THE HALLOWEEN LEGION is nominated for the Rondo Award!

Martin Powell and I are thrilled that our HALLOWEEN LEGION™ has been nominated for the prestigious Rondo Award, as "Best Horror Comic" for 2013! The Halloween Legion thanks you all!

The Rondo Awards honor the best in classic horror creativity, research, and film preservation.

Congratulations to Terry Beatty, Mike Mignola, Steve Niles, Craig Yoe and many more, as well!

http://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/?p=32

Lois Lane Pin Up

Just for fun I decided to do a fun illustration of Lois Lane - drinking some coffee and being sassy, of course. :)

THE HALLOWEEN LEGION is nominated for the Stan Lee's Excelsior Award!

Our HALLOWEEN LEGION™, which has made the shortlist for Stan Lee's Excelsior Awards, is featured on the CBR site!! 
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/12/stan-lee-excelsior-award-unveils-2014-shortlist/

It is also featured: http://www.excelsioraward.co.uk/shortlist2014.html

Co-creator Martin Powell and I wish to thank everyone who has supported The World's Weirdest Heroes!

The Halloween Legion™ Martin Powell and Diana Leto

A little Christmas illustration from me to you all.

A lil' Christmas illustration I did this year.
Hope it makes you all smile this cold snowy night...

The Halloween Legion at NYCC!

Just finishing up a wonderful 2013 NYCC with a few pics on my blog. 

It was a fantastically exciting and amazing Comic Con this year!

It started with an inspirational panel entitled "Creatively Energizing Your Students With Comic Books And The Arts" with fellow panelists Alex Simmons, Bonnie Erickson, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Louis Mitchell, Mike Lopez, Noel MacNeal, and Paul Castiglia. 

What an incredible bunch of people! It was truly an honor to be on the same panel with them and to be able to speak with the audience about how to engage children in the arts. I spoke a bit about things how The Halloween Legion™ inspires me with its positive messages. My partner on The Halloween Legion, co-owner and writer Martin Powell unfortunately could not attend NYCC but he was there in Halloween spirit. 

I was very grateful to be able to contribute and answer everyones questions. If I did miss you after the panel, please feel free to contact me here.

I was humbled by the moment and will never forget it. 
Here is a photo of us all on the panel.

Here we all are after the panel sharing a few heartfelt laughs. 

The next day was my drawing workshop at the Kids Comic Con Family Room.

Alex Simmons and Mike Lopez created some really great events and it was an honor to be a part of their wonderful curriculum this year at NYCC. 

My good friend, and fellow amazing artist!, Steve Price, helped me out during the drawing workshop and kindly took this cool pic of my session on the NYCC banner. 

For my drawing workshop I showed how to draw your favorite Halloween characters using simple shapes like circles, squares, and rectangles. And just for fun, I created my own Witch's costume for The Halloween Legion occasion!

Here I am with Lauren Marchisotto at NYCC, who had a fantastic steampunk costume on! Thanks to Noel MacNeal for the awesome pic!

It was a great drawing session and some of the kids drew amazing illustrations of Autumn the Cat! If your reading this and you or your kids drew some of the characters please email me, I would love to post them to the Halloween Legion fan page on Facebook! 

On Sunday, I had a signing session at the Dark Horse Comics Booth to sign THE HALLOWEEN LEGION graphic novel. Here a few pics of the signing. It was a lot of fun!

It was a really great event! So many wonderful kids, and adults who are kids at heart, approached me and talked about hoe they really loved the characters! I hope I was able to answer any and all questions everyone had about THE HALLOWEEN LEGION but if not please feel free to contact me or Martin Powell (co-owner and writer) here or on our blogs. We will be happy to answer your questions and continue Halloween through out the year! 

Happy Halloween and see you all next NYCC!

The Halloween Legion™ Martin Powell and Diana Leto

Coffee Girl Pin Up sketch

Although I'm in the middle of a lot of projects right now, I always still find myself sketching!
Here's a little coffee girl pin-up I did just for fun, with a little 50s feel to her. Enjoy!

Tarzan Of The Apes - Logo Design

I recently had the honor of designing the logo for the newest addition to the Edgar Rice Burroughs webcomic series, Tarzan Of The Apes!

It was a lot of fun to play around with textures and subtle jungle shapes. I created a variety of vector logos that could be used for comics and billboards and more!

Specifically below, is a clip of how the logo is being used for new Tarzan Of The Apes  webcomic.

The newest Tarzan strip is written by Roy Thomas, Illustrated by Pablo Marcos, and colored (and I believe lettered) by Oscar Gonzales. It was a lot of fun to work on the logo with them and the Edgar Rice Burroughs family.


Please check out the awesome new strip on the Edgar Rice Burroughs site here!
It's only $1.99/month and when you subscribe you also get to view all the weekly strips including Carson of Venus and The Cave Girl!

New York Comic Con Halloween Legion Drawing Workshop with Graphic Artist Diana Leto!

Woooooooo! My panel is up for NYCC!

Come see me at my drawing Workshop! I will be there celebrating NYCC in full form to discuss my artwork and direction on The Halloween Legion™ Martin Powell & Diana Leto !!

The Halloween Legion On Sale NOW!

Get 'em while their HOT!
There have been many posts on research and development and fun exploratories during the process of this graphic novel and here it is, The Halloween Legion On Sale NOW!

Thank you Martin Powell for all your support and creativity! 
Heroes read comics too!

Artwork © Diana Leto
The Halloween Legion™ Martin Powell and Diana Leto

And the reviews have been stellar! Check out some of these reviews here and order your copy on the last link below!

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The Cave Girl at San Diego Comic Con 2013!

So it's been a while since San Diego Comic Con has passed, so I am sorry for the lateness of my post, but it was (in Martin Powell's words) "the very best of times" at the San Diego Comic Con Edgar Rice Burroughs panel! Here is Martin Powell and myself on the panel talking about the THE CAVE GIRL™. The strip premiered that day, which was also the 100th anniversary of the original novel!  It was a centennial celebration! 

Here a pic of all of us on the SDCC "Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Tarzan, Carson of Venus, and the next 100 Years of Adventure!" 
The panel members included myself, Martin Powell, Scott Tracy Griffin, Andy Briggs, Steven E Gordon, Jim Sullos, and special surprise guest Roy Thomas!

Afterwards, we all met at the ERB table with the Burroughs family to sign illustrations and take photos. The Burroughs ladies where amazing and so involved in continuing their great family legacy that they came in Cave Girl outfits! 

It was an amazing time and I already can't wait to go next year!