Tuesday, December 22, 2009



Merry Holidaze!!!

All the best for the holidays and I hope everyone has a great 2010!
Thanks to all who support and continue to support my little blog!
(You know who you are!)

Best wishes,

Marcelo

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Clumsy Ninja spot illo

I forgot this one, from the Halloween set I posted last month...

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Dr. Seuss in Wollongong

I just found out that an exhibition of limited edition artworks from the Seuss Estate will be at the Novotel Hotel Wollongong, Northbeach, Grandball room!


Here's the guff:
The exhibition housed a groundbreaking collection of 70 years of Seuss’ art history that included Illustration Art, Unorthodox Taxidermy and the Secret Art Series. This exciting exhibition of limited editions mixed in with museum panels of original memorabilia was an eye-opening experience for the general public.

BUT it's 4 days only!!! 10th December to 13th December!!!
For more info and more cool images see tvhgallery

Sunday, December 06, 2009

Marvel project update



Marvel project update
I heard the job went to print about 2 weeks ago, however still no ETA....
If it makes it to market before Christmas, well that's my chrissy present!!

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Fairy and Fawn
This personal piece is a bit of an experiment for a possible new graphic novel. I've been collecting a lot of old children's books on fairy tales etc so I guess its rubbing off...plus my wife loves fawns and I knew she'd like it! I'll colour it when I get a chance....

Monday, November 30, 2009

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Monster cover WIP
Here's detail of a cover I'm colouring, can't get enough Dinosaur action!!
More later...

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sunday, November 15, 2009


Belated Halloween Action

Here's another spot illo for an online magazine... The eco-friendly vampire hippy...

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Student of the future!
Here's an educational piece for Quarasan Chicago.

Monday, November 02, 2009

Halloween mix up

I know it's a little late for Halloween, but here are a few spot illos for an online magazine...I'll post a few more soon!


Metro-sexual Frankenstein

Pirate Accountant

Disco Witch

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Tiger Airways magazine illustration
This one's about the writer's misadventures at the airport carousel...

Sunday, October 18, 2009


Fun educational piece that I was pretty happy with! When the brief starts with "Can you draw an Alien..."YES YES YES!!!

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

-Paul Rand

Friday, October 09, 2009

Ironman Final

Here's the final art, with well ... everybody... even Pepper!


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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Ironman in progress



Here's a small part of a larger Iron man piece. I got carried away and had so much fun with the Ironmen suits, I forgot that only 3 of them really appear in the final, which i'll post soon...

Sunday, September 20, 2009


Work in progress

Here's the black and white WIP for a wrap around comic cover, I still have to add type and colour. I'll post the colour version soon.

Blink and you'll miss me!!

Here's something that doesn't happen often. I was interviewed by The Deal business magazine on how I use this blog as a business tool, it was right at the back of the feature so I doubt many were able to receive my two cents worth... who thought I'd be giving business advice!!

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Marvel W.I.P


Marvel W.I.P
I broke my own blogging rule (I will blog at least once a week!) However I'm swamped with some very cool projects at the moment, which I'll post in the weeks to come...

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

TO BOLDLY GO...AND PHONE HOME

I'll be unable to blog for a while after this, so I thought I'd show the process for this piece, that was published this month in Tiger Airlines Magazine. I had to make the final work on a dark background as well as a light one as the A.D was still preparing his page design... this job was great fun!





approved rough

Monday, July 06, 2009

Thwip!
That's about all I can say at this point... more soon...

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

SUPANOVA SYDNEY

Wow, what a blast! I attended this Supanova as a "tourist" for the first time in about 5 years, and I still had a great time meeting people. There was so much great local talent at Artist alley this year that really blew me away, a couple of stand outs I thought were David Follet and Greg Holfeld who had some great work on display.

Chris Sequeira managed to get me to talk on a panel regarding Aussie comics, I'm glad it was a last minute invite. (cause I may have lost sleep over it.)

That dork in the red t-shirt is me, with Jan Scherpenhuizen and Chris.


Also I got to catch up with Colin (Star Wars: Invasion) Wilson, who had some interesting theories on the future of comics regarding iphones and other hand held computers. I just got in to hear a talk by Tim Sale who is one of my fav artist, bummer I missed out on meeting him later..

Here's the talented Cefn Ridout, Me, Colin Wilson and Frank Kennedy (who did get to meet Tim Sale AND get a cool sketch from him...)

