Post-It Panels

Just a mash up of a few panels drawn on post-its for Volume 2. I have tons of these lying around.

LD. Vol.2 Chapter 7 page review

I've been closing in on finishing up Labor Days Volume 2 with more than half the book in the can at this point. So I'll start posting more and more pages from the new book. Starting with this whollopers from chapter 7! I think this chapter was the most fun to illustrate. I'm also including the only splash page to be seen in the OGN's page history.






I also promise to finally post those character designs I've been dangling out there! Once I get my sketchbook and scanner in the same room.

@ MoCCA

Coming up next month is MoCCA here in NYC. Philthy Phil Phingers and your's truly, Rumble Bumble Rick Lacy will be featuring a slew of new products at our first all inclusive Table : Labor Days! #204.

We'll be selling T-shirts featuring everyone's favorite rambling man, Benton Bagswell, dressed as Zed sitting upon King Conan's throne! We'll also have posters of the Volume 1 cover, more book markers and a slideshow of preview art for Labor Days Volume 2: Just Another Damn Day!



OMG! You must be must asking yourself "What else can you even offer!?"

Well, nothing actually. That's really about it. But I'll be doing sketches and taking commissions and PM Gelatt will write you sonnets and soliloquies.

Check us out on June 6th & 7th at the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexington Avenue and 25th Street! It'll be a hoot!

Labor Days Volume 2: Just Another Damn Day

Cover colors for Volume 2 by the talented Kathryn DeFeo: http://ironoxide.d8d.org/

Kathryn really blew this cover away and we here at Labor Days Towers couldn't be happier. We initially decided on a day palette but Kathryn came back with this great night time rendering and we never looked back. Be sure to check her art work out and look for this rad cover on shelves this fall!

Wild Mustangs

The Wild Mustangs bear down upon the encampment. Their intent was cruel and without prejudice.

Page 63 of Labor Days: Volume 2: Just Another Damn Day

Volume 2 Cover Inks

The inks for the cover of Labor Days Volume 2 are done. This coming week I'll start to knock out the colors and then off to solicitation heaven to be kissed by the angels! For our second volume we really kick up the adventure level (and the absurdity level) and try to keep the readers guessing as to where we're headed next! I think the cover art really captures that sense of appalling excitement.

Get it on!

Tonight and every tuesday night at 9pm EST, your favorite creators of Labor Days: A tome-ology of the gods, will be at the oni press forums hosting their chatty and always entertaining live web thread The Rick and Phil Hour! Catch up on our musings and mayhem as we disect pop culture and well...everything else really.

We can be found at www.onipress.com/forum

But tonight we're trying something new, so find us here: www.onipress.com/blog

LD.Vol.2 Chapter 6 Page Preview

Here are a few pages from the first chapter of Labor Days: Volume 2: Just Another Damn Day. This book promises to take our wild bunch of misanthropes to higher heights and deeper depths and everywhere in between. Here's a small taste of the adventure to come, as our hero-for-hire Benton Bagswell and his shit house crazy girlfreind Victoria Arnhiem follow a cloaked man through the streets of Belgium to their awaiting vessel!

Review'd @ Newsarama

Newsarama columnist Sarah Jaffe has posted a shining review of Labor Days up on Blog@Newsarama!

Check out her article:

LaborDays@Newsarama

100% Stryker

Artwork from our upcoming desktop wallpapers! Those puppies should be getting completed within the week and as soon as they are you'll be able to get your very own "Official Labor Days D'tops" at the Oni Press website!

Rick Stryker: American-made Awesome

Victoria by Kathryn DeFeo

Kathryn's Site

So...

Labor Days @ NYC Comic Con Oh Nine

...and all that jazz. This will be the first home town con for Labor Days: Volume 1 and Phil and I will certainly be out there too make sure its a good one. Catch us at the Oni Press Booth every day of the convention for signings and whimsical storytelling. I'll be sketching as much as I can and taking commissions as well as toting around new pages and designs for volume two of the series. Just ask for a sneak peek!

Our Signing Schedule:

Fri.
5:45 – 7:00 Philip Gelatt, Rick Lacy (with Thomas Kirsch, John Layman)

Sat.
1:15 – 2:30 Philip Gelatt, Rick Lacy

Sun.
2:45 – 4:00 Philip Gelatt, Rick Lacy (with Vasilis Lolos)

We're also including this fun lil' keepsake bookmark with every purchase of Volume 1...or if you happen to tickle my fancy ;). It promotes our Second Volume's release date...sort of. The date has yet to be announced but it'll certainly be out this fall. It also invites the readers to join the Two Dukes at our live chat thread at the Oni Press Forum, aptly titled "The Rick and Phil Hour!"


Designed by Sean Ferguson

Seeya this weekend!

LD Gang

Artwork for a bookmaker we're going to give away at cons with the purchase of the LDv.1 Like at the upcoming NYC Comic Con this Feb. 6th. Catch Phil and I at the Oni booth all weekend!




Tone and color by Sean Ferguson who's doing a stellar job at designing the marker. I'll post that when its finished.

Post-It Panels

Whenever I'm stuck with a panel I take it to the streets. Right at the corner of Ass-stomping and Post-It Ave! I'll normally build up levels and levels of lil' post-its until I reach the desired outcome. And sometimes I do it in one!**

At any rate here are a few post-it panels from Labor Days Vol.2.





And an unfinished panel from Ch.7 featuring a mysterious cloaked man! OOOOOOO!










**that's what she said!

So this is just awesome

100% endorsed by LD.

Cool Guy

Rick and Phil gab it up at Sequential Tart

Check out our musing by clicking the link!

SEQUENTIAL TART!

Off on a Trangent

Sifting through the boxes and boxes of LD art we have have over here in the dungeon levels of Labor Days Tower I came across some very ancient character designs. One of which was this quintessential drawing of Bags' ex, Kelly Trangent. In the early drafts of LD, Ms. Trangent had a bigger roll and her rocky relationship with Bags a larger plot scenario. Well that all hit the cutting room floor and she was only used to further the idea of Bags' out of control life. She can be seen more prominently in our Ashcan that leads into the first volume.


And here also are a few choice pages from Chapter 2: Bags In Bedlam

Saddle, I can has back in it?

This blog is in sour need of a new post! Fortunatly Phil and I have been very busy with a number of new projects, including LABOR DAYS VOL. 2, so rest assured we havent been sitting on our rumps. We were at APE last weekend and had a good time of it. I prefered SPX more, but had never been out to San Fran before. So it was a good time. Except for the rainy weather. We met some very verocious fans and ran into our buddy JK Parkin from Newsarama. Plus strong sales on the book. I good weekend for sure.

I haven't scanned in any new art recently, but I have uploaded two pictures of pages from Vol. 2 on my FLICKR. Which I posted below. Check out my full photostream HERE!