When I flew into San Diego last year for the annual ordeal known as Comic Con, a friend of mine (who lives in San Diego) picked me up at the airport so I’d be spared the line at the taxi stand. Arriving at roughly the same time were artist Kenneth Rocafort and his sister Jessica, who were in San Diego for the first time ever, and had been routed from their native Puerto Rico to Philadelphia and finally to San Diego. So I’d arranged to pick them up as well, and give them a ride to our hotel.
After a few cell calls, we found Kenneth and Jessica at a neighboring terminal. But before even loading their luggage into the car, Kenneth handed me a large envelope. Inside was the original for the piece of art you see here, a pin-up for my Dragon Prince creator-owned project that Top Cow had published. I was stunned, to say the least, both by Kenneth’s generosity and the sheer awesomeness of the piece. Kenneth had offered to do a Dragon Prince piece at the Baltimore Con the previous year, but I figured it’d just be a quickie in my sketchbook at some point. I certainly didn’t expect … this.
When we publish the Dragon Prince collection, this will definitely be in it, along with unseen art by series artist Lee Moder (including an unpublished cover) and co-creator Jeff Johnson. Also, there will be some more Dragon Prince news announced within the next month or so.
As for Kenneth, he and I are of course collaborating on the Velocity mini-series right now. Issue #1 will be in stores on June 30, and if I do say so, Kenneth has drawn an amazing-looking issue. He’s an absolute joy to work with, and I sincerely hope our work on Velocity is just the first of many projects together. You can check out Kenneth’s blog here.
Cheers,
Ron
June 24th, 2010 on 1:35 pm
Wow. That’s incredible work! What size is it?