I GOTTA BELIEVE!!

I GOTTA BELIEVE!!
Originally uploaded by thechrishaley

From Scott Pilgrim Vol. 3.
Art & Words by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Colours by me

Every single holiday..

The Flash is basically great at running.

This is a sketch of The Flash I did at karaoke one night.
Then the incredible Justin Stewart was kind enough to drop some CMYK on it. (That's colorist lingo, right?)

Do you know the way..

Not when I need it..

It's funny how when I don't really have anything to talk about, I can find a million things to blog about, but when I have big things going on or a lot of exciting things to talk about I get what amounts to "blog-fright" (Note to self : Get Curt to get the lawyer to trademark that phrase).

I just end up feeling like the task of organizing my memories into coherent thoughts and those thoughts into interesting word-collections ("sentences") is hell of daunting. Or that I'm never going to be able to re-tell my adventures with the same kind of incredible adventure-y-ness that they deserve.

And then I keep putting off doing any regular blogging as well because I keep telling myself, "Dude, you really need to get on that SPX report." And now I've got this Post-It note on my desk filled with post ideas I need to get to, but can't until I get the SPX report out of the way.

So having said that, I should say that SPX was really awesome.

I mean, really.

It's where we need to be.

There is no way Curt and I (and thus, Let's Be Friends Again) will not become a permanent fixture of SPX.

I don't have everything scanned or uploaded yet, so I can't post all my pictures, but there are pictures forthcoming.

I will tell you in advance I own the two greatest things Bryan Lee O'Malley has ever drawn.

Oh, and before I forget, the above art was a 2 minute coloring job I did on a panel from page 5 of Let's Be Friends Again #1 which is being syndicated in it's entirety over at (you guessed it) letsbefriendsagain.com!

As today is Thursday (and Tuesdays and Thursdays are the days we've deigned fit to bless you with new content), there is a new comic/page up as well as insightful writer's commentary from Curt.

Please go check it out, subscribe to the feed, and tell a few dozen of your friends so that we can be friends with them too.. again... for the first time. 

He's for every one of us..

Art by the amazing John Martz at RobotJohnny.com & colors by me.
As is usually the case, I couldn't decide which version I liked better, so here are both.

I colored and posted this for three reasons.
1) I find great joy in doing simple little coloring jobs like this.
2) I wanted to point you towards RobotJohnny.com if you weren't already aware.
3) News broke this morning that The CW has ordered a pilot for a Smallville style show about Robin before he was Robin called The Graysons.

Anyone have thoughts on any of this?

You were at his house..

April is basically awesome at coloring.

Go check it out.

Time is flying like an arrow..

When April and I team up, good things happen.

I drew this and then she colored it digitally.

Little Iron Man is basically a big part of our lives every day.

All of our future collabs should be signatured CASH. 

You know, because you can make the word "cash" out of our initials.

That's the real reason I thought of it.

Someone needs to design us a cool "CASH" signature logo that is not the Johnny Cash one.

I want cool logos for all of my collaborations with awesome people.

This is me looking at you Dylan.

(I'm only half-serious though, as I know Dylan is a very busy dude.)

Speaking of awesome people, why aren't all of you guys updating your blogs right now too?

Get to it!

Is oh so wonderful..

I figured now was as good a time as any to post this colored version.
Tried something different.

You are the enemy..

I had a free minute today, so I colored this old picture of Curt dressed like Richie Rich that I did.

Do you... wanna.. play...

I lied, here's some content.



Pencils and inks by me.
Awesome colors by (New) Jason Horn.
newjason.livejournal.com

Clark Kent's Super Little Life!

Just wanted to try to come up with a young Superman if he were in the Scott Pilgrim-verse.
I've actually been sitting on this one since before Scott Pilgrim Vol. 3 came out.
Got lost in the shuffle, I guess.
I think it's my favorite thing I've ever done.

We will, we will...

Some more of my slap-dash coloring.
I like this much better just as pencils, but I went through the trouble of coloring it, so I can't not post it.
Double negatives be damned!

All through the night..

Which do you prefer?

Always should be someone...

So here's the final inks for my Project Rooftop failing Bart Allen Kid Flash.

And here's the finished, colored version.

There are 3 notes on this picture if clicked upon.
You'll notice there were a few subtle changes to the picture, most noticeably the emblem.
Failure or not, I'm still pretty proud of it as a drawing by me, and I like the design.
I've got a hundred (give or take) other abandoned costumes that I might finish up for fun and put up here.
I've got a real comic I need to be working on though.

Looking up and..

Justin3000 from The Drawing Board, colored up my picture of Robin all pretty like.

Also, April updated her blog.
Curt and Sean have not.

I keep telling myself...

This came out yesterday.
It's great.
Amazon has it for like 11 bucks, so that's a fair shake.
Nevermind, Target has it for 9.. fairer shake.

Here is a PVP comic strip from June of last year when Superman Returns came out.


I decided to color said strip.

I believe it to be one of my finest coloring jobs, which is to say, I'm fairly proud of it.
I hope you enjoy it as well, and if you aren't already a PVP fan, head over there and become one.

Go ahead, take a peek.

Another of my many powers.

So, Curt and April and I leave for San Diego tomorrow.
For Comic Con.
I'm very excited and also very nervous.
I don't care for flying.
I also have no idea what to expect at the Con.
I have high hopes.
Anyway, I doubt I'll be doing any updating between now and next week so here's a mess o' stuff until then.

Cyclops wants kisses.


Spidey 2099 as drawn by Cory Walker and colored by me.


This is a Superman I drew and colored using a color scheme I borrowed from a Jon Morris picture of Superboy.

It's so dark.

So here's one of the Flashes Jason Latour drew for me that I have now colored.
Below are 3 alternate versions of the same coloring job.. the backgrounds are different.

Feel free to tell me which of the 4 you prefer.

Repulsor rays!

Here's a sketch of Iron Man by Eric Canete that I threw some quick colors on just to take a break from what I'm usually doing at work.
I'm really looking forward to his upcoming Iron Man book with Joe Casey.

It's a joke.

I decided to color this gag from Evan Dorkin's Dork #11.
I've no idea why I get the itch to do things like this as I'm not much of a colorist, so it's essentially a waste of time.