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Hi Stuart, huge fan of your work! Saw a couple of sketches on here where you have used a non-photo blue pencil. I was wondering if you draw straight onto the board like that and work over it? Any info about the stages of your pencilling process would be amazing!

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:25:00 -0400

Hello and thanks.

Here’s how it generally goes:

1) I break down one or two script pages at a time into very small thumbnails. They are usually no bigger than an inch (or 3cm) high.

2) This is followed by sketching directly on the art board with Prismacolor Turquoise non-photo blue. Sometimes it’s the whole page, sometimes just one panel or tier of panels.

3) Then finished pencilling on top, sometimes clarifying with frankenphotoreference, GPOY or 3D modelling software. There’s also a lot of erasing at this stage, but typically, a shadow of the blueline stays until Wade turns it into gold.

4) Cookies.

So, if I were to say that I would love to be an apprentice, you would most likely say "No." and be done with me. If I were to say that I have insomnia and a large amount of various forms of OCD, how would you respond differently? I wonder about how you spend your days working and what your schedule with Marvel is like and if it is anything that I could do in the near future as well as if there is any sliver of hope to act as a young "Cyclops" to an older, wiser "Professor X" such as yourself.

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:54:38 -0400

You’re right, the answer is no for a multitude of reasons. Not the least of which is that you’d have to own a four wheel drive vehicle and show up before dawn. Having said that, I was a terrible student and am likely a worse teacher. In all honesty, I can’t even fathom how that would work. I’m not sure that there’d be much to learn from observation and there is simply no time in the day for me to be focused on someone’s tutelage. As far as the schedule… we’re up pretty early, drink coffee. I do the morning dog walk, Kathryn makes breakfast. We’re in the office by 8 or so. A little email and dicking around. People email me less than they call and people almost never call. Lunch at 12:30 and we both try to wrap up by 3. Kathryn walks the dog. Then outside stuff usually involving moving rocks or running a chainsaw. Then yoga everyday, then dinner. I try not to work on the weekends because I’ve got shit to build and things to chop down.

Hi Stuart and Kathryn, I love your works together and separately. Don't think you need that much to read it, but wanted to thank you both for your effort and quality. So, no question today.

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:42:08 -0400

We would have replied to this privately but it wasn’t possible. HOWEVER, we did really want to acknowledge that it means rather a lot when people take the time to drop a line. It’s a moment out of your day when you could have been doing something else, something pleasurable, like ordering cupcakes online or playing ping pong. So thank you. Truly.

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #652 preview at CBR.

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:24:25 -0400

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #652 preview at CBR.

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #655KATHRYN IMMONEN (W)VALERIO SCHITI...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:52:34 -0400

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #655
KATHRYN IMMONEN (W)
VALERIO SCHITI (A)
Cover by JEFF DEKAL
The planet-shattering conclusion to Seeds of Destruction…!
• Gaea gets in touch with her monstrous side?!
• To save the ganGREEN goddess, Sif and Beta Ray Bill race to stop the mysterious Ark ship in the (nearly!) scuttled Skuttlebutt!
• The finish line? Asgardia!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

ALL-NEW X-MEN #15
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • DAVID LAFUENTE (A)
Cover by STUART IMMONEN
• Love is in the air!
• Cyclops heart and future start to fade before his eyes.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Sue Storm sketches, c. 2004. Client: Marvel....

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:10:59 -0400

Sue Storm sketches, c. 2004. Client: Marvel. Job: Ultimate Fantastic Four

#112: Sir Cliff Richard et al read comics, Wonderful Life, 1964

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:37:47 -0400

#112: Sir Cliff Richard et al read comics, Wonderful Life, 1964

Good evening, Stuart & Kathryn. I wrote this previously but I am not sure it was received. Kathryn, how did you come to write for comics & does your career satisfy you? Stuart, I am just starting to read Superman: Secret Identity after a review on Amazon mentioned you were the artist. Stunning, to say the least, but the style truly seems like a departure from what we see in X-Men. How do you decide which style fits best for a writing: is it your choice or does the writing dictate this?

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:54:45 -0400

K: Stuart and I started out self-publishing about 25 years ago. I went on to spend many years working as a costume designer, (some film, mostly theatre) while Stuart made his way in(to) mainstream comics. But during that time we continued to produce small run books and do the odd gig for others. I had gone back to school to do my MFA and the Marvel Comics Presents Hellcat thing happened right at the end of that, as did spending two months in upstate New York at the Women’s Studio Workshop, editioning an artist’s book. That was basically the beginning of returning to comics and books full time. And satisfying? sure, absolutely, not least of which is because Stuart and I get to hang out and make work together all the time.

S: Thanks for reading and thanks for the kind words. The answer to your question is yes and yes. After reading the script, I decide what may be the most appropriate style in which to draw the story. It may be cartoonish (Nextwave), naturalistic (Superman: Secret Identity), spare (Moving Pictures) or mainstream action/adventure (All-New X-Men). The tone of the story dictates and I take it from there.

A little Friday nostalgia

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:39:50 -0400

A little Friday nostalgia

Pencil art, c. 2003. Client: DC Comics Job: Superman: Secret...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:26:14 -0400

Pencil art, c. 2003. Client: DC Comics Job: Superman: Secret Identity

#111: Dennis Chan reads comics, Kickboxer 2: The Road Back,...

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:41:00 -0400

#111: Dennis Chan reads comics, Kickboxer 2: The Road Back, 1991.

Right over the house. While we were eating lunch. CAN’T...

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:45:00 -0400

Right over the house. While we were eating lunch. CAN’T THEY LEAVE ME ALONE?!

xcyclopswasrightx: Preview art for Uncanny X-Men & All New...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:50:47 -0400

xcyclopswasrightx:

Preview art for Uncanny X-Men & All New X-Men, in this weeks Axel in Charge

It’s All-New X-Men #11 day. And we’re having a new...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:29:14 -0400

It’s All-New X-Men #11 day. And we’re having a new guest room mattress delivered.

Giving it the full Unger.

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:25:47 -0400

Giving it the full Unger.

brianmichaelbendis: Jean Grey by Stuart Immonen, Wade Von...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:10:00 -0400

brianmichaelbendis:

Jean Grey by Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger & Marte Gracia (from All New X-Men #10)

#110: Arthur Askey reads comics, Make Mine a Million, 1959.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:16:20 -0400

#110: Arthur Askey reads comics, Make Mine a Million, 1959.

All-New X-Men 11 in stores May 1, 2013

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:02:31 -0400

All-New X-Men 11 in stores May 1, 2013

valerioschiti: …choose wisely Tony!

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:50:33 -0400

valerioschiti:

…choose wisely Tony!

ANXM process.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:56:00 -0400

ANXM process.