together an anthology based on the villain from the book The Red Ten the Oxymoron (in case you forgot I made up a pin up for them, which became a variant cover for the book using this character which you can see below).

I was asked to illustrate the story "Nearly Perfect" written by Yannick Morin (who also did Comix Tribe's Points of Impact). The story is about the Oxymoron kidnapping the finalists of the Miss Swanstown Beauty pageant and it's up to Red and the Crimson Kid to save them! It's good story and gets mighty gruesome. For example, for some of the scenes I was looking at the movie Dead Alive for inspiration, and if you haven't seen that I highly suggest you don't eat while you watch it. Here are the first couple of pages to wet your beak...

Along with this there will hopefully be some variant covers (the kickstarter needs to get up to $14,000 and as of this writing they are currently at $13,205)! One will have each artist represented on the cover. The cover will have the Oxymoron standing in front of a broken mirror and each shard will have an individual illustration. Here is yours truly...

Can't go wrong with a chainsaw. Along with this is my own Variant cover for the book! Comix Tribe is currently promoting it by saying "WARNING: This Alex Cormack Variant Will Give You Nightmares!" Or Frightmares, but that's another story. Anyways here is the cover...

Here it is as it would be on the book itself...

So Donate some money and pick up this book! I'll leave you with Comix Tribe's promotional video for the project (where my work can be seen throughout!) Alex

The Cape Pin Up

The hardcover collection of IDW's The Cape just came out with my pin up in the back!

So a while back, Jason Ciaramella (the writer of The Cape, the story is based off a Joe Hill's short story) came up to a Drink and Draw at Larry's Comics in Lowell (for an extra plug for Larry, he's been a guest on 107.3 WAAF morning show on Mondays lately) and gave us a one page script where the main character Eric spray paints "Eric was here" on the Bunker Hill Monument. I drew this up for him and inked it in the ol computer and now it's in the back of the hardcover trade back! So go pick it up, it's a great story and the art by Zach Howard is wicked good! Also it takes place in my own back yard so if you're from MASS you'll like it even more.

Thanks to my buddies Jason Ciaramella, Stephen Pennimpede, and Larry.

My Name is Jonah and Free Comic Book Day.

So today is Free Comic Book Day and I'll be up at Double Midnight Comics up in Manchester New Hampshire, so come on up and get some sketches and see me! Also out today is volume 2 of My Name is Jonah: Jonah Lives Again! featuring my 2 page spread seen below! Here is a link to check out the entire comic.

My Name is Jonah is a documentary about Jonah who is a "real life warrior, adventurer, and musician..." That being said I figured I would have him knocking out some of the toughest bad guys I could think of (from left to right, Venom, Micheal Myers, Khan, Voldemort, Juggernaut, Predator, Freddy Kruger, Bane, Terminator, Alien, Joker, Bizarro Superman, Shredder, Jason, Hulk, Skeletor, and Darth Vader). Here is the trailer for the movie! So that's it for now, see you up in NH! Alex

Galactus vs. The Death Star

Here is another print for the Boston Comic Con tomorrow, Galactus vs. The Death Star!

For those who don't know, Galactus eats planets and his buddy the Silver Surfer goes around giving people heads up that they are going to be lunch. So my brother and I were talking about some other mash up prints that might be funny and this is one that we came up with. So if you think it's hilarious you can thank me! If you think it's lame then you can blame my brother. See you this weekend! -Alex

Boston Comic Con!

This weekend I'll be at the Boston Comic Con selling books, prints, and drawing up some commissions! So come on down and see me and buy some stuff including these books...



and new prints...







See you there!

Alex

Wishtoyo Warriors

So awhile back I got an email from William Marquis (the writer of I. Den of Thieves) asking if I could do some character designs for his new script Wishtoyo Warriors. I read the script and thought it was a lot of fun, and made up these designs...











I sent them out and then was asked to illustrate the first few pages, which then turned into illustrating the whole book!

As of right now the book is still in production and should be out this fall. In the meantime here are some illustrations that William showed off at this years Inktip pitch fest.

To start off, here are a few more character designs (guess which one is the villain)...









And here are a few key scenes throughout the story...



Helek is introduced hunting a boar and while doing so...




Helek discovers a mysterious rainbow.




The mysterious rainbow arrives at present day.




The Chumash Ceremony and the initiation of the Wishtoyo Warriors!




Welcome to the Garbage World.




The Pumpkin storm.




The Great Eagle escapes!




Our heroes being chased by the giant mole!




They discover the Great Snake asleep.




Tazi must choose the true Great Frog.




Tazi and Overlord Cough Cough face off!


More to come of the Wishtoyo Warriors as it goes along, but real quick before this blog comes to a close, a funny story that I always like to tell people about this project. This all began soon after the Bruins won the Stanley Cup, and just in case you forgot they beat Vancouver who after losing, burnt down their city. So we had been working together for a little while, communicating through emails, and I wrote to him saying, "have a happy fourth of July weekend!"

He then wrote back "Wait, where are you from?"

"I'm from Boston."

"Oh, I'm from Vancouver."

So at that point I thought that was it for the job, but luckily for me William is a Maple Leaf's fan and dodged a bullet there.

Alex

Chikara Web Comic: The Secret Origin of Frightmare

Also known as "Mommy, where do Frightmares come from?" Written by Joey Esposito and art by me! Here is the complete web comic!

















Here is the link to the Chikara's webcomic site.

So I was brought into this project by the good people at 215 Ink after I met them at NYC Comic Con. I was told that they were looking for artists for this project with Chikara Wrestling. So I thought I would be drawing Ultimate Warrior and Macho Man Randy Savage type characters running around in the ring. This especially got my brother excited who has always been a big wrestling fan (before I got the script he was showing me a bunch of wrestling moves on youtube). Once I got the script however I realized that it had nothing to do with wrestling and that it was more of a superhero monster horror story! I soon figured out that in Chikara, all the wrestlers have crazy back stories like this. I was also told that they have slow motion matches and the crowd will play along, cheering in slow motion. That has nothing to do with the comic but I think it's cool.

So that's the story and I hope the real Frightmare, Hallowicked, Delirious, and Ultramantis Black dig this!

Alex