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 A bit late due to work but a Wind Down for Wonder Woman Day 21

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2021/10/happy-80th-wonderwoman.html

  Great news! I have opened a TeepPublic store featuring a whole bunch of my Skull Kids illustrations as designs for T-shirts, mugs and more! I have also gone over 8K in followers on my Instag...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2021/09/skull-kids-designs-on-t-shirts.html

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2021/08/geppettos-workshop-pen-and-ink-demo.html

 Here are some recent pencils and inks from the end of the last Phantom story and the beginning of the newest one. My buddy Bret Blevins chipped in on some inking help with the new story to tr...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2020/07/some-recent-phantom-art.html

In the evenings after my long days of drawings the strips  I like to relax just by drawing for myself. I call these Wind Down drawings. Usually done late into the night, often while listeni...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2020/07/pen-and-ink-skull-kids.html

We have now added our YouTube channel for our podcast at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDkMGQL6xhBD-iS616XdPFg  which should be resolving to just Pencil to Pencil soon. YouTube has to do s...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2020/07/pencil-to-pencil-live-on-youtube.html

Listen to our interview with animation legend and Art director on the new Harley Quinn show William Wray! http://penciltopencil.com/episode/pencil-to-pencil-live-with-william-wray/  or watch ...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2020/05/william-wray-podcast.html

This is a pinup of my buddy Jamar Nicholas's character Leon Protector of the Playground for the Heruary Challenge 2020 #mikemanley  #heruary2020  #leonprotectoroftheplayground  #jamarnichola...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2020/02/blog-post.html

New Podcast is up! Listen to it here!

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2019/07/new-podcast-episode-with-mike-hawthorne.html

Our latest podcast is up! Listen right now over on our website!

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2019/07/new-podcast-episode.html

A little behind the scenes on the Phantom over on the Chronicle Chamber https://www.chroniclechamber.com/single-post/2019/04/19/The-Phantom-Accessorises?fbclid=IwAR2vbH0k320ub0wh3N9UKPqHxDAY1F9A...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2019/04/behind-scenes-on-phantom.html

COMIC INDUSTRY VETS MIKE MANLEY BRET BLEVINS AND JAMAR NICHOLAS LAUNCH NEW PODCAST PENCIL TO PENCIL FROM THE CREATOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO EISNER-AWARD NOMINATED DRAW! MAGAZINE COMES A NEW ...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2019/04/pencil-to-pencil-podcast-launch.html

I'll be doing a live demo and talk coming up at Artistacon at Moore College on the 23rd of this month. A great show with lots of top talent, a fantastic opportunity for pros, art students and lov...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2019/03/artistacon-demo-building-effective.html

Its nice that I just got a screen credit on the new Captain Marvel film!

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2019/03/screen-credit.html

A big fun interview with the men of the Phantom Chamber with Tony and myself about the current storyline.

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2018/11/interview-on-phantom-chamber.html

I was interviewed on SYFYWIRE about my time on the Batman comic from the whole Knightfall  event, check it out!

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2018/09/knightfall-interview.html

My second story arc on the Phantom by Tony DePaul and me won best story from the readers of Egmont in Sweden and Norway.

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2018/04/best-story-award.html

You can listen to a podcast interview with me on my Phantom work and more over on the Chronicle Chamber 

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2018/02/blog-post.html

While moving work off and old drive I came across several of these "New Yorker Style" cartoons I did for a big Pharma company about 10 years ago. It was fun to try and do or play around with that...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2017/12/big-pharma-cartoons.html

I finally broke down or rather saved up and bought myself a Cintiq 13' this past week. I have been wanting to get one since my assistant Mimi got done last summer and I played around with it so...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2017/12/mermaids-and-astronauts-digital-wave.html

I came across a bunch of pencils from my run on Quasar back in the 90's, the first book I penciled for Marvel. Ironically I followed the late Paul Ryan on the book, who I would also follow o...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2017/12/90s-flashback-quasar.html

See you this Saturday at the Willingboro Art Alliance 9-11 I'll be talking comics and doing a demo https://www.facebook.com/thewillingboroartalliance/photos/rpp.140328629341430/1906210336086 ...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2017/10/talk-and-demo-in-willingbor.html

 When I was younger and just in the biz I started collecting original comic art when I could afford it. I was making OK money and art wasn't as crazy expensive as it seems to be going today. m...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2017/06/my-sister-romita.html

Trying to get back on the blogging horse and blog more often than in the past year. The daily drumbeat here in the studio has changed with the addition of the Phantom comic strip and the fac...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2017/05/odd-and-ends_28.html

Darkhawk figure is in the house! I still haven't seen the Guardians 2 yet, but I hear this figure is hot right now. Still no word from Marvel about and so I had to buy my own copy. Its been...

http://drawman.blogspot.com/2017/05/odd-and-ends.html