I made it through round three onto the TGT Tournament Semi-Finals!!! Thanks for all the votes, everyone! This is when it gets really tough! I’ll need a lot of votes every day to make it into the finals, so vote for me every day!

If I make it to the top three, I’ll be invited back to do another live podcast event with you all. I’ve really treasured the ones I’ve done so far, I love the live chat and the overwhelming Dreamer fandom that happens there. (Plushy Spontoon!) If I make it into the top three, I’m going to unlock one of the Dreamer Wallpapers that I’ve done so far as a THANK YOU! So please VOTE!

And reminder, all fan art entries are due by end of the day today! The winner will be announced on Friday!

A huge congratulations to Jenny Frison as the Harvey Award nominations were announced today, and there’s another point for the Dream Team! Jenny Frison was nominated for Best Cover Artist for the variant covers she did for The Dreamer by IDW! Congrats Jenny!! They were all stunning and so is her more recent work that she has been doing for Angel.

Awhile back Adam Withers and Comfort Love asked me to do a pinup for their fantastic comic The Uniques. The story I did a pinup for was Unique Tales #4 which you can read it online for free. (You can also download the first issue to the comic for free, which I highly recommend you do!)

My pinup was to spotlight Kid Quick, a third generation Speedster who is following in the (super-fast) footsteps of her hero parents, Speed & Celerity, and grandfather, Mercury. Adam and Comfort asked me to do a pinup from when Kid Quick was very young, spotlighting the “family” aspect of the quartet.

(Click to see the rest of the picture, and the entire story.)

I met Joanne Renaud through DeviantART. She commented on a drawing I did of Mrs. Betsy Loring, and we got into a conversation about big hair, frilly dresses and Benedict Arnold. I instantly liked her. It turns out Joanne is not only historically saavy, she’s an amazing artist as well. Once, out of the goodness of her heart, she made me Bea, Alan and Betsy Loring fan art. I could be biased, but I think it’s one of her best pieces.

Joanne currently works as a freelance illustrator, and one of the best things about her style is that she still works traditionally. You can feel it in her pieces and it gives her work a classic look and personal, hand-crafted style that I think a lot of modern illustration lacks. Currently, she’s working as the art director for an online magazine dedicated to dark fiction called Dark Valentine–the first issue coming soon!

I think it’s funny that in that first conversation about Betsy Loring Joanne wrote, “You have to give her some high 1770s poufs, like Peggy Shippen. Those are so much fun to draw!” Indeed they are. I hope you enjoy her guest strip The Sultana starring Betsy Loring and Peggy Shippen. (You know, the future Mrs. Benedict Arnold!) Click to see full sized!

In case you missed it, check out the other piece of Guest Art I got this week, by Andrew Chandler!

Dreamer updates should resume next Friday! And I think we have at least one amazing artist left to contribute before then.

And VOTE this week to see a teaser from the Issue #10 cover!