Big thanks to Ivan for the cool Wolverine t-shirt!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

"The first rule of Fight Club..."

Yeah, this ain't fight club, but it was inspired by the inflight illustrations towards the end of the movie...
This story was for Wish magazine and its about a man that traveled around the world with only one piece of onboard luggage.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009



This is an older piece for a graphic novel project....that I'll get to do one day...(sigh)
I'm in the middle of a few big (cool) projects at the moment, so here's a few spot illos for Current Health Magazine in the US.
They look like a comic strip, but they were used separately through out the article.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Educational poster for a US client
I normally work at 300dpi but this project needed to be at 600 dpi..no wonder my little mac was smokin'...


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Kinokuniya Supanova Ad

Here's the final ad with my illos supplied by the client...

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

nanananananana...BATMAN!!

and Naruto too...

Hello all!
A couple of fun characters for a Kinokuniya advertisement... I'll post the ad up soon...




Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Thanks to all who visited us at the MCA Zine Fair last weekend. What a crowd! Rachael and I were impressed and are looking forward to next year's! Unfortunately we forgot to take any pics, (too busy gas baggin') so if any one has cool pics let us know...

Meanwhile busy in the studio...

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This editorial piece was for The Deal Business magazine.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

"After the Challenger" Graphic novel


"After the Challenger" Graphic novel (sort of..)

I received these in the mail from a client a while ago but forgot to brag about'em...
These graphic novels mix text with comic pages, so kids have to read text pages and comic pages to get the whole story, a very good way to get kids reading I think.

Here's one of my interiors



The MCA Zine Fair!!!

SUNDAY 24 MAY
11.00AM – 5.00PM


Hello all,
Its Zine fair time at the MCA. Hope to see you there, Rachael and I will have a stall selling DIABLA goodies!

See link below for more info...
MCA DETAILS

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Bad trip!

Here's another editorial piece, this one's for Tiger airlines in Singapore...
It's a busy month, i'll post some new editorial pieces this week including this one...

This one was tough one to crack, the story was about a new mother that could not connect with her new born baby...however she discovers that she adores toddlers...

Tuesday, April 28, 2009



Free comic book day
We will be attending Free comic book day (I love the sound of that..) at Kinokuniya Bookstore at The Galeries Victoria, 500 George Street. We'll be at the Kino Zine Fair selling DIABLA comics, prints and goodies!!

Free Comic Book Day
(plus Kino Zine Fair 11am - 4pm)

Kinokuniya Bookstore Sydney

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 7:00pm
Location:Kinokuniya Bookstore Level 2, The Galeries Victoria, 500 George Street (opposite QVB) Sydney

Monday, April 20, 2009

Art print


Here's one of my new prints, which I'm happy to say sold quite well at Brisbane Supanova.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Txt dumped!

This piece is on getting dumped and being abused via text messaging, published in The Weekend Australian Magazine.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

SUPANOVA AFTERMATH!
Too much fun for one weekend, definitely the busiest Supanova I've ever been too. Brisbane was magic and I loved the warm (sticky) weather, except my display posters started curling in the humidity...

I really enjoyed chatting and catching up with the local creators and I managed to have a great Saturday night dinner with them too.I got a chance to meet Todd McFarlane ( I totally loved his Spiderman comics soooo much..) and the greatly underrated Colin Wilson..Mr Wilson is doing some beautiful Starwars comics for Dark Horse at the moment. (I'm a big fan)


Tim (Ever talented) McEwan and I at the littlehammer stand...


Here's the friendliest (and shortest) stormtrooper I've ever met...

Glad to say my beautiful wife had fun and may yet attend another Supanova...thank goodness..I couldn't do it with out her...

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

SUPANOVA THIS WEEKEND!!!
I'm off to Brisbane for a holiday and SUPANOVA! If you're anywhere near Brisbane (ie: Australia) come along and join the fun.
Here's a map of where our table will be...mention this blog at the Littlehammer stand...and you might get a freebie..

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Storm watching

More newness!

This is an illustration for the Weekend Australian magazine out this weekend!
The story is about a father and son bonding experience while storm watching...

Monday, March 23, 2009



Hello All!

Another editorial illo published this weekend gone. The lady in the story was a bit of a day dreamer hence the "dreamy" effect..

Thursday, March 19, 2009


One of the new DIABLA prints that will be available at SUPAVOVA in Brisbane April 4 and 5.

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