We flip for Mother’s Day around here.

Here’s a nice double page spread from SWAMP THING 76 I’m offering up for sale. Script and penciling by me, inks by Alfredo Alcala and lettering (on the boards) by John Costanza. It features THE DEMON and PHANTOM STRANGER observing the moment of conception when the SPROUT enters ABBY’s womb. Then the action moves to Heaven’s North Slope where GOOD and EVIL hold each other in eternal balance.

These pages were done on the extra large size art paper that DC used for a while in the 1980′s, so the whole spread, on two separate boards, measures a whopping 24″ x 19″. Below are closeups each of each board.

Both pages are in very good condition with the usual amount of editorial blue-lining and a few lettering corrections. I’d like to get $350 for them. If you are interested, just shoot me an email.

UPDATE: We have a buyer.

Check out the other originals I have for sale in the gallery.

Here’s a short strip I collaborated on with Jim Ottaviani for the EXPO 2000 anthology. Jim, famous for his self published science comics, asked me to illustrate this three pager documenting how in 1865 Friedrich Von Kekule discovered the elusive structure of the benzene molecule in a dream. It’s a famous example of how dreams can offer insights into the invisible world around us. The originals to this story have since been lost so I think its safe to assume this will never be collected. ©Jim Ottaviani and Rick Veitch

This Blogcritics review of ARMY@LOVE: THE HOT ZONE CLUB at first appeared to be a pan, but in the second half it comes on strong. Above a page of pencils from A@L# 10.

So today I am fifty-fucking-eight years old. This sketch feels perfectly appropriate for the occasion.

A faux ad, mashing up the FAMOUS ARTISTS SCHOOL and my RARE BIT FIENDS dream comic, that I snuck into the last issue of the 1963 series; TOMORROW SYNDICATE.

As I’ve mentioned here a couple times, one of the ways I learned to draw was by making copies of illustrations done by other artists; a practice that began in my early childhood and continues to this day. Here’s my 1977 pencil-in-sketchbook version of J. Allen St. John’s ink-and-wash piece for TARZAN THE TERRIBLE.

I think this was originally a cover blurb for 1963: TALES OF THE UNCANNY that didn’t make it on the final.

Here’s a pencil commission I finished a couple weeks ago (on Good Friday no less). Oddly enough this is the first time anyone ever asked me to illustrate this particular subject and I’m quite happy with how it came out.

The commission window is still open. If you’d like a custom Veitch piece just get in touch. You can view some of my other recent commissions here.

From the letters page of 1963: HORUS LORD OF LIGHT.