Brendan: The FEVER trees picture is a page of sketches that I did for the FEVER book. Just came across them a month ago again. It's me trying out some ideas that never made it into the comic. Albert Moy's already got the page for sale! (link)

Brendan: Weird Spider-Man pastels... 'Lemon Dream Exit' and "Spidey-God' were two pictures I generated whilst doing the FEVER books for Marvel. Sometimes, after days spent drawing small B&W panels in a comic strip, I want to loosen up and be more expressive in colour and a bigger size. I never plan these type of pictures -- for me the fun is seeing what randomly comes through the 'automatic artistic ether'.

A bit of Spidey, pre-FEVER

Brendan: "Aleister Crowley pastel sketch was done while I was drawing the part in FEVER where he appears... I was reading a fair bit about him and so he was in my thoughts when I relaxed and knocked off this picture for my own amusement. These days I find his prose almost unreadable, almost as awful as William Burroughs... How I managed to immerse myself in all that hipster 'literature' when I was in my late teens is beyond me... "

Some bigger versions of the FEVER 2 pictures posted last week. Including this one which is part of Brendan's Big Xmas Art Sale...

Brendan: "An outtake page from FEVER which I decided not to use, painted on canvas, the only known representation of the Realm of Agamotto, with Dr Strange in it."

Brendan: "GIVE THE GIFT OF WEIRDNESS THIS CHRISTMAS!

The comic book art dealer Albert Moy has acquired a large cache of my art from all periods of my career. It includes outtakes from my DC SOLO book, Marvel's FEVER, character designs like The Spark and Battery Girl, some great concept art for a Beatles' project and many other rare and bizarre pieces.

He's doing an online sale of the work, on the run up to Christmas.

Below, two sheets previewing some of the art for sale. This is a real one-off, as this stuff will never be available again.

Contact Santa Claus at: www.albertmoy.com

Merry Christmas!"

Designs for a possible Spider-man:FEVER sequel...

Brendan: "Some pitch images from a recently rejected proposal for a sequel to FEVER called CARNIVAL OF LIGHT, for Marvel Comics. They are tightening their line up and stuff like FEVER is probably a bit "fringe" and sales aren't likely big enough in these recessionary times... "

JohnMK: From today SPIDER-MAN: FEVER the trade paperback is available from all good comic vendors. The collection reprints issues 1 - 3 of ‘Spider-man: Fever’ plus a special reprint of one of Spidey’s earliest adventures into the wondrous world of Dr. Strange, ‘Amazing Spider-Man Annual 2’. More details on the Marvel website.

Also new today, an interview conducted by Mark Kardwell

Click on the picture below for exclusive FEVER issue THREE preview pages plus some added extras.

Click on the picture below for preview pages from FEVER issue TWO plus some exclusive extras.

Recent Brendan/Spider-man: Fever feature from SFX magazine

Well it's seems 'Spider-man: Fever' has gone down a storm, with some glowing reviews across the internet (5 out of 5 from Comic Book Resources). Here's a few of them:

comicbookresources.com
ign.com
theouthousers.com
mania.com
brokenfrontier.com
craveonline.com
spidermanreviews.com


In the previous incarnation of this Blog I tried to give you all a little something for the weekend with a weekly dose of Fresh McCarthy art. And that's something that's going to continue with the new site. To start off you have two colored pastel pictures that Brendan had in the latest group exhibition at Los Angeles' famous "La Luz de Jesus" Gallery...