The Art of Mike Schwartz

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Funnybook Fish, a custom comic strip, and the Crimson Scarab!     If you want to commission a piece of art, go to Oceanverse.com! Mike

Here are my most recent illustrations.

My newest commission, Spawn vs. Grendel. If you would like a commission, please visit oceanverse.com

I am actively drawing new commissions, a comic strip (one-shot), and I ALREADY have something ready to go!  I will try and post that soon.

Full hustle mode was on as I shipped out the final box of Kickstarter packages last week.  Up until then, I was sketching, printing, packing, wrapping, taping, and hoping that everything would work out.  Looks like it did. In all, it was almost exactly six months from project launch to final shipment.  Having a Kickstarter [...]

I picked up the books yesterday from the printer and they look GREAT!  The colors on the cover are crisp and the spot gloss on the logo gives it a nice pop.  The natural paper stock and ink color are EXACTLY what I had in mind when designing the book. So now I need to [...]

Here are a few photos of the Oceanverse Kickstarter Sketchbook.  After receiving a few print quotes higher than I would have liked, I printed them here at work and cut and assembled them myself. The text in the sketchbooks offer an honest and critical looking into the development of Oceanverse.  I wasn’t expecting to be [...]

I’m not going to apologize.  I’ve been busy!  Frankly, I found it hard to comment on my book progress because I was SO in the thick of things.  Now that most things are out of the way, I can relax, reflect, and start looking forward. Oceanverse: The Collected Edition is currently at the printer.  The [...]

Oooh, it’s already been a week since it happened, but on February 15th, Oceanverse: The Collected Edition was successfully funded through Kickstarter!  The experience was incredible and I encourage anyone with the next great idea to give Kickstarter a try.  I mean, it’s not like they’re going anywhere.  Over the past few weeks, Kickstarter has [...]