I was commissioned by a website to Illustrate my one of my favorite literary figures. I chose Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction author. His most popular book is 'Solaris', from which a couple of films have been made. 'Solaris' is a very bizarre, paranoid, and cerebral novel, with generous amounts of speculation on mathematics and science.
It's worth your time to browse the website. Hundreds of submissions from all kinds of artists. Will Eisner, Jeffrey Brown, Mike Allred, Mike Mignola, Alex Toth, Darwyn Cooke all in company. Look:
I'll be drawing this comic, it's called 'Kurt Busiek's American Gothic'. Obviously, it will be written by Kurt Busiek. For the uninformed, Kurt's written Astro City, Marvels with Alex Ross, and a comic that makes me feel fuzzy, Secret Identity, with the indomitable Stuart Immonen.
I got nothing to say about it yet. If you're curious, you can read what Kurt said to Newsarama here.
I'll have fun making it, you'll have a ball reading it, we'll hook up, it'll be a good time.